Do you believe that life on Planet Earth originated from outer space?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6146292.stm

I mean we are all made from the basic components in life such as carbon and water. It makes sense really.

Answer 1

Yes, I do because Earth is not a closed system. If it were, meteorites would never hit. I have an interesting comparison (to me at least) about comets "seeding" the earth....... have you ever noticed that earth resembles an "egg" and comets resemble sperm? they have heads & tails like sperm...... and the term panspermia......... just a thought.......

Answer 2

It is certainly a possibility. But I doubt it. Planet Earth is at just the right distance from the Sun to have life. The complex carbohydrates and amino acids that are part of life formed because certain conditions were met. We came from a pond of goo and continue to evolve. Although maybe planet Earth was seeded by more advanced humans that are spreading their seed, so to speak.

Answer 3

Perhaps some of the building blocks to life fell to Earth from outer space. I have read some ideas of ancient comets that could have smashed into the Earth contributing necessary elements that would have helped along the way.

But perhaps it comes down to a unique mix of everything that started it all, we may never know.

Answer 4

I'm not sure that it makes sense, but I admire you for asking the question. So many people have been brainwashed by structured religions - all of them manmade of course - that it is easy not to ask these questions and get serious responses. I suspect as we start to move away from that mindset - may take centuries - man will ask these questions without those amongst the brainwashed objecting. Our minds are only very partially developed .... we will never know.

Answer 5

I think it is possible, but I don't like to discount religion. The problem I have is that religion doesn't account for what we know through science, i.e. evolution, distant galaxies. However, there has to be a master plan of some kind because even if we are here through chance, evolution, etc. What created the micro organisms, lightening bolts etc that created the beginnings of us?

Answer 6

I heard about ten years ago that life originated from vinegar. The basis of this is that derivitives of vinegar have been found naturaly occuring in space, and that the elements in vinegar are those needed to create basic life forms (with a flash of lightning or a mad proffessor or something). However I cannot remember the source of this info.
I tried repeating this when being drunk for one of the first times, age 14 or so. She maintains to this day that I hallucinated the whole thing but I swears I heard it on the radio.

Answer 7

there is distinctive information that one and all existence began right here on earth. that's attainable that some complicated molecules did are available in from area, even though those molecules have been nonetheless too basic to be stated as existence. they might have been precursors for enzymes or proteins. even though, if those molecules can enhance in area (and it sounds as though that they might), then they might even have developed good right here on earth, and that's probably much less perplexing for those to have been formed right here on earth (better environment for that). no person ever stumbled on fossils from someplace else (a fossil is the continues to be of an easily residing organism that has by some ability have been given integrated right into a mineral). What grew to become into claimed is that some molecule in an asteroid that had fallen on earth (after being caught off Mars possibly by ability of a meteorite hit) contained some bi-product that would have resulted from a residing organism (to place it bluntly, the declare grew to become into for organism "poop"). even though, there are additionally completely valid motives for this product (which grew to become into not something better than some for of carbonate), that don't contain a residing organism. The greater the "information" is examined, the less it sounds as though like information for existence on Mars. it is the actual reason the memories have disappeared. The memories have not "disappeared" for the reason that's attainable to open a medical magazine from that era (mid 1890s) and locate distinctive papers approximately that - they are only not all over the internet anymore because of the fact the declare (that the carbonates have been from residing organism) is not seen a valid rationalization. the 1st article I bear in innovations analyzing grew to become into "Martians pop out of the closet" by ability of MM Grady and IP Wright, Nature v. 369 (2 June 1994), which nonetheless exists on my bookcase shelf. The final one I observed in a matching magazine is: "Planetary technological know-how: Hidden martian carbonates" by ability of TD Glotch, Nature Geoscience vol. 3, pages 745-746 (October 2010). Scientists nonetheless learn those meteorites (recuperated in general from Antarctica) because of the fact the minerals they incorporate nonetheless help us to comprehend how water would have affected the geology on Mars. you're able to confirm that IF those contained any fossils, everybody could comprehend approximately it (because of the fact this kind of locate could advise a directly Nobel prize and the profession that is going with it).

Answer 8

Planet earth originated from what you call outer space

Answer 9

I do know one thing for any life to start It would of used a energy to start is self. Electricity because it bring people back to life. So why can't it start life?

Answer 10

It's a legitimate theory, but I never liked it. It just sounds too complicated - if these things can form in space, they can form on Earth just as easily, if not easier.