Spectacular Discovery Made

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0904093243.htm

The Tagish Lake Meterorite has been found to contain organic molecules that are older than our solar system.

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They've survived somehow, intact on an asteroid for over four and a half billion years and where they come from, we don't know. But it's not from around here. It's from somewhere else.

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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...ite-yukon.html

Is this proof of otherworldly life? Was our own planet seeded by similiar meteorites billions of years ago? Seems to me that at the very least this indicates that life exists elsewhere in the universe.

BORING! ;)

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Originally Posted by TokinAsianGuy

BORING! ;)

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Maybe to you. If so, then move along, please.

Absolutely rediculous and it does not matter anyways. Humanity is a speck of dust in the grand picture and we have no meaning to the universe.
Our civilzation is doomed and there is nothing anyone can ever do about it. We will become extinct just like the dinosaurs did and it just won't matter. Life somewhere else in the universe does not matter, you will never see it. You are just an insignificant human being and make no difference anywhere, so just go find your bowl and light up.

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Originally Posted by fasterspider

Absolutely rediculous and it does not matter anyways. Humanity is a speck of dust in the grand picture and we have no meaning to the universe.
Our civilzation is doomed and there is nothing anyone can ever do about it. We will become extinct just like the dinosaurs did and it just won't matter. Life somewhere else in the universe does not matter, you will never see it. You are just an insignificant human being and make no difference anywhere

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damn, and i thought i was a pessimistic SOB. grab a cup of coffee and try again, for me it's far too early for such doom and gloom.

If there was organic life on a meteor that struck earth recently I would have read it in the paper this morning.
Its a well known but crappy theory because the life would have to survive the explosion of the planet it was origionally on, survive space travel (a vaccum), and then live through the scorching heat of entry through our atmosphere

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Originally Posted by NextLineIsMine

If there was organic life on a meteor that struck earth recently I would have read it in the paper this morning.
Its a well known but crappy theory because the life would have to survive the explosion of the planet it was origionally on, survive space travel (a vaccum), and then live through the scorching heat of entry through our atmosphere

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Errrm, check the links, dude, it's real. The meteor hit earth about a year ago and the results are in. They DID find organic molecules. It's not a "crappy theory" any longer. What is more, the stuff is older than our solar system. That is, 4.6 billion years old, proving that it did not come from earth.

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Originally Posted by fasterspider

Life somewhere else in the universe does not matter, you will never see it.

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Maybe I won't see it, but the scientists who studied this meteorite did.

can you say "nerdgasm"

Thanks for the link Perp, i'll have to look deeper into this.

hey dude i think that's pretty crazy shit man.....thanks for keeping me updated on this stuff.....Appreciated