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NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life
#14080293 - 03/07/11 10:17 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife
Aliens exist, and we have proof.
 That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) Hoover’s findings were published late Friday night in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
“I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover, who has spent more than 10 years studying meteorites around the world, told FoxNews.com in an interview. “This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist [sic] would say that this is impossible.”
Hoover discovered the fossils by breaking apart the CI1 meteorite, and analyzing the exposed rock with a scanning-electron microscope and a field emission electron-scanning microscope, which allowed him to detect any fossil remains. What he found were fossils of micro-organisms (pictured below), many of which he says are strikingly similar to those found on our own planet (pictured above).
alien-life-figure-4a“The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth,” said Hoover. Some of the fossils, however, are quite odd. “There are some that are just very strange and don’t look like anything that I’ve been able to identify, and I’ve shown them to many other experts that have also come up stump.”
 In order to satisfy the inevitable hoard of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover’s study and evidence were made available to his peers in the scientific community in advance of the study’s publications, giving them a chance to thoroughly dissect his findings. Comments from those who decided to sift through the evidence will be published online, alongside the study.
“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Journal of Cosmology’s editor-in-chief. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”
Needless to say, if Hoover’s conclusions are found to be accurate, the implications for human life will be staggering. Here’s hoping that he’s right.
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.”
So there you have it — this is either reality-altering news, or the work of kooks. Our hearts believe, but our brains are kind of bummed.
Edit: This article has been updated with an additional photograph and altered for clarity.
Edited by Inu (03/07/11 10:17 AM)
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: Inu]
#14080318 - 03/07/11 10:26 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Interesting article, it'll be cool to hear more about this and see if any of these scientists agree that it's a life form from space or just bullshit. I'm surprised they would have even found this in the first place, carbonaceous chondrites are extremely rare and they're worth a ton of money, I wouldn't think that somebody would start cutting into one. On one episode of Meteorite Men they had someone on the show that had found one of these types of meteorites and it was worth a few hundred grand for a fist-sized meteorite.
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: Inu]
#14080338 - 03/07/11 10:34 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I haven't followed this specific story, but didn't we find fossilized bacteria on some pieces of Mars rock almost a decade ago?
I thought we already found extraterrestrial bacteria...
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: badchad]
#14080548 - 03/07/11 11:49 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I doubt this is even partially credible 
If this was true, it would probably be the biggest discovery in our short history.
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: pfxtc]
#14080577 - 03/07/11 11:55 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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i want my own meteorite.. 
on the flipp side.. how the fuck do you hunt for a meteor? u must have to be an expert on rocks as well..
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: tripp23]
#14080587 - 03/07/11 11:56 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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What do you mean how do you hunt for a meteor?
You find it on the earth, or you track it in space, probably not that hard if it's your job.
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: tripp23]
#14080591 - 03/07/11 11:57 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
tripp23 said: i want my own meteorite.. 
on the flipp side.. how the fuck do you hunt for a meteor? u must have to be an expert on rocks as well..
the best place to hunt for meteorites is on ebay
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: danlennon3]
#14081147 - 03/07/11 01:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I have no doubt that there a bacteria on other planets... but so what??... who gives a damn?? What i wanna see are the proper aliens who fly around in spaceships... not on asteroids !!
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: microdotty]
#14081329 - 03/07/11 02:09 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life [Re: koraks]
#14081477 - 03/07/11 02:41 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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If only someone had informed of this before
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