JCC [Go alien science] There is life off Earth

True, it's only biological organisms, but they think they couldn't have originated from Earth.

More inclined to look at this because it's a bunch of British scientists, as opposed to a study out of the University of Irkutsk or something. On the other hand, if it turns out to be East Anglia...

Anyway, I'm happy. We'll all be dying while having sex with Natasha Henstridge before you know it.

 

......probably not.

>"The particles are very clean," added Professor Wainwright. "[Cosmic] dust isn't stuck to them, so we think they came from an aquatic environment, and the most obvious aquatic environment in space is a comet.”

This is terrible evidence.

 

Ah yes, the Journal of Cosmology, notable for being a crock of poorly reviewed crap. But surely this one will turn out differently.

 

The "Alien life discovered" claims in the JoC are made about as often as magnetic monopoles are "discovered."

 

1. Maybe I'm missing something, but is there another sort of life, such that biological life should earn the moniker "only" in front of it?

2. Is this an entry for the Sochi Olympics long jump competition? Because even leaving aside the whole line of evidence about it being alien life, I don't see how that would prove that either A)all life on Earth originated in space or that B)evolution is "wrong."

3. That was an awful movie. My first and thankfully last encounter with space porn.

 

Why does that scientist have a bunsen burner just cooking away at nothing in the background? The hell?

Also that's a diatom. They're a dime a dozen. Bazillions of people can ID them and are probably wondering WTF this is even on the news.

 

It's on the news because VLM is the science news editor.