Brainy Quote of the Day

Monday, March 7, 2011

OMG...and right before "Paul"...

The correct term would be panspermia, i.e. simple forms of life carried to other worlds via meteorites, which I thought a little salacious to put in a blog title!

In the Journal of Cosmology, "Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of the interior surfaces of the Alais, Ivuna, and Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous meteorites. Based on Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and other measures, Dr. Hoover has concluded they are indigenous to these meteors and are similar to trichomic cyanobacteria and other trichomic prokaryotes such as filamentous sulfur bacteria. He concludes these fossilized bacteria are not Earthly contaminants but are the fossilized remains of living organisms which lived in the parent bodies of these meteors, e.g. comets, moons, and other astral bodies. Coupled with a wealth of date published elsewhere and in previous editions of the Journal of Cosmology, and as presented in the edited text, "The Biological Big Bang"," the implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets.

You might just want to keep up with this one!

Here's some space math on the Drake Equation presented by our old buddy Carl Sagan.

We live in interesting times...

Journal of Cosmology link: Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meterorites, Richard B. Hoover, PhD, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center

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