The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #132809   Message #3109607
Posted By: Stu
08-Mar-11 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hey skeptics, UFOs over NYC today
Subject: RE: BS: Hey skeptics, UFOs over NYC today
There's another alternative:

Stop pratting about with hearsay and the flights of fantasy and get stuck in to the science, which is far more interesting. I've seen UFO's (most recently last year in Montana), and I've posted on these threads about the Red Rain of Kerala and no-one's taken a blind bit of notice. Well, here's more evidence to ignore: Cyanobacteria fossils in metorites

This research is by a NASA scientist Richard Hoover and offers compelling proof that life my have travelled to earth via comets, which are known to contain complex organic chemicals. If these are the fossils of cyanobacteria then the ramifications are enormous, as it would indicate life is everywhere and planets are seeded with life by extremophile bacteria. This research is being conducted (as it should be) in the harsh light of peer review and commentaries from the author's peers are invited on his page.

This is a truly profound finding, and raises so many questions that major paradigm shifts will be required in many disciplines. Darwin would have loved this. And it would be fitting too if cyanobacteria were the first extraterrestrial life forms we discovered; they have been around since very early in the story of life and today still rule the world along with their other prokaryote brothers and sisters, whatever us arrogant humans might think.

Brilliant.