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Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

Inquiring Minds

CHAPTER

Pan Spermia

The idea behind the pan spermia was really because i just felt like the plot was a little too plausible without it. And we come to learn, and i hope this isn't saying too much, that he was proven ongan astrophage shares many features, organels, d and a things that look like life on earth. I didn't have to say, oh, what an alarming coincidence. Life involved separately and these three things. Most readers wouldn't have called me out on that, but i feel better having a panspermi event.

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