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in BLOG, Chandra Wickramasinghe's BLOG, Fred Hoyle, Impact on Human Institutions 2017-7-1 : Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?
I thought my readers might enjoy this article : A look at the scientific evidence for panspermia. “The strongest evidence to support a cosmic origin of life and panspermia is the mind-boggling complexity of life.” My colleague Sir Fred Hoyle famously commented : In the 16 years since Fred passed, we have discovered so much...
in BLOG, Chandra Wickramasinghe's BLOG, Impact on Human Consciousness, Impact on Human Institutions, Life is a Cosmic Phenomenon, Panspermia 2017-6-24 : To Confirm “Life on MARS” Do We Need to Put Men On Mars?
O’ the irony! Having already spread billions of dessicated viruses and bacteria on the surface of Mars and most other local bodies, over so many missions, we now announced that: “We may need to put men on Mars before we can really rule out life on the Red Planet once and for all”. So man...
in Chandra Wickramasinghe's BLOG, Impact on Human Consciousness, Impact on Human Institutions, Life is a Cosmic Phenomenon 2016-10-26 : MUMBAI hosts astrobiology conference on life in space
India’s first Astrobiology Conference Life in Space – was organised in the city of MUMBAI by the Indian Astrobiology Research Centre and IARC Centre for United Nations in collaboration with Nehru Science Centre. The conference was a huge success attended by Astrobiology students from across India. Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK delivered the...
in BLOG, Impact on Human Consciousness, Impact on Human Institutions, Life is a Cosmic Phenomenon 2014-9-20 : United Nations Event – IGNORING LIFE FROM SPACE EVIDENCE COULD THREATEN HUMAN SURVIVAL
At a UN-sponsored Symposium on the “Space Science and the United Nations” held in Graz Austria from 22-24 September 2014, I presented a paper entitled “The transition from Earth-centred biology to cosmic life” with co-authors Gensuke Tokoro and Milton Wainwright. The paper, now published in Journal of Cosmology (JoC, 24, 12080-12096) argues that a paradigm...
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