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Seaweed and unknown organisms found inside meteorite?

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Rihard

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Just found this on Google News. :Envy:

Not totally sure about the reliability of these sources (haven't found better ones so far), but they state that some British scientists claim to have identified seaweed and unknown organisms inside a meteorite:

http://www.thesun.co...ufos-exist.html

http://zeenews.india...nka_824583.html

http://www.mirror.co...-landed-1550474

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michael.h.f.wilkinson

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The scanning electron micrograph shows something that looks suspiciously like earthbound diatoms (I did some research into automatic recognition of those), which are loosely attached to the rock substrate. I would expect a fossil to be more deeply embedded. It could be contamination.To say “These finds are crushing evidence that human life started from outside our earth” is just jumping to conclusions. Prof Wickramasinghe is prone to these rather spectacular claims, I am afraid.

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Could always be a meteorite from Earth! There's no reason this couldn't happen if a major impact blasted up fragments that landed either right afterwards or hit Earth after spending some time in space.

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Could always be a meteorite from Earth! There's no reason this couldn't happen if a major impact blasted up fragments that landed either right afterwards or hit Earth after spending some time in space.

Yes, as we get pieces of rock from Moon, Mars and elsewhere, I don't see it as impossible that some Earth rock was blasted off at the time the dinosaurs where being killed :p But as michael.h.f.wilkinson said, the prof might be jumping too quickly to conclusion by making such sensational claims. I will now seek the opinion of someone I know who is a biologist and geneticist.

Meanwhile I found this article, that puts things clearer:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2266435/Does-rock-prove-life-outer-space-Controversial-scientist-claims-fossils-meteor-fragment.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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Seems somewhat a stretch of the facts to me. Dont get me wrong I am a frim believer of life elsewhere in the Universe. Just not sure that it matters if life on earth started on its own accord or if it was brought here by comets and asteroids. Either way your left with the same questions, just moved from place to place. As much as I would love the report to be accurate I strongely suspect it will fade into past never to surface again.

I was however incredibly interested in Helen Flannagans leather thigh length boots though.

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michael.h.f.wilkinson

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"Villagers picked up the smoking meteorite fragments shortly after they landed near a village a few miles from the city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka. "

This does not sound like a scientific collection of evidence (not blaming the villagers). Contamination is almost guaranteed. I wonder whether this will ever reach the scientific literature, where we should see what safeguards against contamination were taken. One thing that strikes me is the apparently porous nature of the rock. This makes it very hard to prevent contamination entering the pores.

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Yes, as we get pieces of rock from Moon, Mars and elsewhere, I don't see it as impossible that some Earth rock was blasted off at the time the dinosaurs where being killed :p But as michael.h.f.wilkinson said, the prof might be jumping too quickly to conclusion by making such sensational claims. I will now seek the opinion of someone I know who is a biologist and geneticist.

Meanwhile I found this article, that puts things clearer:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2266435/Does-rock-prove-life-outer-space-Controversial-scientist-claims-fossils-meteor-fragment.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Wow I'm shocked the Daily Fail didn't go with the headline; "Alien life discovered; surge in immigration and cancer to follow".

sent from Gherkin Muncher mk .III (commonly known as a Galaxy S2)

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