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This shows an image of a large (100 µm diameter) and very complex, thick-walled, carbon-rich (kerogenous) microfossil that the scientists have tentatively identified as a hystrichosphere. Credit: arxiv.org/abs/1303.1845

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-astrobiologists-meteorite-space-algae.html#jCp

1 posted on 03/12/2013 10:27:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I smell “Grant Money!”


2 posted on 03/12/2013 10:31:14 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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To: Red Badger

Darwinian evolutionists are extreme in their opposition to the idea that life originates elsewhere than Earth.


4 posted on 03/12/2013 10:33:02 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Red Badger

Once upon a time...


5 posted on 03/12/2013 10:34:31 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Red Badger

My personal opinion is that they came from earth to begin with.


6 posted on 03/12/2013 10:34:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, everyone knows that Algae grows on comets travelling through space...


8 posted on 03/12/2013 10:37:01 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Red Badger

Well then...a perfect organic solution to clear up this invasion would be a liberal application of H2O2.


9 posted on 03/12/2013 10:38:12 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Red Badger
According to Wallis and colleagues, this confirms that life on Earth had an extraterrestrial origin...
...It is not even certain that the samples came from the fireball.

"Scientists", not. Theorize, but don't say "confirms" when there is much uncertainty. Even if by slim chance the fragments came from the fireball, earth fragments have been thrown into space by previous collisions with asteroids, and that same earth could have returned. Martian and Lunar meteorites are found in polar ice here on Earth, cast off by collisions on those bodies. I tend to believe these guys are speculating and don't have proof.

13 posted on 03/12/2013 10:43:00 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Red Badger

The old spontaneous generation myth dies hard if at all.


15 posted on 03/12/2013 10:53:16 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: Red Badger

Ping me when they find Tribbles.


16 posted on 03/12/2013 10:53:20 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red Badger
No, diatoms have not been found in a meteorite
17 posted on 03/12/2013 10:59:00 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Red Badger

” confirms that life on Earth had an extraterrestrial origin.”

Which keeps the myth alive we are destroying this planet because everything we do is no earth like - despite the massive studies of common DNA and parts in all creatures here.

These people are less then stupid and only getting grant money to fail.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 11:01:50 AM PDT by edcoil (Half of every class gratuates at the bottom, they are now politicians.)
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To: Red Badger

Waiting for the paper to be retracted.


19 posted on 03/12/2013 11:05:31 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Red Badger

Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one.

Thus, this explanation holds the most water:
“A long ago asteroid impact could have ejected rocks and water with biological material into space.”


22 posted on 03/12/2013 11:17:04 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: Red Badger

> ... carried space algae.

So that’s where libs come from.


27 posted on 03/12/2013 11:24:07 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Black Agnes
The Intelligent Universe(1988)

"In this book, Fred Hoyle expresses an opinion which is rejected by most other scientists. He claims that all of life on our planet is descended from microbes which arrived in a meteor shower. Although other scientists say that a microbe could not survive the hot temperature which results from entering the atmosphere, Hoyle argues to the contrary."

28 posted on 03/12/2013 11:27:11 AM PDT by blam
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To: Red Badger
According to Wallis and colleagues, this confirms that life on Earth had an extraterrestrial origin

That's a pretty big leap from fossils which may have microorganisms to saying that's how life on Earth happened. I'm sensing a request for, for, for Grant money, that's it, yes, that's what I hear the voices in my head telling me.

30 posted on 03/12/2013 11:31:00 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Red Badger

1. The rock has not been shown to have any connection to the meteor in question. The rock has never even been identified as a meteorite, and does not appear to be a meteorite.

2. The diatoms aren’t fossilized and are local to the area where the rock was found. That is, these are earthly diatoms.

3. The publication is well-known for publishing reports that don’t pass muster for publication in accepted scientific journals.


34 posted on 03/12/2013 12:24:45 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn....)
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To: Red Badger
He's sorry he touched it...
35 posted on 03/12/2013 12:56:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Red Badger

There’s a fire....


37 posted on 03/12/2013 7:21:50 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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