Posted on 03/05/2011 5:51:25 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought.
That's the stunning conclusion one NASA scientist has come to, releasing his groundbreaking revelations in a new study in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology.
Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, 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.
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Is that a seal fetus crapping stars?
Seriously...this would be a huge discovery!
I hope its true. Hard to trust science these days...
Umm, yo, NASA has no cred.
Seems like I’ve heard this before...........
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And it produced this:
When science "discovers" what some scientists desperately want to discover, I get a little cynical. And particularly when the scientists are working for an agency that isn't doing too well in the PR and funding departments at the moment.
I’ll bet the meteorite has a birth certificate.
Wow, it has a letter “S” embedded in it!
Unless this connects to global warming it is a story that is going nowhere.
A life form is found on a meteorite on PLANET EARTH. The life form resembles EARTHLIKE life forms.
A sensible person would conclude that the LIFE FORM CAME FROM PLANET EARTH!!!!!
One day life will be discovered on other planets. But this isn’t it.
Let me just say that I’m skeptical.
To make such a claim, one has to be able to show that there was not contamination from any source. For a meteorite found on the Earth’s surface, that’s pretty hard to do.
Just manipulating the rock in a sterile environment is not sufficient. “Sterile” means that microorganisms are dead, not that they are absent. Whatever process presumably enabled microorganisms of non-Earth origin to penetrate into the interior of the rock would allow Earth organisms to penetrate its interior.
The way I see it, to make such a claim with reasonable assurance, the rock would have to be found and manipulated away from Earth (say, on the surface of the moon or another planet). Then, all of the instruments used to manipulate it would have to be shown to be completely devoid of microorganisms or their remains. Furthermore, putative microorganisms would have to be shown to be, in fact, living or the remains of living things and not artifacts that resemble living things.
To make the claim of bona fide extraterrestrial life requires an extraordinary standard of proof.
Meteorites can actually come from earth. When a large meteor strikes, it can blast chunks of earth co-mingleted with meteorite fragments back into orbit, only to later return as meteorites. Could this be a possible explanation?
Where do you get a job as an astrobiologist?
“To make the claim of bona fide extraterrestrial life requires an extraordinary standard of proof.”
I don’t understand where this meme came from. Basically, it’s saying “if I don’t agree with a hypothesis, then what comprises evidence to support a hypothesis is different that if I think it’s a good hypothesis.” Is there actually any scientific justification for it or is it just a rhetorical arguin’ point?
The closest you can get to that in statistics is a strong Bayesian prior agin’ the proposition, which itself has to be justified as more than someone’s whim. And actual evidence in favor of the proposition quickly overwhelms even strong priors to the contrary.
The evidence is either consistent with the hypothesis, inconclusive, or it disproves the hypothesis, regardless of the biases of the reviewer.
Personally, I don’t think there is ET life—at least not complex life. But that doesn’t change what evidence supports and doesn’t support the hypothesis.
what does this say about the theory of evolution, the supposed last word on the origin of life on earth. you know, primordial life came from the goo in the swamps. i thought there was a “consensus” on that subject.
This is a basic tenet in most jurisprudence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Anyone who makes wild claims about anything had better bring a whole load of evidence with them.
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