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user-inactivated  ·  2763 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cassini's Grand Finale

I'd like to think of our germs as early pioneers, leaving Earth's grubby little fingerprints all over the solar system for future civilizations to discover and wonder how they got there.





user-inactivated  ·  2763 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In Niven's Man-Kzin wars series that was a part of the background of the universe he created. An ancient progenitor race seeded planets all over the galaxy with biological material to prep them for colonization. The ancient race went extinct leaving the seeded worlds behind.