We Are the Aliens...

Posted by Greg at 12:35, 28 Jan 2010

First broadcast in 2006, this Horizon episode looks at various researchers investigating the possibility that life on Earth arose via a 'seeding' from space, also known as the theory of 'panspermia' (first proposed by Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe in the 1960s):


Features include the mysterious 'red rain' that occurred in India a few years ago, and projects designed to look for life on other bodies in our Solar System.

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Posted by Johnathan Mastron on 28 Jan 2010 at about 20:14.

Even more interesting is the presence of complex hydrocarbons and perhaps even amino acids in interstellar space.