Probable Discovery of Life on Comet Philae

by cofty 26 Replies latest social current

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  oppostate

  The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s black crust and other features are best explained by the fact that it has living organisms under its icy surface, they said.
  Rosetta, the European space craft orbiting the comet, is also said to have picked up strange "clusters" of organic material that look suspiciously like viral particles.

  Hmmm, looks like maybe Moulder was right when he said "The Truth is out there."
  What with the black goo on 67P maybe being living organic material. Or it could be that the Engineers of Prometheus are up to their tricks.
  If the black goo on 67P is viral and is brought here we'd may just need those Go-Bags the WT's been telling publishers to have at the ready lest the Zombie Apocalypse wreak havoc on this Old System.
  

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  Orange, read sarcasm.
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  freemindfade

  Andromeda strain!
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  prologos

  I WOULD BE VERY SURPRISED IF LIFE DID NOT EXIST EVERYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE CONDITIONS ARE APPROPRIATE. Nature seems to have a propensity to be creative like that from the word GO. but the extremes of comet-life between the Ort region and being periodically blasted, sterilized by the sun is not exactly the 'Goldi lock's' zone life as we know it would flourish in.
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  The_Doctor10

  It'd be so awesome if they confirmed life elsewhere! Let's see creationists and theologians weasel and squirm their way around that!
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  freemindfade

  Prologos sometimes I wonder if the conditions have to be as perfect as we make them out to be. Life can adapt. Who knows to what extent. And we are used to dealing with an abundance of carbon which is what makes us up. There are other abundant things like silacone out there. Who knows what ways life could find to exist. Fun stuff to think about.
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  snare&racket

  I subscribe to panspermia as highly probable for sure, but this seems a bit whacky and a lot of conjecture. I read it in the Guardian today and interesting as it is, it is a man guessing. Don't mean to be rude, but it is just bad science.

  Who knows though? About time we invested in and dedicated space for organism detecting equipment for such missions as it has huge significance for our science and cultures.
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  Mad Sweeney

  I wonder whether we'll recognize "life" the first time we encounter it in a non-carbon form. This is amazingly cool stuff and I hope to be alive still when life is confirmed out there.
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  prologos

  sometimes I wonder if the conditions have to be as perfect as we make them out to be. Life can adapt. Who knows to what extent. freemindfade:

  Life, even here on earth exists in conditions that most species would not find perfect. Of course this is not science , but my opinion springs from the observation that the laws of nature are the same everywhere, and if matter has the tendency to bring forth the amazing life processes here, why not anywhere else?

  Of course we have yet to find even a solar/star system like ours that has the stability functions build - in we see here, Bode & all.

  Comets do not have that consistent stability over billions of years that brought us on the scene.

  Deist thoughts BSA.
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  Island Man

  I'm tempted to rejoice at the prospect of the discovery of life outside of earth. But at the same time I'm a bit skeptical of the report. Why isn't this breaking news on CNN, the BBC and other reputable news sites? Just how reputable is The Independent? Something doesn't seem to add up.
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  Twitch

  Well, I for one am glad the media does not report every theory and conjecture as fact.

  Wait a second...

  Anywho, what do the chances become of lightning striking the same place, if over 4 billion years?

  The chances of life occurring spontaneously on it's own are astronomical, so it's been said. Impossible is a different statement. If in all the cosmos life only struck once, naturally we'd be here to contemplate it. And if it struck more than once, the same would be true. In either case, we'd still be here to contemplate where else it may have struck. And likely never know of another due to sheer distance/time.

  Still, it's tres cool that we land probes on comets and peek inside.

  ;)