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Principia Discordia => Techmology and Scientism => Topic started by: Cain on March 12, 2013, 01:06:23 PM

Title: THE ALIEN INVASION HAS BEGUN
Post by: Cain on March 12, 2013, 01:06:23 PM
Sorta.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512381/astrobiologists-find-ancient-fossils-in-fireball-fragments/

QuoteOn 29 December 2012, a fireball lit up the early evening skies over the Sri Lankan province of Polonnaruwa. Hot, sparkling fragments of the fireball rained down across the countryside and witnesses reported the strong odour of tar or asphalt.

Over the next few days, the local police gathered numerous examples of these stones and sent them to the Sri Lankan Medical Research Institute of the Ministry of Health in Colombo. After noticing curious features inside these stones, officials forwarded the samples to a team of astrobiologists at Cardiff University in the UK for further analysis.

The results of these tests, which the Cardiff team reveal today, are extraordinary.  They say the stones contain fossilised biological structures fused into the rock matrix and that their tests clearly rule out the possibility of terrestrial contamination.

But don't get your hopes up too soon

QuoteThere are other explanations, of course. One is that the fireball was of terrestrial origin, a remnant of one of the many asteroid impacts in Earth's history that that have ejected billions of tonnes of rock and water into space, presumably with biological material inside. Another is that the structures are not biological and have a different explanation.
Title: Re: THE ALIEN INVASION HAS BEGUN
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 12, 2013, 03:09:57 PM
COOOOOL!
Title: Re: THE ALIEN INVASION HAS BEGUN
Post by: Juana on March 12, 2013, 03:12:24 PM
Ooh, interesting! Thanks, Cain!
Title: Re: THE ALIEN INVASION HAS BEGUN
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on March 14, 2013, 08:58:56 AM
Leave it to the Welsh to not be sure if we've discovered extraterrestrial life.

Twid,
Looking at Captain Jack Harkness
Title: Re: THE ALIEN INVASION HAS BEGUN
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on March 14, 2013, 12:07:27 PM

QuoteThere are other explanations, of course. One is that the fireball was of terrestrial origin, a remnant of one of the many asteroid impacts in Earth's history that that have ejected billions of tonnes of rock and water into space, presumably with biological material inside. Another is that the structures are not biological and have a different explanation.

Autobots?  :eek:
Title: Re: THE ALIEN INVASION HAS BEGUN
Post by: Elder Iptuous on March 14, 2013, 02:37:42 PM
Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy is not amused:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/11/meteorite_life_claims_of_fossils_in_a_meteorite_are_still_wrong.html