Hello Jodie, Mike, Sterling, List
I fully agree on all Jodie's pertinent remarks against a true novel
finding, in particular the fact that the results were accepted and
published in that "journal of Cosmology" (not Cosmetology), only a
couple of weeks after the "discovery".
In fact, why did they not keep this secret until prestigious journals
as "Nature" or "Science" accept to publish the first note? I guess
that this "most important finding since 500 years" should have never
be refused by these journals!
But if you read their paper, one can also find fundamental scientific
counter-arguments that argue for a huge hoax.
Look at the picture of the fragment. This has NOTHING to do with Maribo!
It is far too porous!!!
I suspect a simple scoria.
I don't know whether this area is volcanic but imagine a volcanic
scoria lying there since long months or years, for sure such diatomea
or red rain "grains" can well find time to get inserted within the
scoria pore structure.
The identification as a meteorite was claimed quasi exclusively on the
basis of a simple EDX analysis (why not quantitative microprobe ?).
Where are other id data absolutely required to characterize a new
meteorite ???
How a so to say reputed journal can accept such poor data (unless the
"mafia" hypothesis is retained) ?
Ok, even if we rely on the EDX data alone, the fact that they found "a
lot of" carbon (how much????) and olivine etc., becomes trivial if one
considers that the carbon obviously comes from the fossilized diatomea
or from the red rain grains themselves and that almost all volcanic
scoria in the world do also contain olivine! (believe me, I am
collecting scorias and lavas from different world wide volcanoes).
This was enough for me to stop the further reading. The sad side of
the "news" is that it is so readily reported by journalists without
any side checks, provided the title is sensational.
Zelimir
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Université de Haute Alsace
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"Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net> a écrit :
Here's the "paper."
http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Polonnaruwa-meteorite.pdf
Connecting back to other bogus phenomena,
the meteorite also contains cells of what are
sopposed to be cells of the "red rain."
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mendy Ouzillou" <ouzil...@yahoo.com>
To: "'Meteorite list'" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "POLONNARUWA METEORITE WITH EVIDENCE
OFLIFE FROM OUTER SPACE...."
Did I misread that? "Journal of Cosmetology"?
By the way, I am pretty sure I found evidence of extra-terrestrial life in
my 11 year old son's socks today. I ready to publish because, after the
socks, I'm ready to perish.
Mendy
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From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Jodie
Reynolds
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 6:52 PM
To: Michael Farmer
Cc: Meteorite list; Tom Randall
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "POLONNARUWA METEORITE WITH EVIDENCE OF LIFE
FROM OUTER SPACE...."
We need to be a little careful of the "Journal of Cosmology".
Although they claim to be peer-reviewed, as blogger PZ Meyers so eloquently
describes them:
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" It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website
that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and
publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint. For a
while, it seemed to be entirely the domain of a crackpot named Rhawn Joseph
who called himself the emeritus professor of something mysteriously called
the Brain Research Laboratory, based in the general neighborhood of Northern
California (seriously, that was the address: "Northern California"), and
self-published all of his pseudo-scientific "publications" on this web
site."
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They've gotten whacked for "publishing" these claims before:
http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-refutes-alien-discovery-claim-110307.ht
m
From Bad Astronomy:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/07/followup-thoughts-
on-the-meteorite-fossils-claim/#.UPNxZ3fSrLc
http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2011/03/is-this-claim-of-bacteria-in-me
teorite.html
etc, so-on, ad-nauseam.
Give me a call when it appears in Science, Nature, Space Science Revue,
Astrophys, Astron_J Planetary and Space Sci, Advances in Space Research, ...
;-)
--- Jodie
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 1:42:21 PM, you wrote:
What a pile of steaming crap article! I love how they have put out a
"scientific" paper finding life, in two weeks (I returned from Sri Lanka
on the 29th).
The meteorite which fell there on 18 dec was a chondrite, then in
typical 3rd world fashion, meteorites were hitting all over the
country nightly, setting fields and houses on fire, killing dogs etc!
I wouldn't bother trying to get a piece of this one, it is most likely
bat crap or something similar:) Michael Farmer
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On Jan 13, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Tom Randall <tommy2...@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
http://bit.ly/UXjYZc
Regards!
Tom
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