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[Space] Panspermia and the Campgaign
OK, in a campaign setting I'm working on for a Space game involving a single multi-star system I'm planning on using Panspermia as an explanation for why there are so many habitable plants.
This neatly solves two problems: Why are all these planets inhabitable and why can they interact with them (In other words why can we eat the plants and animals that evolved there) But from the look of things there might be a few problems with that. While Bacteria, fungi and other single celled lifeforms. But what about slightly bigger lifeforms, could plant seeds have made interplanetary or borderline interstellar trips clinging to the side of a meteorite? And the big one: If I assume the planet that humanity evolved on is the one where life first arose on, the planet closest to that, at a mere 1.28 AU, has a high chance of have sentient or near-sentient life. What do people think are the chances of that happening? And what are the odds that people realize it before things are too late? And is any sort of communication possible? |
05-17-2014, 02:08 AM | #2 |
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Re: [Space] Panspermia and the Campgaign
Magic 8 ball: Answer hazy, ask again later.
We have one world known to have life. And only one intelligent species on that world in the past 4.54 billion years. We can't know much other than it seems that human level sapience is damn unlikely.
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05-17-2014, 02:10 AM | #3 |
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Panspermia seems a bit silly. Unless you expand it to include simple amino acid seeding by meteorites.
But for a setting, you can just hand wave it with the law of really big numbers. After enough material exchanges eventually one will contain viable life.
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But I would hazard to state that the possibility of such a species hiding in the fossil gaps is horrifically unlikely. More than enough plausibility for even hard science fiction gaming purposes though.
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05-17-2014, 01:53 PM | #9 | |
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Sapience on par with parrots, great apes, and dolphins isn't what I mean when I write about human type intelligence. I certainly hope to live long enough to definitively find life on some other planet. Even simple single celled life.
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