Episode #141: Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

We have an excellent and mind-expanding discussion with Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe about panspermia and the cosmic origins of life, and how evidence has been building for decades that space itself may contain a "micro-biome" consisting of vast numbers of single-cell life forms and viruses, and that these are constantly raining down upon the earth, changing and affecting life here on the planet, and possibly contributing to evolutionary changes throughout the history of life on earth.

We also talk about how this cosmic distribution of life in the universe may have caused the sudden onset of plagues and sicknesses throughout history, and that it may be the origin of the current viral crisis the world is facing in the form of COVID19.

We have to give special thanks to George Howard from The Cosmic Tusk blog for helping us set up this fantastic interview with Dr. Chandra. You can find the recent articles George has written regarding Dr. Chandra's work here, and here.

For more information on Dr. Chandra and his enormous body of work, you can go to his website.

Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe

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0:00.0	The mystery of cosmogenesis.
0:08.3	You are listening to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.2	And welcome back.
0:20.7	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
0:22.7	angels and demons and monsters and the Serpents to Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:25.3	Coming to you,
0:25.9	not live from the 10 by 10 by 10 tangent cube of science,
0:29.4	nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient seabed high atop the Edwards Plateau.
0:34.7	This is, uh,
0:36.0	we've got a very,
0:36.8	very interesting and special show for you guys this week.
0:41.7	And it was actually, we got to say, we got to put out a big thanks to George Howard of the Cosmic Tusk.
0:47.1	Thanks, Betty.
0:47.8	Yeah, for setting this up for us.
0:52.3	We have a long interview with Dr. Chandra Wickramasinga.
0:57.9	It was a fascinating conversation.
1:00.7	And you guys will see what the topic was.
1:03.4	We went through many topics, but the, but panspermia and a universal biosphere, basically, is what we're talking about, the fact that life itself
1:15.5	may be a universal and fundamental phenomenon that is, just like Randall talks about how we
1:21.3	need to be aware of our cosmic environment in terms of impactors and effects that it's had
1:26.6	on Earth in the past, that Dr.
1:30.2	Chandra is saying that this is also the case with biology.
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