Earth's life may have come from Mars

Any scientist worth his salt knows what panspermia, and everyone knows that panspermia doesn't solve the problem of where life came from but rather just shifts the source to some place other then Earth. One of the arguments against panspermia is that scientist were uncertain as to whether or not life could survive travel through space. A new study by the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, led by John Parnell took up the challenge of figuring out if life indeed could survive a trip into space. To do this the attached a rock with microscopic life to the Russian Foton M3 scientific-research probe on its 12 day mission into space. The results showed that life could definitely survive the trip. Although this does not show that life definitely came from Mars, it does lend credibility to the panspermia theory.

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