".. A virologist visiting my institution recently suggested that man is
simply a vehicle by which DNA can replicate on the moon (and other
planets?)...."
This constitutes a highly purified distillate of humbug, piffle, and
poppycock. It is truer to the case that the institution-visiting
virologist is the vector for transmission of the dread human scourge,
Nonsensica.
Snowtrek