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  • Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace sits in a control chair inside the dimly lit, high-tech cockpit of the spaceship Hail Mary in the film Project Hail Mary.
    The Science Behind Project Hail Mary
    / What is the panspermia hypothesis (did life come from outer space)?

    …Grace and Rocky discuss is panspermia, the hypothesis that rudimentary life—or its most primitive ingredients—did not originate on Earth but arrived from space, carried by a meteor or some other celestial body. Some proponents of this idea argue that it may have come from other planets, possibly even Mars, and…

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    …Grace and Rocky discuss is panspermia, the hypothesis that rudimentary life—or its most primitive ingredients—did not originate on Earth but arrived from space, carried by a meteor or some other celestial body. Some proponents of this idea argue that it may have come from other planets, possibly even Mars, and…

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