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Post by skywalker on Sept 21, 2013 20:12:24 GMT -6
I just found this story on the net. Not sure if it has been posted here or not. I kinda sorta remember seeing it somewhere but I'm not sure. www.messagetoeagle.com/alienlifefound.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Messagetoeaglecom+%28Message+To+Eagle+-+News%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail#.Uj8uLa8o7IVSome scientists are claiming that they have found potential alien life in the upper part of the Earth's atmosphere. Supposedly they sent a balloon way, way up and exposed some microscopic plates to see what they would find. What they found were some weird microscopic organisms never seen before. they claim the things are too big to have been carried up into the atmosphere from the Earth so they are assuming that they must be arriving from space. They are planning to test them to see whether their origin is from Earth or not. The question that I have is that if these things really are arriving from space like they claim then wouldn't there be some of them on the Earth? They aren't just going to float around up there forever...or are they? Perhaps they are a species that originated here on Earth and then gradually evolved in the upper atmosphere. Maybe that's where they have been living all along. It will be interesting to see the results of the test though.
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Post by sunbow on Sept 24, 2013 15:45:46 GMT -6
This is very timely. There have been scientists stating that comets carry virus or nucleic acids. We know that amino acids were found by stardust mission.
Next Feb 12 the Earth wwill be passing through ISON's wake. Even if it does not become visible, this wake will have been left there in our orbit.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 24, 2013 17:08:15 GMT -6
With all of the comets that have been zipping around in our solar system for the past who knows how many billions of years there should be comet dust everywhere. We are probably constantly being bombarded with it.
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Post by sunbow on Sept 24, 2013 17:43:28 GMT -6
I would think only fresh comet dust works, since anything out in space for too long is exposed to extreme UVs and such. Halley's comet coincided with the plagues, though some argue that was a coincidence.
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Post by bewildered on Sept 24, 2013 18:11:15 GMT -6
Let's not completely discount the possibility that an organism could survive in outer space for extended periods, sunbow. We have the case of the so-called "extremophiles" we have discovered here on Earth, organisms that can apparently survive and even thrive in conditions that we previously thought were completely antithetical to life as we know it. Extremophiles are a trip, to say the least. Who Are The Extremophiles?
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Post by sunbow on Sept 24, 2013 19:02:49 GMT -6
Yes, I agree. We have evidence of bacteria surviving on a camera lens on the moon for a dozen years. Also some have been identified on the exterior of the space station. Some organisms might survive for a long time being like extremophiles, while others would not. Virus may be perfectly fine in space for a long time.
It is the correlation of comets with plagues that indicates some shorter lived organisms may be an issue. Also the much higher population in comet debris might make human infection more likely. I guess we will get another bit of data in February.
There is also mythology in several places. In India when a comet is in the sky, you need to do many bathing rituals and stay indoors if at all possible. Called superstition and a disruption to the pace of modern life, there may be some sense to the behavior change, though the comet visibility and the passing through the debris do not exactly coincide.
I do not usually get hooked on the internet frenzy over very new comet or near Earth asteroid. Elinin (sp?) I did not bother to even consider. ISON is a strange one though.
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