posted on Aug, 21 2003 @ 05:31 PM
Originally posted by asala
Many people believe that the human race has been genetically seeded by other races. This has yet to be scientifically proven.
Here's my theory of how life spread.
An ancient race has been seeding galazies with life on a huge scale.
I believe that all life is spread by comets. Life being spread by comets is not a new idea at all. Bacteia deep within a comet is thought to be how
life came to Earth by some scientists.
Now, if I was an alien race, wanting to seed life would I
A) build many, many expensive rockets and fire these in the direction of nearby galaxies, each containing a dose of life-forming bacteria and a
mechanism to spread this.
or
b) Simply take readily available objects (bits of rock floating in space), inject these with bacteria and have some automated, solar powered rock
flinger shooting out impregnated rocks randomly in the direciton of the galaxy. They would explode in the atmosphere or smash on the ground where ever
they land, spreading the bacteria.
Option b would cost far less for the race to build in resources. Surely, this is exactly the mechanism that an alean race would use to spread life?
The bacteria they used must in some way have evolved. Perhaps, if you believe in aliens, they came back, many millions of years later and genetically
modified the life that had been seeded to create the humans we are today.
I dunno, I've had this brewing in my head for years. It sounds plausible, I guess?
[Edited on 21-8-2003 by Zzub]