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The researchers found in the stratosphere strange algae
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According to the theory of panspermia life spreads through the universe on comets and asteroidah
A group of researchers from the University of Sheffield, under the leadership of 74-year-old mathematician and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe during the annual Perseid meteor shower in the sky launched the British city of Chester specially designed probe, which soon reached the upper edge of the atmosphere at the edge of space.
On board the balloon were sterile glass subject (such as for example, used for the study of drugs under the microscope) that c using special equipment made it possible to take samples at an altitude of 27 km. When the ball came back to earth, scientists have discovered tiny algae on the glass, are possible alien life forms.
The results of this experiment were published in August this year at the conference astrobiologists in San Diego, USA.
Professor Wickramasinghe said that earlier in the stratosphere have never met such biological objects, so it is possible to speak about the confirmation of the theory of cometary panspermia, which states that the so-called seeds of life are spread throughout the universe, and can be delivered to different planets via comets or meteorites.
Of course, immediately found the skeptics who believe that life "was" not from outer space, and to our planet, but the scientist retorts that algae differ from terrestrial relatively large size and weight, in addition, biological objects could rise to such heights only the eruption of the volcano, but in the days before the experiment, it has not been registered.
"If there is no" earthly "explanation for this phenomenon, so these little creatures come from outer space," - concludes Chandra Wickramasinghe.
via factroom.ru
A group of researchers from the University of Sheffield, under the leadership of 74-year-old mathematician and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe during the annual Perseid meteor shower in the sky launched the British city of Chester specially designed probe, which soon reached the upper edge of the atmosphere at the edge of space.
On board the balloon were sterile glass subject (such as for example, used for the study of drugs under the microscope) that c using special equipment made it possible to take samples at an altitude of 27 km. When the ball came back to earth, scientists have discovered tiny algae on the glass, are possible alien life forms.
The results of this experiment were published in August this year at the conference astrobiologists in San Diego, USA.
Professor Wickramasinghe said that earlier in the stratosphere have never met such biological objects, so it is possible to speak about the confirmation of the theory of cometary panspermia, which states that the so-called seeds of life are spread throughout the universe, and can be delivered to different planets via comets or meteorites.
Of course, immediately found the skeptics who believe that life "was" not from outer space, and to our planet, but the scientist retorts that algae differ from terrestrial relatively large size and weight, in addition, biological objects could rise to such heights only the eruption of the volcano, but in the days before the experiment, it has not been registered.
"If there is no" earthly "explanation for this phenomenon, so these little creatures come from outer space," - concludes Chandra Wickramasinghe.
via factroom.ru
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