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Originally posted by OnionHead
reply to post by FreeThinkerbychoice
Hello you free thinker you, nice to meet you. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that this is plausible, of course it is. If I had to guess I would say that the universe is packed with life in many variations. I have a problem with threads like this though and their misleading titles. "Astrobiologists discover fossils in meteorite fragments, confirming extraterrestrial life"- this should be breaking news round the world, did I stick my TV on to watch this breaking news unfold? No, because I knew better.
I look forward to this being backed up, I have my doubts though.
Don't get me started on Earth like creatures on Mars, I buckle laughing at those threads.
Originally posted by FreeThinkerbychoice
Originally posted by OnionHead
reply to post by FreeThinkerbychoice
Hello you free thinker you, nice to meet you. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that this is plausible, of course it is. If I had to guess I would say that the universe is packed with life in many variations. I have a problem with threads like this though and their misleading titles. "Astrobiologists discover fossils in meteorite fragments, confirming extraterrestrial life"- this should be breaking news round the world, did I stick my TV on to watch this breaking news unfold? No, because I knew better.
I look forward to this being backed up, I have my doubts though.
Don't get me started on Earth like creatures on Mars, I buckle laughing at those threads.
You are most certainly right dear Onion. The title of the post surely is misleading, smart move on behalf of the op to get peoples attention, yet their is no official clarification of the claims being made. That said it seems we are more alike than I previously thought. My excitement got the better of me when I read the article and I should definitely be more rigorous in my speculation when it comes to such big claims being made. See you around and Good things
"Live Diatoms were found inside the center of the rock. Meaning the rocks were porous and had a lot of pockets to hold liquids, which is not the norm for meteorites."
"The content of the amorphous silica in the rock was too high."
Sure you can have some really detailed fossils. You can see bone cell and plant cell many times under a microscope, I have personally seen this many times. However, the fossilization process does not make an exact or perfect copy of the original (in any of the processes of fossilization).
"And further Patrick Kociolek who is an expert in Diatoms says that the photos are of Diatoms but that they are too perfect to be fossilized. The taxonomy of the Diatoms are also fresh water and of a living species today that have a great deal of evolutionary history."
Originally posted by smurfy
Originally posted by DARREN1976
Originally posted by smurfy
reply to post by smurfy
He said: "I've got ongoing collaborations with, for example, the Russian space agency. Next year is 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first manned trip around the world. To mark this, we're doing lots of experiments such as looking for viruses and evidence of cometary organics coming in from space. To continue work like that I have to set up a company."
edit on 12-3-2013 by smurfy because: Text.
I have heard mentioned that SPANISH INFLUENZA and the the BLACK PLAGUE amonst a few other major epidemics also, where preceded by a lot of activity in the sky, meaning comets/UFO's/meteors where spotted days and hours before outbreaks of these things, including red rain and feathery filaments being discovered that are maybe connected to some of this, the filaments actually showed up as biological but subsequently the lab burned down that was studying them, and there where no other samples to carry on working with..... Bunch of Baloney, or something more sinister at Work? you decide!
PEACE!!edit on 12-3-2013 by DARREN1976 because: (no reason given)
Chandra Wickramasinghe is not exactly the everyday quack either, as some posts imply. He has had a prestigious education, is a professor and held prestigious posts. One can't even say that he has fell out of his tree because of old age, he's been pursuing this line of thinking for many years.
edit on 12-3-2013 by smurfy because: Extract.
And now they have more than 628 samples to choose from. For this paper, they only show the results from TWO carefully selected cherry picked samples and demonstrate that they are meteoric in nature. They do not show at any time any heritage information on the samples to demonstrate that they are specifically from last years meteor, and leave me wondering if there was any way at all to show that they werent from a different earlier meteor at some time in ancient history. They dont show it any way at all. They dont even bring up the topic. I think they should have addressed this.