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"Nasa scientist claims evidence of extraterrestrial life"
No not UFO's or Aliens, but the (possible) finding of
Alien bugs inside a Meteorite.

Writing in the 'Journal of Cosmology', Hoover claims that the lack of nitrogen in the samples, which is essential for life on Earth, indicates they are "the remains of extraterrestrial life forms that grew on the parent bodies of the meteorites when liquid water was present, long before the meteorites entered the Earths atmosphere."
Rudy Schild, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and editor of the journal, said: "The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life on Earth may have come from other planets."

http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar...mp;type=article

***Thoughts
This type of news' has come up before. I expect one day soon, they will discover a fossil inside a meteorite that
was definately born 'not of this earth'. Giving us absolute proof that there is life out there.
Remember Methane being produced on Mars and other planets?
And the Martian 'worm'

http://www.marsnews.com/focus/life/

NASA is doing everything to distance themselves from this guy. Long story short, he's a quack. His "alien life" is well documented and understood mineral patterns in asteroids (as well as terestrial rocks). His work was rejected by several legitimate scientific publications, and has appeared in what is well known as a quack publication (Journal of Cosmology).

Life very likely exists outside of our planet. But people like Hoover harm the legitimate science by trying to force data to support their personal hypothesis. Hoover, btw, is a well known panspermist (i.e. he believes that life originated in space). That is not normally a problem, except Hoover is well known for trying to force any and all data to fit his hypothesis. Science doesn't work that way - hypotheses are moulded around data, not vice-versa.

Bryan