On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:42:18 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Hello List, > >Here's a fellow who must stay so far back in his laboratory at AU that they >mail him daylight. >Professor Paul Davies, purported to be a physicist, has "alien life" sitting >in the meteorite collection down the hall from him...so to speak..and he makes >this idiotic pronouncement. All he accomplished was to show his ignorance of >the current science and provide fodder for the argument against tenure.
The idea isn't that outrageous (or that non-mainstream.) We don't know if non-protien/nucleic acid life exists on Earth or not. It may be a very long shot, but if someone is willing and able to devote their time and resources to searching, more power to them. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/et_life.shtml http://espanol.astrobio.net/exclusive/3148/the-search-for-life-on-earth http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/aliens-among-us ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list