What do I look like, a scientist? Don’t ask me. But these guys seem pretty excited. “It’s almost too amazing to believe,” one says.

(Don’t miss the final and maybe most important sentence: “Despite these fantastical claims, the Journal of Cosmology has had its reputation called into question more than once by other members of the scientific community.”)

4 replies on “Are These Organisms Proof of Alien Life?”

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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