| Re: News: Cells "from space" have unusual makeup |
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Group: sci.bio.evolution · Group Profile
Author: joejoe Date: Sep 16, 2008 09:34
> On Sep 11, 9:28 am, "Robert Karl Stonjek" bigpond.net.au>
> wrote:
>>> Report: cells "from space" have unusual makeup
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> Wierd and *very* dubious!
Anyone wanting to follow up on this is recommended to search for "Red
Rain" in Wikipedia, which leads to an article on this phenomenon.
Apparently the particles *do* contain DNA, because they are colored
with spores of terrestrial algae. The researchers Louis and Kumar,
mentioned in previous postings, are on their own (together with
Wickramasinghe) on this in their assertion of extraterrestrial origin
-- everyone else finds their theories unsupported.
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Joe Felsenstein joe (at) removethispart.gs.washington.edu
Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA
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