If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

by Stephen Webb

The physicist Thomas Gold (1920–2004) was another scientist who liked to propose unorthodox ideas. He jokingly proposed the “garbage” scenario for the origin of terrestrial life: ETC s landed here, dumped their waste, and the contamination from the garbage was the seed for life!

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