Electromagnetic space travel for bugs?

www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9601

Electromagnetic space travel for bugs?

Eamonn A

I must say that's a very cool hypotheses, I really like the idea of earth just beaming life off into space and that life then traveling around the solar system and the galaxy. Panspermia on steroids!

Bart.

This rings a bell.
I remember a talk given to us in SAC by Seanie a number of years about a theory that bacteria is living in the upper atmosphere and is brought near the surface by solar activity, this might explain some sudden "out of no where" outbrakes, this article seems to give it more credance.

As for microbial life crossing space by this means, the first question I would ask is "can microbial/bacteria survive in space and still be alive when it came back to earth, ?" has nasa or anyone else done experiments with this in mind?

Yeah, it is an interesting theory alright. One that, when I first read it, found it hard to counter. Its more astro- or extra-biology than astronomy, but its roots do lie in the formation and continuing existence of the Solar System. I must dig up that lecture again, if even to update it with such new information...