Minor footnote: author Kim Stanley Robinson wrote presciently about this technology in his Mars trilogy (specifically, "Green Mars", I believe.)

--joe.

Uhh, don't forget Genesis:

http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/

Sure, it had a hairy reentry/recovery, but it certainly recovered samples from the inner Solar System. These were likely attributable to the Sun or were of interstellar origin.

--joe.

...but I can summarize my eventual response regardless:

That is NOT evolution.


--joe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavin ...I mean, in the litany of famous gas-giants, this one certainly rates. Not much else could get between the rebels and the first Death Star.