Meteorite under a scanning electron microscope (credit: Hoover/Journal of Cosmology)A NASA scientist believes he has evidence that supports the notion of life existing outside our planet. In the March 2011 Journal of Cosmology, Richard Hoover explains that rare meteorites on Earth contain what appear to be small fossils of extraterrestrial life. Hoover drew this conclusion based on the lack of nitrogen found in the remains—something necessary for life on Earth. As the Huffington Post points out, Hoover’s claims support the idea known as panspermia, which suggests space rocks spread life to different planets.
While Hoover’s findings have yet to be validated, 100 scientists have been invited to review and critique his research.
Jason McClellan is a UFO journalist and the producer/co-host of the web series Spacing Out! He is also the web content manager and staff writer for OpenMinds.tv, and a co-organizer and technical producer of the International UFO Congress. As a founding member of Open Minds, Jason served as a writer and editor for the now defunct Open Minds magazine. He has appeared on Syfy, NatGeo, and, most recently, he co-starred on H2's Hangar 1: The UFO Files. ------ Follow Jason on Twitter @acecentric and subscribe to Jason's updates on Facebook.
We inhabit a very small iota of a very big place of which we cannot comprehend a boundary if one exists. It is rather presumptuous of us to presume we are the only possible life form of which another form may find curious.
We inhabit a very small iota of a very big place of which we cannot comprehend a boundary if one exists. It is rather presumptuous of us to presume we are the only possible life form of which another form may find curious.