{"id":17765,"date":"2013-09-19T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:12:47","slug":"has-alien-life-been-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/has-alien-life-been-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Alien Life Been Discovered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>First, let me tell you that the Journal of Cosmology has a very checkered history and anything published in it can not be trusted in the same way one might trust counter-intuitive results, provisionally at least, in a legit journal.<\/p>\n<p>An article in the journal indicates that British scientists found stuff way high up at the edge of the out space-atmosphere boundary that must be from comets.<\/p>\n<p>They give the argument that it must be from a comet because they did their sampling of it during a time when comet dust would be likely found in the region (because a comet&#8217;s remains,a meteor swarm, was bombarding the Earth).  They plan to test this idea further by sampling again at a later time. Unfortunately, rather than sampling during  a period of little or no comet-remnant activity, they will sample again during high commet-remnant activity. This way they can establish the TRUTH of WHAT IS OUT THERE using the best available method: CONFIRMATION BIAS.<\/p>\n<p>There is a picture of the life. It is clearly a diatom fragment. Expect Anthony Watts to be reporting on this momentarily!<\/p>\n<p>Diatoms, or fragments of them, are tiny itty bitty things and tend to make up a good proportion of air-dust. Probably, this is air dust.<\/p>\n<p>Also,earlier recovered &#8220;aliens&#8221; were tested to see if they had DNA, and they do. This led the researchers to conclude with high certainty that life on earth started elsewhere because &#8220;there are hardly any biologists in outer space&#8221; (or words to that effect).<\/p>\n<p>I hesitate to provide this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/the-truth-is-out-there-british-scientists-claim-to-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html\">HERE IS A LINK<\/a> to an article describing this amazing story. Or maybe amazing is the wrong word. Maybe I mean unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. First, let me tell you that the Journal of Cosmology has a very checkered history and anything published in it can not be trusted in the same way one might trust counter-intuitive results, provisionally at least, in a legit journal. An article in the journal indicates that British scientists found stuff way high up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/has-alien-life-been-discovered\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Has Alien Life Been Discovered?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3849,3593,3850,3851,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Cx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}