From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Something batted around in another newsgroup for years and   
   made mainstream by Vince Gilligan's new show...   
      
   They're here!   
      
   The solution to the Fermi Assumption oops I meant "Paradox"   
   is that they are here and we see them all the time. We just   
   never knew they were aliens.   
      
   Okay, so in Vince Gilligan's show it's not bacteria but I'm   
   talking about bacteria...   
      
   START WITH ABIOGENESIS   
      
   Let's assume abiogenesis is a genuine possibility, that it   
   can happen. Well. The universe is just so vast, so old that   
   no matter how small you make the odds it had to happen   
   countless times.   
      
   Right?   
      
   WRONG!   
      
   It only had to happen once. Just once.   
      
   The worlds of our universe aren't just separated by space   
   but by time. And just a little time, in universe terms, is   
   still a very, Very, VERY long time. How long? Too long!   
      
   Meaning, if life arose even within a galaxy away from us,   
   and this happened even a little before the earth had cooled   
   to the point where it could support life, chances are it   
   reached our galaxy before it ever had a chance to   
   spontaneously form here!   
      
   Get it?   
      
   Supposedly there's life that has remained alive, dormant,   
   inside of rock for a quarter of a billion years. This   
   is more than enough time to reach other solar systems or   
   even the very closest neighboring galaxy!  So if life was   
   already here on earth even a quarter of a billion PLUS 1   
   years before it could arise elsewhere, even a galaxy away,   
   chances are we seeded that world with life before   
   abiogenesis ever got the chance to get it all rolling!   
      
   Right?   
      
   A super volcanic eruption of asteroid impact throws debris   
   into space, out of orbit... bacterial life encased in this   
   debris... it floats through space at escape velocity or   
   beyond for a quarter of a billion years then lands on some   
   unsuspecting world that hasn't spawned it's own life yet.   
      
   Done.   
      
   AND IT ALL GETS REPEATED!   
      
   It only has to get as far as the next world, this life. Then   
   once it takes root, spreads across it's new planet any   
   eventual super volcanic eruption or asteroid strike starts   
   the process all over again!   
      
   By the time the earth was even forming life had already   
   been spreading across the universe for billions of years,   
   in every direction, and we still had a billion or so   
   years before conditions here could even host life!   
      
   There. There's your Fermi Assumption oops I mean Paradox.   
   Life colonized the whole galaxy, or everywhere it could   
   take root. It just wasn't technological life.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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