Mike Rochip Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space. CNN.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 o.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 you cant really believe theres aliens out there can you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 you mean that in the whole universe billions and biliions of light years across that there isnt one other planet with life on it? Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 well im not saying there isnt but its a small possibility. and how the hell would they get all the way here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 i bet there is life even in our galaxy, in fact i think it is likely. maybe not as advanced as us but still, we arnt alone. Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 o ya, you mean like little microbes and algee and such? im sure there is. after all, there was water on mars which algee grows in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 i reckon in our lifetime they will find a planet with life on it Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 are you talking about humans such as ourselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 wouldnt be suprised, you never know next year on 4th of july loads of aliens might come and destroy the planet Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted June 3, 2006 Moderators Share Posted June 3, 2006 i reckon in our lifetime they will find a planet with life on it Well in order for humans to find life I'd think we'd first need to become a species that can build a spaceship that is capable of lasting for thousands of years that allows countless generations of people to live in space without ever relying upon the Earth to even stumble upon the remote chance of finding even a microbe, fungus, plant, etc., on another planet or moon. I don't necessarily think a NASA robot is going to find definite traces of life even if it has the most sophisticated software installed and an artificial intelligence ("AI") that verges on pure brilliance, because I think it's going to take that human thing called exploration and sticking our noses into everything to eventually stumble upon it. With that said in the vastness of the universe I doubt very much that Earth is the only planet with life on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 the long range satellites their sending out now can detect life easily, did u not pay attention in science class. think the first one they sent to mars could tell us. and that was a long time ago Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mps69_1999 Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 To quote from a film "I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right? " I think it's a good way to think. Just my 2 cents worth. My Webpage Googletalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oli Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 thats exactely what i think Homer: I never apologise, im sorry Lisa. Thats just the way i am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphirer Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 That was in PopularScience last month. Probably going to turn out to be dust from some industry waste or perhaps a random explosion in the atmosphere >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 I was at a presentation given at a museum one time hosted by a NASA scientist. At the end of the talk he made himself available for questions and answers. I finally got to ask a question I'd always wanted to. Every test that was conducted by a soil sampling experiment done on Mars came up positive for indications of life. I asked him why in spite of that they decided that there was no life. He said they decided the tests were flawed. An awful lot of time and money to conduct flawed tests I guess. Some people say that if there is life other than us in the universe, and given that if there is some of it must be far more advanced than us, why haven't we been contacted? Since the vast majority of the signals that radiate from the Earth into the far reaches of outer space consist of television broadcasts I figure they're too busy laughing at us and feeling sorry for us to waste their time . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted June 3, 2006 Moderators Share Posted June 3, 2006 the long range satellites their sending out now can detect life easily, did u not pay attention in science class. think the first one they sent to mars could tell us. and that was a long time ago And just how is a sat going to detect something that may be living very deep within a cave that may be surrounded by some material that can't be probed from space, and has to be investigated on foot. Sure the current space hardware and such may be able to detect allot of stuff, however in my opinion it's going to take boots on the ground (people) with a brain to make an informed decision versus depending upon some robotic machine to decide what's interesting or not. If the sats were so good, then why would America be so poised to send people to Mars by the year 2030 (I think that's the year Pres Bush wanted it to be accomplished by). If sats and all the robotics were so good there'd be no reason to even send people into space. Of course everyone has their respected opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 That's a good point Andavari. We're still finding life here on Earth in places we assumed were too inhospitable for it to exist. Volcanic vents, buried far below the surface of the Earth in ice fields, etc. I think they've even found life within solid rock. If I remember the common denominator for all life is water. People may believe that in the universe there is no life but I can't imagine anyone would argue there's no water. So in my humble opinion the possibility of life must exist wherever there is water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 Quote some weird things from the news item: "Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 degrees Fahrenheit ." No dna,can reproduce and survive such high heat.Well you could say that it is alien compared to all other life forms on Earth! "Life as we know it must contain DNA, or it's not life," he says. "But even if this organism proves to be an anomaly, the absence of DNA wouldn't necessarily mean it's extraterrestrial." Weird stuff going on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Proof Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 maybe these new aliens will inspire Bill Gates into making a perfect OS where security holes will be non-existent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 humans havent even finished exploring the entire earth. they just found 8 new species in, i believe it was israel, just this last week. wouldnt doubt that there is life on other planets, but we cant even keep computers from crashing while playing video games, so i cant think we will send ships into space anytime soon that will be able to last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krit86lr Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 WOW!!!!! This must be a sign that people are getting burnt out on machines. lmao Aliens?????? I think maybe, and maybe not. I don't know. I'll know when science knows. lol Windows Pro Media 8.1 x64 | 8GB Ram | 500G HDD 7200 RPM | All that I know about my graphics is that it's Intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted June 4, 2006 Moderators Share Posted June 4, 2006 No dna,can reproduce and survive such high heat.Well you could say that it is alien compared to all other life forms on Earth! That's what scientists are theorizing. However what if there could be fire-based life? I guess I've been playing Final Fantasy games too long. If E.T. were to find us they'd probably take one look at our planet, the wars and turmoil, and say: "It's not nice to meet you! Goodbye we'll be back in one billion years. Upon our return we'll see if your species is still in existence and hasn't decimated yourselves and your planet, and if you've actually evolved. And BTW we're taking Michael Jackson back with us, we lost him sometime ago." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Rochip Posted June 4, 2006 Author Share Posted June 4, 2006 This is a video from a few years ago that is pretty interesting. It shows a strange occurrence involving the Space Shuttle. During a live video feed from shuttle mission STS-48 a mysterious object was seen outside the shuttle which changes course and then it appears that a laser beam of some kind passes by the object after it changes course. NASA apparently says the explanation involves ice particles and tricks of light. It was the last live video feed allowed from space shuttle missions. Apparently NASA removed the video from it's public archives as well. STS-48 Video These are links from a Google search if anyone wants to read more about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 That's what scientists are theorizing. However what if there could be fire-based life? I guess I've been playing Final Fantasy games too long. If E.T. were to find us they'd probably take one look at our planet, the wars and turmoil, and say: "It's not nice to meet you! Goodbye we'll be back in one billion years. Upon our return we'll see if your species is still in existence and hasn't decimated yourselves and your planet, and if you've actually evolved. And BTW we're taking Michael Jackson back with us, we lost him sometime ago." lol! do you think they would really want mj back? and does the chimp go too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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