Posted on 02/15/2009 12:09:42 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Aliens may be living among us, but we do not know it because they are microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry of Earth-dwelling organisms.
As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known to science, the Earth may have been home to a second creation of organisms that make up an unremarked realm of “life as we don’t know it”, according to Paul Davies, of Arizona State University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life.
Such “weird life” would never have been identified by scientists because the techniques they use for studying microbes are based on the familiar biological processes that drive the living things we understand, Professor Davies told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago.
The identification of such life on Earth could aid efforts to find life on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system. A second terrestrial creation would also indicate that life arises easily when the conditions are right, suggesting that it is common throughout the Universe.
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It’s my in-laws...trust me.
Hmmm, that explains my former roommate.
Such “weird life” would never have been identified by scientists because the techniques they use for studying microbes are based on the familiar biological processes that drive the living things we understand, Professor Davies told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago.
Where would this weird life live? Microscopists have subjected almost every nook and cranny of Earth's surface to close examination. Unless this weird life is invisible to microscopes, I don't see how it could have been overlooked.
Thats why a border fence is better than the idea of a technological border fence, it keeps them out the old-fashioned way.
Undetected? What the hell are they talking about. I have no problem seeing these lowlifes everywhere.
Hmmm please send her over my house so that I may verify the authenticity of your claims.
Men in Black is True.
*sigh* Another illegal immigration thread.
Not Guilty!
Wow! Aliens among us. Well that shouldn’t shock anyone, just look what we got in the White House. =)
We have an illegal alien president from Planet Kenya-Indonesia.
You sure do. I still can’t believe this has happened.
Unless this weird life is invisible to microscopes, I don't see how it could have been overlooked.
In 2007 alone, 700+- new species were discovered...so I think there's still room for some surprises.
"Scientists announced in the journal Nature this May that they had discovered 700 new species of organisms — including carnivorous sponges and giant sea spiders — some 2,300 ft. to 19,700 ft. (700 m to 6,000 m) down in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Scientists also reported the identification of 24 new species in an isolated area of Suriname, where the exploration for bauxite, which is used to make aluminum, led to the discovery of 12 dung beetles, an ant species, six species of fish and five new frogs, including one with fluorescent purple markings. Other fauna finds include a legless amphibian near Goa, India; 11 new species of plants and animals in central Vietnam's tropical "green" corridor; a new monkey in Uganda; a sucker-footed bat in Madagascar; a clouded leopard in Sumatra and Borneo, and a sea cucumber off the coast of Taiwan, nicknamed "Little Strawberry.""
‘A second terrestrial creation would also indicate that life arises easily when the conditions are right, suggesting that it is common throughout the Universe.”
So from an wild assumption based on an assumption which is derived from another assumption they conclude that life is common throughout the universe.
And we are supposed to trust this ‘scientist’ is rationale?
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