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life on another planet
circling a faint star lost in time
(so distant it might take a nasa spacecraft
forever or never to reach it, even
if it did not get lost in the immensity of space
or collide with a rogue meteor
or fail to survive the impact on arrival)
yet it may have been the source of life on earth
some four billion years ago,
life seeded by self-replicating microorganisms,
having a genetic code similar to ours,
in earth’s primeval sea,
shipped here by some highly developed society
possibly in an unmanned space boat
powered by solar sails
on a perilous journey of perhaps ten light years,
or trillions of miles too far to fathom,
across an expanding universe,
and science presumes that each tiny organism,
the size of a wavelength of light,
had the capacity to create a bacteria community,
or to infect the entire ocean,
or in a billion years selectively evolve into us.
some say this is a valid scientific theory,
some call it a myth at odds
with religious and philosophical tenets,
yet many of yesterday’s myths have exploded,
and today’s myth may be tomorrow’s reality.
only the ticks of cosmic time will tell.
*suggested by Francis Crick’s book Life Itself
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hugs, Carole~
Love Always,
Chanti xoxooxoxoxoox..keep smiling sweet one....
some four billion years ago
Always a fascinating topic, and I often wonder if we will ever really know. For all our so called intelligence, we know very little about the vast universe.
Lady Vivian
I think that may be the same Crick, as in Watson and Crick, the co-discoverers of the double helix :)
Blessings,
Christine
and to hell with the arithmetic, the concept's what counts.
Fine indeed, Gene.
John
Peace
Tony