Re: Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star Forwarded

[Jonathan Silverlight]

In message <1141397377.305323.200960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John 
Curtis <john@xxxxxxxxx> writes
> Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
> > I know you have a bee in your bonnet about water, but in this case the
> > water is actually in the form of a fairly good vacuum.
> Wickramasinghe-Hoyle panspermia needs water and salts in
> close contact.  Perhaps, atmospheric pressures, generated
> by the gravity of stars, simulate the deep-ocean environment
> of black smokers, which are invariably accompanied by biota.
> John Curtis

The only place you're going to get that sort of pressure and temperature 
is in deep-ocean environments (Doh !) It's irrelevant to stellar jets, 
or indeed stars. Anyway, panspermia barely qualifies as a theory, and 
doesn't even consider life as we don't know it.