Moving life into space

It seems ridiculous to send men to Mars or elsewhere in space to colonize the universe. 

If we are destined to spread our seed beyond this planet, it won’t be by men’s travels unless there is a sudden technological breakthrough in growing earth foods outside the Earth’s environment.

What is plausible however is to send our most robust viruses and bacterium to alien worlds instead of sending humans. These living examples from our planet would carry the least risk while also carrying our greatest offering of DNA.

Given the complexity of our universe however, it’s likely that living things already occupy everywhere we might go, and all that’s missing in our minds is the universe’s sterling example of perfection: which in our opinion seems to be man. It also seems the universe has been carrying on quite nicely with or without us, but there is a force of nature that compels all things to reach outward. Due to this compelling feature for all things to reach the next thing and to conquer the next world, it’s hopelessly decided that man will go into space.

Go into space we will, but likely none of us will live long anywhere but mother earth, but the most compelling force of nature is how complex is it’s operation. In the end, by compelling us to reach outward, the universe may just get its chance to share Earth’s DNA since we can’t help but take those contaminants of virus and bacterium with us when we go. Man may not stay anywhere in space very long, but maybe some of the contaminants we shed may stake a real claim somewhere we just can’t imagine … and by doing so be reunited with one of their own distant cousins that are equally compelled by the universe to walk around wherever they can.


Gene Haynes