Originally Posted By utahjosh Thanks to a tweet by Weird Al, I was pointed to this article: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/digita...lienlife</a> Aliens exist!
Originally Posted By Labuda Interesting article, but I think it's a bit of a leap to hear of fossil evidence of bacteria to "Aliens exist!" Definitely the most interesting part to me is that the article quotes Hoover as saying "they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth." Amazing that the universe would have the perfect storm for certain bacteria to exist both on earth and on a meteorite hurtling through space.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>but I think it's a bit of a leap to hear of fossil evidence of bacteria to "Aliens exist"<< Agreed, we should wait for the rest of the scientific community to examine the evidence. It wouldn't be the first time this claim was made and debunked. "Amazing that the universe would have the perfect storm for certain bacteria to exist both on earth and on a meteorite hurtling through space." I too found that to be very suspicious. We'll see. Another thing that crosses my mind is that these meteors are clearly from our own solar system, a solar system where so far not a trace of like has been found outside of earth.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 <<Amazing that the universe would have the perfect storm for certain bacteria to exist both on earth and on a meteorite hurtling through space.>> In their defense, he did say that the bacteria only "closely" resembled bacteria on earth - not that they were the exact same thing. <<Another thing that crosses my mind is that these meteors are clearly from our own solar system, a solar system where so far not a trace of like has been found outside of earth.>> True, but we've really only just observed a tiny, tiny , tiny part of our solar system. And the probes we have sent out haven't even been properly equipped to find bacteria like this. This search is only just beginning. And with all the data coming in from Kepler, and the hundreds of planets it's finding, it's really only a matter of time before we find another Earth-like planet. The odds really are in Life's favor!
Originally Posted By Labuda Goofy - maybe it was reported to Fox News, but it's still a scientic paper being published in a respected scientific journal, even if they had a conversation with loons who make stuff up.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Agreed, we should wait for the rest of the scientific community to examine the evidence. It wouldn't be the first time this claim was made and debunked.< Most of the scientific community believes Alien life exists, we just haven't found it. >I too found that to be very suspicious< As large as we think the universe is the fact that the same bacteria can survive on earth and a meteor is suspicious to you? Tardigrades (water bears) can survive on earth and in space, and they evolved here. >a solar system where so far not a trace of like has been found outside of earth< MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS MARS
Originally Posted By ecdc To the author's credit, he's had the evidence peer reviewed and there will be multiple responses in the original journal and I'm sure many others to follow. That alone gives me respect for him, even if his conclusions turn out to be wrong. I hope he's not, what a fantastic discovery it would be. Of course, the alien life isn't blowing up the White House or making crop circles, so most people won't much care.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones The fossilized bacteria from the Mars meteorites is evidence that life once formed on Mars, not that aliens exist now.
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Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >The fossilized bacteria from the Mars meteorites is evidence that life once formed on Mars, not that aliens exist now.< He was saying we have found no trace of life outside earth. Do you not consider that a trace of life?
Originally Posted By fkurucz >The fossilized bacteria from the Mars meteorites is evidence that life once formed on Mars, not that aliens exist now.< I seem to recall that the consensus in the scientific community was that those were not fossilized bacteria. As for the new findings, we'll see what they say.
Originally Posted By Labuda So, I'm playing catchup on XKCD since I stopped reading it for a couple of years, and I just came across this one, which TOTALLY made me think of this thread: <a href="http://www.xkcd.com/718/" target="_blank">http://www.xkcd.com/718/</a>
