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Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
Originally posted by Ross 54
Someone asked about the lack of nitrogen in the alleged fossil bacteria. Dr. Hoover, in his new paper, has this issue covered. He notes that remains of living things from millions of years ago have been found to have lost all detectable traces of nitrogen.
Whether an organism retains or loses it's nitrogen and phosphorus completely depends on the environment in which it died. In light of this, time-scales are irrelevent. Recently-dead bacteria can pass their N and P onto smaller organisms who feed on it, as explained in one of the commentaries:
The relatively low abundance of N and P in some of the fossils (both in meteorites and terrestrial material) (Figure 6a) is easily explained; these elements are generally in relatively low abundance and therefore in high demand by other microorganisms. Following the death of sheathed biota their cytoplasm is rapidly devoured by smaller bacteria leaving a highly-N/P-depleted skeleton.
Unfortunately the low N/P content of the filaments or sheaths reported in the study do not convinced me that these sheaths are the remains of life-forms that existed before Earth-contact (as claimed in the Results and Conclusion), because if they represent contaminants, then they too would have suffered N/P-depletion following their death. The continuing presence of N in mammoth and mummified hair do not provide a counter argument, they simply show that the environments in which these hairs existed were not conducive to microbial mineralization.
M.A. Line, Ph.D.,
Honorary Research Associate, School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania
Originally posted by iversusvsversusi
why dont they ever comment on the numerous alien implants people have had removed containing minerals unknown to earth and unable to be created without the vacuum of space itself?
Originally posted by Rocky Black
I wish someone in intel would get the leading guy at nasa and water board his ass on live tv.
Originally posted by Ross 54
Also supporting the supposition that the objects are not earthly contaminants is the fact that they appear to be fossilized. The conversion of living materials to minerals is found to be a very slow process. Fossils are typically tens of thousands to millions of years old. The meteorites that Dr. Hoover examined have been on Earth for only a few hundred years. A scenario in which Earthly bacteria penetrated the rock and became fossilized appears highly improbable, to put it mildly. Ross