Sunday, May 11, 2008

Life as we know it, or Platinum Pellets

Imagine that some body once was smart enough to create a DNA strand that had the following attributes:
1. It was capable of exploiting its own genetic mutations due to the constraints of comsic radiation
2. The math within the DNA was sufficiently elegant an complete that it would, in conjunction with the above mentioned mutations, evolve into life sufficiently intelligent as ponder its own origin.
3. A moral code, or "conscience" was embued upon most of the resulting mutations such that the life that evolved had a tendancy toward civilization for the purpose of perpetuating the opportunity of continued evolution.
4. The nature of probability and evolution was such that give enough time and enough space (independent evolutionary opportunities), the full purposes of that certain "some body" would be acheived.

As for me, I hope there was a "some body" My desire to see my children and grandchildren succeed and know happiness has transformed into a desire to see all people succeed and know happiness.

Finally, it would be nice to know that life had an opportunity to perpetuate itself, even after the demise of mankind, the solar system, the galaxy...

To that end, I advocate seeding the universe as we know it with platinum or carbon pellets that contain select microbes. Perhaps microbes from the thermal vents and from the deep mines in South Africa or the ice in Antartica. Encapsulate some of these microbes in the platinum/carbon pellets for dispersion into space.

The pellets could be made cheaply relative to human spacecraft and could be taken into earth orbit, then propelled at high velocity toward distant stars and galaxies with the possibility that some of them might arrive another world such that the course of evolution might start again. Thus, the peretuation of life and the hpe for human society long after our Sun dies out goes on.

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