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| DJ Juno |
Im not sure if you people are as interested in this subject as i am, but if your not, dont read any further on, if you are, read on, its quite interesting....
they found bacteria in the upper atmosphere of earth...
THE ORGANISMS are similar to bacteria on Earth, but the scientists said the living cells found in samples of air from the edge of the planet’s atmosphere are too far away to have come from Earth.
“There is now unambiguous evidence for the presence of clumps of living cells in air samples from as high 41 kilometers (25 miles), well above the local tropopause (10 miles or 16 kilometers up), above which no air from lower down would normally be transported,” Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, an astronomer at Cardiff University in Wales, said in a statement.
He presented the findings to a meeting of the International Society for Optical Engineering in San Diego.
“A prima facie case for a space incidence of bacteria on to the Earth may have been established,” the statement said.
Wickramasinghe and scientists from India collected the space bugs from samples of stratospheric air using the Indian Space Research Organization’s cryogenic sampler payload flown on balloons from a launch pad in Hyderabad in southern India.
Using a fluorescent dye, the scientists detected living cells in the sample and estimated by the way their distribution varied with height that they were falling from space.
As much as a third of a ton of the biological material is raining down over the entire planet daily, by their estimation.
Advance word of the researchers’ findings had leaked out months ago, and at that time, some researchers questioned Wickramasinghe’s claim that the organisms found in the sample couldn’t have come from Earth.
EARTHLY OR ALIEN?
Professor David Lloyd, a microbiologist at Cardiff University who examined the space bugs and co-authored the report, acknowledged that the microorganisms look like common terrestrial bacteria, but there is no explanation of how they could have risen so high.
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“There would have to be some unusual event which would take particles from the Earth to a height of 40 kilometers,” Lloyd said in a telephone interview.
He speculated that the bacteria could have hitched a ride on a rocket or satellite into space — or they really could be from another planet.
“We have no evidence for one or the other as yet,” said Lloyd. “The most likely possibility is that the bacteria have arrived from another planet. I’d like to think that, at any rate.”
Lloyd has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to grow the bacteria in culture but said he hasn’t found the right conditions yet.
“It’s the first pointer that it is possible to get evidence that there is life on other planets,” he added.
Wickramasinghe is convinced the space bugs provide strong support for the panspermia theory — which suggests that life may have come from outer space in the form of germs or spores.
“We have argued for more than two decades that terrestrial life was brought down to Earth by comets and that cometary material containing microorganisms must still reach us in large quantities,” he said.
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| Thor |
I've never doubted the fact some life is beyond our planet. The question is if we've ever been visited, and that I think is not all that possible.
I do believe there are advanced beings out there, but I don't think we've been visited in modern times.. Maybe 1000's of years ago, but not recently.
Just the Mathamatical possibility makes sense, so yes, there is some life out there...... But what I don't know. |
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| trancaholic |
| I do support the theory of life in some form elsewhere in space, but I find it hillarious that scientist thinks it more likely that these bacterias have travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometers or even lightyears from somewhere in the vast universe instead of 40 km from earth. |
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| rawkus rowan |
i agree with trancaholic, i think there is something out there, but wot theyve found isnt it. maybe volcano eruptions or atomic blasts such as in world war 2 couldve projected this biological matter so far up? who knows?
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| DJ MG |
| All I have to say is why would any one want to live any where else other then earth, planet earth is the best out of all the other planent we have everything we need here and insted of destroying it we should spend most of our money here trying to perfect it. ok serching other plants for usefull things is ok but wanting to live some where else is just way to much :D this is my opinion :D :D |
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| Nastra Azzurro |
I live on Mars. Its great a whole planet for myself.
Infinity used to live here too, but i think he has moved to another galaxy. havent seen him in a while. His house is still standing but look abandoned.
Mars KIX ASS |
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| LiquidX |
| k .. I know for sure there is life on another planet, but bacteria coming from another planet or no, if not, how the hell did it get up there is the question ....... |
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| dj alonzo |
| I am possitive there is life on other planet(s)... but i don't think any of them will visit earth, i mean, what reason do they have to do that... and we don't even know that they are more than just bacterias, we don't know if they have a brain, blood and all the other stuff animals and humans have... just not likely that somone from other planet will visit us. |
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| goldenarmZ |
tiny bacteria finding it's way to earth is not as unlikely as it may seem... space is a vaccum, pure nothingness. if you fired a gun in space, the bullet would keep moving at a constant velocity until it hit something or was pulled off course by the gravity of a star or planet.
also, I believe the possibility of being visited by intelligent life is not so far fetched either. scientists say that travelling the vast distances between star systems would far exceed a spacecraft's capabilities, but those beliefs are based on out theories, and the materials available to use in this tiny corner of the universe. nobody knows what is out there... if the universe is truly infinite, then everything is possible. :) |
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| dj alonzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by goldenarmZ
tiny bacteria finding it's way to earth is not as unlikely as it may seem... space is a vaccum, pure nothingness. if you fired a gun in space, the bullet would keep moving at a constant velocity until it hit something or was pulled off course by the gravity of a star or planet.
also, I believe the possibility of being visited by intelligent life is not so far fetched either. scientists say that travelling the vast distances between star systems would far exceed a spacecraft's capabilities, but those beliefs are based on out theories, and the materials available to use in this tiny corner of the universe. nobody knows what is out there... if the universe is truly infinite, then everything is possible. :) |
Good point there mate... makes you wonder... |
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| Fraggle |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nastra Azzurro
I live on Mars. Its great a whole planet for myself.
Infinity used to live here too, but i think he has moved to another galaxy. havent seen him in a while. His house is still standing but look abandoned.
Mars KIX ASS |
hehehehheh!!!
ya, but is there icecream on mars!?!?!
...if yeah, i'm in!!! :D:D:D |
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| torontotrance |
| Aliens among us ?. Ever notice that people who claim they have seen ufo's almost always live in mobile homes. I say something is fishy. I don't believe there is ufo's or aliens, i think that is so sci-fiction in my mind but who knows |
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