Yes, when you find organisms near the barrier of the void of space and a planet that has been teeming with a mind-boggling array of life for 3.5 billion years, the logical conclusion is that they came from the space side.

You may not be a scientist, but that's why journalists should take a few science courses in college. And no, I don't mean "geography for sociology majors", I mean chemistry, zoology, botany, microbiology, physics, etc...

When Alvin brought back the first samples from the East Pacific Rise in 1979, they looked pretty alien- if it's truly alien, it will either have radically different rRNA sequences than the Archaea, Prokarya, or Eukarya or it won't have RNA at all.

Wait until it's been written up in a journal with some actual peer review and been repeated, then report on it. The hallmark of legit science is that it makes predictions which are testable and repeatable.

I DEMAND THAT ALL BLOGTOWN POSTS WILL BE HENCEFORTH WRITTEN BY ASTROPHYSICISTS.

What I get from the article is that comets are just big balls splooging into the atmosphere and then denying paternity the next time they come around. Typical.