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Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - Chakravartin - 03-05-2011 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/ Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has traveled to remote areas in Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska, amongst others, for over ten years now, collecting and studying meteorites. He gave FoxNews.com early access to the out-of-this-world research, published late Friday evening in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites -- only nine such meteorites are known to exist on Earth. Link to the Journal article: http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html Synopsis: Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites. Based on Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and other measures, Dr. Hoover has concluded they are indigenous to these meteors and are similar to trichomic cyanobacteria and other trichomic prokaryotes such as filamentous sulfur bacteria. He concludes these fossilized bacteria are not Earthly contaminants but are the fossilized remains of living organisms which lived in the parent bodies of these meteors, e.g. comets, moons, and other astral bodies. The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets. Members of the Scientific community were invited to analyze the results and to write critical commentaries or to speculate about the implications. These commentaries will be published on March 7 through March 10, 2011.
Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - freeradical - 03-05-2011 ![]() Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - OWC Jamie - 03-05-2011 Made in USA Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - Catzilla - 03-05-2011 Why would be published in a hairdressing journal? Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - deckeda - 03-05-2011 LOL! Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - Ted King - 03-05-2011 ![]() Sounds like a hypothesis that may just turn out to be correct. It's a pretty extraordinary hypothesis, though, so it is understandable that many astrobiologists, but especially microbiologists, would be skeptical. Hard not to think of this in comparison to the "bacteria in Mars rocks" thing from a while back, no? Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - ztirffritz - 03-05-2011 To think that in all of the Universe life only exists on Earth is foolish. There's a near infinite number of possibilities out there. The odds that we'd ever find it or recognize it is slim though. Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - pinkoos - 03-05-2011 ztirffritz wrote: I agree. There is pretty much no way to believe that we (ie, Earth) harbors the only living things in the universe. It's statistically impossible that life only exists on Earth. Our need to somehow "prove" that there is life elsewhere instead of just accepting it as a statistical fact that we are not alone is what is frustrating to me. Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - Rick-o - 03-05-2011 One thing is certain, if we are the only living things in the universe, it's a heck of a waste of space! Re: Alien life discovered - What's the punchline ...? - mrlynn - 03-05-2011 Haven't read the article yet. I just told my wife who asks, "How long have the meteorites been on the Earth?" Have they ruled out earthly contamination? /Mr Lynn |