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SURVIVAL OF TERRESTRIAL ORGANISMS IN SPACE. “A number of researchers have made an effort to investigate panspermia and have paid much attention to the exploration of survival mechanisms of living organisms in the interplanetary space. Survival of different types of microorganisms to a prolonged exposure in space was confirmed in experiments, which were performed on the American and Japanese segments of ISS.” https://lnkd.in/dNHWs6R View in LinkedIn

MODERN PANSPERMIA CHAMPIONS. “Hoyle and Wickramasinghe have reexamined the Arrhenius hypothesis using new data.” https://lnkd.in/dNHWs6R View in LinkedIn

PANSPERMIA HYPOTHESIS. “At the beginning of the 20th century Svante Arrhenius formulated the hypothesis of panspermia, in which he suggested an extraterrestrial source of life. The development of this hypothesis gave rise to an idea of a possible way of transportation of bacteria and spores through interplanetary and interstellar space.” https://lnkd.in/dNHWs6R View in LinkedIn

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NEURAL MODELS. “Also, as the neural models are more general, they can generate a wider variety of patterns than can diffusible morphogen models. One other difference is fundamental.” https://lnkd.in/dwfZQzE View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE. Due to a computer malfunction, this second part of the weekend cone shell patterning fragment from a week ago was not available, so it will be inserted here to complete the series. View in LinkedIn

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SO ENDS this first of two weekends on a spectacular Russian paper on finding intact organisms outside the ISS space station, and their five year investigation of the topic, with careful controls. This builds on many reports of experimental organism survival in outer space, including lichens and tardigrades. Humanity has been willfully blind about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and has spent a pitiful amount of money and effort investigating this topic, possibly out of fear of causing public unrest. View in LinkedIn

CORRECT CONTAMINATION CONTROLS. “The composition of DNA of detected biomaterial excludes single accidental contamination of terrestrial origin. Furthermore, sampling and processing procedures that were used reduced the likelihood of contamination to a minimum. The absence of contamination is supported by clean negative controls, which are very important when using molecular techniques.” https://lnkd.in/dNHWs6R View in LinkedIn

TRANSPORT MECHANISM. “The discovery in the present study of the DNA of the marine and terrestrial bacteria on the surface of the ISS requires an explanation of the transport mechanisms allowing living matter to reach a height of more than 400 km.” https://lnkd.in/dNHWs6R View in LinkedIn