"It's a devilish unpleasant thing " continued Young R. scowling at the fire again "yes it's a devilish unpleasant thing to go serenely on our flowery way pitying and condemning the sins and. cheap nexium Enough to admit that there just could be far more M-type planets with a proper atmospheric mix and carbon-based than earlier stargazers suspected. However on the subject of what life-forms could emerge from the same sort of primordial stew biologists remain in violent disagreement. One group insists that the percentage against encountering humanoids like yourselves is too high. The sentient or perhaps I should say. sapient life-forms on other planets will be very alien. The aerial monsters that attacked your settlement Captain Svangel might be considered sentient since they purposefully kept attacking you. But sapience indicates wisdom. And the avians showed little of that. However back to the point one group of biologists insisted that humanoid life-forms couldn't happen. "The other equally vocal and determined group the Pan-Spermians who postulated that once Life originates anywhere that accident or design could cause that basic pattern to spread out through a galaxy. An excellent example of this is the evidence of life found in a meteorite that originated on Mars. And later confirmed in the initial Mars probes and landings. " Ion grinned at Nimisha who smiled remembering history lessons of humankind's earliest explorations of its own solar system before the First Diaspora. "Am I boring you?" Doc asked. "No no please continue Doc " Nimisha said courteously. The Doc cleared its throat in a very human fashion. "Many eminent biologists were willing to recognize that a hardy life-form 162 NIM1SHA-S SHIP like some bacteria might be able to survive such a journey through space-" "Arrhenius' theory " Nimisha interrupted cocking her finger at Ion who grinned. Doc went on as if there had been no interruption. ". . . Lasting decades hundreds or thousands of years and thus plant the seeds for biologically compatible life on another similarly hospitable world. If they check out that theory is validated. " "Oh. " Nimisha smirked with anticipation. "The very fact that the. dw64555s3s32g4hzzx5c5e6et5
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