Open AccessExperiments to prove continuing microbial ingress from Space to Earth.
Author(s) -
N Chandra Wickramasinghe,
Edward J Steele,
Robert Temple,
Gensuke Tokoro,
Willam A Smith,
Brig Klyce,
Dayal T Wickramasinghe,
Dhammika Magana Arachchi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.458
H-Index - 67
pISSN - 0065-2660
DOI - 10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.03.006
A wide range of evidence for pointing to our cosmic origins is close to the point of being overwhelming. Yet the long-entrenched paradigm of Earth-centered biology appears to prevail in scientific culture. A matter of crucial importance is to carry out a decisive experiment that is long overdue-establishing empirically beyond any doubt that extraterrestrial microbiota reaches the surface of the Earth at the present day. Such an experiment may of course happen naturally by the appearance of pandemics of new disease as discussed in an earlier chapter.