alien microbe discovered in sri lanka

I love how I'm banned if I say lolfacebook at retarded FB posts aimed at no-one directly (Not breaking any Forum rules), but people are allowed to say lolkwerk which is a direct insult to an actual Poster (Breaking Forum rules). loldoublestandards. :rolleyes:
 
doofer said:
I love how I'm banned if I say lolfacebook at retarded FB posts aimed at no-one directly (Not breaking any Forum rules), but people are allowed to say lolkwerk which is a direct insult to an actual Poster (Breaking Forum rules). loldoublestandards. :rolleyes:
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Agreed, Kwerk is posting a research link not some thread from a UFO forum, the lolkwerk trolls need a slap for being tedious and disrupting a thread.
 
Spook187 said:
Indeed, some people are so naive when these topics come up.
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So microbes falling from the sky is somehow more logical than developing here on earth? I'm not dismissing the theory, but is that really any more likely than local creation? I mean it's not like there is a vacuum, intense cold, radiation and atmospheric entry to contend with :p
 
d_brennen said:
So microbes falling from the sky is somehow more logical than developing here on earth? I'm not dismissing the theory, but is that really any more likely than local creation? I mean it's not like there is a vacuum, intense cold, radiation and atmospheric entry to contend with :p
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Very true, but i think it's possible, after all we are here through the building blocks of life, which happened just through chance.
 
d_brennen said:
So microbes falling from the sky is somehow more logical than developing here on earth? I'm not dismissing the theory, but is that really any more likely than local creation? I mean it's not like there is a vacuum, intense cold, radiation and atmospheric entry to contend with :p
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All of which can be avoided by said microbes if they are inside the falling rock surely?
 
Amleto said:
It can't answer 'how' life started even if you assume Earth life developed from it - it still gives no more information on (alien) abiogenesis.
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That's the basic point, it gives a bit of evidence to support a hypothesis rather than it should be considered conclusive proof regardless of how exciting a discovery it may be.

'Harry said:
All of which can be avoided by said microbes if they are inside the falling rock surely?
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Avoided to a degree I'd have thought but it's probably still highly likely to be a tough set of conditions for life to survive in or to start in. It might be equally as tough for life to have started directly on Earth but all we'd really be doing is changing the point of genesis from inside the Earth's atmosphere to outside it which still leaves the precursor question of how life started unanswered.
 
I dont think you need living organisms you just need the amino acids. If enough organic monomer bits and pieces fell out of a porous meteorite and in to shallow pools it could seed the formation of DNA.
 
If you've studied the origins of life, you'll understand just how 'maybe this happened' or 'this could have happened' the whole subject is. The last time I checked, the most plausible origin for a lipid bound cell was a body of water involving a volcano/lava and ice!

Microbial life brought onto Earth from a meteorite is very plausible. On the flipside, where did life start from wherever that came from!?
 
lolkwe.... wait!

Nice find and very interesting. Something hitching a ride on a meteorite is far more likely than an all powerful being that you can only interact with when dead.
 
All living creatures (inc. humans) on Earth have a set of common areas in their DNA that match. Establishing the DNA of the microbe and being absolutely certain that the microbe could not have entered the rock whilst on Earth would contribute to one of two situations. Either that life on Earth came from space (i.e. shared DNA with microbe), or there are other strains of DNA out there.

Microbes survive space quite easily so life hitching a ride on a meteorite (formed from a planet with life that was hit by a meteor) is easily done.
 
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You aren't going to get DNA from a fossils though.
Be more interesting once it's peer reviewed and more information on it.
The lack of news and big names makes me even more wary.

Remember the NASA meteorite, that was plastered all over the news and once peer reviewed, there's a chance that it was formed without life.
 
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