 
Contents
Technical Sections
Introduction
Target Environments
The Swarm Strategy
Propulsion and Launch
Astrometry and Targeting
Capture at the Target Zone
Design of Capsule Size
Target Selections/Probability
Dark Cloud
Fragment
Protostellar
Condensation
Accretion
Disks/Planets
Biomass Requirements
Missions to Nearby
Stars
Survival/Growth in
Comets
Biological Considerations
Advanced Missions
Resource Requirements
Using Comets as Vehicles
Conclusions |
Directed
Panspermia
- Technical Considerations -
13. Technical
Considerations: Conclusions
The
above considerations suggest that a single technological civilisation can seed the galaxy.
Similarly, one past panbiotic civilisation could have seeded the galaxy, accounting for
the rapid emergence of life on Earth and possibly on Mars [2, 3, 26]. However, if ours is
the first technological civilisation, the potential to seed the galaxy demonstrates the
significance of directed panspermia that we can accomplish. Furthermore, by extrapolation,
the material resources of 1E11 solar systems in one galaxy may be sufficient to seed all
the 1E11 galaxies.
Of course these are speculative long-term
prospects. However, even a few comet-based missions in the nearer future, using a small
fraction of the comet’s material, is sufficient to target one star-forming cloud for
a major biological expansion.
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