Earth Life Possibly Could Reach Titan

dylanduck writes "New simulations show that big asteroid impacts on Earth could have sent about 600 million boulders flying into space. About 100 have reached Jupiter's moon Europa - but they landed at 24 miles/sec. 'This must be rather frustrating if you're a bacterium that survived launch from Earth,' says a researcher. But 30 boulders from each impact reach Titan - and they land gently." From the article: "'I thought the Titan result was really surprising - how many would get there and how slowly they'd land,' Treiman told New Scientist. 'The thing I don't know about is if there are any bugs on Earth that would be happy living on Titan.' Titan's surface temperature is a very cold -179C and its chemistry is very different from Earth's."

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Re:Airborne bacteria?

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Panspermia is just a dodge. For some reason people can't believe that here on earth, where life as we know it has done better by far than anyother place that we know of, could possibly have been where life originated. The probabillity of life evolving somewhere else and then being magically whisped away to earth is even MORE improbable than life originating here. Just because something that we know has happened is improbable doesn't mean we have to completely throw all of the most probable scenarios for it to happen out the window.