[Nettime-bold] ALIENS PRIDE 2000 - Respect the Universe

[aliensinroma <aliensinroma@aliensinroma.com>]

Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is
distributed throughout
the universe in the form of germs or spores. This piece depicts a single
life
cycle of an inter-galactic life form, as an unusual example of a self
propagating
system. A seed crashes onto a barren planet and explodes into aggressive
forms
of botanical life, which grow into tangled forests and cover the
planet's
surface. Eventually cannon shaped plants emerge and fire new seeds back
out
into space to complete the cycle
This unusual botanical form of life, reproducing itself from planet to
planet throughout space, is in many ways analogous to other self
replicating systems, including     humans, entire species, and even
ideas. A window into this panspermic system
will hopefully expand awareness of self propagating systems in general,
as
well as inspire thoughts about our entire planet of life as a single
entity

The original theory of chemist Svante Aarhenius proposed that bacterial
spores spread slowly by passive processes to Earth from elsewhere in the
Universe.
In 1981, the Nobel Prizewinning Molecular Biologist, published a popular

book entitled "Life Itself". Crick argued that because of the
universality of the genetic code in Earth's biosphere, life probably
originated here from a single prokaryotic ancestor that probably arrived
from space. He proposed that life was sent here by extraterrestrial
civilizations in interstellar robot craft. He termed this model
"Directed
Panspermia"

The discovery in 1996 of evidence for ancient microbacterial
life</a></b> in a chunk of meteorite that came from the planet Mars,
revolutionized our thoughts on the probability of life arising elsewhere
in our solar system and the universe beyond, especially in the light of
recent news about planetlike bodies detected around other
stars. The NASA research team of scientists at the Johnson Space Center
and
at Stanford University has found evidence that strongly suggests
primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago.
The NASA-funded team found the first organic molecules thought to be of
Martian origin; several mineral features characteristic of biological
activity; and possible microscopic fossils of primitive, bacteria-like
organisms inside of an ancient Martian rock that fell to Earth as a
meteorite. This array of indirect evidence of past life will be reported
in the Aug. 16 issue of the journal Science, presenting the
investigation to the scientific community at large to reach a future
consensus that will either confirm or deny the team's conclusion.

This startling discovery, that points to the possibility that a
primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than
three billion years ago, opened the field of Exobiology, the study of
extraterrestrial fossils. It also raises the question and discussion
about the possibility that Earth life originated on alien worlds.

Exobiology is the study of chemical evolution, the origin and early
evolution of life,
and the search for life and life-related compounds in the solar system.
It draws upon almost every area of science, from astronomy to molecular
biology to geochemistry. The history of the Earth's biosphere began with
the origin of life, and thus the study of exobiology is crucial to
understanding biology on Earth as well as elsewhere in the universe.

The grand vision of Origins Initiative is to follow the 15-billion-year
chain of events from the birth of the universe through the formation of
galaxies, and on to the development of life on Earth. One of its main
goals is to develop astrobiology,
a term deemed wider in scope than exobiology, because it includes both
terrestrial
and extraterrestrial studies

It addresses the question: Is life a cosmic imperative? Are we really
sons of an intelligent universe?

Everything changed, with the sensational claim that a meteorite from
Mars contains fossil evidence of microorganisms. Whether or not the
claim withers under intense
scientific scrutiny, few doubt that primitive organisms could have
evolved
on ancient Mars, where titanic rivers once gushed beneath a thick,
gaseous
atmosphere. Finding that life may have started on two neighbouring
planets
in a single planetary system is remarkable enough. But add to this the
recent
discovery that many nearby stars are accompanied by planets, and there
is
the distinct possibility that our Galaxy is teeming with life.

Suddenly, there are renewed worries about a long-standing puzzle: if
life is widespread, why has the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence, or SETI,
drawn a blank? Where are the aliens?

Aliens In Roma, the first alien life form (without form) detected on
planet Earth,
present: ALIENS PRIDE 2000 - Coming Outer!, the answer to this
question.

They're here, Aliens On Earth, fully conscious of their origin and still
holding their native powers, that working side by side with the
(in)human population, will build,
teach, and offer technologies for reconstruction.
The extraterrestrial souls on Earth, as ordinary as can be, are now here
to support
the esoplanetary initiation of (in)humanities into a living,
crystallized force of techno-mutants. To land there, "where no human
ever landed before..."

ALIENS PRIDE 2000: Coming Outer!

http://www.aliensinroma.com/blucis/theopenpopstar.htm

http://www.aliensinroma.com/blucis/alienspride.htm



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