Do I think there’s life beyond earth?
I don’t know.
It’s possible I suppose. The universe is a mighty big place.
But, if there is or isn’t, does it really matter? We have more than enough other matters to contend with on this planet, thank you.
CBS News reports that in what's sure to rekindle the debate over the question of life beyond Earth, a scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center says he has fossil evidence of bacterial life inside of a rare class of meteorites .
Writing in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology, Richard B. Hoover argues that an examination of a collection of 9 meteorites - called CI1 carbonaceous meteorites - contain "indigenous fossils" of bacterial life.
"The complex filaments found embedded in the CI1 carbonaceous meteorites represent the remains of indigenous microfossils of cyanobacteria, " according to Hoover.
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