Posted on 02/03/2010 12:54:07 PM PST by 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.
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Evidence? I don't see any. Maybe if we had explored multiple planets around multiple stars and they all had the same DNA we have on Earth you could hypothesize a common source. But we have one single sample (Earth) which he is trying to extrapolate from.
Fifteen or so years ago, amino acids were discovered in interstellar clouds within our galaxy. That was enough to convince me of the plausibility of this theory.
I don’t know if amino acids have also been discovered in other galaxies, or in intergalactic material, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they’re there too.
Cardiff, didn’t they find a giant there once?
He is no psychotic, or at any rate he has a great reputation as an astronomer.
The exobiology stuff has long been his hobby-horse (and in which he is some very good company). He did work out and predict the presence of organic chemicals (not necessarily made by life, this just describes the class of molecules) in interstellar matter, which was subsequently verified by observations.
Correct. We can only observe his creation and accept what we see, its absurd to reject the reality of it.
Me thinks you are correct.
There are lots of Indian astronomers/physicists/mathematicians. They seem to be very, very good at this stuff.
Indian/Ceylon names are easy really, its just that they have more syllables than we are used to.
WIK - RA - MA - SING - HE (short “E”)
If you are into astronomy, etc., you will also have to manage Chandrasekhar (”On Stellar Evolution”, and a Nobel prize) -
CHAN - DRA - SEK - HAR
I would not dismiss this on these grounds.
Earth bacteria have been found living INSIDE rocks.
Possibly an alien cell-like organism could be living, yet dormant, inside a carbonaceous chondrite, just one possibility. These have landed on Earth in substantial chunks.
And upon landing in a receptive environment, say the Earth of a billion years ago, or today, some of these could revive and multiply.
On the Moon and elsewhere, lacking the right environment, they would remain dormant.
A nice unprovable theory.
The microbes has tiny spce ships that crashed in New Mexico, right? I knew it! I just knew it! And that Area 51 ia hiding lots of tiny microbes too I bet.
Scientist: Alien life could already be on Earth
Associated Press | Jan. 26, 2010 | RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Posted on 01/26/2010 10:34:14 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2437717/posts
Martian Colony in Britain
Telegraph.co.uk | 8:23AM GMT 02 Dec 2009 | Science staff
Posted on 12/02/2009 7:08:44 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2398990/posts
and just for fun:
Origin of the Species, From an Alien View:
WHERE did humankind come from? [ Sitchin ]
New York Times | January 8, 2010 | Corey Kilgannon
Posted on 01/13/2010 3:22:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2427184/posts
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.ooh, a two-list pinger. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
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COSMIC ANCESTRY
Life comes from space because life comes from life
http://www.panspermia.org/index.htm
There is no sort of alien origin theory for our own biosphere which does anything at all for evolution(ism). The simplest one-celled animals in the universe are still vastly more complex than anything man has ever built, they still could no more evolve on Mars, anything orbitting Alpha Centauri or anything else than they could here, and all that any such theory does is kick the can down the road a couple of blocks.
If you scale our entire solar system to something with a diameter of about one yard, then the sun would be a dust mote with about the diameter of the width of a human hair, we would be a few inches away from that dust mote, and Alpha Centauri would be four miles out yonder. The amount of time it would take any sort of a "life seed" to just sort of float out to any other star would be beyond anything anybody has ever thought of involving any sort of cosmic theory.
Darwinism: THE biggest scam in history. :)
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