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03-06-2011, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Jersey near Philly | |  NASA finds fossilized alien life
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Is this evidence? I'd like to see the outcome of the review of this discovery...
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03-06-2011, 06:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Central Alberta | | | I'm one who firmly believes in solving problems at home before investing so much time and money to something outside of our atmosphere.
Neat find, though. |
03-06-2011, 06:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | | this could be significant; i hope the science is accurate. |
03-06-2011, 06:54 PM
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03-06-2011, 07:26 PM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | hmmm, looks quite promising, though the source seems to have been discredited, at least by one guy. Don't know enough about it yet.
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03-06-2011, 07:30 PM
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03-06-2011, 07:41 PM
| | | | From what I've read, it's a crackpot with a book to sell.
I'll be really surprised if this turns out to have any truth to it. |
03-06-2011, 07:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | hmmm....this isn't looking very promising. I want to imagine that if this had more backing to it, the story would be a bit more present in the media. I'm having a hard time finding reports from other news sources.
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03-06-2011, 07:54 PM
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03-06-2011, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by stevetx19 I'm having a hard time finding reports from other news sources. | The yahoo article links directly to the 1990s freewebs-style "journal" in which it's published. Nobody will be able to tell you more, unless perhaps you click one of the many links to buy 100 dollar books from the author. |
03-06-2011, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | | Its not as much about getting more info as it is finding legitimacy in a story reported by more than just yahoo. This would be a huge news story if it were more than speculation. |
03-06-2011, 08:07 PM
| | | | Could be significant, but really, there's kinda got to be life outside Earth. I mean, cmon, we're one tiny planet out of millions in our galaxy out of an infinite number of galaxies in the universe. Seems kinda naive to believe there's nothing out there.
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03-06-2011, 08:12 PM
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03-06-2011, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Big_Daddy I'm one who firmly believes in solving problems at home before investing so much time and money to something outside of our atmosphere. | I'm really big on science, extraterrestrial life, etc. etc. but I often think that way too.
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03-06-2011, 09:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | | sometimes it takes a lofty goal to get people interested in the science that develops the technology that can be used to help on earth. Getting to moon had many benefits, including helping to inspire youth to study science. |
03-06-2011, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by champbassist I'm really big on science, extraterrestrial life, etc. etc. but I often think that way too. | i find it hard to ignore the side benefits, like satellites, and, to a lesser extent, tang and that bed from the infomercials. |
03-06-2011, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Central Alberta | | Quote:
Originally Posted by champbassist I'm really big on science, extraterrestrial life, etc. etc. but I often think that way too. | Completely. I find astronomy to be fascinating. The idea that there may be another Earth-Planet out there somewhere in our galaxy is fascinating, the possibilities are endless.
Before someone quotes me on this, I will say this: I suppose that I should be thankful for the money invested into space exploration, satellite technology and all that jazz. Our society, and in turn the global community (to an extent), would not be any where near as advanced as we are now. |
03-07-2011, 12:42 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SMILEYSIXX Could be significant, but really, there's kinda got to be life outside Earth. I mean, cmon, we're one tiny planet out of millions in our galaxy out of an infinite number of galaxies in the universe. Seems kinda naive to believe there's nothing out there. | No, it's "kinda naive" to believe anything one way or the other as we simply don't have enough to go on. Life could be widespread all over the universe or limited to just our planet. We simply don't know. (By the way, the number of galaxies in the universe is not infinite.) http://www.stephenjaygould.org/libra...ginoflife.html
As far as the claim that is the subject of the thread, PZ Myers is, as always, rigorously spot on with his analysis. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...ver_bacter.php
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03-07-2011, 03:42 AM
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Originally Posted by bassybill By the way, the number of galaxies in the universe is not infinite. | +1 there are precisely eleventy bazillion
i wonder what nasa and/or this guys coworkers think of all this. i cant see that getting you accolades plugging a book, if thats all it really is. |
03-07-2011, 07:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | Fossilized alien life? You mean Keith Richards? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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