NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife

That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) Hoover’s findings were published late Friday night in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

“I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover, who has spent more than 10 years studying meteorites around the world, told FoxNews.com in an interview. “This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist would say that this is impossible.”

Hoover discovered the fossils by breaking apart the CI1 meteorite, and analyzing the exposed rock with a scanning-electron microscope and a field emission electron-scanning microscope, which allowed him to detect any fossil remains. What he found were fossils of micro-organisms (pictured below), many of which he says are strikingly similar to those found on our own planet (pictured above).

“The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth,” said Hoover. Some of the fossils, however, are quite odd. “There are some that are just very strange and don’t look like anything that I’ve been able to identify, and I’ve shown them to many other experts that have also come up stump.”

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Even stupider than believing that the Earth was the center of the universe. And future generations will wonder how anyone could have believed such an absurd notion.

that does not consider life, in some form, elsewhere in the Universe as a very real probability.
I also do not know any intelligent person who seriously thinks alien life has visited Earth in spacecrafts.

In large part due to the underlying assumption that life had to be similar to what we have here on Earth, i.e. oxygen-breathing carbon based stuff dependent on liquid water. That's changed in part due to us getting a better understanding of how adaptable life is, including everything from Antarctic sub-glacial lakes to anaerobic life at the bottom of the ocean.

To think that the puny inhabitants of this planet are the only form of life in this vast universe. I'm also willing to bet we are the lowest step on the food chain.

And that includes some of the good folk on DU

It doesn't take much brain power to figure out that galaxy upon galaxy exists and we are merely thinking about it. Many others worlds probably don't even see it as worthy of thought.

And they are estimating that some that some 500 mil of them might be habitable?

and we may be one of the many realities, is fairly recent.

We are at the edges of the universe, just getting our feet wet. This is not unlike when a certain sailor discovered the leeward Islands of Japan... it took 75 years for America to become a reality.

but this would be sooo huge that it would appear in a peer-reviewed publication. for another perspective, check out the site at the end of the article: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php

k and r anyway for debate.

lifetime...

However, I don't think this is it.

since Panspermia means life came from SOMEWHERE ELSE.

We might have finally found it... and humans will fight it. Some until a gray (yes I know) comes down and smiles at us and waves.