Jones Beene wrote:
"Why is skepticism running high? Typical knee-jerk reaction probably." No doubt, but also maybe because the structure of the diatom objects aren't the slightest bit ambiguous, unlike other previous cell-like objects seen in meteorites. Also they've gone further now and claimed that a sample contained water and live cells (link below), so it's starting to sound more like contamination from rain or groundwater. I hope this gets resolved definitively. Re ACC, I'm sure he'd have loved this happening right in his own back yard. - Rick From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:Meteorite with diatoms in Polonnaruwa , Sri Lanka Why is skepticism running high? Typical knee-jerk reaction probably. With those fabulous images, the evidence for diatoms looks pretty solid. The "red rain" sounds like a SciFi plot. that would cause some doubt - but not those images. Too bad ACC is not around to comment. From: Rick Monteverde You may have heard of this already, and it involves the usual suspects (Wickramasinghe). Skepticism running very high on it as I would have expected. But hey, that's some photo. If it is a meteorite and is not ground contamination, then Wow, and don't fall asleep outside with your mouth open! First publication: http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Polonnaruwa-meteorite .pdf Additional material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_TOtgZoS0 http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC21/Polonn2.pdf http://www.newsfirst.lk/news1st/node/19982 - Rick
