A balloon launched by researchers from the University of Sheffield in Great Britain during the Perseid shower to a height of 27 km discovered living creatures floating in the atmosphere in the middle of the Perseid shower. The lead researcher claims that the creatures are too large to be swept off the ground. It is worth checking whether these are not earthly creatures that live in the harsh conditions of the stratosphere? And maybe contamination of the balloon facilities itself with materials from the ground?
Are relatively complex creatures constantly arriving from space and fulfilling the panspermia theory in their bodies, or are they earthly creatures that live in the harsh conditions of the stratosphere? And maybe contamination of the balloon facilities itself with materials from the ground?
Information about the discovery of organic substances in meteorites That the Earth might have been seeded with the materials from which life was created is already commonplace, but complex living beings that come from space these days? This is already sensational news, but also raises many question marks.
Scientists from the University of Sheffield believe they have discovered relatively complex organic molecules and even living things in the upper parts of the atmosphere. The team, led by Prof. Milon Wainwright from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield, discovered what they claim were living creatures that came from space after launching a specially designed balloon 27 kilometers into the stratosphere during the Perseid shower in August.
Says Prof. Wainwright: Most people will probably appreciate that these biological particles must have drifted up from the earth, but it is accepted that particles of this size cannot reach heights of 27 kilometers. The only explanation is a strong volcanic eruption, and such has not happened in the last three years." (The last major eruption of a volcano that sent dust particles into the stratosphere was in 1991, in Pinatubo in the Philippines, also not that long ago AB)
"In the absence of a mechanism by which large particles like these can reach the stratosphere, we can therefore determine that the origin of these biological entities is from space. Our conclusion is that life continues to reach Earth from space all the time, and is not limited to this planet, and almost certainly did not start here."
In a press release, Wainwright was quoted as saying: "If indeed this is proven, it means changing our view of the beginning of life and evolution." On the other hand, in an interview on the BBC, he sounded a little more reserved and said that it would only be necessary to make adjustments to Darwin's theory, but not to replace it.
The balloon, which was also designed by researchers at the University of Sheffield, was launched near the city of Chester and carried a microscope that was exposed to the atmosphere only when the balloon was at an altitude of 22-27 kilometers. The balloon landed safely near Wakefield and the scientists then discovered that it contained several molecules as well as what they called stratospheric biological creatures, which they claimed were too large to reach Earth.
According to Prof. Weinfield, steps were taken to prevent contamination of the samples with substances from the ground, so the researchers are convinced that the origin of these creatures is in the stratosphere.
The group wishes to repeat the experiment in October, when the meteor shower originating from Halley's comet dust will arrive. They hope to find new and unfamiliar creatures.
For a press release on the University of Sheffield website
For the scientific article on the Journal of Cosmology website
On the same topic on the science site
21 תגובות
Jacob
Can be. But according to everything known to science to date - they are not.
To remind you, even in science there is politics. And from time to time there are such and other claims that arise from the politics of scientists and researchers. (And this greatly harms the scientific conduct of humans - although in extreme cases it can actually bring a contribution to science. But only in extreme cases)
Perhaps these are creatures that have already existed there since the earth was formed
I read their research,
http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC22/Milton5R.pdf
First of all, all the particles they found are defined as inorganic, so maybe they think that these are skeletons of an insect?
Secondly, they state that they did not find cosmic dust the lack of an
association with cosmic dust may at first sight exclude a space origin
They explain that despite this, the similarity of the structures they see in these particles to structures that form in water necessitates their formation in the water of comets.
That is, they have particles of inorganic dust in their hand and they imagine seeing the remains of life in it. Even if they originate from life in outer space and somehow our atmosphere filters out cosmic dust but allows these "skeletons" to arrive, they cannot seed life in space because they are inorganic. There is no DNA, RNA or even proteins there.
They didn't make a control flight while there were no meteors - because it might bring down their theory, all this shows academic dishonesty.
Definitely drifting (to the point of cheating) a study from 2003 where they collected and grew microorganisms from an altitude of 41 km (14 km above this study)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12583913
Another study from 1978, this time from an altitude of 77 km
http://aem.asm.org/content/35/1/1.abstract?ijkey=9eefd32cc9cf956cd11b69846b7a5f7f94b6dda5&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
Thanks for the answer Michael.
Avi Cohen:
Different elements have a number Etisotopes And the prevalence of the various isotopes in the earthly living environment is reflected in the tissues of the animals that live on Earth.
If the distribution of these isotopes in the organisms found will be different from their distribution on Earth, this will be evidence of their extraterrestrial origin.
It's not clear to me, are these creatures new to science? Do they have DNA? So many holes in this story and only bombastic statements...
Why don't you try to blow up the balloons on a day when there are no meteorites?
Why does the English version tell about the test of the isotopes that is planned and not here?
Does anyone know how to tell by isotopes where the creatures come from?
It has long been known about creatures that can survive a journey in space without protection:
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D
Maybe it's from the blue waters of the Niagara of UFOs
Hello, friends, we don't need volcanoes!, every day thousands of planes rise to the stratosphere and I'm willing to bet that they are joined by many hidden passengers in the form of ants flies and what not, and since it's still allowed to shit on planes, then the selection increases. Not to mention that we recently saw that frogs might also join the celebration.
in brief
It's not from space.
And Mr. Michael is also right in his statement that if it didn't come from tens of kilometers then why would it come from millions and billions of kilometers
Happy holiday to everyone
Amir Barnett drew my attention on Facebook to the problematic also in choosing the journal, which is not among the prominent ones in the field of astronomy. see http://angryastronomer.blogspot.co.il/2010/10/why-i-laugh-at-creationists-thats-not.html
It seems therefore that my feeling and reservations were in their place.
Why do you need to adjust? What 'falls' on us today must have already 'fallen' on us in the distant past, and life goes on.
Did they do a DNA test? The simple explanation is creatures from Earth.
Why would "it be necessary to make adjustments to Darwin's theory"??
Darwin's theory deals with the development of life after its formation.
Perhaps the professor meant the operin theory of abiogenesis? And even if it does, it does not rule out or disprove the theory.
That's why, even though the BBC aired it, I raised doubts.
What seems excessive to me is the claim that creatures that could not drift into the stratosphere from Earth could drift into it from another planet.
It is logically inconsistent.
Even if a volcanic eruption is required to throw such a creature to such a height and even if the last big eruption happened a few years ago, it is much more likely to assume that these are creatures from Earth (which were perhaps thrown to a height greater than 27 km?).
I don't know what really happened but Professor Wainwright's determination is laughable, as is his statement about the consequences of this for the theory of evolution - consequences that do not exist.
The panspermia theory does not deal at all with the question of how life was created and developed, but only with the question of where it happened.
Point - "anyone who has an ounce of common sense" (as you define it), understands that these are not conclusions and there is no uncontrolled experiment here (it does not seem to me that you have read the experiment at all with the exception of the aforementioned article and therefore your concepts regarding it are also built directly from an interpretation of a journalistic article given about another journalistic article), but in total a journalistic interview given to the media and not the research itself.
The study itself was published in the following link and in any case, I definitely agree with you that it is worth waiting for more studies in this area:
http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC22/milton_diatom.pdf
Cool
Anyone with an iota of common sense understands that it is ridiculous to reach such a far-reaching conclusion from such an uncontrolled experiment.