Who says aliens have to have DNA?

yeah, I'm with aperson.

I am very skeptical if only because I want this to be true.

What's going on here?

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stuh505 wrote:

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Without DNA?

Which can survive in tempertures higher than 300 degrees Celius?

Which came after a loud sonic boom was to be heard, indicating that a comet had entered the atmosphere?

And only appeared in the rain in a period of 10 days?

I admit that I am curious too, but let's not forget that although these findings were published it was not exactly a highly reputable source and it was in broken English. When considering the temperature that survival is possible, it's very easy to misinterpret the data as well...increase the temperature in a lab and it may appear that the organism is surviving but in fact it is slowly dying, or unable to actually reproduce at that temperature.

They were Indian; we can't expect them to have perfect English.

I'd love this to be true and it is entirely possible. Unfortunately many bits are missing. That's what makes me wonder if there's something fishy going on.

Why didn't other scientists try to prove Louis wrong? Why were Louis and Kumar the only ones who actually researched the rain? And why the hell haven't I heard about this before? Surely an event such as this, even if the organisms weren't extra-terrestrial, and just an undiscovered species, would have attracted scientists and media from all over?

To me, the article was perfectly correct, but I'm not a scientist.

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If you read the other thread, you'll find that a team in England is working to duplicate the experiments.

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aperson wrote:

They were Indian; we can't expect them to have perfect English.

This is a sterile argument. India was a part of the British empire for nearly two hundred years, and native Indians were educated in English-language schools in India (which still exist) and in schools and universities in the English-speaking world. India has produced brilliant mathematicians out of all proportion to the number of highly-perceptive mathematicians one finds in other populations--and they could not have made their way in the world of academic mathematical theory without a solid command of the English language.

While it is likely true that English is not as widely spoken with casual fluency in India as it was before 1947, there not only is no good reason to assume that highly educated Indians would be bereft of English fluency, there is very good reason to assume the opposite.

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The results were published in reputable journals such as New Scientist and the Journal Of Astrophysics which do not publish anythng lightly. I am anxious to see the results of the English experiments.

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The New Scientist is not a peer-reviewed journal; it's a popular publication. Mention there implies interest, not credibility.

The peer-reviewed journal that the author published in was Astrophysics & Space Science (not the Journal of Astrophysics -- which doesn't appear on a google search to exist -- or the Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy).

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We'll see what happens. If it's bull **** then it's bull ****. But if it does prove to be something more then this will have tremendous implications for humanity.