Kewl Science

There’s always been a hypothesis out there in science world that argues that meteors may actually have planted the seeds of life on earth.  It appears NASA has evidence that this hypothesis may make it theory status.

That’s the stunning conclusion one NASA scientist has come to, releasing his groundbreaking revelations in a new study in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology.

Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has traveled to remote areas in Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska, amongst others, for over ten years now, collecting and studying meteorites. He gave FoxNews.com early access to the out-of-this-world research, published late Friday evening in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites — only nine such meteorites are known to exist on Earth.

Though it may be hard to swallow, Hoover is convinced that his findings reveal fossil evidence of bacterial life within such meteorites, the remains of living organisms from their parent bodies — comets, moons and other astral bodies. By extension, the findings suggest we are not alone in the universe, he said.

“I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover told FoxNews.com. “This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist would say that this is impossible.”

This has a lot of exciting implications.  It may mean that all us earth critters probably have a bunch of weird cousins out there on other planets that share basic DNA.   This goes a long way in showing that we’re not alone.  Kind’ve interesting to contemplate the finger of ‘god’ in that photo as bacteria.

You can consider this an open thread.  

Oh, and Tashi Deleg!  It’s Tibetan New Year!!!!