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panspermia

panspermia (pàn-spûr´mê-e) noun
The theory that microorganisms or biochemical compounds from outer space are responsible for originating life on Earth and possibly in other parts of the universe where suitable atmospheric conditions exist.
[Greek, mixture of all seeds : pan-, pan- + sperma, seed.]

"Panspermia" is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores.

Biological immortality would be very dangerous for the planet - if there was nowhere else for organisms to go, then the planet would quickly become overcrowded and swamped in biological waste products. But our planet, we know now, is not a closed system. There are other planets throughout the universe. Through space travel, humans have essentially eliminated one of nature's key rationales for mortality. And so, Philip K. Dick and other science fiction writers have dared to suggest, possibly opened an avenue for overcoming it. Indeed, "panspermians" suggest that life is constantly being "seeded" throughout the universe by comets and meteors, and thus arises throughout the cosmos. Humans will become part of the panspermian process soon too, once we bring ourselves, the microorganisms that live within us, and other lifeforms to other worlds. Perhaps through "terraforming," lifeless worlds can be made to support life.

What the mushroom says about itself is this: that it is an extraterrestrial organism, that spores can survive the conditions of interstellar space. They are deep, deep purple -- the color that they would have to be to absorb the deep ultraviolet end of the spectrum. The casing of a spore is one of the hardest organic substances known. The electron density approaches that of a metal.

Is it possible that these mushrooms never evolved on earth? That is what the Stropharia cubensis itself suggests. Global currents may form on the outside of the spore. The spores are very light and by Brownian motion are capable of percolation to the edge if the planet's atmosphere. Then, through interaction with energetic particles, some small number could actually escape into space. Understand that this is an evolutionary strategy where only one in many billions of spores actually makes the transition between the stars -- a biological strategy for radiating throughout the galaxy without a technology. Of course this happens over very long periods of time. But if you think that the galaxy is roughly 100,000 light-years from edge to edge, if something were moving only one one-hundredth the speed of light -- now that's not a tremendous speed that presents problems to any advanced technology -- it could cross the galaxy in one hundred million years. There's life on this planet 1.8 billion years old; that's eighteen times longer than one hundred million years. So, looking at the galaxy on those time scales, one sees that the percolation of spores between the stars is a perfectly viable strategy for biology. It might take millions of years, but it's the same principle by which plants migrate into a desert or across an ocean.

I don't necessarily believe what the mushroom tells me; rather we have a dialogue. It is a very strange person and has many bizarre opinions. I entertain it the way I would any eccentric friend. I say, "Well, so that's what you think." When the mushroom began saying it was an extraterrestrial, I felt that I was placed in the dilemma of a child who wishes to destroy a radio to see if there are little people inside. I couldn't figure out whether the mushroom is the alien or the mushroom is some kind of technological artifact allowing me to hear the alien when the alien is actually light-years aways, using some kind of Bell nonlocality principle to communicate.

The mushroom states its own position very clearly. It says, "I require the nervous system of a mammal. Do you have one handy?"

 - Terence McKenna - _Tryptamine Hallucinogens And Consciousness_

I had never heard of Crick's hypothesis, called "directed panspermia," but I knew that I had just found a new correspondence between science and the complex formed by shamanism and mythology.

 Jeremy Narby - _The Cosmic Serpent: DNA And The Origins Of Knowledge_
  

• Peyote
• Anomalog: Panspermia Goes Primordial

• Star Trek - _This Side of Paradise_ -- Episode 25. Original airdate: 3/2/1967. Teleplay by D.C. Fontana. Story by Nathan Butler and D.C.  Fontana. Directed by Ralph Senensky.
• Beaming down to investigate the fate of a research colony that has failed to check in, the Enterprise crew discovers these researchers to be in a state of constant happiness, an effect caused by plant spores that have acclimated to the planet from space. Needless to say,  Enterprise crew members are infected when the plants are brought aboard the ship, and before long Kirk finds he is the only person left who hasn't abandoned the Enterprise for "paradise." The big story point of "This Side of Paradise" is that the spores allow Spock to experience full-fledged emotions and even briefly fall in love.  Spock hangs from a  tree, and tells Kirk, "No, I don't think so," when ordered to beam up to the ship.  Kirk pushes Spock over the edge into anger once he learns that negative emotions purge the spores. ("Your father is a computer!" has to be among the silliest)  The effect of the spores is terminated, causing the research team leader to reflect on how the years have been wasted in a "paradise" that strove for no goals. :)  I'm not sure if this was meant to parallel the hippie movement but the haminess of Shatner is in full force here.
• sci fi drum & bass release _Seeds Of Mutation_ CD by Current Value on Position Chrome #037 (1999)
  • 3. _Virtual Drummer_ MP3
• film _Invasion Of The Body Snatchers_ (vhs/ntsc) (1978)
• faces: Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

 
 
• 604 track _Space Flowers (Dirty Guitar Mix)_ by Shakta off of _The Enlightened Ape_ on Dragonfly (2000)

 
samples:
• "I have seen these flowers all over -  they're growing like parasites on other plants, all of a sudden. Where are they coming from?" - Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams);
• "... outer space?" - Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland);
• "What are you talking about? A space flower?"- Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum)
• "Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?" - Nancy Bellicec (Vernoica Cartwright)
• "I've never expected metal ships." - Jack Bellicec

 
• track _Floating Seeds_ by Ozric Tentacles off of _Afterwish_ (1990)

• 604 track _E Flat_ MP3 (192k) by Spacedrifters off of _12_ compilation on TIPWorld (2001)
• 604 tracks _Clone 3_ and _Parent Plant_ by The Pollinator aka X-Dream
• 604 track _Spores From Space? (A Microscopic Trace)_ by Cosmosis off of _Synergy_ 12"x2on Transient

• ethnic ambient release _Parallel Life_ CD by Starseeds on Millenium #030 (1998)
  • _Parallel Life_ MP3
  • _Behind The Sun_ MP3
  • _Timequakes_
  • _Sonne Mond Und Sterne_ MP3
  • _Regina From The Future_ MP3
  • _Heavensairportcoffeeshoprestaurant_ MP3 (160k)
  • _Subspace Radio Signals_ MP3
  • _Earth, Moon & Stars_ MP3
  • _Elsewhere_ MP3 (160k)
• track _Panspermia_ MP3(ed2k128k) by Eat Static off of _Implant_ CD   on Ultimate (1994)
• sadcore americana track _Where You'll Land_ MP3 by Mendoza Line off of We're All In This Alone on Bar/None (2000)
• title of release may be in reference to straight edge hardcore release _We're Not In This Alone_ 12" by Youth Of Today on Caroline (1988)
  

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