Indian Space Researchers Claim Extraterrestrial Life Discovery

[Jumba]

they should think for their people instead of wasting the taxpayers money, blasting up to the space

One could say the same for the US.

[largon]

Not really.

[Jumba]

Not really.

How so? Last time I checked the US was about to enter a depression worse than the 1930's. Surely right now feeding people is more important than blasting a few rockets into space, or starting a new war?

[saaya]

probably none, at least not complex enough to be considered an intelligent life form

mars is the only planet that could possibly support life besides earth, and outside our solar system even the top scientists are too lame to know anything for sure

actually the highest chance for life as we know it in our solar system away from earth are the jupiter moons IO and europa afaik...

US space program is nothing compared to their military program, or lets say their "resource stealing" program in order to be more precise, if the US spend half of what they spend on wars we would probably have colonies on mars now

you mean the us would have colonies on mars by now, and they would probably be at war over resources ^^ hahaha

[saaya]

There is no reason why these organisms couldn't have come from the earth below. The only possible mode of entry in the upper atmosphere would be via meteor, and that is highly unlikely since it gets super-heated upon entry, leaving the inner core the only portion undisturbed (which is not in contact with the atmo of course).

its possible that a meteor bursts when hitting the athmosphere, the dust and grains could contain bacteria that then grow in the higher athmosphere... and it could also come from a comets dust that slowly gets attracted by earth after the comet passed earth... but yeah, thats rather unlikely...

[saaya]

yes, i shouldnt poke the us government, its just as evil as others... well actually not exactly, but they are all about the same in the end

what documentary do you mean?
ive seen a lot on tv and read a lot about it over the years
both IO and EUROPA seem to have liquid water caused by the gravity of jumpiter literally squeezing the core of the planet so much it starts to heat up and melt, creating enough geo thermic energy to keep a vast part of the water on those moons liquid. at least thats the theory...

[SAE]

Those bacteria might have developed wings to fly up to the skies... and it's sooooo peaceful up there they'd never considered coming back down.

[largon]

How so? Last time I checked the US was about to enter a depression worse than the 1930's. Surely right now feeding people is more important than blasting a few rockets into space, or starting a new war?

It's not like the US would have...
- non-existant basic civil infrastructure
- non-existant public health care
- non-existant social care
...as India does.

India certainly is a giant in many aspects - it's almost what one would call a superpower, but it sure is severely underdeveloped.

[|MB|]

its possible that a meteor bursts when hitting the athmosphere, the dust and grains could contain bacteria that then grow in the higher athmosphere... and it could also come from a comets dust that slowly gets attracted by earth after the comet passed earth... but yeah, thats rather unlikely...

O rmaybe bacteria got hurled into the air during supervolcanoe eruprions or when a comet strikes the earth.

[perkam]

Misleading title. The US is looking for life on Mars, India is looking for life on the underside of airplanes...WEAK.

Perkam

[geo]

It's not like the US would have...
- non-existant basic civil infrastructure
- non-existant public health care
- non-existant social care
...as India does.

India certainly is a giant in many aspects - it's almost what one would call a superpower, but it sure is severely underdeveloped.

India doesn't have any of the things you listed. and yes its underdeveloped. and underfunded which makes ISRO deserve a lot of credit for atleast TRYING with their moon mission,satellite launches and now this.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

One could say the same for the US.

Not really.

It's not like the US would have...
- non-existant basic civil infrastructure
- non-existant public health care
- non-existant social care
...as India does.

India certainly is a giant in many aspects - it's almost what one would call a superpower, but it sure is severely underdeveloped.

And it would have nothing to do with colonialism or anything like that could it? And don't talk about social care and the US, it's still the most developed country with the most people living under the poverty line, and the most developed country with the highest illeteracy count. Public health care? Yeah thanks to the democrats, up till recently allot of children weren't even eligable.

Come on..

[Katanai]

[SIZE="4"]Indian Space Researchers [/url]

GTFO!

This cannot be real.

[Dhiren]

GTFO!

This cannot be real.

This can't be real too then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

[perkam]

This can't be real too then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

The US sent men to the moon and back 50 years ago. The pinnacle of space technology right now is the space station, not sending toasters to the moon.

Perkam

[Dhiren]

The US sent men to the moon and back 50 years ago. The pinnacle of space technology right now is the space station, not sending toasters to the moon.

Perkam

I'm not comparing US space researchers to Indian space researchers. How many other countries have managed to send researchers on to the Moon. Does it mean they don't have space researchers.

[DangeR!]

I hope they don't bring it down here. Though humans are pertty retarded at times, even the cleverest of us.

I mean lets face it, that's all we need, more super bacteria, who knows what the hell this new bacteria will do to us, animals, plants etc.

It doesn't take bacteria long to mutate and adapt to its new environment.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOMSDAY!!!! (Extreme I know, but isn't that the forum theme? :P)

[LUCI5R]

There's so much ignorance here, it's astonishing. Especially from the guy who scribbled "War, war, war". Stunning! It's not even worth getting into it here cause it would end in endless pages/post-lengths and would serve no purpose because it would a battle of knowledge against ignorance.

That aside, 40km is neither Outer Space, nor Extra-Terrestrial. I definately agree with the 'Sensationalism' post. The interesting thing is, on the 'Times Of India' (National Indian Newspaper) they never used the word 'Extra-Terrestrial' or 'Alien Life' so I don't know where the hell that came up from.

It's an interesting & challenging scientific find ... not anywhere close to anything 'Extra-Terrestrial' or 'Alien Life' though. That's just over-sensationalism.

[Apokalipse]

saaya - I mean us (we) as HUMANS, I pretty much don't care about territorial/religious differences

about the jupiter moons - yep, I have also watched that documentary, but those moons are pretty far away, pretty small, pretty frozen and pretty dark

mars is the closest to us, has "Acceptable" temperatures, far more sunshine compared to the distant jupiter moons and also there seems to be a lot of frozen water

Are you talking about acceptable to the life forms on earth (more specifically, humans)? or are you talking about acceptable to life period?

[[XC] riptide]

:Facepalm: Has nobody moved/deleted this yet.

[Power5]

They spent 80mil on sending a probe to the moon? I would have just bought the old apollo rocket sitting in a museum.

[CmB]

man, this is no discovery. I've had that bacteria growing on my feet for years now. Do i get a medal or Nobel Prize? They make great friends and can do your homework for you. j/k

[tam2]

Aha!!! so Neil Armstong did pee outside the space ship
j/k

-tam2-

[Marvin_The_Martian]

The US sent men to the moon and back 50 years ago. The pinnacle of space technology right now is the space station, not sending toasters to the moon.

Perkam

Small quote:

On November 14, 2008, the Moon Impact Probe separated from the Moon-orbiting Chandrayaan at 20:06 and impacted the lunar south pole in a controlled manner, making India the fourth country to place its flag on the Moon.

Not bad is it

Offcourse this thread is nonsence as it's not extraterestrial if it's originates from earth ( as said, don't think comets would be the source of these organisms ). But India is doing pretty well and the people here coming in and pissing on it only show their own ignorance imo.

[JoeBar]

The US sent men to the moon and back 50 years ago. The pinnacle of space technology right now is the space station, not sending toasters to the moon.

Perkam

US sent men to the moon based on the knowledge and passion of a German former nazi...

I really find irritating all this bashing about India (and any other country).



And i really didn't see an Indian coming to this thread and telling where was US thousand years ago when India had a great civilization...