Asteroid that Killed Dinosaurs Also Seeded the Universe with Life
Posted by Justin on April 12th, 2012![asteroid dinosaurs life seed.jpg](http://weirdthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/asteroid-dinosaurs-life-seed.jpg)
The big rock from the sky that crashed into Earth and proved an extinction level event for our dinosaur pals could also seed life on a far off planet. The meteorites launched into space by the impact carrying the ingredients for life itself have since spread across our solar system and far beyond.
A new table estimating the trajectories of the rocks provides many surprises, according to Ray Kurzweil’s blog. For example, it would take a trillion years for the Earth ejecta to spread the size of the Milky Way.
But most awesomely…
The probability is almost 1 (close to certain) that our solar system is visited by microorganisms that originated outside our solar system.
To tie this together with a post yesterday, this means that our ejecta could bring life to other planets and some point there might be a scientist there warning of our fearsome existence. Yes, my friends, WE ARE THE SUPER GENIUS SPACE DINOSAURS!
April 12th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Sadly, those extrasolar microorganisms are space herpes, galactic syphillis, and Justin Bieber.