دانلود کتاب Life Comes From Space: The Decisive Evidence

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Contents Foreword by Gensuke Tokoro Chapter 1 — Introduction Chapter 2 — Microbes and How They Gain a Living How Might Life on Earth have Originated? Did Life begin in Hydrothermal Vents? The Clay World Hypothesis The RNA World Life-Particles or Jeewanu Organics from Space and Life’s Origin Importance of Aerobic Heterotrophy to the Development of Intelligent Life on Earth Silicon and Life Chapter 3 — Historical Overview of Life’s Origins Andrew Crosse and an Early Attempt to Create Life Darwin and the Origin of Life Microbial invasion from Venus! Chapter 4 — History of Ideas About Life on Other Planets Comets as the Source of Panspermic Life De Maillet: Arguably the First “Modern” Proponent of Panspermia Chapter 5 — The Astronomy of Panspermia Carbon Dust in the Cosmos From Dust to Organic Molecules Chapter 6 — The Dawn of Modern Astrobiology Chapter 7 — The Clues from Comets Chapter 8 — The Microbiology of Panspermia The Space-Life Carriers The Cosmically Inoculated Consommé Microbes and Panspermia Survivability of Microbes in Extreme Cosmic Conditions Necropanspermia, Necrosymbiosis and the Origin of Life Chapter 9 — Evidence for Fossilised Life in Meteorites Darwin and Meteorites Henri Becquerel and Meteorite-Microbes Hans D. Pflug and Meteorite Microfossils Chapter 10 — Our Evidence for Meteoritic Microfossils Amazing Fossils in the Polonnaruwa Meteorite Further Details of the Evidence Showing that the Pollonaruwa Stone is Meteorite The Sheffield-Examination of the Polonnaruwa Meteorite for Fossils Fossilized Worm-like Structures Complete the Polonnaruwa Meteorite Story Chapter 11 — Proving that Microbial Life of Space Origin Exists in the Stratosphere Some Personal Recollections (MW) Chapter 12 — Evidence that Life is Continually Arriving from Space — Neopanspermia Could the Transfer of Microbes from Earth to the Stratosphere Have Influenced Evolution on Earth? Large DNA-Staining Biological Entities in the Stratosphere Chapter 13 — Strange Biological Entities in the Stratosphere-Personal Recollections of MW The Sheffield-based Stratosphere Balloon Sampling Control Flights What We Found in the Stratosphere How Can we be Certain that Biological Entities Originate from Space? Chapter 14 — Conclusions Postscript Appendix The Beginnings of Astrobiology References Acknowledgements Biographies of Authors Further Reading References to Technical Literature by Subject Index