The bottom line is that if Moore’s Law is applied to the demonstrated exponential growth in genetic complexity over time, then life as we know it formed about ten billion years ago. Why is it important? Because the modern age of the Earth is estimated at only 4.5 billion years.
This suggests all sorts of intriguing possibilities. First, in this scenario, the variant of panspermia is an inevitable conclusion. Life did not originate on Earth.
Panspermia is the hypothesis that life on Earth originated from life forms present in outer space, which were delivered to Earth by meteoroids, asteroids, or comets.
Of
course, this is not a new idea, but now science fiction as a genre has
some numbers to work with. In addition, we have the possibility that in
the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, we, as a civilization, are
not retarded children in a galaxy teeming with much more advanced
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