It's really an odd thing to be skeptical of.
Not unlike a religious viewpoint.

Waiting for absolute undeniable proof of microbes
embedded in meteorites?
Most likely many examples have been staring right at us.
I know it's protocol but scientists are numbers buffs and without a
mathmatical doubt the universe is overflowing with life.

To say we'll wait for the ridiculously vetted results gone over again and again
before we agree to life outside this planet is silly rigor.
Yes I know that's the way science works, (or doesn't )
But this 'nope...not true till We say so' when they could say "Probably"
is about as dense as a meteorite.

I'll take my lashings now.

Our knowledge of the universe is slight. We struggle with the far-from-perfect tools of science to rigorously prove what we strongly suspect, and hope, to be true: That the whole universe is the domain of life.

Originally posted by Ross 54 He apparently ignored the finding that the diatoms were fossilized, which, of course, would not be expected if organisms from Earth had contaminated the meteorite in the few days between its falling and its being found.

It would, however, fit perfectly if this is not a recent meteor, or not one at all.

Second line.

The asteroid belt behind Earth in the Solar System used to be a Planet.

There could have been life there until something smashed it. That meteorite could be a rock from that former planet.

Sorry, I need officiality when it comes to this photo...could be a photo of any diatom, from any time and place...on earth.