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The idea that life is a cosmic, rather than a purely terrestrial phenomenon, has progressed from scientific heresy to mainstream science within the short timespan of a few decades. The theory of cometary panspermia developed by Fred Hoyle and the present author in the 1970's has been vindicated by a spate of new discoveries in astronomy and biology, and also with startling new evidence of microbial fossils in meteorites and micrometeorites. The recent Kepler Telescope searches for exoplanets have indicated the presence of over 100 billion habitable planets separated by only a few light years,

Exobiology. --- Extraterrestrial beings. --- Life on other planets. --- Extraterrestrial life --- Planets --- Fermi's paradox --- Alien beings (Extraterrestrials) --- Aliens (Extraterrestrial beings) --- Extraterrestrial intelligence --- Extraterrestrials --- Life on other planets --- Human-alien encounters --- Astrobiology --- Biology --- Habitable planets --- Life --- Origin

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This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle-Wickramasinghe collaborations begin. A research programme which was started in 1962 on the carbonaceous nature of interstellar dust leads, over the next two decades, to developments that are continued in both Cambridge and Cardiff. These developments prompt Hoyle and the author to postulate the or

Astronomers --- Life --- Cosmic dust. --- Dust --- Interstellar matter --- Abiogenesis --- Biogenesis --- Germ theory --- Heterogenesis --- Life, Origin of --- Life (Biology) --- Origin of life --- Plasmogeny --- Plasmogony --- Evolution (Biology) --- Exobiology --- Spontaneous generation --- Origin. --- Origin --- Wickramasinghe, N. C. --- Hoyle, Fred, --- Hoyle, F. --- Khoĭl, Fred, --- Hūyl, Firid, --- هويل، فرد --- Wickramasinghe, Nalin Chandra, --- Wickramasinghe, Chandra --- Wickramasinghe, Chandra,

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Exobiology. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Life --- Cosmogony. --- Exobiologie --- Evolution (Biologie) --- Vie --- Cosmogonie --- Origin. --- Origines

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Evolution --- Life --- Space biology --- Vie --- Biologie spatiale --- Origin --- Origines

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