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Are There Aliens Already on Earth?
Astrobiology Magazine ^
| 02/20/06
Posted on 02/20/2006 5:28:16 PM PST by KevinDavis
Conspiracy theorists will readily tell you that the U.S. military is hiding alien corpses in a secret facility in the Nevada desert. But paleontologist and University of Washington geology professor Peter Ward thinks that scientists should be looking for a different type of alien life on earth: alien microbes. Ward is the author of several popular books about astrobiology, including the controversial Rare Earth, co-authored with Donald Brownlee. In his latest book, Life as We Do Not Know It, Ward addresses an issue often avoided by astrobiologists. Although all known life on Earth has a similar DNA-based chemistry, life found on other worlds may not. In chapter 6 of Life as We Do Not Know It, reprinted below, Ward takes this argument one step further. There may, he says, be unfamiliar life forms on Earth, as well. And scientists would be wise to search for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at astrobio.net ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; artbell; astronomy; bogusheadline; cryptobiology; darklife; deeplife; donaldbrownlee; erroneouskeywords; et; extremophiles; helixmakemineadouble; kooks; panspermia; peterward; rareearth; rareearthnonsense; science; thomasgold; tinfoil; xplanets
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:28:44 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Of course
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:30:10 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(If it's (Sherrod) Brown, flush it)
To: KevinDavis
Of course there are: the Clintons, Lard Ass and John F'n Kerry for starters!
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:30:33 PM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: KevinDavis
How would you know an alien microbe from a nonalien microbe?
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:31:21 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: KevinDavis
Who, us?
To: KevinDavis
I always thought my ex-mother in law was an alien, and her daughter too.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:32:29 PM PST
by
stumpy
To: KevinDavis
Yes, Hillary, Teddy, Horse Face, Durbin the Turban, Rockefeller, Conyers, McNinny, Cindy Shiite, Dim Paine, Dr. Demento amongst many others.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:32:44 PM PST
by
DarthVader
(Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
To: Brilliant
How would you know an alien microbe from a nonalien microbe? The alien microbe would have a tiny spaceship, of course.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:33:30 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
To: Aussie Dasher
You beat me to it. I was also thinking Rick Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Simon (American Idol), and the Dixie Chicks.
...would explain a lot.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:33:39 PM PST
by
Zarro
(We Support Governor Rossi)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:33:56 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
To: KevinDavis
Are There Aliens Already on Earth?"Leave it all to me."
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:34:47 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:35:24 PM PST
by
weegee
("...the left can only take power through deception" -W. Chambers, former mem of Communist Party USA)
To: KevinDavis
They like to be called "Temporary Guest Workers" please!
To: KevinDavis
Don't be silly!
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:35:40 PM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: KevinDavis
Roddy's Right?
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:35:41 PM PST
by
bikepacker67
(Mohammed's Mother wears Army Boots)
To: KevinDavis
Man, if this thread doesn't get a Helen Thomas pic, I don't know what will.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:36:29 PM PST
by
houeto
(Mr. President, close our borders now!)
To: houeto; All
I don't want to know.. I had a feeling that this thread is going to be interesting...
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:37:13 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
I don't want to know.. I had a feeling that this thread is going to be interesting... Me too! LOL!
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:39:32 PM PST
by
phantomworker
("Few is the number who think with their own minds and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein)
To: houeto
From your lips to nobody's keyboard...
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:40:53 PM PST
by
null and void
(That 12 jurors can overturn the leviathan of "The Law" strikes fear into statists across this nation)
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