http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrend...nceofalienlife
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Fucking awesome.
Holy fuck, yes.
Find the aliens, mine them for stem cells.
Detour posted the Fox article on facebook which had a little more written in it and I found this line very awesome:
That's a pretty fucking cool idea and if bacteria can live on comets flying through space it's actually a realistic possibility.Quote:
“Maybe life was seeded on earth -- it developed on comets for example, and just landed here when these things were hitting the very early Earth,” Shostak speculated. “It would suggest, well, life didn’t really begin on the Earth, it began as the solar system was forming.”
A meteorite from Mars had ancient bacteria as well.
http://www.marsnews.com/focus/life/
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Needless to say, if Hoover's conclusions are found to be accurate, the implications for human life will be staggering.
why couldn't theyQuote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
bacteria we brought to the moon in the 60s was still alive on equipment when it was returned, so life being on comets isn't much of a stretch from that
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Update: While the Journal of Cosmology says that “no other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting,” some highly respected names in the scientific community are challenging the validity of Cosmology, and the findings of Dr. Hoover.
“[The Journal of Cosmology] isn’t a real science journal at all,” says PZ Meyers in Science Blogs, “but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth.”
I see "blogs" in that quote, so you can probably disregard it
After the whole "we found a bacteria that lived on sulfur instead of carbon" thing that was totally overblown bullshit, I think some NASA's "astrobiology" division lacks credibility at the moment. I'm skeptical.