So there is a small community of scientists who hypothesized that this virus came from a meteor. Its sounds fanciful and totally conspiritorial until you take the time to read into it a bit.

Key points:
- Viruses can live in outer space.
- There are REAL scientists dedicated to this feild. Astro biologists.
- A meteor hit near Wuhan in fall last year.
- The explosive widespread prevalence of the virus in Wuhan is not likely to have come from a single animal source. Rather it is akin to viral dust spreading all over the city...from a meteor.

Here is an article from Feb touching on the idea.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/1240664/coronavirus-news-latest-china-origin-meteorite-scientists-health-warning-death-toll-latest/amp

Here is a pretty good vid discussing the idea.

https://youtu.be/KwXKzL-yzt8

For the past few months I have been an expert advisor on economics (specifically recession) and some epidemiology. From this point on I will be taking questions on Astrobiology. I have read nearly two whole wikipedia articles on it so am pretty well versed in the subject.

Did the five other closely related coronaviruses that have been around for decades come from the same meteor or a different one? How about the Lyssa virus variants in Australian bats? The Great Pox that Columbus brought back from the America’s that eventually killed him?

Wow you listened to that hour long video quickly!

Perhaps...but I cant be certain..... My new feild of expertise is astro bilology.

Perhaps this is the meteor.

https://www.space.com/china-midnight-meteor-brilliant-fireball-october-2019.html

Seriously......it sounds like an out of this world idea (bad pun intended)....But your queries dont negate the hypothesis.

Viruses can't live but for a few days on plastic on earth but can live in space?
Link to the Wiki article to explain that one please.

Yeah thats what has me stumped too. Apparently its a cryogenic asteroid. That bit is wholey believable. But then how does it survive once on earth...?

Ill send you the wikipedia link when I finish writing it.

Really?

Beyond ridiculous. Somebody is cutting click-bait.

1. Cosmic radiation destroys everything, including spacecraft hull metal.

2. For a virus to infect earth biology, it would have to come from earth, or an earth-like biosphere that shares the same family tree.

3. While you could make a case that it's remotely hypothetically possible that life on earth started on mars, or vice versa, that would have been a very long time ago when mars possibly had a biosphere. Remotely hypothetically possible for volcanic (or meteor impact) activity to throw parts of a biosphere into space. But for that biology to survive the transit, it would have to happen in a matter of months, which again is barely remotely hypothetically possible from mars to earth (or vice versa).

But there are no biospheres other than ours in the solar system today, if mars had one it was literally BILLIONS of years ago. So anything coming here would have to have come from very far away or been loitering in space for a very long time. No possible way could any earth-compatible biology survive that long. I'd be surprised if something like a virus could survive more than a few minutes, cuz cryogenics don't do anything about radiation.

Transit of loose material from other solar systems would also be hundreds of millions of billions of years.

But with all that said, coronaviruses are common and well known on earth, we don't need to look very far to find them.

I need to hear from Greta Thunberg before I entertain this theory.

Right or wrong....it is interesting.

Comment then listen to video.... The APC modus operandi.

These 'scientists' think its bad science....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.space.com/amp/coronavirus-not-from-outer-space.html

Buuuut. Since im now an expert and I'm on APC I'll double down and find some cherry picked data to support my origional post. Ill be back when I find some. I WILL NEVER CHANGE MY MIND.

Oh well, nothing to see here...lets all go back to the tedious political arguments on the other threads....

What the OP describes was a great novel and later a 1971 movie by Michael Chrichton called "The Andromeda Strain."

Government scientists get it wrong in that story too, nearly with catastrophic results....

Can't wait for the Michael Moore movie on this in 3 years