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To: SiouxPal who wrote (14266)	3/13/2011 9:09:37 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

It is a topic that fascinates me. In its narrow version it's about selection pressures and the slow drift of species geno-and phenotypes. In the broader sense it touches upon the question of how life began, and that has to be one of the Big Questions. The question tends to draw partisan debate from adherents of two major intellectual camps: creationists and materialists, not to put too fine a point on it. Lately champions of these two camps have indulged in quite a spate of throwing snowballs at each other, which leas me to a profound conclusion: somebody is mighty bored. I generally steer clear of the high-octane mudslinging unless I see an opportunity for an especially ripe pun. Puns are my particular weakness. The sheer speed with which our young planet went from lava to living makes me wonder if life got a toehold elsewhere in the system and then seeded our hot wet youngster of a world. I wonder if I will live to see a Mars sample-return mission, or perhaps even a crewed expedition. It makes me think longingly about an Orion-type spacecraft, nuclear pulse propulsion to get a ten-thousand-ton ship from Earth's surface to anywhere in the solar system. We could launch from Libya, microwaving two birds with the eponymous one stone...