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Alien Life On Philae Comet, Scientists Say
Sky News ^ | July 6, 2015

Posted on 07/06/2015 5:10:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Experts discover dark material is being constantly replenished and say: "Something must be doing that at a fairly prolific rate."

Evidence of alien life is "unequivocal" on the comet carrying the Philae probe through space, two leading astronomers have said.

The experts say the most likely explanation for certain features of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, such as its organic-rich black crust, is the presence of living organisms beneath an icy surface.

Rosetta, the European spacecraft orbiting the comet, is also said to have picked up strange "clusters" of organic material that resemble viral particles.

But neither Rosetta nor its lander probe, Philae, are equipped to search for direct evidence of life after a proposal to include this in the mission was allegedly dismissed.

Astronomer and astrobiologist Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who was involved in planning for the mission 15 years ago, said: "I wanted to include a very inexpensive life-detection experiment. At the time it was thought this was a bizarre proposition."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Government; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: aliens; astronomy; churyumovgerasimenko; comet; comet67p; comets; panspermia; philae; rosetta; science; space; wickramasinghe; xplanets
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Organic compounds have been found in solar systems throughout our galaxy. It has been known for a long time that comets capture and carry organic molecules around.


21 posted on 07/06/2015 5:27:59 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...such as its organic-rich black crust...”

I’m guessing that it is not so much “organic” as it is carbon-rich (methane, etc.) Probably has nothing to do with “life”. The increasing areas of dark stuff? I imagine the visible surface will be changing quite a bit as it hurtles through space. Ice and stuff melting and streaming off?

From the snippet they want me to believe that it is like the dark stuff growing on the mashed potatoes in my fridge.


22 posted on 07/06/2015 5:29:55 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“Frack Philae” has a nice ring to it.


23 posted on 07/06/2015 5:30:21 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: rlmorel

I’d love to find evidence of life in space. Even microbial life would do but so far there is zero evidence. There have been a few interesting suggestions of by products of life but those could also be produced by non organic chemical means.

Frankly I think the Spirit and Opportunity rovers have shown us our most likely looks at possible past life on mars. I’m a hopeful skeptic but some of the close up photos showed what looked for all the world like tiny marine fossils. However, without going there, collecting them and bringing them back for in depth study, they’re nothing but interesting rocks.


24 posted on 07/06/2015 5:30:47 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Imagine that. Aliens who don’t jump the border and kill the local species.


25 posted on 07/06/2015 5:33:49 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Darksheare

What about the dust bunny experiment? Is that still classified?


26 posted on 07/06/2015 5:34:24 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: MUDDOG

It is comet microbes all the way down ...


27 posted on 07/06/2015 5:36:36 PM PDT by wetickel
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Alien Planet Digital Art
28 posted on 07/06/2015 5:37:49 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“astrobiologist” Now that’s gotta be an unsatisfying career.


29 posted on 07/06/2015 5:39:54 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Colorado Doug

Like cryptozoologist?


30 posted on 07/06/2015 5:40:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: MUDDOG
But what’s the turtle standing on?

Obviously the back of another far larger turtle.

Duh!

31 posted on 07/06/2015 5:40:45 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

You got it!

It’s turtles all the way down.


32 posted on 07/06/2015 5:41:49 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah, so eager to be able to proclaim that life has been found! how often do these announcements turn out to be untrue.


33 posted on 07/06/2015 5:42:18 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: cripplecreek
However, without going there, collecting them and bringing them back for in depth study, they’re nothing but interesting rocks.

Oh come on. Take the plunge! Evidence is so twentieth century. This is NEW science! Declare them marine fossils with certainty and demand a few grants to study them. I will help you manage the studies for a percentage. We will have a consensus and more grants in no time.

34 posted on 07/06/2015 5:48:40 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: cripplecreek

It’s a rather sensationalistic hypothesis at best but the organic compounds do make you wonder.


35 posted on 07/06/2015 5:52:25 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At least you could maybe get a “reality show” as a cryptozoologist. ;)


36 posted on 07/06/2015 5:52:38 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: cripplecreek; MeshugeMikey
So in their evidence free opinions there is life despite the fact that they can’t prove it.

They have conned census.

From Obama's newly established Trust-Us Department.


37 posted on 07/06/2015 5:57:52 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Army Air Corps

Horrific failure.
All specimens escaped.


38 posted on 07/06/2015 5:59:47 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: cripplecreek

Two new forms of Life? Bernie Sanders and Barney Frank?

Time to do an Armageddon on that comet.


39 posted on 07/06/2015 6:10:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: rlmorel

I think the point turns on the distinction between evidence and proof. There is unequivocal evidence for the existence of the Easter Bunny. There is no proof.


40 posted on 07/06/2015 6:14:22 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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