NASA Finds Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite | Alien Life Discovered

Domo · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:51

JBod said:
Is it from Krypton? Appears to have an S on its chest.

Best post so far

fornowagain · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:57

trigger-happy said:
Here is a picture of it:

It's not, that's an image from a 1999 journal.

http://www.pnas.org/content/96/20/11584.full

badcompany · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:58

Don't get too excited. It's just bacteria.

yes but if there is bacteria this means there could be higher life else where

Rameses · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:00

Castor said:
I for one welcome our penis lookalike overlords?

jak731 · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:10

Jambo said:
Alien life is only interesting if it's intelligent. I'm sure there is plenty of alien life at the bottom of our deepest oceans.

As far as we know all life on Earth can trace its origins back to the same beginning. Finding life which formed independently of life on Earth, no matter how basic, has big implications for how easily life can form.

apeZ · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:11

do you have an official source? surely if this was true it would be reported by news outlets worldwide?

jak731 · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:15

I think they are getting their information from this website:

http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/colloquia/abstracts_summer07/rhoover.html

High-resolution images will be presented to show that the Orgueil filaments are biological in origin and can be interpreted as morphotypes of all known Orders of Cyanobacteriaceae. C/S and C/N ratios will be presented to demonstrate that the forms embedded in the meteorite rock matrix cannot logically be dismissed as post-arrival biological contaminants. It is concluded that the well-preserved, fossilized filaments and dense mats found in Orgueil represent the remains of a complex aquatic and benthic cyanobacterial mat community that grew on the parent body of the meteorite prior to entry into Earth's atmosphere.

The parent site looks official if somewhat dated:

http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/

OriginalJonty · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:16

http://http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/05/has-life-been-found-in-a-meteorite/

According to that link, the journal this article was published in is going out of business. The cynic in me suspects a push for survival. The sci fi geek in me hopes this is some proof of alien life.

Somnambulist · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:16

It's called Faux News for a reason...

Cosimo · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:32

Hoover told FoxNews.com: "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 stumped."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20039647-71.html#ixzz1FlccUHIG

Let's believe when we have some real evidence.

tankskun · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:33

meghatronic · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:37

Contamination.

Phylogeny, please.

RomanNose · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:38

simulatorman said:
Let's believe when we have some real evidence.

Yeah fox news have been granted to allow to lie on t.v, meh but it was published in a journal.
http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

SlyReaper · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:40

I'll believe it when it's published on a news site I've actually heard of. And that isn't Faux News.

OriginalJonty · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:45

chaosdestro0 said:
Yeah fox news have been granted to allow to lie on t.v, meh but it was published in a journal.
http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

A journal that is going out of business. Seems too convenient that this story would break at such a perfect time.

RomanNose · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:52

OriginalJonty said:
A journal that is going out of business. Seems too convenient that this story would break at such a perfect time.

How do you know it is going out of business?
Quoted from their website

Dr. Richard Hoover is a highly respected scientist and astrobiologist with a prestigious record of accomplishment at NASA. Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis. Our intention is to publish the commentaries, both pro and con, alongside Dr. Hoover's paper. In this way, the paper will have received a thorough vetting, and all points of view can be presented. No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough analysis, and no other scientific journal in the history of science has made such a profoundly important paper available to the scientific community, for comment, before it is published. We believe the best way to advance science, is to promote debate and discussion.

OriginalJonty · 5 Mar 2011 at 22:56

chaosdestro0 said:
How do you know it is going out of business?
Quoted from their website

http://daviddobbs.posterous.com/journal-of-cosmology-going-out-with-big-bang

It will be publishing its last edition in May.

Also, that press release makes them seem like paranoid nutters.

AGD · 6 Mar 2011 at 00:03

Misleading title is misleading. Let's wait this one out for a bit perhaps.

Berserker · 6 Mar 2011 at 00:23

AGD said:
Misleading title is misleading. Let's wait this one out for a bit perhaps.

Plagiarised image is also misleading. What is it with all the copying of others' work without credit recently? No-one seems to have any respect for scholarly effort any more.

As for using Faux News as a source. Well, that's just about the final nail in the coffin for this. :/

trigger-happy · 6 Mar 2011 at 00:25

Berserker said:
Plagiarised image is also misleading. What is it with all the copying of others' work without credit recently? No-one seems to have any respect for scholarly effort any more.

As for using Faux News as a source. Well, that's just about the final nail in the coffin for this. :/

??? I just re-uploaded the image to pb because this forum wont allow hotlinking.