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Astronauts Just Found Life in Outer Space, We Kid You Not
- duncan_bayne 12y agoThis is a link-bait headline - the article is interesting, but could be retitled for HN. TL;DR: they claim to have found organisms from Earth living in space on the ISS.
- gus_massa 12y agoTotally linkbait title (can we at least drop the "We Kid You Not") with a sensationalist article. (Note: The nice photo of a green phytoplankton is form 2009 or before, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phytoplankton_-_the_foundation_of_the_oceanic_food_chain.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phytoplankton_-_the_f... , it's not a photo of what they found.) Previous discussion from another source: "Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201769 (96 points, 5 days ago, 34 comments) The redaction is confusing, but I think it is still not clear that they are alive
- baristaGeek 12y agoThe uplifting air currents theory sounds like something unprobable for me. Since Europa (one of Jupiter's moons) is known to have an ice cape, and water is the origin for life, I trust more the theory that suggests that life forms have been traveling through our solar system in asteroids and other celestial bodies. This discovery increases the probability of there being some kind of life form in this moon, and it's definitely worth exploring (sendind a rover or something like that). I'm so excited to finally know that we are not alone here, and it's even more exciting that it's something as close as the ISS! This can really take our understanting of the universe to the next level!