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Aliens exist, and we have proof.

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 http://journalofcosmology.com/Life100.html">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 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusive-nasa-scientists-claims-evidence-alien-life-meteorite/">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).

http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/nasa-scientist-finds-evidence-of-alien-life/attachment/alien-life-figure-4a/">“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.”

In order to satisfy the inevitable hoard of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover’s study and evidence were made available to his peers in the scientific community in advance of the study’s publications, giving them a chance to thoroughly dissect his findings. Comments from those who decided to sift through the evidence will be published online, alongside the study.

“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Journal of Cosmology’s editor-in-chief. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”

Needless to say, if Hoover’s conclusions are found to be accurate, the implications for human life will be staggering. Here’s hoping that he’s right

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Sounds interesting but we will see what comes of it. I believe there is alien life out there however I am a skeptic by nature and want to wait for all the facts  to come out.

I think we will find life on Europa. Thats where I hope we go some day. Seems promising.

Cool. Too bad it's just a worm-thingy

Yes its proven before that aliens do exists,but its not proven yet that intelligent alliens just like human beings or more powerful than human being do exists or not.

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It's never been proven that any aliens exist. Though it's widely assumed they do.

This will be very controversial and very thoroughly examined - I will be immensely excited if it turns out to be correct. The cynic/skeptic/pessimist in me says there's a good chance it will be somehow incorrect though.

My money will be going on contamination, I think it's a more likely scenario. I'll wait and see though.

Just reading through it now. Looks quite thorough, although I'm having to revise some of the techniques used so it's taking me a while to get through.

It's possible, but he appears to be quite thorough and seems to have done a range of analyses into amino acid & elemental composition and isotope ratios that make it unlikely that they're contaminants.

The early commentaries are actually quite interesting to go through and raise important issues. Comment 3 raises a good point:

Edit: No idea why the text is so small, here's the link:

http://journalofcosmology.com/Life101.html#4

"But the variety and complexity of chemical interactions over the unknown, potentially 4 billion year history of these meteorites leaves room for an as yet unidentified inorganic process which could have created them. For example, just last month in the journal Nature, similar filamentous structures have been explained by non-biological processes (Marshall et al., 2011)."

Hmm...I'll wait for an absolute answer. There have been similar reports in the past, only for me to end up disappointed.

I don't believe this bs,just like they supposedly found evidence of bigfoot and the lochnest monster and etc,etc. We have all these secret aliens and monster's roaming the world. I repeat we would have known about all of this along time ago if this was true. Let me guess,It's a massive goverment cover-up. Again,I call BS on the whole thing.