Category:Origins of Life

 

 

Hubble peers out to the beginnings of the universe...

Genesis... -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_myth

 

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What Is Life?

Questions are being asked ... science and spirit, facts and faith ...

Questioning and question marks, knowledge and reflection ...

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis

• http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/science/podcast/starstuff/starstuff20140716.mp3

• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14568667-the-stardust-revolution

• http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/10/we-are-all-made-of-stardust.html

 

Origins of Life

What Is the Essence of Being Alive?

• https://greenpolicy360.net/index.php/What_Is_Life%3F

Let's look.

GreenPolicy360: Start at the Santa Fe Institute. Up there in the Sangre de Cristo mountains above the old adobe city of Santa Fe is a world-famed institute housing a jangle of world-wise scientific experts. One of the questions being seriously asked and pursued centers around 'What is life?'.

So, we identify a life-science physicist, and ask them -- "What is life?"

Then, we step away, and listen... almost immediately we recognize a type of 'happiness' as the scientist's answer involves the raison d'etre of the scientist's professional life as a thinker...

The tossed hair scientist first explains what life is not, as an introduction to what life is, and life is not 'a thing' he says. He mentions an ancient Greek philosopher, then another, espouses their thoughts about a living and a dead fish, and concludes that life is not about 'things'.

We follow along.

Life is 'a process', he says...

There. He said it, and we agree. Life is not an 'it'... a fish in this case. Life is about a process, change, we're talking relationships ... an ellipsis and ellipses ... Lifecycles ...

It's All Related ... and it's moving ... we're thinking about perspective now.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/index.php/It%27s_All_Related

We listen more attentively now to the scientist.

• https://x.com/danfaggella/status/2090406553878712547

Thanks Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute --

• https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/d-eric-smith

Eric... has sought to understand the origin of life as a planetary process, particularly the interplay of chance and necessity that generated the systems of metabolism, the rise of molecular hierarchy and folded macromolecules, and the choreography that coalesces objects and events into individuals and their reproductive lifecycles.

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth

Now onward .... thinking of living systems, ecosystems, biospheres, evolution ...

Our thoughts and thinking go to spirit and science... and deep origins of life and beyond ...

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Integral_Ecology

Up to 'Heaven' and continuing onward to 'the Stars Above'

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Origins_of_Life

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hubble_starsandstars.jpg

 

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NASA Goes Looking for Life in the Universe

Nancy Grace Roman Is the Name of the (biggest- and best-ever) Telescope

August 30, 2026

News from the Florida East Coast

(CNN) A massive observatory that scientists have called a “discovery machine” has launched toward the cosmos, beginning a journey that could mark a significant shift in our understanding of the universe.

Designed to seek out otherwise invisible and faint space objects, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at 7:26 a.m. ET Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The observatory reached orbit about 10 minutes later.

(NYT) At a news conference on Saturday morning, Nicola Fox, the associate administrator of NASA’s science mission directorate, explained that Roman’s vast gaze would contribute to solving some of the grandest mysteries about our universe, including how it works, what it is made of and if we are alone out there.

“To put it in perspective, it will be as if Hubble and James Webb kind of peered through a keyhole at the universe,” Dr. Fox said, referring to two other telescopes NASA has launched into space. “Well, Nancy Grace Roman will kick the door down.”

(GRN360) Get ready for 'Exo's in Space' ... Exoplanets ...... with discernible, measurable signs of extraterrestrial life✨ ❇️ ✨

'Up' there ⬆️

As seen from 'down' here on our terrestrial Home Planet

Go we go, we're looking 'around'. We're going Exploring ❇️

NASA's Exoplanet Archive

• https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/discoveries-dashboard/

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

Panspermia (from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan), meaning 'all', and σπέρμα (sperma), meaning 'seed') is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and also by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms. Distribution may have occurred spanning galaxies, and so may not be restricted to the limited scale of solar systems.

Panspermia hypotheses propose (for example) that microscopic life-forms that can survive the effects of space (such as extremophiles) can become trapped in debris ejected into space after collisions between planets and small Solar System bodies that harbor life. Some organisms may travel dormant for an extended amount of time before colliding randomly with other planets or intermingling with protoplanetary disks. Under certain ideal impact circumstances (into a body of water, for example), and ideal conditions on a new planet's surfaces, it is possible that the surviving organisms could become active and begin to colonize their new environment. At least one report finds that endospores from a type of Bacillus bacteria found in Morocco can survive being heated to 420 °C (788 °F), making the argument for panspermia even stronger. Panspermia studies concentrate not on how life began, but on methods that may distribute it in the Universe...

'Life finds a way', the 'tiny little ones', microrganisms, spores/fungi... traveling thru space and 'seeding'

• https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/space-station-mold-survives-200-times-radiation-dose-would-kill-human

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On One Strange Rock

Season One, Episode 4 -- Genesis

Stardust Origins

• https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/news/stardust_astrobio.html

• http://www.space.com/26833-nasa-stardust-spacecraft-captured-interstellar-dust.html

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_are_made_of_star_stuff_--_carl_sagan.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Starstuff_we_are.jpg

ESA

"We are made of star stuff"

* http://www.amazon.com/The-Stardust-Revolution-Story-Origin/dp/1616145498

I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

On the passing of Stardust David ...

'Space Oddity' by David Bowie, performed by a floating Chris Hadfield ...

Lessons from Space, we are Stars, yes we are

“We are all stardust”

―- Carl Sagan

Yes, we are ...

 

Northern NM Ghost Ranch, Pedernal & Milky Way, Photo by David Lancaster

 

The Home Galaxy, Photo by Andrew McCarthy

NASA / Our Milky Way

Our home galaxy is called the Milky Way. It’s a spiral galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light-years. Earth is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once.

 

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