NASA Finds Extraterrestrial Life!

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  1. skip

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    A meteorite has at long last revealed the nature of some extraterrestrial life. A NASA scientist has reported that bacteria fossils similar to bacteria on earth were discovered in a meteorite.

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    The comment section on that Fox News link is worth a couple dozen laughs.
     
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    I came
     
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  7. jmt

    jmt Ezekiel 25:17

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    Hoax......preperation for ufo invasion......
     
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    Fuck NASA.. Their just a propaganda tool.
     
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    I believe one the debunks suggests. The life come from earth and was blasted into space when the big one slammed and killed Dino, Fred and Wilma ..
     
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    my take on this has always been that all life on earth was seeded from elsewhere. Hence, WE ARE THE ALIENS...
     
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    According to Sagan, we are all stardust.

    I think it remarkable that this meteorite, if it contains fossilized life, more so than life, is wandering around in space after having been somewhere the conditions that permit fossilization, were present. I would assume that it is a rocky meteorite.
    I am curious of the geologic constitution of the object itself.
    Aren't fossils usually found in sedimentary rock and wouldn't a sedimentary rock blasted away from a body due to cosmic collision, be dramatically altered by pressure and heat?
     
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    Wtf does that mean? Was that in English?LOL
     
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    The meteor came from earth?
     
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    Yes, sedimentary rock is where fossils are usually found. Metamorphic and igneous rocks are formed by heat and pressure, not sedimentary.

    In a cosmic collision there is likely to be lots of pressure and heat, but it wouldn't be uniform and pieces can break away from the originating planet (or whatever) unscathed. Once in space there is no heat or pressure unless the meteorite gets close to the sun.

    So it's very easy for life to survive a cosmic collision and end up finding fertile ground on another planet, given enough time.

    This does not rule out the possibility that the meteorite originated from earth, perhaps when dino and family were made extinct. But it would be unusual for a meteorite to come from Earth in the past billion years or so. But I can see how if one did escape our atmosphere, it might lie in our orbit and fall back to earth eventually.

    The way to find out if it did originate on the earth is to examine the meteorite itself. I wonder if they've ever found meteorites that have originated on earth and fell back on it.
     
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    PB_Smith Huh? What? Who, me?

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    "I believe what one of the debunking comments suggests. The fossils originated on Earth and were ejected out into space when the Earth was struck by the big fucking asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs."


    (still have my handy-dandy Orison319 to English decoder ring :p)
     
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    Doesn't he have a new iPad app for that now?
     
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    Does this mean that when we eventually get invaded by an alien species we can just zap them with Mr Muscle?
     
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    Fun stuff to consider. I'll be looking for the follow-up when the piece is published.
     
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    Do we know of life forms that can survive the vacuum of space? I imagine precursor molecular arrangements are commonly distributed though.

    I haven't examined much cosmic impact ejecta but seems to me the kind of impact that would eject material from the earth into space would seriously scramble the material that left as well as the material that remained. Perhaps the forces would be smaller if if it came from a smaller body than the earth.

    If fossils are sedimentary deposits, any space fossils would necessarily come from a body that experienced some degree of erosion, i.e. processes of wind water or some other liquid, and vulcanism in the form of ash deposits. Plus there has to be some kind of solvent for organic tissue to be replaced by minerals. So how large would the body have to be to have this kind of "weather"?

    We've certainly examined hardware that we have sent into space on it's return. Do you know, if from the examination of moon rocks, it has been determined that the moon was once part of the earth?
     
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    What if you were a bacteria that lived in another being. Then one day your planet gets hit by a comet and fragments into billions of rocks. Your host dies, but you remain in stasis due to the instant vacuum and freeze of space. One day, millions of years later, your chuck of rock makes it thru the atmosphere of another planet, lands in a soupy milieu that can support your reanimation. Then you find others of your species have also survived the trip and you reproduce.

    Only one problem, the host you evolved with is gone now. However you being the smart bacteria you are, design a program of dna evolution that will take your kind and evolve it into a host very similar to the one you once inhabited.

    So somewhere in the bacteria dna is some image of the host dna that can be replicated given the right conditions and lots of time...

    Think about it. We are merely the fruiting bodies of dna. So long as the dna can be replicated and evolve, it doesn't matter much what the fruiting bodies look like.

    Here's what one "alien" fruiting body looks like... (and this alien being has already invaded our minds...)

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    A friend advised me that it may have been considered off topic. I was joking around again, sorry.
     
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    Are you suggesting that Mr. Spock has something to do with this?
     
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