[NormsRevenge]

Damn Microbalists!

[RexBeach]

How does this dude pronounce his name? Now THAT’s alien to me.

[b4its2late]

I know James Carville is.

[US Navy Vet]

“We share a cosmic ancestry” yep “In the beginning G*D created the Heavens and the Earth....”

[Deb]

Its hard not to think Earth is the dumping ground for galactic misfits and criminals. There’s just no other explanation.

[beethovenfan]

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

II Timothy 4:3, 4

[johnandrhonda]

And just how did these microbes live for eons of time in the vacuum of space with temps ranging alternately from hundreds below freezing to hundreds above, and then survive the searing heat of entry thru the earth atmosphere and crash landing? If they were really that tough, they would be living on the moon, too, as well as every other planet.

[ikka]

What a load of macaca ...

[Little Ray]

Old theory. “Panspermia.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

[atomic conspiracy]

Good grief! Must be a slow news day. Wickramasinghe (who is now 70 years old) has been very publicly advocating this idea since the early 60s, when he arrived at Cambridge to study under Sir Fred Hoyle. The latter, in turn, originated the hypothesis of panspermia, which includes among other things the idea that life on Earth originated in space. Wickramasinghe's Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology has been in business since 2000.

[Armedanddangerous]

Cardiff

Isn’t that where the Torchwood Institute is?

[TASMANIANRED]

They will give any psychotic a PHd these days.

[JimRed]

God works his wonders any way He chooses.

[JimRed]

God works His wonders any way He chooses.

[vpintheak]

Scientist aye?

[mountainlion]

“Each time a new planetary system forms, a few surviving microbes find their way into comets.

So why didn't the microbes take a shortcut and stay here when this planetary system formed? Microbes do not form when planetary systems form! There are massive holes in his logic!

[KarlInOhio]

"These then multiply and seed other planets. We are thus part of a connected chain that extends over a large volume of the cosmos. Evidence is pointing inexorably in this direction."

Evidence? I don't see any. Maybe if we had explored multiple planets around multiple stars and they all had the same DNA we have on Earth you could hypothesize a common source. But we have one single sample (Earth) which he is trying to extrapolate from.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Fifteen or so years ago, amino acids were discovered in interstellar clouds within our galaxy. That was enough to convince me of the plausibility of this theory.

I don’t know if amino acids have also been discovered in other galaxies, or in intergalactic material, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re there too.

[dangerdoc]

A nice unprovable theory.

[count-your-change]

The microbes has tiny spce ships that crashed in New Mexico, right? I knew it! I just knew it! And that Area 51 ia hiding lots of tiny microbes too I bet.