The creature was not found to have oval heads, green-skinned, or black eye like a big scary aliens who are often depicted in science fiction movies. However, this bacterium is evidence of alien life outside our planet, and a surprise, looks like organisms on Earth.
That's the conclusion of Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, which released its findings in the Journal of Cosmology, journals that have been evaluated scientifically, last weekend.
For 10 years, Hoover has been exploring remote areas of Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska to collect and study meteorites.
Fossils of alien bacteria was found Hoover in the category of very rare meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites CI1. Only nine meteorite from that class were found to fall to earth.
Although hard to believe, Hoover convinced that the findings reveal that fossil evidence of bacteria that live in meteorites, the remains of living organisms that are likely to come from comets, the moon and other celestial bodies. "These findings suggest that we are not alone in this universe," he said. "I interpret as an indication that life is spread wider than restricted to only the planet Earth. The field study was almost no one touched because, frankly, many scientists who believe this is impossible."
Using a very simple process, Dr. Hoover broke the stone meteorite in a sterile environment before examining the new surface is solved under a scanning electron microscope and a scanning electron microscope field emission. Standard equipment that helped him examine every millimeter surface of the stone to look for fossil evidence of aliens.
He found fossils of microorganisms that are not too different from bacteria found beneath our feet. "Interestingly, in many cases, they can be recognized and can be associated with generic species on Earth," says Hoover. "But there is also a very strange and does not look like any bacteria that I have ever identified. I've showed it to many other experts, but they are also confused."
Other scientists said that the implications of this research is very shocking, describing the findings were very important, complicated, and wonderful. But Dr. David Marais, an astrobiologist at NASA AMES Research Center, stated that he was very careful before supporting the findings. Claims discovery of such alien's happened before, and proved to be false. "This is an extraordinary claim, that's why I require extraordinary evidence anyway," said Marais.
Recognizing that this study will invite controversy, journal Cosmology invited several members of the scientific community to analyze the results and write a critique of the findings. "We invited 100 experts and disseminate a general invitation to more than 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to evaluate the paper and to offer critical analysis of them," said Dr. Rudy Schild, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, chief editor of the Journal of Cosmology.
In his official statement in the journal, Schild stated that there had never been other papers in the history of science who underwent a thorough screening such as Hoover's findings. "Previously there was also the scientific community who are given the opportunity to critically analyze a research paper before the paper was published," he wrote.
Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, said there was a pile of doubt to believe in such publications. If true, the implications will travel far into the various fields of science and astronomy. "Maybe seeded life on Earth; he developed at the comet, for example; and landed here when the meteorite hit the young Earth," says Shostak. "The findings indicate that life is not really originated on Earth, but begins when the solar system began to take shape."
Doubts new claims to believe it's something common, Hoover said, and indeed indispensable in science. "Often need a long time before scientists began to change their minds to what is valid and what is not," he said. "I'm sure there will be a lot of scientists are very skeptical and that's OK."
Until Hoover's research independently verified, Marais said the findings should be regarded as having the potential signs of life. "Scientists will lift this research to the next level of investigation, including an independent confirmation of the findings by other laboratories, before these findings can be classified as a sign of life that has been confirmed," he said.
Hoover said it was not worried about the process and open to other explanations. "If someone can explain how it is possible to find the remains of life that has no nitrogen, or nitrogen below detectable limits as I have, in the shortest period of 150 years, I would be very interested to hear it," said Hoover. "I have talked with many scientists about this and no one could explain."
Origin: umad-mysteries.blogspot.com
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