<html><div style='background-color:'><P><FONT size=3>Hi Jill,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Yes! Francis Crick (with Leslie Orgle) suggested something of the kind more than </FONT><FONT size=3>30 years ago... I am writng a paper that, in fact, concludes with this theme. </FONT><FONT size=3>Following is an exrept:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=4><B>Futuristic research directions. </B>Panspermia relates to a hypothesis that the seeds of life are prevalent throughout the universe, and that life on our planet began by such seeds landing on it from outer space and propagating themselves. </P>
<P>Francis Crick (with Leslie Orgel) suggested in 1973 a theory of directed panspermia, where seeds of life (such as DNA fragments) may have been purposely spread by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Critics argue that space travel is damaging to life because of exposure to radiation, cosmic rays and stellar winds. </P>
<P>Introduce now the notion of telepanspermia which postulates panspermia that is guided by means of coded fantomark patterns (or their streaks), not necessarily through the physical transport of actual "seeds" via meteors, comets, and the like.</P>
<P>Telepanspermia may be guided by means akin to pilot waves in Bohmian quantum mechanics. So, working on guiding mechanisms in telepanspermia may converge with non-local hidden variable theories in fundamental physics.</P>
<P>Development of an information theory that is extended to fantomark-coded messages and streaks would be crucial, as it would facilitate the invention of superior intelligent artifacts; could hold a key to communication with extraterrestrial modes of intelligence; and eventually help us understand our cosmic ancestry and the relationship between implicate and explicate orders, as outlined by David Bohm. Ref [ ]</P>
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From: <I>Jill Andresevic <andresevic@earthlink.net></I><BR>To: <I>Steve Hovland <shovland@mindspring.com>,The new improved paleopsych list <paleopsych@paleopsych.org>,<isaacsonj@hotmail.com>,<eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il></I><BR>CC: <I><jz@bigbangtango.net>,<sjlee@howardbloom.net>,<kblozie@yahoo.com>,<idigdarwin@yahoo.com>,<BobKrone@aol.com>,<ohbeeb@yahoo.com></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [Paleopsych] re: bacterial engineering and our future in space</I><BR>Date: <I>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:28:34 -0500</I><BR><BR>
<META content="Microsoft SafeHTML" name=Generator><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Steve / Howard, I read that Watson or Crick (not sure which one) wrote about DNA being sent to Earth on a spaceship, because his theory was Earth could not create life, therefore life had to brought here from another place (interesting how this is not something well known, if indeed it is true). This also could connect to the fact that a pig and a chicken and a human embryo all look very much the same early in embryonic development, since I am speculating that there was one form of DNA that then evolved into different life forms. I am not a professional scientist like most of you (I am guessing), just a fan of Howard’s. Curious as to what you think of this, if anything. Jill<BR><BR>
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<B>From: </B>"Steve Hovland" <shovland@mindspring.com><BR><B>Date: </B>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:52:45 -0800<BR><B>To: </B>"The new improved paleopsych list" <paleopsych@paleopsych.org>, <isaacsonj@hotmail.com>, <eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il><BR><B>Cc: </B><jz@bigbangtango.net>, <sjlee@howardbloom.net>, <kblozie@yahoo.com>, "Jill Andresevic" <andresevic@earthlink.net>, <idigdarwin@yahoo.com>, <BobKrone@aol.com>, <ohbeeb@yahoo.com><BR><B>Subject: </B>RE: [Paleopsych] re: bacterial engineering and our future in space<BR><BR> <BR>Some people think our DNA came here from space<BR>encapsulated in bacteria...<BR> <BR>Steve <BR></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> paleopsych-bounces@paleopsych.org [<A href="mailto:paleopsych-bounces@paleopsych.org]">mailto:paleopsych-bounces@paleopsych.org]</A><B>On Behalf Of </B>HowlBloom@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 25, 2005 8:50 PM<BR><B>To:</B> isaacsonj@hotmail.com; eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il<BR><B>Cc:</B> paleopsych@paleopsych.org; jz@bigbangtango.net; sjlee@howardbloom.net; kblozie@yahoo.com; Jill Andresevic; idigdarwin@yahoo.com; BobKrone@aol.com; ohbeeb@yahoo.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Paleopsych] re: bacterial engineering and our future in space<BR><BR></FONT></SPAN><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR>Joel--The article you sent, the one below, is not only
amazing. It dovetails with a piece of poetry I wrote as a treatment for a short film in 2001. <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>As usual, the poem was inspired immensely by my interchanges with Eshel. Take a look:<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could swarms of robo-microbes<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Made by humans and biology<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">The techno teams <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">That come from
dreams<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">The wet dreams of technology<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could cyborg microbes by the trillions<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Launched as space communities<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Explore the dark beyond our skies<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Thrive
on starlight, climb and dive <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">through wormholes and through nebulae?<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could they re-landscape Einstein’s space <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">And tame time with phrenology? <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could they ride herd<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">on mass stampedes <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">of x-rays and raw energy<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">corralling flares spat by black holes <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">at the cores of galaxies?<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could genes retooled<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">In swarms of cells<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Become our new conquistadors?<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could they explore<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Galactic shores<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">And synapse reports<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">To our brains?<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">From global thinking<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">Could we go<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">To cosmos-hopping megaminds<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">One small step for E. coli<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px">A giant step for human kind?<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR> <BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
18px">The article:<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR> <BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Retrieved November 25, 2005, from the World Wide Web <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/national/24film.html?adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1132979630-umqKos8HcAa3U8FsuKGPrQ&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/national/24film.html?adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1132979630-umqKos8HcAa3U8FsuKGPrQ&pagewanted=print</A> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 24, 2005 Live From the Lab, a Culture Worth a Thousand Words By ANDREW POLLACK Your portrait in a petri dish? Scientists have created <B>living
photographs made of bacteria, genetically engineering the microbes so that a thin sheet of them growing in a dish can capture and display an image.</B> Bacteria are not about to replace conventional photography because it takes at least two hours to produce a single image. But <B>the feat shows the potential of an emerging field called synthetic biology, which involves designing living cellular machines much as electrical engineers might design a circuit.</B> "We're actually applying principles from engineering into designing cells," said Christopher A. Voigt, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, and a leader of the photography project, which is described in a paper being published today in the journal Nature. <B>One team of synthetic biologists is already
trying to engineer bacteria to produce a malaria drug that is now derived from a tree and is in short supply. And J. Craig Venter, who led one team that unraveled the human DNA sequence, has said he now wants to synthesize microbes to produce hydrogen for energy. </B>The technology could also be used to create new pathogens or synthesize known ones. So far, however, most synthetic biology accomplishments have been like the bacterial film - somewhat bizarre demonstrations of things that can easily be done with electronics. <B>Synthetic biologists have</B>, for instance, <B>made the biological equivalent of an oscillator, getting cells to blink on and off</B>. To make the bacterial film, <B>common E. coli bacteria were given genes that cause a black pigment to be produced only when the bacteria are in the dark.</B>
<B>The camera, developed at the University of Texas, Austin, is a temperature-controlled box in which bacteria grow, with a hole in the top to let in light. An image on a black-and-white 35-millimeter slide is projected through the hole onto a sheet of the microbes. Dark parts of the slide block the light from hitting the bacteria, turning those parts of the sheet black. The parts exposed to light remain the yellowish color of the growth medium. The result is a permanent, somewhat eerie, black-and-yellowish picture. <BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B></B>Scientists involved in the project said they envisioned being able to use light to direct bacteria to manufacture substances on exquisitely small scales.
"It kind of gives us the ability to control single biological cells in a population," said Jeffrey J. Tabor, a graduate student in molecular biology at Texas. <B>Scientists, of course, have been adding foreign genes to cells for three decades, and the distinction between synthetic biology and more conventional genetic engineering is not always clear. </B>Proponents of synthetic biology say genetic engineering so far has mainly involved transferring a single gene from one organism into another. The human insulin gene, for instance, is put into bacteria, which then produce the hormone. Each project, they say, requires a lot of experimentation, in contrast to <B>true engineering, like building a microchip or a house, which uses standardized parts and has a fairly predictable outcome.</B> "We haven't been able to
transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems," said <B>Drew Endy, an assistant professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</B> "It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited." Professor Endy <B>and colleagues at M.I.T. have created a catalog of biological components, which they call BioBricks</B>, which are s<B>equences of DNA that can perform particular functions like turning on a gene</B>. Still, since cells differ from one another and are extremely complex, it is open to question how predictable biological engineering can ever be. <B>M.I.T. has also begun holding a competition for college students to design "genetically engineered machines." The bacterial camera was an entrant in
2004 and was made in part using BioBricks. Mr. Tabor said the idea for bacterial photography came from Zachary Booth Simpson, a digital artist who has been learning about biology at the university.</B> By chance, the Texas team learned that Professor Voigt in San Francisco and one of his graduate students, Anselm Levskaya, had already developed a bacterial light sensor. So the two groups teamed up. The E. coli bacterium was chosen because it is easy for genetic engineers to work with. But <B>since E. coli live in the human gut, they cannot sense light. Mr. Voigt and Mr. Levskaya put in a gene used by photosynthetic algae to respond to light. The bacteria were also given genes to make them produce an enzyme that would react with a chemical added to the growth medium. When that reaction occurs, a black precipitate is
produced. </B>The scientists created sort of a chain reaction inside the bacteria. When the bacteria are in the dark, the enzyme is produced, turning the medium black. When the bacteria are exposed to light, production of the enzyme is shut off. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company Home Privacy Policy Search Corrections XML Help Contact Us Work for Us Site Map Back to Top <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=5><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR> <BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Arial>----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain:
The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Recent Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member: Institute for Accelerating Change ; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see www.howardbloom.net<BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><BR></FONT></SPAN><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>