Speaker 1: Welcome to thrilling threads, where we don't just track objects
floating through space, we track the stories they tell.
Speaker 2: And today the story we're tracking, well, it could fundamentally
change our understanding of life's origins.
Speaker 1: It all starts with a really provocative question. What if
the building blocks of life, you know, the amino acids,
the sugars, everything that makes DNA and RNA work. What
if they didn't originate here on a chaotic young Earth.
Speaker 2: What if instead they were delivered perfectly preserved, packaged and
protected by an ancient, magnetic and rapidly heating interstellar visitor.
Speaker 1: That is the cosmic seed hypothesis, sometimes called panspermia, and
it's what we are diving into today. And this isn't
just some abstract theory, no, not at all.
Speaker 2: This is based on observation of a real time event.
Speaker 1: The star of our show is an object that has
astronomers well rewriting the textbooks, the fascinating interstellar object known
as three I.
Speaker 2: At LISS, we've been pulling together data from a lot
of recent observational campaigns, and we're drawing heavily on some
brilliant analysis from people like geophysicist Stefan Burns, who's been
aggregating data from various celestial missions.
Speaker 1: So our mission for this discussion is pretty straightforward. We
want to unpack all the evidence that suggests this object
might be the most pristine actively seeding agent from another
star system we have ever ever encountered.
Speaker 2: It's a huge claim, but the data is well, it's compelling.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's start with the basics of this interstellar traveler.
To really get what's so significant here, you have to
grasp its immense age, right.
Speaker 2: The thing is, it't new, not by a long shot.
Speaker 1: The estimates for the age of three I at list
they range from a staggering three billion years on the low.
Speaker 2: End all the way up to eleven billion years. It's
potentially older than our own son.
Speaker 1: That age gives it authority, but its travel history is
resume that gives it mystery.
Speaker 2: And that's where the guy a DR three catalog comes in.
It provides the confirmation we need that this is a
truly pristine artifact. Ronomers calculated its trajectory and confirmed it
hasn't passed close to any major star.
Speaker 1: And when you say close, what are we talking about here?
Speaker 2: We're defining close as within five hundred parsecs, and it
hasn't done that in at least ten million years.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just pause on that number, because five hundred
parsex sounds huge, and it is a parsec is about
three point twenty six light years, so.
Speaker 2: We're talking over sixteen hundred light years.
Speaker 1: So for ten million years minimum, it hasn't been within
sixteen hundred late years of a major star. What does
that actually mean for its composition?
Speaker 2: It means its material is untouched, I mean truly untouched
by intense stellar processing for an amount of time. That's
hard to even wrap your head around.
Speaker 1: All that radiation in solar wind from stars exactly.
Speaker 2: It bakes, changes and destroys volatile chemicals and complex organic compounds.
But three I at lists has spent at least ten
million years shielded in the deep, cold, dark interstellar medium.
Speaker 1: So it's a perfect time capsule, a.
Speaker 2: Perfect time capsule of what chemistry looks like out there,
far far away from any sun.
Speaker 1: A perfectly preserved relic. And now that relic is here,
its closest approach to our Sun, the perihelion that was
on October twenty ninth, and.
Speaker 2: Its closest approach to Earth is coming up fast December nineteenth.
Speaker 1: We first spotted this visitor on July first, twenty twenty five.
But then you know, we confirmed its existence by looking
back at older sky catalogs. It was already here, we
just hadn't noticed precisely.
Speaker 2: And this whole orbital window, this moment right now, is
a cosmic flash in the pan. The vast majority of
the interesting stuff the revelations come from tracking how its
physical state changed when it was pulled from that quiet,
deep interstellar.
Speaker 1: Void into the well violent, intense environment near our star.
Speaker 2: That jump and energy is the mechanism for its current
chemical awakening.
Speaker 1: That energy transformation is just it's just staggering, and it's
absolutely the key to understanding all the weird anomalies astronomers
started seeing.
Speaker 2: Think about it. In deep space, three I Atlas was
basically frozen. It was getting minimal energy.
Speaker 1: We're talking about radiance around what ten to the seventh
or ten to the eighth units, just background cosmic rays essentially, right.
Speaker 2: It was inert passively accumulating this unique surface crust rich
in volatiles and organics from the interstellar medium, a dark, thick,
porous layer.
Speaker 1: But then it crossed into the inner Solar.
Speaker 2: System, and the contrast is, well, it's night and day.
Speaker 1: When it hit perihelium, the calculated solar radiance just soared
to seven hundred and thirty five watts per square meter.
Speaker 2: That is an enormous, almost instantaneous infusion of energy, a
huge thermal shock that kicked off chemical and physical processes
the object hadn't felt in millions of years.
Speaker 1: It's like taking something out of an extreme deep phrase
and just slamming it into a convection of it.
Speaker 2: And we saw the first sign that this was no
ordinary visitor. It happened sharply at two point five astronomical
units that's about three hundred and seventy five million kilometers
from the Sun. What do they see there?
Speaker 1: It was dramatic, a sudden, sustained surge and brightness by
two in apparent magnitude.
Speaker 2: Two magnitude jump. That's a massive deal.
Speaker 1: It means the object just started reflecting or generating several
times more light than it was before. This was around
September fifth through the seventh.
Speaker 2: And this is the crucial distinction, the thing that separates
three I at lists from your typical commet. This was
not a standard cometary outburst, right.
Speaker 1: We see those all the time. They're transient. They flare up.
Speaker 2: When a pocket of something volatile like carbon monoxide ice
gets hit by the sun, and then they die down
just as fast.
Speaker 1: But this one didn't die down.
Speaker 2: No, the brightness increase was complete, it was persistent, and
it actually accelerated as the object got closer to the sun.
Speaker 1: It was signaling a permanent, fundamental change in the object's
physical state.
Speaker 2: And that change is completely consistent with the onset of
massive water ice sublimation.
Speaker 1: Now you might be thinking water ice sublimates far out
in the Solar system. Why is two point five AU special.
Speaker 2: This is where the physics gets really cool. Based on
the pressure and temperature phase diagrams for water, especially when
it's mixed with dust and organics.
Speaker 1: Like this, liquid water can exist.
Speaker 2: Exactly transiently in these highly porous objects at distances like
two point five AU, where the heating is significant but
still kind of moderate.
Speaker 1: So the heat wasn't just turning ice straight into gas.
It was hitting that sweet spot where brief liquid, maybe
brainy mixtures could form just under the crust.
Speaker 2: And those mixtures drove the volatile ices into a gaseous state,
which then erupted.
Speaker 1: Outward, causing that enormous permanent brightening.
Speaker 2: This phenomenon strongly suggests what we call global cryo volcanism,
a surface wide eruption of this pristine interstellar ice and gas.
Speaker 1: Okay, but how do we know it was global and
not just you know, one or two really massive geysers.
Speaker 2: Two key factors. First, as you said, the sustained nature
of the brightness increase.
Speaker 1: If it were localized, the pressure would eventually drop in
the event would fade away, right right.
Speaker 2: But the object just kept getting brighter as it got closer,
suggesting the entire surface, or at least a huge fraction
of it, was reacting to the heat.
Speaker 1: And the second factor.
Speaker 2: It's rotation period. The object has a relatively fast rotation,
about sixteen hours, which.
Speaker 1: Is important because if it were a slow rotator, say
spinning once every few days.
Speaker 2: Then only one side would face the sun long enough
to heat up dramatically. You'd get uneven isolated eruptions.
Speaker 1: But a sixteen hour day is fast enough that the
solar heating is spread out pretty evenly. It's homogeneous across
the entire surface.
Speaker 2: Which supports the idea of a widespread global cryovulcanism event.
Speaker 1: And this all leads back to that crust it built
up over millions of years.
Speaker 2: That ten million year journey in deep space allowed it
to build an exceptionally thick, unique layer of material, volatiles,
complex organics, ice that had never been blasted by a star.
Speaker 1: So once it crossed that two point five au thermal line,
that pristine interstellar crust just started to rapidly.
Speaker 2: Volatilize, peeling away, exposing the underlying metal rich core and
starting the profound chain reaction that makes this object so
incredibly unique.
Speaker 1: So, if I'm getting this right, the rapid heating didn't
just cause a small blowout. It caused a complete structural transformation.
The entire protective layer got peeled away, revealing and activating
all the chemistry underneath.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and that's why we see such dramatic behavior after
it passed the Sun.
Speaker 1: The craw vaultanism wasn't a one and done event. It
intensified right up to and through perihelion.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. The imaging right after its closest approach to
the Sun showed spectacular activity. We're talking multiple intense jets
extending at at least fifty thousand kilometers from the nucleus.
Speaker 1: Fifty thousand kilometers, Just to put that in perspective for you,
that's larger than the entire diameter of the planet Mercury.
Speaker 2: From a tiny object maybe only a few kilometers wide.
Speaker 1: It just confirmed the sheer violence with which this ancient
material was being ejected into space.
Speaker 2: But once it passed perihelion and started its journey back out,
three I Atlas presented us with a magnificent paradox.
Speaker 1: This is where standard comet physics just completely fails to
explain what's happening.
Speaker 2: Right. Normally, the rule is simple. As a comet moves
away from the Sun, the heating decreases.
Speaker 1: It runs out of the easy to reach volatiles, and
it dims its maintail, the anti suntail that's pushed by
the solar wind. It also starts to fade.
Speaker 2: And while three ialyis is dimming overall and its main
anti suntail is fading.
Speaker 1: The anomaly is this rare, weird sunward facing jet or tail.
Speaker 2: It's just totally counterintuitive. Yeah, how does material move toward
the Sun when the solar wind is constantly blasting everything outward?
Speaker 1: It's a massive physics paradox. Post pahelium gravity should be
pulling the object back out of the Solar system, and
radiation pressure should be sweeping everything away from the Sun.
Speaker 2: So for a jet to be sustained and directed toward
the Sun, the force pushing that material out has to
be stronger than the solar wind pressure pushing it back.
Speaker 1: And here is the truly bizarre twist, the one that
defied all the initial predictions.
Speaker 2: Get this. As the rest of the object cools and dims,
this anomalous sunward facing jet is reportedly getting bigger and brighter.
Speaker 1: It's behaving completely opposite to what a simple icy body
should do.
Speaker 2: It tells us the material being ejected isn't just inert
dust and gas. It strongly hints at powerful channeling forces.
Speaker 1: So what are the explanations.
Speaker 2: Well, there are two primary ones. One is that the
material is being ejected at such a high velocity from
the surface that its own momentum initially overcomes the radiation pressure. Yeah,
but that's usually a short lived effect.
Speaker 1: But the more compelling idea, especially given the chemistry we're
about to get into.
Speaker 2: Is a strong interaction between the object's own magnetic field
either induced or inherent, and the Sun's magnetic field exactly.
Speaker 1: And the key observation supporting the magnetic hypothesis is the
visual structure of these jets.
Speaker 2: Recent reports mentioned a wavy filamentary structure within the.
Speaker 1: Jets, and that structure is a textbook indicator of plasma dynamics.
Speaker 2: Plasma is essentially ionized gas gas heated so much that
its electrons are stripped away, making it electrically.
Speaker 1: Charged, and charged particles interact intensely with magnetic fields.
Speaker 2: This tells us the three I aut lite isn't just
a dirty snowball. It is, in a very profound sense,
electrically and magnetically alive.
Speaker 1: So if the object has a strong intrinsic magnetic field, which,
as we'll explain, it seems to be actively generating, it
can capture and channel some of that ionized plasma material
against the solar wind.
Speaker 2: Creating that stunning, counterintuitive sunword facing structure.
Speaker 1: So the magnetic field isn't just a shield, it's also
a director. It's capable of manipulating its own expelled material
against the dominant forces of the solar system.
Speaker 2: It's the clearest physical sign that this object is a
unique magnetic anomaly.
Speaker 1: And it's the perfect segue into understanding the extraordinary chemistry
that's happening inside.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into the chemistry that makes this visitor
the ultimate candidate for the interstellar seed hypothesis. Spectrographic measurements
connect three I atlas not just two objects in our
solar system, but to the most pristine and rare types
of material we know of.
Speaker 1: Compositionally, it shares visual characteristics with certain trans Neptunian objects
TNOs way out in the.
Speaker 2: Kuiper Belt, things like Sedna or make. Make. It has
that distinct dark reddish surface.
Speaker 1: Color, and we believe that color is the signature of
its incredibly organic rich crust material that it picked up
and processed during its long, long journey through the cold,
carbon rich interstellar medium.
Speaker 2: But the real affinity, the scientific smoking gun is with
something extremely rare and precious to cosmochemists. See are carbonatus chondrictes.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is a technical mouthful. What are cr carbonatus
chondrites and why should we care that three I at
list looks like them?
Speaker 2: They're a type of media rite and they're characterized by
two main things. One, they're metal rich with high proportions
of iron and nickel, and two, they're incredibly pristine. Scientists
believe they actually formed outside the traditional protoplanetary disc of
our solar.
Speaker 1: System, which means they avoided the intense stumble heating and
processing that modified almost every other object we've collected.
Speaker 2: Exactly. They are untouchable specimens from the very dawn of
our solar system's formation, and they're absolutely loaded with carbon compounds.
Speaker 1: So three I at list is essentially a huge active
version of the most pristine, metal rich, organic laden meteorites
we have ever found.
Speaker 2: That sets the stage perfectly for the truly shocking chemical
observations that came next.
Speaker 1: It does when astronomers analyze the volatile gas is being
ejected during that cryovolcanism event, they found signature ratios that
just they don't exist among our homegrown commets.
Speaker 2: Specifically, the carbon dioxide to water ratio, the CO two
to H two zero ratio was found to be approximately
eight to one eight to one. That's the point where
you have to stop and rethink everything you thought you
knew about solar system chemistry to quantify just how anomalous
this is. That ratio is a staggering four point five
standard deviations four point five sigma above the values typical
for commets in our solar system.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's pause right there. For our listener who might
not be a statistician, what does four point five sigma mean?
In plain English?
Speaker 2: It means this object is an extreme outlier. I mean
fundamentally different. In simple terms, if you took a huge
sample of thousands of solar system comets, you'd only expect
to see a variation this large once in tens of
thousands of samples.
Speaker 1: So this isn't just a bit different.
Speaker 2: No, this is fundamentally non solar system chemistry. It suggests
its formation environment was highly oxidized in just alien to
the conditions that shaped our local neighborhood.
Speaker 1: It's an alien chemical signature. It's mathematically improbable that it
comes from the same population of objects we're used to.
Speaker 2: Studying precisely, and on top of that, high levels of
carbon monoxide CO were also detected, with a CO to
H two oz ratio of about one point sixty five.
Speaker 1: So this wasn't just simple sublimation. This was a chemical
engine suddenly being switched on by solar energy and the.
Speaker 2: Fuel for this engine. As we mentioned earlier is metal
three iatless has high levels of iron and nickel, specifically
in elevated nickel to iron ratio.
Speaker 1: That signature is shared with the rare cr carbonatus, chondrite and.
Speaker 2: Those metals that fenycore. They aren't just inert structural bits.
They function as a catalytic substrate.
Speaker 1: So when they come into contact with that liquid water,
which we know can exist at two point five AU, they.
Speaker 2: Drive powerful chemical processes that explain the sudden massive output
of all these carbon compounds.
Speaker 1: This is where we have to talk about Fischer Trops reactions.
This isn't just a theory, it's a known industrial and
geological pathway. Why is this reaction so crucial for the
cosmic seed hypothesis?
Speaker 2: The Fisher Trops process, at its core is a reaction
where carbon monoxide and hydrogen, often derived from water reacting
with metal, are converted into liquid hydrocarbons.
Speaker 1: So here the corrosion of the metal by the liquid
water provides the necessary catalytic environment to synthesize complex organic
building blocks exactly.
Speaker 2: The high CO and CO two abundance aren't just waste products.
They are the indicators that the reaction is running successfully
and It provides a direct pathway to produce amino acids, nucleuses,
the building blocks of RNA and DNA, and various sugars.
Speaker 1: The object is literally generating the fundamental ingredients for life
right now as we watch.
Speaker 2: And we don't even have to rely solely on theoretical
models from the spectral data of three I Atlas. We
have a very recent, very tangible conformation of this exact
process happening.
Speaker 1: In space, the Osiris REX mission.
Speaker 2: And the samples returned from the asteroid Binu.
Speaker 1: Benu is such a great comparison because it really contextualizes
three I Atlas. Benu is a B type asteroid, which
is actually considered less organic rich and more processed than
the suspected D type classification of three I Atlas.
Speaker 2: And yet the Benu samples, which were just analyzed last
year contained an absolute treasure trove of complex organic molecules.
They found glucose nucletides, abundant water, and a truly impressive
array of amino acids.
Speaker 1: Thirty three different types in total, including fourteen of the
twenty essential ones used by life here on Earth.
Speaker 2: That's the implication that really hits home.
Speaker 1: If a B type asteroid that's been rattling around and
getting processed in our own solar system contains that much
rich organic chemistry.
Speaker 2: Than a pristine D type interstellar object like three I Atlas,
which has been wandering for billions of years acting like
a super concentrated delivery mechanism.
Speaker 1: Is almost certainly far more enriched in these complex organics
and volatiles.
Speaker 2: It reinforces that lego factory analogy. Three iye Atlas has
had billions of years to stack those blocks. Benu is
a solar system product. Three I Atlas is an interstellar
high grade product.
Speaker 1: And here's the truly fascinating part the cosmic insurance policy.
The chemical process that creates the organics also creates the
object's defense.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. The rapid corrosion of the iron and nickel metal
by the liquid water, the very thing you need to
drive the fischer Trough reaction, doesn't just produce the carbon.
Speaker 1: Compounds, It simultaneously produces the mineral magnetite fe.
Speaker 2: Three four magnetite, the strongest natural magnetic mineral nod.
Speaker 1: Precisely, this means that as three I Atlass undergoes this
catalytic awakening near the Sun, consuming its metallic core to
produce life's building blocks.
Speaker 2: It is simultaneously generating a powerful protective shell. It is
actively building its own inherent internal magnetism and strengthening its
magnetic field.
Speaker 1: So it's not just chemically manufacturing life's ingredients, it's building
a self protecting shield around them at the same time.
Speaker 2: It's an astonishing convergence. It implies that conditions necessary for
complex chemistry to survive the hazards of space travel are
perhaps self generating.
Speaker 1: The connection between organic production and magnetism is why this
object has been called a self protecting seed, a true
interstellar spaceship.
Speaker 2: We know that here on Earth life is utterly dependent
on our planetary magnetic field. It shields us from harmful
galactic and solar cosmic.
Speaker 1: Radiation, and that cosmic radiation is nasty stuff. High energy
particles cause DNA strand breaks, massive mutations. It makes the
environment too harsh for complex, self replicating life to thrive
without a defense mechanism.
Speaker 2: And the fact that the exact chemical process water reacting
with the metal which creates the complex organics, also creates
magnetite a magnetic shield. It's an astonishing example of what
you might call auto catalytic survival.
Speaker 1: The synthesis of life's ingredients guarantees its own protection.
Speaker 2: The mechanism suggests a process that has been naturally selected
for long term interstellar viability and propagation.
Speaker 1: We mentioned nanotesla earlier when talking about magnetic fields. Let's
give that some context. Comets already have an induced magnetic
field because of the plasma barrier they create right.
Speaker 2: The ionized gas and dust s. The egect forms a
sort of defense mechanism. The Rosetta Mission, which studied Commet
sixty seven P, saw that this induced plasma magnetic barrier
could have a strength of thirty to fifty nanotesla, and it.
Speaker 1: Could spike up to three hundred nanotesla during solar storms.
Speaker 2: Now that might sound small compared to Earth's magnetic field,
which is around fifty thousand nanotesla at the surface.
Speaker 1: But in the vacuum of space near a comet, three
hundre tesla is a significant local barrier. It's capable of
deflecting a lot of charged particles.
Speaker 2: Now, add the indogenous production of magnetite that strengthens the
intrinsic field on the surface and potentially deeper into the core.
Speaker 1: So you have this dual shielding the induced plasma field
plus the inherent magnetite field, and.
Speaker 2: It transforms three I atlas into an interstellar defense platform.
It's self replicating the necessary ingredients for life while constructing
the magnetic defense needed to protect any of those compounds
or even primitive life forms on board during its hazardous
transit near star.
Speaker 1: It's the ultimate survival package, and it raises the most
profound question of this whole thing.
Speaker 2: At what point does this concentration of building blocks and
this self protecting environment stop being just chemistry and.
Speaker 1: Start being primitive, self replicating life.
Speaker 2: The space environment is, as Stefan Burns described it, a
lego factory. The elemental blocks forged in exploding stars. They
just scack up over billions of years during these long,
cold interstellar journeys. The concentration increases, the complexity.
Speaker 1: Grows, and we know that the presence of liquid water,
even those transient briny mixtures, and the catalytic power of
the iron nickel core can accelerate complex molecular connections into polymers.
Speaker 2: And the solar energy provides the necessary kickstart, the activation
energy to drive these reactions.
Speaker 1: So while the probability might be low. The hypothesis can't
be dismissed that the.
Speaker 2: Close approach to the Sun, providing that necessary energy spike,
could potentially act as a life factory, triggering the final
critical steps required for the formation of primitive unicellular organisms,
all protected by their newly formed magnetite shell.
Speaker 1: It just compels you to wonder whether there's a hard
chemical limit that prevents those blocks from connecting into something
that self replicates.
Speaker 2: Or if the process, given enough time, the right chemistry
and that self protective magnetic shield inevitably leads to some
form of primitive life ready to.
Speaker 1: Be delivered, and whether it's carrying actual life or just
the perfect most potent ingredients for life. The final tangible
consequence of this object's visit is what's next.
Speaker 2: For Earth, because we are directly intersecting its path.
Speaker 1: Right the object's closest approach to Earth the flyby is
December nineteenth. That's the near miss.
Speaker 2: The more critical event for the interstellar seat hypothesis is
the transit zone we're going to pass through later.
Speaker 1: Remember those massive jets extending fifty thousand kilometers that were
violently pumped out when it passed the Sun.
Speaker 2: Three I Atlas left a vast rich cloud of organic
and volatile material all along its orbital path.
Speaker 1: And Earth will orbit through that exact heavily contaminated region
of space, the perihelium transit zone, where it left all
that debris during March to April of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: This is the moment of reckoning for the hypothesis. The
central question for panspermia is how much of this life
ingredient rich debris might eventually rain down on Earth.
Speaker 1: And this material is a compositional match for those cr
carbonatus chondrits, which we know are highly abundant in amino acids,
even more so than the recent bit new samples.
Speaker 2: So if the early Earth was seeded by materials like this,
which is a major scientific theory for the origin of
our water and organics, then.
Speaker 1: This event confirms that this seeding process is still actively
happening today. It's being facilitated by objects that have crossed
the vast distances between star systems.
Speaker 2: We are talking about fresh, high quality, magnetic shielded cosmic
seeds potentially arriving in our atmosphere very soon. It's not
just a historical process, it's ongoing.
Speaker 1: And three I at list proves that the delivery system
is viable and operational across galactic distances.
Speaker 2: This whole dive into three iatlists just it reveals that
our solar system just played host to a unique, self contained,
chemically reactive life ingredient factory.
Speaker 1: It really forces us to look at interstellar objects not
as just random bits of rock, but as potentially highly evolved,
self protecting carriers of complex chemistry.
Speaker 2: So to summarize the three most astounding facts we've gathered
from all the analysis.
Speaker 1: First, its extreme age and its pristine nature. It's estimated
at three to eleven billion years old and it hasn't
been processed by a star in at least ten million years.
That gives it a chemical makeup that is unique, a
tree time capsule of interstellar organic chemistry.
Speaker 2: Second, that thermal transition it triggered global cryo vulcanism at
two point five AU, a sustained state change that ultimately
produced that anomalous sunward tail, a major physical paradox that
indicates complex forces, likely magnetic channeling, are actively at work.
Speaker 1: And Third, its unique composition. It's similar to those rare
metal rich cr carbonatous chondrites, and that allows it to
chemically produce the very building blocks of life sugars, amino
acids via Fischer trops reactions.
Speaker 2: While simultaneously creating magnetite, a mineral that strengthens its own
magnetic shield. It is a self contained, self protecting cosmic seed,
seemingly designed for long term viability.
Speaker 1: Three I atlts demonstrates that the conditions and ingredients necessary
for life aren't fragile. They seem to be abundant, durab,
and possibly self protecting throughout the entire galaxy.
Speaker 2: It survived a ten million year journey and a near
Sun encounter. It's an incredibly robust system.
Speaker 1: So if our own planet was seated by materials just
like this, what does the successful arrival of three I atlas,
a confirmed active seed carrier from another system, what does
that tell you about the here ubiquity of life's potential
across the cosmos. We want to know your stand on
the interstellar seed hypothesis. Did life start out there? And
is it just waiting for starlight gars to turn on
the life factory and deliver the goods. We look forward
to hearing your thoughts