NASA scientist publishes paper on finding proof of extra-terrestrial life

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrend...nceofalienlife

Ok, i'll summarize:
Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center says in a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology this past Friday that after having studied 9 rare classes of meteorites (Cl1 class, only 9 exist on Earth that we know of) he has found definite traces of fossilized bacterias - of alien origin.
His main point is that the fossils found are actually older than the meteorite itself (its entry in our planet) and that although most of the bacterias seem familiar, a few have not been able to be recognized at all.

After reading this, well i have to say i am not all that surprised. -If finding true- I already knew that the first trace of Alien life would probably be of microbial/ bacterial type.
It is still huge though, and is of course under an immense scrutiny. The research has been opened to a panel of over 100 experts and they have invited more than 5000 scientists across the globe to participate.

At first I thought: well, those could have been absorbed by a porous meteorite during Earth entry, specially if it fell in the water a few thousand years ago.
But if the bacteria fossils are indeed much older than the Earth atmosphere entry, it is pretty damning.
Opens even more curiosity, as some articles have mentioned, to the possibility of life (micro organisms) on asteroids, comets and on the satellites in our very own solar system.

Also can't help thinking about The Andromeda Strain at the same time ...