http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr9iBC8NrtQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci ... ere-claims-scientist.html
http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC22/milton_diatom.pdf

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Scientists from the University of Sheffield believe they have discovered tiny organisms from space in the Earth's atmosphere. The microbugs were found on a research ballloon they had sent 27km (16.7 miles) into the atmosphere during last month's Perseids meteor shower.

Professor Milton Wainwright said: "If life does continue to arrive from space then we have to completely change our view of biology and evolution," he added. "New textbooks will have to be written!" Report by Sarah Kerr.

Great Discovery!

cool

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By the eight day God had finished resting from the day before. He forgot about the alien organisms in space and the other planets and so he created them. For the record, "heavens" in the first chapter refers to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the 176,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe, that was a busy day for him.

Wow this could be the breakthrough science has searched for, since the dawn of modern space exploration.

orly

I'm a Space Monkey! WOOHOO!

Too soon to pick a side of course, but I'll be interested to see how this story develops and whether a sigma 5 result can be attained - most likely achievable by attempting to collect samples in space from behind a comet, or seeing if any perseid meteor fragments try to take over the planet!

/Space Monkey Out.

Proof of alien life? You need a lot more evidence than this.

edit: Also:

Quote from Wikipedia :

The journal has also been accused of promoting fringe viewpoints and speculative viewpoints on astrobiology, astrophysics, and quantum physics. Skeptical blogger and biologist PZ Myers said of the journal "... it isn't a real science journal at all, but is the... website of a small group... obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth." The journal has responded that the paradigm "life on Earth came from Earth" is like a religious belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology

Indeed. On further reading it does appear there are tests we can do with the material found which may provenance the claim. I'll await those results with interest.

/Space Monkey out

we're being mutated again.

Very interesting. Far from proof of alien life currently, but with more testing it could be definitive. Think that if this is varified there could be life forms living in places forerly not concidered hospitable.

Can't they just compare the shells/remains of the diatoms to those who live on earth? If they do come from space, there must be some notable differences.

I'm also wondering how they would have stayed intact during entry into our atmosphere. Too small to be affected by air resistance maybe?

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I'm also wondering how they would have stayed intact during entry into our atmosphere. Too small to be affected by air resistance maybe?

Entry burnup only happens when the entry is suitably oblique and speedy, like with an orbiting space craft. A simple free-fall or near-free-fall of a small, light object wouldn't cause any undue friction - like a weather balloon module or some crazy person jumping from said weather balloon.

Still, the survivability of a space-bourne organism would be quite high and could probably survive a moderate amount of reentry burn.