Directed panspermia is the concept of seeding planets with microbial life. It comes with a lot of baggage, such as the question of whether or not we are the result of such seeding and whether or not we should actively seed the rest of the universe. Ians Buck and Decker tackle these and other related topics, such as what our purpose is in the universe.
Episode Index
00:00 | Intro
03:07 | How to Take Over the Universe (Extreme Space Colonization) | Eternally Curious #6 – YouTube
So, have we been colonized? Are we (life on earth) a product of some other civilization seeding our planet with self-replicating machines using DNA as their data storage system?
Such a civilization would not have to be anything like us
Life on earth isn’t very fast at self-replication
May wish to seed other planets to make it more likely that life survives in the case of catastrophe on one planet; panbiotic ethics.
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