Panspermia posits that possibly life is traveling throughout the cosmos as microorganisms on space rocks, landing and eventually populating planets with their own special evolutionary histories.

Even science fiction has examples of alien races seeding planets with their own special terraforming life formula.

Maybe it’s time for us to create a lifepod and start sending many of them to planets we expect are habitable.

Such a life pod could have an AI system to choose the best starting location, and help protect the pod while it gets life going.

We could send them out by the thousands, and feel the hope of knowing earth’s life will probably take hold throughout our galaxy.

I think we should equip the pod with tardigrades, and other hearty microorganisms, as well as some sort of incubation apparatus.

Maybe a billion years from now we’ll find them thriving, and be able to share our history.

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