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Grunthos
03-05-2011, 04:48 PM
Interestng if it pans out:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/

Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has traveled to remote areas in Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska, amongst others, for over ten years now, collecting and studying meteorites. He gave FoxNews.com early access to the out-of-this-world research, published late Friday evening in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites -- only nine such meteorites are known to exist on Earth.

Though it may be hard to swallow, Hoover is convinced that his findings reveal fossil evidence of bacterial life within such meteorites, the remains of living organisms from their parent bodies -- comets, moons and other astral bodies. By extension, the findings suggest we are not alone in the universe, he said.

CyberKing
03-06-2011, 07:29 AM
I've always thought the notion of being alone in the universe to be stupid. There's so many different planets and systems out there, and the fact that we have life on our planet means that it's possible.

Nyarlathotep
03-06-2011, 05:21 PM
Not sure how reputable the target scholarly journal is though —
http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

Have heard we are in a “golden age of astronomy”. Astronomy in the context of being all things “out there”. Finding more & more planets in the “goldilocks zone” outside our solar system, that is not to hot & not too cold for life as we know it. Good to see science making progress.

NASA, through an affiliate, recently got burned for the astrobiology teasers last year regarding arsenic based life from California’s Mono Lake —
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1202/Arsenic-microbe-in-Mono-Lake-may-reshape-hunt-for-extraterrestrial-life

Would indeed be cool to see this pan out.