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LARGELY PROTECTED. “Earth's magnetic field (geomagnetic field) changes over time and extends from the Earth’s inner core to where it meets the solar wind. The solar wind is responsible for the overall shape of Earth’s magnetosphere, the sphere protecting the Earth, and fluctuations in its speed, density, direction, and entrained magnetic field strongly affect Earth’s local space environment and technological, biological and ecological systems on the Earth.” http://file.scirp.org/Html/6-8202044_31922.htm View in LinkedIn

CHANGING BEHAVIOR. “There is growing evidence that laboratory rodents (Siberian hamster and C57Bl/6J mice) can be taught behaviours that can be affected when exposed to altered static magnetic field components of the geomagnetic field.” http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/81/20121046.short View in LinkedIn

MAGNETIC SHIELD. “Earth is largely protected from the solar wind, a stream of energetic charged particles emanating from the Sun, by its magnetic field, which deflects most of the charged particles.” https://lnkd.in/ejihD2J View in LinkedIn

EXTREMELY WEAK MAGNETISM. “Underground Extremely Low Frequency antenna generating 0.1–0.5 µT between 72 and 80 Hz can disrupt bird orientation, which supports an account of effects of geomagnetic disturbances on orientation in birds.” http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/81/20121046.short View in LinkedIn

EXEMPLARS. “Weak extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (wELFMF). the minimal fields detectable by honeybees were 4.3 µT at 10 Hz and 430 µT at 60 Hz...effects on tail lifting behaviour could be observed in a species of lizards at 6 and 8 Hz for a peak field of 2.6 µT...disruptive effects on alignment of ruminants by a 50 Hz field from high voltage electric power lines continued out to a distance between 20 and 100 m, where the field strengths are between 0.1 and 1 µT...1 µT 0.5 Hz magnetic field affected c-Fos expression, a measure of neuronal activity, in the navigation circuit in Ansell's mole-rats.” https://lnkd.in/dyFKDiU View in LinkedIn

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IT ONLY TAKES A TINY FRACTION. “A minuscule (10(−21)) survival rate of freeze-dried bacteria in space is all that is needed to ensure the continual re-cycling of cosmic microbial life in the galaxy. Evidence that terrestrial life may have come from elsewhere in the solar system has accumulated over the past decade.” (Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, 2004). https://lnkd.in/dFRBz2F View in LinkedIn

“PANSPERMIA, an ancient idea, posits that microbial life is ubiquitous in the Universe. After several decades of almost irrational rejection, panspermia is at last coming to be regarded as a serious contender for the beginnings of life on our planet. Astronomical data is shown to be consistent with the widespread distribution of complex organic molecules and dust particles that may have a biological" "provenance.” (Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, 2004). https://lnkd.in/dFRBz2F View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION FRAMED. “The idea that in the whole Universe life is unique to the Earth is essentially pre-Copernican. Experience has now repeatedly taught us that this type of thinking is very likely wrong. Why should our own infinitesimal niche in the Universe be unique?” (Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe, Lifecloud, 1968) https://lnkd.in/dKwTbHA View in LinkedIn

COMPELLED TO FOLLOW THE DATA. “I was hesitating from taking the step of supposing diseases came from comets, still fearing ridicule, still hearing in my imagination the derisive laughter of university commonrooms (overlaid by a pervasive clink of coffee cups) when at last I was swayed by a curious and seemingly inconsequential detail.” (Professor Fred Hoyle). A passage that is hard to forget, https://lnkd.in/d6s_-HE View in LinkedIn