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Ken Layne

09/19/13 03:05PM

Filed to: alien invasion

"A team of British scientists is convinced it has found proof of alien life, after it harvested strange particles from the edge of space," the Independent reports. Will we all be destroyed by alien bacteria? Are we already full of alien bacteria?

mothersrapehorn Ken Layne 09/19/13 03:06PM

kristinbytes Ken Layne 09/19/13 03:26PM

Does it look like black oil?

Nevermind, I think that's an alien virus -not alien bacteria.

hoganjack Ken Layne 09/19/13 03:35PM

I read the article, and while it sounds exciting, there's a big, giant hole in the story:

Some of the samples were captured covered with cosmic dust, adding further credence to the idea that they have originated from space.
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"The particles are very clean," added Prof Wainwright. "They don't have any dust attached to them, which again suggests they're not coming to earth. Similarly, cosmic dust isn't stuck to them, so we think they came from an aquatic environment, and the most obvious aquatic environment in space is a comet.

psychomagnet Ken Layne 09/19/13 03:57PM

Uh, Ken, we ARE alien bacteria.

RafaellaGabrielaSarsaparilla psychomagnet 09/19/13 04:25PM

Yup. As Allan Sandage so beautifully put it, "Every one of our chemical elements was once inside a star. The same star. You and I are brothers. We came from the same supernova."