We are not alone!

[plutherus]

"There are those who believe that life here began out there..."

And, it seems, it might be quite probable that it did!

A new article, published in the Journal Of Cosmology makes the case that deposits on certain Carbonaceous Meteorites are indeed Fossils of Cyanobacteria.

And, further, that these fossils, deeply embedded within the meteorite, are not contaminants from Earth.

The full article can be read online at http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html

Cyanobacteria, if you recall, are about the oldest and most primitive form of life on Earth, generally getting the credit for giving us our atmosphere, and surviving just about everywhere. Including, apparently, in meteoroids.

This is terribly exciting news if it's accurate. The Journal of Cosmology is seeking responses, and I'll be watching them in the coming days to see how it pans out. If life is anywhere else outside our planet, then the odds are it would be everywhere else. If these findings are confirmed the implication is that the universe is teeming with life.

Comments

[thevirtualjim.livejournal.com]

well, some archea are older than cyanobacteria, and even if the old BSG theme is right, it still begs the question about how life originated.

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, these will say nothing about the origins of life itself.

The questions it answers (or, at least, begins to answer) are about how life got started on Earth, and how ubiquitous it is elsewhere.

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

It is my educated opinion that simple life, i.e one- celled organisms or Republicans, that are little more than complex mineral "sponges" mindlessly moving from stimuli to stimuli are the inevitable result of geologic process. No mystery other than asking at what point did complex amino acids start looking to expand and replicate. Complex life eventually emerged from the process growing and refining as it went, becoming increasingly more complex in order to exploit resources available, until WHAM: Justin Beiber fans. Still, that doesn't undermine how incredibly cool life and the very concept of life is.