Microcosm (31 page)

“
INVASION FROM MARS? MICROBES!”:
Los Angeles Examiner,
March 20, 1960.

“
THESE QUESTIONS MIGHT BE ANSWERED IN TWO WAYS”:
Lederberg, 1963.

“
WE CAN DEFER OUR CONCERN”:
Lederberg, 1960, p. 394.

NASA AGREED:
Dick, 1998.

“
THAT’S THE BALL GAME”:
quoted in Dick and Strick, 2004.

“
WE CAN NO LONGER BE CONFIDENT”:
quoted in McElheny, 1976.

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY BLURS INTO ASTROBIOLOGY:
Benner, Ricardo, and Carrigan, 2004.

PLANETS MAY TRADE BITS OF THEMSELVES:
Gladman et al., 2005; Warmflash and Weiss, 2005.

THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF PANSPERMIA:
Napier, 2004.

IT FLOATS INSIDE THE BODIES OF THE ASTRONAUTS:
La Duc et al., 2004.

“
THE FIELD IS HAUNTED BY THINKING”:
quoted in Clarke, 2001, p. 248.

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