MDIAG! thinks it’s a rite of passage for parents when that age-old question is innocently uttered by their children: “Where do babies come from?” Well be prepared to blow their minds when you tell them they’ve existed all along.
Toward the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, as scientists were learning about the genetic and biochemical complexity of the cell, confusion about the origin of life grew. One way around the problem was to say that life had never emerged, but that it had always been an inherent part of the universe.
Then take them out in the backyard with a telescope, stare at the stares, and say they didn’t come from mommy’s belly, but through a process called “Transpermia” and hopped from planet to planet since the beginning of time.
“Scientists who believe that life might have arrived on Earth from space by meteorites or comets do not doubt that this life emerged from matter at a certain point in time on another planet,” says Fry.
Then take them out for some ice cream because, quite frankly, they’ll need it to cope at that point. You big meanie, you.