Wouter van Ooijen voti.nl> writes: > But I wonder what those lovely bears would eat on that new planet? From > the description I understand that the eat bacteria, algea, and sometimes > each other. Not a likely candidate for starting (laying the bottom of) a > food chain. That's why I said 'and some bacteria or algae they feed on'. E.g. if these gummi bears would be, say, frozen, hibernating when a meteorite would hit and propel a piece of ice into circumsolar orbit, then it would be likely that they would hibernate among their usual nutrients, which should also be hibernating at the time. By 'rapid' panspermia I meant that a higher organism turned out to be an extremophile (I did not know that this was possible) and that that might cut a couple of tens of millions of years in the time needed to evolve intelligent life (if any) at the destination. Peter P. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist