British scientist claims we're all aliens on Earth

nypost.com ^ | Feb. 3, 2010 | Vince Soodin

[Free ThinkerNY]

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 on Earth 3,800 million years ago.

He said life through the universe was transferred from planet to planet over billions of years as comets hit them and pushed matter into space.

[NormsRevenge]

Damn Microbalists!

[RexBeach]

How does this dude pronounce his name? Now THAT’s alien to me.

[b4its2late]

I know James Carville is.

[US Navy Vet]

“We share a cosmic ancestry” yep “In the beginning G*D created the Heavens and the Earth....”

[Deb]

Its hard not to think Earth is the dumping ground for galactic misfits and criminals. There’s just no other explanation.

[beethovenfan]

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

II Timothy 4:3, 4

[johnandrhonda]

And just how did these microbes live for eons of time in the vacuum of space with temps ranging alternately from hundreds below freezing to hundreds above, and then survive the searing heat of entry thru the earth atmosphere and crash landing? If they were really that tough, they would be living on the moon, too, as well as every other planet.

[wheninthecourse]

Cross out “human beings” and insert
“liberal progressives, statists”

[James C. Bennett]

I think his position is that it’s not “...Earth”, but ‘earths’.

[ikka]

What a load of macaca ...

[James C. Bennett]

Prions are protein molecules with next to no known method for their destruction. They even survive heavy-dose irradiation.

Prions replicate themselves, and that is why Mad Cow Disease is fatal.

[Little Ray]

Old theory. “Panspermia.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

[atomic conspiracy]

Good grief! Must be a slow news day. Wickramasinghe (who is now 70 years old) has been very publicly advocating this idea since the early 60s, when he arrived at Cambridge to study under Sir Fred Hoyle. The latter, in turn, originated the hypothesis of panspermia, which includes among other things the idea that life on Earth originated in space. Wickramasinghe's Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology has been in business since 2000.

[Armedanddangerous]

Cardiff

Isn’t that where the Torchwood Institute is?

[TASMANIANRED]

They will give any psychotic a PHd these days.

[JimRed]

God works his wonders any way He chooses.

[JimRed]

God works His wonders any way He chooses.

[vpintheak]

Scientist aye?

[mountainlion]

“Each time a new planetary system forms, a few surviving microbes find their way into comets.

So why didn't the microbes take a shortcut and stay here when this planetary system formed? Microbes do not form when planetary systems form! There are massive holes in his logic!