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Bolo Boffin

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4. I finally understood the basic reason why this is a decent hypothesis recently
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 07:53 AM
Sep 2013

I was at LoneStarCon3 and one of the sessions pointed out that in the early history of our solar system, Mars would have cooled into the range that could support recognizable life before Earth would have. Then meteor strikes, etc, would have gotten Martian rocks with bacteria and microbes to Earth as our planet was hitting the Goldilocks zone. It makes sense. Martian missions could possibly verify this or rule it out.

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