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More wierd shit

Some scientists believe that our oceans, and even some of
our illnesses may have their origin in space. Only a small
percent of rogue scientists believe this, but it is gaining
"some" backing.

In 1986, physicist Louis Frank and crew from the University
of Iowa put forth the proposition that the Earth is under
constant bombardment by icy mini-comets weighing about one
hundred tons each. Now, FRANK believes that they exist in
the solar system in such numbers that their total mass may
be ten times greater than that of all of the planets together.

According to Frank, these comets, which have been entering
the Earth's atmosphere at a rate of one every three seconds
for millions of years, have sent enough water down here to
fill the oceans.
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British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, and a colleague, Chandra
Wickramasinghe of the University of Wales College of
Cardiff, have suggested that disease bearing organisms are
regularly seeded into the atmosphere by passing comets. And
that rudimentary life may have arrived on Earth in just such
a form over four billion years ago. Hoyle and Chandra
believe colds and forms of influenza are two forms of germs
from space. They also attribute the influenza outbreaks of
1957, 1968, and subsequent outbreaks to the passage of
Halley's comet, which orbits the Sun every seventy-six
years. They point out that three quarters of a century
earlier, there were epidemics of the same kinds of flu.

But this is not really news, and the idea has been around a
lot longer than it seems. The word "influenza" originated in
the fifteenth century, when Italian astronomers attributed
an epidemic of the illness to the influence of the stars.
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I love these crazy posts that make ya think..

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Yeah, this is the shit that I like to read.



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Horseshit. Cosmic radiation would kill any biological organisms inside space debris, if it wasn't already destroyed by friction heat as this material entered our atmosphere.

And before anyone thinks about the Mars meteorite with supposed evidence of biological organisms inside of it, while there has been no conclusive proof that what was found were actually remains of once living organisms insite of the rocks, if they were once living, they died on Mars millions of years before it got here.

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Horseshit. Cosmic radiation would kill any biological organisms inside space debris, if it wasn't already destroyed by friction heat as this material entered our atmosphere.

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There's a chance for anything, why not organisms from space? Here on earth bacteria can thrive in ANY climate, altitude, or condition. There isn't a square micron anywhere that isn't infected with something. Live can & will find a way to survive, even in the harsh regions of space.

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O.K., I'll grant you about the volcanic ocean vents. But cosmic radiation in space, the hard x-rays that cross throughout the universe, would definitely kill any living organism long before it reached our atmosphere.

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Not at all. Those organisms are usually incased in solid ice and most often iron ore. They would be well protected from malevolent 'cosmic rays'.

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Review your radiation types. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Neutron. Alpha can be stopped by a sheet of paper. Beta can be stopped by an inch or two thick piece of wood. Gamma can be stopped by several inches of lead. Neutron goes through just about everything (hence our creation of the Neutron Bomb - leaves buildings standing, but kills everybody deep in their shelters). If a star near ours, say for example 10 light-years away, was to go supernova, the resultant release of x-rays would kill every living thing on our Earth. There would be no way we could escape it.

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cosmic rays cause superheroes and mutant reptiles as portrayed by men in rubber suits. If a nearby star goes supernova, I'll just have to engage in some oenophyiagia.

does oeno- mean booze in general, or just wine? oenophile = wine lover

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That case is a bit extreme. Not every meteorite out there has gone through a system with a post nova star. Noone said every meteor had rodents inside.

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It seems ironic to me that the "men of science" demand logic and rational thinking, yet a scientific hypothesis serves much the same role as folklore by explaining phenomena with an explanation that everyone knows isn't necessarily true.

I think they both foster inductive reasoning.

I also think that I'm on my third beer.

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That case is a bit extreme. Not every meteorite out there has gone through a system with a post nova star.

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There are already many plausible explanations for those ancient extinctions.

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hehehehehehe, thats so fucking funny!

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