“Mission Control, we have a problem.”
Hey! Maybe we can get life started on other planets by dumping out dead astronauts there!
Scientists Say the Darnedest Things! (A Job for Dead Astronauts)
See, the dead astronaut, besides being instantly transformed into a reliable Democrat voter, will have a body full of microbes; and when they find themselves on a lifeless planet orbiting another star, why, they’ll just naturally start evolving! Maybe by the time we’ve figured out how to get a spaceship there without the astronauts dying on the way, they’ll have evolved their own Soupy Sales.
Uh, dude! Didn’t you say Evolution, like, takes millions and billions of years for a microbe to Evolve into, say, one of those fish-things? Like, who wants to wait that long to see if your experiment works?
One advantage of predicting something that far in the future is that you won’t be there when/if you are proven false. Some of these “scientific” ideas seem more than a little far-fetched.
BTW, they seem to be tacitly admitting that life coming into being from non-life is hardly a certain bet.