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Making the case for microscopic life in meteors...
    #14070797 - 03/05/11 12:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Making the case for microscopic life in meteors: "Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites," Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center. Journal of Cosmology, March, 2011, Vol 13.

Paper: http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

Now, a contrarian position. I felt someone needed to speak out and balance the equation...

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Re: Making the case for microscopic life in meteors.

Gentlemen, Allow me to play devil's advocate and take a contrarian position on this topic. Do these microbes pay rent? Do they have jobs? Maybe they're just freeloaders.

If we allow microbes to hang out just anywhere and do whatever they damn well please, then that is the first step down the slippery slope of anarchy! Mark my words, these laissez-faire microbes with their bongo drums, their beards, and their jazz records will corrupt our children and frighten the women and horses with their beatnik shenanigans.

I would further point out that these microbes don't speak our language, and that they have a propensity for doing as they please, and acting with total disregard for the conventions and mores of a civilized society. I admonish you, that you will rue the day when you opened your homes and hearths to these unkempt little buggers with their "tea shades" and their "jazz cigarettes."

Sincerely,
John Q. Fussbudget, Esq.





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Re: Making the case for microscopic life in meteors... [Re: Papaver]
    #14070814 - 03/05/11 12:53 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

They've been so high, for so long, I doubt they pose a threat.


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Re: Making the case for microscopic life in meteors... [Re: ModularMind]
    #14070823 - 03/05/11 12:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

how could anything survive the heat from entering our atmosphere? and then the impact...


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Re: Making the case for microscopic life in meteors... [Re: I R Crankey]
    #14070894 - 03/05/11 01:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Wut a Twist said:
how could anything survive the heat from entering our atmosphere? and then the impact...



:shrug: I think they're dead and fossilized in the meteors... it seems very unlikely they'd survive but bacteria does live in volcanic vents and such too :shrug::shrug:


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Re: Making the case for microscopic life in meteors... [Re: I R Crankey]
    #14070912 - 03/05/11 01:16 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

surprised you didn't post this in science and technology


well, they wouldn't survive the impact. UNLESS, the meteor was a HUGE frozen ball of ice, and the life was trapped within. THEN, MAYBE they would survive if the meteor wasn't completely destroyed when it crashed, like that giant meteor hole in arizona, or wherever it is.


but what are the chances a planet with life would be ripped apart by some OTHER meteor crashing into it so hard that it ripped it into a million pieces, and then microbes living on the surface of the planet would be trapped on a chunk off the surface, flying through space, traveling at miles and miles and miles per hour, and end up crashing here. i mean cmon...:facepalm:


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Re: Making the case for microscopic life in meteors... [Re: imachavel] * 1
    #14070923 - 03/05/11 01:19 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Due to us being alive (insanely astronomical odds against that...) I don't think we should consider anything 'too unlikely' :tongue:


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