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The human race began as microbes brought to Earth by comets millions of years ago according to a British scientist, The Sun reported Wednesday. British professor Chandra Wickramasinghe said: "We are all aliens. We share a cosmic ancestry. "Each time a new planetary system forms, a few surviving microbes find their way into comets. "These then multiply and seed other planets. We are thus part of a connected chain that extends over a large volume of the cosmos. Evidence is pointing inexorably in this direction." Prof Wickramasinghe, an astrobiologist at Cardiff University, believes the first "seeds of life" were deposited...

Washington, D.C., is full of conspiracy theories and political intrigue at the best of times. When it comes to talk about aliens in the U.S. capital, it's often about calls for the CIA to reveal what it did with a UFO that allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in the 1950s, or buzz about frozen alien bodies in the basement of the Pentagon. But next week in Washington, talk about aliens will be taken with furrowed-brow seriousness. It's not speculation about pregnant women and Martian abductions, but the painstaking search for possible Martian microbes. Not alien invaders, but talk about...