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A team of British scientists is convinced it has found proof of alien life, after it harvested strange particles from the edge of space.

The scientists sent a balloon 27km into the stratosphere, which came back carrying small biological organisms which they believe can only have originated from space.

Professor Milton Wainwright told The Independent that he was "95 per cent convinced" that the organisms did not originate from earth.

"By all known information that science has, we know that they must be coming in from space," he said. "There is no known mechanism by which these life forms can achieve that height. As far as we can tell from known physics, they must be incoming."

Some of the samples were captured covered with cosmic dust, adding further credence to the idea that they have originated from space.

"The organisms are not usual," said Professor Wainwright, who works at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. "If they came from earth, we would expect to see stuff that we find on earth commonly, like pollen."

"We're very, very confident that these are biological entities originating from space," he said, acknowledging that absolutely certainty is hard to achieve in science.

The team believes that the entities are coming from comets, which are big balls of ice shooting through space. The samples were collected during a meteorite shower from a comet. As they hit the earth's atmosphere, the comets melt - ablate, to give it a technical term - releasing the organisms as they break down.

"The particles are very clean," added Prof Wainwright. "They don't have any dust attached to them, which again suggests they're not coming to earth. Similarly, cosmic dust isn't stuck to them, so we think they came from an aquatic environment, and the most obvious aquatic environment in space is a comet.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...o-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html

I knew it! :D
 
I was led to believe that astronauts jettison it, and it goes into orbit. Everything in orbit therefore has a thin film of human excrement on it!
 
InB4 God did it

e: some of the comments on that page are near incomprehensible. Aliens are already here. Fact.
 
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The scientists sent a balloon 27km into the stratosphere, which came back carrying small biological organisms which they believe can only have originated from space.
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Sorry, but off the top of my head Bacillus stratosphericus was isolated from something like 41 Km in the air, and there were a few others from the mid to high 20 Kms as well. People studying microbial nucleation of rain seem happy enough that bacteria reach high into the air, so I'm not convinced by this guy, especially as his method of publication is the Independent rather than a scientific journal.
 
Glaucus said:
Lol,what a stuppid article, as Art says.

So boom goes your article into a puff of smoke.
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You really are a moron.

I'm guessing my smiley face wasn't quite enough for you to understand that i had already figured out what Art had said.

Go back to the "spec me a wallet" thread and build some OCUK karma.
 
Art said:
Sorry, but off the top of my head Bacillus stratosphericus was isolated from something like 41 Km in the air, and there were a few others from the mid to high 20 Kms as well. People studying microbial nucleation of rain seem happy enough that bacteria reach high into the air, so I'm not convinced by this guy, especially as his method of publication is the Independent rather than a scientific journal.
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Bugger, I wanted to believe
 
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