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Originally Posted by infamous
I was just watching a special on Natural Geographic Channel about meteors and the point was made that; Meteors are very cold when they enter earth's atmosphere. Fairly close to absolute zero in fact, and are only exposed to the heat of atmospheric friction for a brief time because they are moving so fast. When they hit the earth, the center of the meteor is usually still cold enough to prevent the heating to penetrate clear thru to the core. It is very likely that a frozen spore or for that matter, a virus and even a bacterium could survive the trip as long as they could take the cold of outer space and the meteor was large enough to maintain the core temperature below that which would otherwise kill it's contents ............................good thought Orby...............Infy
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Indeed Infy, you've got several good points.
My thoughts on your initial post orbsycli: It should be possible for spores to enter the atmophere without burning up, as long as the angle of entery was oblique, and as long as velocity was low.
The question is where would they come from. The short answer is from just about anywhere. They may not have been formed in the solar system.
You know that something like 17,000 tons of dust and other matter falls to earth from space every day (I think).
Certain theories have it that life here began form extraterrestrial spores and other organic material.
Your choosing the hallucinogenic muchroom spore sounds as if you think the effect from eating them is out-of-this-world. Whether they (or any other complex organic material) originally came from the bottom of the oceans near volcanos, from the interface where oceans (and other bodies of water) meet land, or form outer space, are really open questions.
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