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British Scientist Claims Once Again to Have Found Proof Aliens Seeded Earth with Life

2/14/2015

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Apparently late last year some British scientists claimed to have discovered the first hard evidence of ancient astronauts, or rather their genetic experiments, and I’m surprised that it garnered so little media coverage. It certainly didn’t become as big a topic of discussion in the fringe history community as you might have expected from such a monumental discovery. Is this how proof of alien life emerges? With a shrug and a “so what”? Or is it just that the announcement occurred while Ancient Aliens was in a production hiatus?
I read the story this morning in the Huffington Post, which links to material published over the last few weeks in British papers. This, in turn, seems to go back to claims made in the British press in late December, based on a paper published in the Journal of Cosmology that I can’t link to because it gives me a permission error. The Journal of Cosmology has been attacked for its lax academic standards and unclear peer review, and the journal responded by declaring that the paradigm of life on earth beginning on earth was a belief system and not evidence-based science.

Prof. Milton Wainwright an a team of scientists at the University of Sheffield and the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology told British newspapers that using a balloon to skim the stratosphere they discovered a small metal sphere made of titanium and vanadium about the width of a human hair. This small sphere apparently oozed biological material, prompting Wainwright to suggest that the sphere was manufactured by space aliens to see other planets with the building blocks of life, a hypothesis known as directed panspermia.

Wainwright conceded that there is no solid evidence that the sphere is of intentional extraterrestrial manufacture.

This is the second time six months that Wainwright has claimed to find extraterrestrial life. Back in October he also claimed to have found a carbon-based alien microbe during the same series of experiments that yielded the metal sphere. Scientists dismissed that conclusion when Wainwright was not able to demonstrate that the microbe contained any unearthly signatures.

Wainwright’s name sounded somewhat familiar, so I looked him up and it turns out that there’s a good reason I remembered him. He’s the same scientist who claimed that the so-called “red rain” of Kerala, India was a living biological entity. In this, he was following Godfrey Louis and Santhosh Kumar, who in 2003 proposed that the rain came from outer space. I came across Wainwright’s name when looking into Louis’s and Kumar’s claims when Unsealed: Alien Files discussed them in 2013. In 2006 Wainwright agreed that the red rain was biological and implied that he was open to Louis’s view that the cells in the rain came from outer space, perhaps as part of an alien seeding mission. The Indian government later determined that the red rain gained its color from terrestrial algae.

Wainwright also believes that there is a conspiracy of scientists working to suppress his evidence that Darwin did not invent the theory of evolution. He holds a number of other minority views, including the assertion that bacteria cause cancer and that Hitler was saved by penicillin.

Wainwright’s writing partner in his Journal of Cosmology article is Chandra Wickramasinghe, the early proponent of panspermia who argued a decade ago that influenza came from outer space. Wickramasinghe and Wainwright jointly proposed in 2003 that SARS came to earth from space and were promptly attacked for their lack of evidence. 
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Crash55
2/14/2015 06:22:53 am

The journal is what is known as a predatory publisher. It charges fees both for submission and publication. No respectable science journal charges authors. My guess is you can get just about anything even marginally related published in it - so long as you pay

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EP
2/14/2015 06:47:25 am

I had to double-check, since it's so ridiculous that a tenured faculty member at a decent university would spend $185 per article to publish in what must effectively be a vanity periodical. (Except I suspect that Journal of Cosmology actually fools quite a few institutions and individuals into subscribing, so they have that income flow as well.)

Perhaps Wainwright, as a semi-serious Western researcher, actually gets a star discount from the journal. But that is still ridiculous.

Also, Chandra Wickramasinghe's (almost certainly self-edited) Wikipedia article features this awesome photo of its subject:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Chandra-Wickramasinghe.jpg

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Crash55
2/14/2015 11:46:33 am

Paying is always a sign that it isn't a "real" journal though the fees this one charges are actually low compared to most predatory journals. This is the only one I have seen with a submission fee though.

Megan McDermott
8/6/2015 12:20:02 pm

Hello Jason, love your work, but just wanted to point something out..In your statement "He holds a number of other minority views, including the assertion that bacteria cause cancer and that Hitler was saved by penicillin." Your statement about having "minority views" is done with a negative connotation...I would like to point out that all revolutionary ideas, Einsteins, Newtowns, hell the discovery of dinosaurs for that matter, earth being round, sun being the center of the galaxy, these revolutionary discoveries were and are all MINORITY views, otherwise they wouldnt be revolutionary...Please stop retarding these peoples minds...

Jason link
8/6/2015 12:05:39 pm

Ahhh Mr. Ad Hominem strikes again!!!!!!
So you want me to disregard someone's actual, physical, in your face realtime discovery because......wait for it....... of two things you don't agree with that he did in his past.....Jason, sigh, these things have nothing to do with what was found....Its still a metal sphere, its still was found in space, and it still contained a biological liquid in it.....But that's just, you know, nothing cause of something he said two years ago...And again you have your two boyfriends immediately starting a little back and forth as the first comments like you always do, so cute...Jason reminds me of the guys who discredited that lady who found traces of tobacco and cocoa in an egyptian mummy but discredited her findings because......wait for it...she smokes weed...Yup in the 1960's that means that anything you find in null and void because you were high..Regardless Mr. Colavitos grand pappy probably wrote a scathing article on how dangerous marijuana can be and how it causes you to manufacture archaeological evidence..Later after a russian team found the same traces of coca and tobacco it was never mentioned by (great historical societies like the Smithsonian, which Im sure made the right calls to get her funding cut and tenure dropped) and definitely not mention by the great Colavito himself...Jason, they must pay you great money to come day in and out and attack the messenger, but never the message....Try disproving entire ideas, not one author at a time...Thanks Im going to blaze now....

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Steve Mcseed link
8/6/2015 12:13:06 pm

Jason you put links for the first 2 ad hominem attacks but then threw in 2 more WITHOUT any proof, which is total BS for any author commentator or chomo looking blogger to do...So I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on you!!!

In 2006 Wainwright agreed that the red rain was biological and implied that he was open to Louis’s view that the cells in the rain came from outer space, perhaps as part of an alien seeding mission. The Indian government later determined that the red rain gained its color from terrestrial algae.

Wainwright also believes that there is a conspiracy of scientists working to suppress his evidence that Darwin did not invent the theory of evolution. He holds a number of other minority views, including the assertion that bacteria cause cancer and that Hitler was saved by penicillin.

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EP
2/14/2015 07:17:33 am

More interesting bits about Chandra Wickramasinghe, quoted straight from his Wiki page:

"During the 1981 scientific creationist trial in Arkansas, Wickramasinghe was the only scientist testifying for the defense, which in turn was supporting creationism."

(No comment is necessarly.)

"He has a long association with Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Buddhist sect Soka Gakkai International, that led to the publication of a best-selling dialogue with him, first in Japanese and later in English, on the topic of Space and Eternal Life."

(Soka Gakai International is an incredibly wealthy and powerful Japanese cult, with a history of Scientologesque disrespect for the law and ties to right-wing nationalist politicians. It has a university in California with a $1.5 billon endowment.)

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Only Me
2/14/2015 07:58:27 am

Check out this link:

http://askwhy.co.uk/dinosauroids/?p=42

It shows another example of the (lack of) scientific credibility Wickramasinghe has.

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EP
2/14/2015 08:15:54 am

What's really sad is that while Wickramasinghe is a New-Agey pop science hack (with questionable ties to Indian and Japanese cultural politics), Hoyle was a prominent astrophysicist, who, however, seems never to have encountered a heterodox idea he didn't like, no matter how unscientific or downright ridiculous.

He co-authored a book with Wickramasinghe called "Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism", but at least he didn't defend creationism in American courts, unlike Wickramasinghe.

Also near the end of his life Hoyle went full retard, leveraging his fame to pubish all kinds of embarrassing ridiculousness in Nature and elsewhere, including some AA-tier stuff.

Shane Sullivan
2/14/2015 07:23:03 am

So, this titanium sphere is still oozing biological material 3.6 billion years after it arrived? Or did the aliens send it more recently, unaware that there was already life here? If the latter, does that mean life developed on earth independently, and by some unfathomable coincidence, aliens happened to send spheres that ooze material that's similar enough to terrestrial life to be recognizable to us? Or did the aliens seed our planet with life billions of years ago, have some kind of dark age that caused them to forget what they did, and then try to seed it again?

All of these answers and more, on the next exciting episode of: Never.

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EP
2/14/2015 09:40:39 am

By the way, in case anyone cares, here is a working link to the titanium sphere paper:

http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC23/joc-34_wainwright-3.pdf

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Shane Sullivan
2/14/2015 11:48:03 am

"The inner content, which is seen oozing out of the LSO during nanomanipulation are also composed predominantly of carbon and oxygen, indicating carbonaceous material which we consider makes up the main protoplast of this bio-logical entity."

I think Professor Wainwright is jumping to conclusions; the presence of carbon and oxygen might just mean the aliens sent us tiny little fire-extinguishers.

EP
2/14/2015 12:03:54 pm

Nah, it's actually the black goo from Prometheus. Or alien cum. Either one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

Prometheus, by the way, is basically just the panspermia theory of these idiots in shitty pretentious movie form.

Hoyle, Wickramasinghe, Wainwright et al. are such a glorious trainwreck that I simply cannot stop reading... Argh! Damn you, Jason! :)

Cathleen Anderson
2/14/2015 01:41:55 pm

Ouch! Just trying to read that made my head hurt.

EP
2/14/2015 01:51:38 pm

That's nothing, read "Extraterrestrial Life and Censorship", or "Life as a Cosmic Phonomenon: The Socio-Economic Control of a Scientific Paradigm", or "The Transition from Earth-Centered Biology to Cosmic Life", or...

mhe
2/14/2015 09:17:10 am

The I don't know how this got into the stratosphere therefore aliens argument seems particularly odd given that most of the titanium alloys that are produced are used by the aerospace industry.

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666
2/14/2015 09:22:34 am

What aliens - the only aliens that "exist" are those that are the product of the human imagination.

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V
2/14/2015 09:46:31 am

No, no, no, honey, the only aliens that have "visited Earth" are the products of human (possibly not-quite-yet-human) imagination. The math is pretty clear on the fact that extraterrestrial life exists, even if only at the level of bacteria--somewhere, though not necessarily even somewhere else in this galaxy or even supercluster. Just somewhere else in the Universe. It's that vast.

EP
2/14/2015 09:26:52 am

From Wickramasinghe's University of Buckingham press release about the titanium sphere paper (this part is bolded in the original):

"The research paper detailing the work is published in the Journal of Cosmology which, despite the claims of internet trolls, is presently a peer-reviewed journal; the paper detailing the finding has therefore undergone the normal process of independent scientific review."

The whole thing is here: http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/More-evidence-of-life-from-space.pdf

Perhaps Wickramasinghe should consider collaborating with a certain female bigfoot enthusiast of some renown... :)

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Kal
2/14/2015 12:21:32 pm

You would think space aliens would use something stronger than titanium to transport their biological space 'cum', as someone said, and one tiny sphere is hardly enough to seed a planet. Are they doing the mustard seed approach? How did his whackadoodle professor writer even find it, since it's really tiny right? It probably has a terrestrial origin as there have been titanium things on satellites we launched from Earth into space. They found part of a satellite. Oh, but it's supposed to be from aliens. Got it. Even though the transport would be impossible over light years. It has no vehicle!

Red rain is not mysterious. Acid rain and chemical rain from near chemical plants and mills is common. You do not want to be out in it. It is a little corrosive and smells funny.

But if you're seeing Earth with space cum, it probably won't bother you.

The alien dufusoids of planet labotomous just forgot there aren't any hosts to land the stuff on. It's like Night of the Comet mated with Species and Prometheus. Yikes. Prometheus was such a dreadful wreck of a movie.

It was however lot as bad a Battlefield Earth.

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EP
2/14/2015 12:39:03 pm

Not quite aliens. More like, The Living Divine Universe, or some such New Age crap.

And there is nothing mysterious about red rain. It's colored by algae, as Jason notes.

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Only Me
2/14/2015 12:33:19 pm

I was watching Ghost Adventures tonight when, horror of horrors, a commercial for the Creation Museum appears. I wonder when it will have the "Jetsons meet the Flintstones" display, in honor of our alien seed spreaders...I mean, ancestors? :)

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EP
2/14/2015 12:40:23 pm

Only Me, what's YOUR panspermic trajectory? ;)

http://journalofcosmology.com/JOC24/Tok_Pans_Paper_2-3.pdf

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Only Me
2/14/2015 03:23:58 pm

I read it, and I'm waiting for the punch line.

Some people should just learn when to stop.

EP
2/14/2015 03:28:03 pm

Read "Extraterrestrial Life and Censorship":

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.1314

DO IT! DO IT IF YOU LOVE ME!

Only Me
2/14/2015 05:31:40 pm

I seriously want to know why people like Wickramasinghe will include quotes like this:

[As Julius Caesar said “People willingly believe what they want to believe...” (The Gallic War, 3.18)]

and fail so grandly to grasp the irony of its use for their purposes?

EP
2/14/2015 05:47:21 pm

It gets worse, actually. In a 1986 book, Hoyle & Wickramasinghe use UFOs to make much the same point.

"When sightings of unidentified flying objects were claimed in the years following the second world war it seemed that genuine occurrences, like the reflection of sunlight from an escaped weather balloon, would soon be separated from the rest, the rest being nothing but a motley collection of inaccurate observation, hysterical reports, and deliberately planned fakes.

"This did not happen, however. In 1950 people wanted to believe in UFOs, but they didn't. Nowadays, people want to believe in UFOs, and they do. There is a widespread feeling that the time is ripe for something of the kind to be proved true, and in a certain sense we shall demonstrate in this book that it is indeed true.

"However, the Earth is not being invaded by intelligent beings spacecraft. Such a concept is but a crude perception of the real situation; it is to 'see through a glass darkly', just as the poet who is struck by the beauty of a rose or the majesty of the starry sky perceives only glimpses of far deeper wonders."

Really. That's how you roll if you're a panspermia theorist.

Only Me
2/14/2015 08:22:09 pm

"Nowadays, people want to believe in UFOs, and they do. There is a widespread feeling that the time is ripe for something of the kind to be proved true, and in a certain sense we shall demonstrate in this book that it is indeed true."

Is there *ever* really a good time to tell people they're the byproducts of pre-programmed cosmic viruses, and that their lives are *not* based on their individual choices, but on this uploadable genetic software?

ಠ_ಠ

EP
2/15/2015 03:56:43 am

"Is there *ever* really a good time to tell people they're the byproducts of pre-programmed cosmic viruses, and that their lives are *not* based on their individual choices, but on this uploadable genetic software?"

Right after the first kiss. ;)

Shane Sullivan
2/15/2015 07:01:19 am

Hell, it's my pickup line!

EP
2/15/2015 07:54:36 am

Mine is:

"Creatures like ourselves, who developed from such cosmic ‘genes,’ must, in our view, following the acquisition of intelligence, have an innate ability to perceive the truth relating to their genesis and evolution."

Wait, that's not what it is. It's a quote from the book Wickramasinghe co-authored with a Japanese cult leader.

Fuck these guys. I haven't been so angry in a long time because of something I'd read.

EP
2/14/2015 01:02:00 pm

By the way, in a wonderful display of the fact that idiocy transcends socio-cultural boundaries, we see Wickramasinghe, in one of his recent papers, channeling Scott Wolter:

"If a jury comprised of 12 impartial men and women were presented with the full range of evidence on the existence of extraterrestrial life, and the cosmic origins of life, there is scarcely any doubt that the verdict will be positive... Ingress of extraterrestrial life to the Earth would appear to have been established beyond a shadow of doubt. The fact that this conclusion is not widely known or publicised is in the authors’ view entirely a function of state control of scientific paradigms, of a kind reminiscent of the behaviour of totalitarian political regimes... Under such repressive constraints progress toward any form of objective truth is virtually impossible."

Elsewhere (in a paper called "Extraterrestrial Life and Censorship") Wickramasinghe begins by making the following claim:

"The ingress of alien microbial life onto our planet, whether dead or alive should not by any rational argument be perceived as a cause for concern... Unlike the prospect of discovering alien intelligence which might be justifiably viewed with apprehension, the humblest of microbial life-forms occurring extraterrestrially would not constitute a threat."

Sheesh, it's not like microbes ever hurt anyone never before exposed to them! (infinitefacepalm.jpeg)

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EP
2/14/2015 01:23:19 pm

(The latter quote is particularly ridiculous in light of how quick these people are to attribute every epidemic - from the 1918 influenza to, as Jason notes, SARS - to space microbes. Gah! Stupidity Level: Painful!)

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EP
2/14/2015 03:23:18 pm

What makes the whole story (as most recently reported in the media cited by Jason) so ridiculous is that it demonstrates once again what echo chambers yellow journalism and pseudoscience are, separately and when they join forces.

Sunday Express describes the photo of the titanium sphere as a "never-before seen image", even though it's been appearing in Wainwright and Wickramasinghe's papers for several years now.

Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology (which is run by Wickramasinghe, who co-authored the papers where the titanium sphere was first presented!) linked to the Sunday Express article on its Latest News page, as though it contains a new discovery (attributed to "Wainwright and his team"). They say:

"Professor Wainwright... said there are several theories as to where it came from, the first being it is a complete microorganism programmed to propagate alien life on Earth."

IT IS THE SAME FUCKING PICTURE OF THE SAME FUCKING SPHERE YOU'VE BEEN PUBLISHING FOR YEARS YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!!!

(If this isn't confusing enough Wickramasinghe is definitely no friend of directed panspermia, as opposed to some Living Divine Universe wishy-washiness. So, even if Wickramasinghe or his flunkies failed to recognize their own research, Wainwright's ALIENS!!! suggestion should come as a surprise to Wickramasinghe, if only because it's nowhere to be found in their published collaborations CONCERNING THE SAME FUCKING SPHERE!!!)

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Byron
2/15/2015 12:08:43 am

Roll. Floor. Laughing. !

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EP
2/15/2015 08:12:09 am

Chandra Wickramasinghe (who, it cannot be stressed enough, has a PhD in Mathematics from Cambridge and has been teaching science at legitimate Western universities for decades) has this to say about epidemics:

"The most destructive epidemics, such as smallpox, are known to be caused by a virus that spreads rapidly through contact with an infected individual. The origins of this virus are puzzling, particularly if we note that smallpox has appeared and disappeared repeatedly in the past with a periodicity of about 600 years. During the period between smallpox episodes, which usually extends over a few centuries, where does the virus reside? This is a most difficult question to answer, but I would like to suggest that the virus remains deep-frozen in a cometary reservoir somewhere beyond Earth’s atmosphere."

"The origin of the AIDS virus remains somewhat of a mystery. A popular belief is that an AIDS-type virus resident in a population of green monkeys in Africa changed its structure through mutation and crossed the species barrier to infect humans. I am not too happy about certain aspects of this theory and would myself prefer to consider two other possibilities: 1. the virus came from a comet, or 2. it was synthesized artificially and somehow escaped from a laboratory."

TL;DR: The man who wants us to take seriously his "revolutionary" theories about the origin of viruses doesn't understand how viruses work.

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Titus pullo
2/15/2015 10:14:34 am

I always thought the field of astrobiology was a bit strange since there hasn't been any evidence if alien life so far. This does sound a bit daft but the idea that life came from out there is something very competent scientists have advocated. Viruses, dna, rna has all been postulated by folks like fred Hoyle who shoukd have won a noble prize for his nuclear synthesis model and either Watson or crick from the dna fame. There really is no evidence they are right or wrong. First life I think was around 3 billion years ago, whose to say it didn't come from comets? It's an open question and not batty. Aliens with small spheres in the upper atmosphere, well that sound a bit out there. And before I get reminded Freddie Hoyle was wrong about the Big Bang, his work understanding on how heavier elements formed in nuclear synthesis is still used today. Heck Darwin was wrong on genetics...

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EP
2/15/2015 10:42:58 am

Hoyle was a good astrophysicist, but that didn't stop him from being a total nutcase. He wrote like ten books with Wickramasinghe, each more ridiculous than the last. Your comment about how Hoyle "should have won" the Nobel Prize only demonstrates your limited understanding of both science and the workings of the Nobel Prize. I assure you, by the time Hoyle began seriously working on panspermia, he'd lost almost all of his marbles.

Panspermia itself is something that's fine to speculate about (whether it's physically possible, etc.), but there is zero evidence for it and lots of evidence against it. Besides, the work of Hoyle, Wickramasinghe, Wainwright, etc. is what we should look at, which I suspect you haven't done. Anyone can go on about how things do or do not sound crazy to him, but that's ultimately irrelevant to anything of substance.

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Titus pullo
2/15/2015 11:22:10 am

I might by ignorant on the politics of noble prize s but I do understand how physical science works in terms of the scientific method. Hoyle was a very good physicist but like even the best was wrong. Even Einstein got things wrong. The problem is we really don't have a good mechanism for the creation of life. Sure we can figure out how organic molecules can form as Urey showed, the jump to life is still an open question. Maybe it occurred here, matbe not, my money us on earth but who knows

EP
2/15/2015 11:29:41 am

"I do understand how physical science works in terms of the scientific method"

Forgive me for saying that I've not seen any evidence of it in your posting. Also, this is neither here nor there as far as whether your claim that Hoyle "should have won" is baseless.

"Even Einstein got things wrong"

And this is relevant to what, and how? Neither I nor anyone else claimed that Hoyle's legitimate contributions are to be discounted because he got things wrong, so I'm not sure why you're even bringing this up.

"The problem is we really don't have a good mechanism for the creation of life... the jump to life is still an open question."

That's exactly what creationists say. And panspermia is about as plausible as creationism. If you agree to that, then we're not disagreeing about anything of substance. You're just trying to express what an open-minded and rational person you fancy yourself to be. If so, that's cool man. Whatever floats your boat.

titus pullo
2/16/2015 12:34:18 am

I'm not sure how Panspermia equals creationism. I don't want to beat a dead horse and perhaps I wasn't very clear, but my point was the creation of life isn't all that well understood. Yes we can create complex organic molecules in the lab but its a big jump to self replicating chemical processes and life. Newtonian Mechanics, E&M, Nuclear Structure, Special and General Relativivity,and Quantum Mechanics are understood and can be tested again and again. the origin of life is a much different matter. On the "tactical" view, we understand the chemistry and there doesn't seem to be a need for a God or an intelligent alien to create life on earth. On the "larger" view, once you start to the look at the universe, its size, history and so on...is everything random? What was before the big bang? What is time? I think you know where I'm going. I don't have much time for the "aliens created us"...but on the big picture, I have no idea. Sure I understand mutation and drift as organisms evolve, but to get there...maybe Earth and life are more complicated and wonderful than the rest of the universe combined. So I'll keep an open mind, at the edges creationism isn't so crazy, does the universe itself have "intelligence"..as a physics student I had the worst problem with quantum mechanics, not the math of it but how to understand it...I feel the same way about the origin of life.

On competent scientists going fringe. Linus Pauling was a hero to me, but maybe these geniuses get to the point where they can't understand something and start to leave the reservation...it has to be horrible to have made huge breakthroughs and then be faced with something you can't figure out...but everyone has their waterloo...

Cheers...

EP
2/16/2015 05:01:44 am

"I think you know where I'm going."

I do not, actually. You're just throwing out a bunch of random questions people usually ask to sound "deep" and "profound" and to express reservations about the reach of modern science.

But near the end it does begin to sound like you'd place panspermia and creationsim on the same footing. That you seem to consider them viable alternatives to standard evolutionary theory is just a sign that you don't really get the former and/or the latter.

titus pullo
2/16/2015 05:30:33 am

I think our view of the subject of this chain is a bit different. But I enjoyed reading your insights.

EP
2/16/2015 07:20:54 am

Are you really saying anything other than that we should keep an open mind about panspermia? Because if so, then I don't get what you're saying.

If not, then, again, there is nothing to panspermia beyond baseless speculation at this point - i.e., no empirical evidence that's not the retarded garbage you find in Hoyle, Wickramasinghe, Wainwright, and the rest. And no, you don't get to appeal to Hoyle's authority as an eminent astrophysicist. He put his name to some of the most idiotic things I've read.

(Not just myself, by the way. I've shown his stuff to an MD specializing in infectious diseases and she said that it displays shocking ignorance of high scholl-level science.)

EP
2/15/2015 10:51:39 am

By the way, Gensuke Tokoro, Wickramasinghe and Wainwright's recent collaborator, is a shady Japanese pharma venture capitalist, who bought himself an honorary professorship at his alma mater in Japan. One of his companies conducted a bunch of Stage II drug trials in India (in order to avoid very strict Japanese policies in that regard). He is the founder and CEO of the Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics, of which Wickramasinghe is a Research Director.

Yes, a man co-authoring articles that exhibit ignorance of basic facts of medicine and biology is testing experimental drugs in Third World countries. Oh, and he may or may not have ties to Soka Gakkai International (I haven't checked yet).

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Shane Sullivan
2/16/2015 06:00:38 am

You've described a real-life Albert Wesker.

Well, Oswell E. Spencer, anyway.

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EP
2/16/2015 07:14:46 am

The web is full of things like this:

"On 1 March 2012, I attended the plenary session. I was impressed with the speeches given by many speakers who are the heads of IBA, UIA, Inter-American Bar Association, IPBA and The Bar Association of India on issues concerning the life, liberty and law. There was also an interesting speech of Prof. Gensuke Tokoro. I remember some words in the end of his speech that “We are likely to behave like viruses, and we will return to the universe, not by a spaceship but in the virus-like structure and form of life”."

Gensuke Tokoro is literally a video game villain.

Shane Sullivan
2/16/2015 10:44:35 am

“We are likely to behave like viruses, and we will return to the universe, not by a spaceship but in the virus-like structure and form of life, just as soon as I summon Meteor and merge with the Lifestream.”

EP
2/16/2015 11:02:50 am

LOL, nice! :D

EP
2/16/2015 11:00:01 am

Tokoro & Wickramasinghe's Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics has a website that really must be seen:

http://www.ispajapan.com/

Not only does it feature stock footage of the *wrong* kind of balloon, as well as lots of broken internal links, but, in case Tokoro didn't sound enough like a video game villain, you get quotes like this:

"We believe that adopting a correct world view in this regard will have profound implications for the future of humanity and provide a life-style (astroeconomics) for Homo sapiens to follow which may serve to share our planet (Earth) with all the other descendents of a cosmic LUCA that pervades the cosmos in the form of RNA viruses."

And this:

"Sri Lanka’s premier research institution dedicated to scientific and technological innovation, SLINTEC (Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology) entered into an informal partnership with the newly-formed Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics (ISPA) based in Gifu, Japan."

Because combining space viruses and nanotechnology is totally not something a video game villain would do :)

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