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)
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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.
“...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.
“Frack Philae” has a nice ring to it.
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.
Imagine that. Aliens who don’t jump the border and kill the local species.
What about the dust bunny experiment? Is that still classified?
It is comet microbes all the way down ...
“astrobiologist” Now that’s gotta be an unsatisfying career.
Like cryptozoologist?
Obviously the back of another far larger turtle.
Duh!
You got it!
It’s turtles all the way down.
Ah, so eager to be able to proclaim that life has been found! how often do these announcements turn out to be untrue.
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.
It’s a rather sensationalistic hypothesis at best but the organic compounds do make you wonder.
At least you could maybe get a “reality show” as a cryptozoologist. ;)
They have conned census.
From Obama's newly established Trust-Us Department.
Horrific failure.
All specimens escaped.
Two new forms of Life? Bernie Sanders and Barney Frank?
Time to do an Armageddon on that comet.
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.
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