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Panspermia – the idea that life exist across the whole Universe and it can be transferred from one location to another.
Directed panspermia – the idea that life might have been intentionally spread throughout space and seeded on the surface of other worlds by a guiding intelligence.
In August 1996, teams of scientists found in Antarctica a meteorite that contains fossils blasted off from the surface Mars about 15 million years ago. Than 4kg Stone labeled ALH84001 contains balls of carbon originating from micro-organisms while they were alive. Several tests for organic material have been performed on ALH84001 and amino acids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) have been found.
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The strategy of directed panspermia may have already been pursued by an advanced civilization facing catastrophic annihilation, or hoping to terraform planets for later colonization.