Father Of Global Warming Believed That Life Was Transported By Light Rays

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1. Sundance says:

   August 15, 2011 at 2:51 pm

   Beam me up Erroneous!

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2. Mike Davis says:

   August 15, 2011 at 6:42 pm

   We are all interstellar space travelers and our mothers were the fertile ground he was talking about. Disregard every thing you thought you knew about reproduction. We need to erect a shield to stop the “Seeds from landing on earth and creating new life. When the population numbers are reduced to the desired amount we can open the shield to allow more seeds to land on the planet!
   With the shield we could also trap the “Solar Dust” and use it as an energy source with minimum refinement!

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3. Blade says:

   August 16, 2011 at 3:51 pm

   The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Tuesday 3 April 1923

   LIFE FROM OTHER WORLDS.

   NEW THEORIES ABOUT MARS AND VENUS.

   Did the earliest forms of life on our globe—the tiny parent organisms from which we and all existing animals and plants have sprung—first reach earth from some other planet millions of miles away in outer space? Recent astronomical evidence proves Mars to be lifeless, with an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, and a climate drier than the Sahara. Venus, on the contrary, a have a “soggy,” cloudy atmosphere, ideal for the breeding of lower forms of life.

   These recent assertions that Mars has an utterly frigid and airless climate have been promptly questioned by Professor William H. Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory in Jamaica, world-famous student of the Martian canals.

   This whole discussion has aroused an intense renewed interest in the original theory of Arrhenius as to the spread of life spores throughout the universe by light rays. Space is, according to Arrhenius, filled with shoals of living matter, and occasionally spores of bacteria, which settle upon earth and other planets and begin life in those worlds where conditions are suitable.

   This theory is strengthened by the belief that sunlight is composed of minute “light corpuscles”— bits of matter that are being incessantly radiated from the sun. That side of earth turned towards the sun is being continually bombarded by untold billions of these light corpuscles. Though in size extremely minute, yet they are numerous enough to exert a “push” upon our globe, in opposition to solar gravitation equivalent to 75,000 tons.

   Professor Arrhenius considers that while many of the seeds and spores, during their celestial journey, will be killed, occasionally they will retain their vitality and settle upon fertile ground, creating life in worlds that have cooled down sufficiently to form a suitable abode. From this we might infer that all life, from one end of the universe to the other, has an intimate relationship, and that higher beings evolved from it, and perhaps residing—as some still believe possible—on Venus or Mars, may not, after all, be greatly dissimilar from ourselves.

   If the sun’s light pressure is capable of transplanting tiny life germs from planet to planet it might more easily transplant the spores of bacteria, since they are still smaller. The planet Venus, our sister world, is, Professor Arrhenius thinks, probably a suitable abode for the lower species of living organisms. Its vapour-laden atmosphere and sultry climate might conceivably harbor micro-organisms producing a variety of tropical fevers, and perhaps to them might even be traced some of the plagues that mysteriously appear on earth.

   When Venus passes between us and the sun, there is afforded an opportunity that each organisms, if they exist, to be transported to earth. The solar rays, by traversing Venus’ atmosphere, hit the small particles, which may be charged with bacteria, as well as animal and plant spores and convey them to the earth in about 20? days. Conversely germ-laden ?? is being continually transported from our atmosphere to other worlds. And so says a writer in “Popular Science Monthly” this interchange of matter may be continually spreading the same spores of life throughout the universe.

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