Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe, examining a meteorite found in Sri Lanka, claims to have found evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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In the journal dedicated to cosmology, a thorough article titled “Petrified Diatoms in New carbon meteorite ”, authored by an astrobiologist Chandra Wikramasingh. The publication states that a group of scientists examined the remains of a meteorite that fell on December 29, 2012 near the village of Polonnaruwa (Sri Lanka), using an electron microscope and found on it convincing evidence that life in The universe exists.
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Wikramasingh, Director of the Buckingham Center astrobiology, reported that it found on the meteorite “microstructure and morphology characteristic of a wide class of terrestrial diatoms algae. ” Based on these data, Chandra and his colleagues came to the conclusion that “the presence of structures of this kind in any extraterrestrial material may be construed as clear evidence biology, ”in other words, evidence of what outside the planet Earth is life.
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It is worth noting that Wikramasingh is a supporter of panspermia – the hypothesis that all life on our planet appeared thanks to the “germ of life” brought from the cosmic space. “We absolutely accurately identified diatoms algae found on a meteorite fragment. Thus, the results of our study confirm the hypothesis of panspermia, ”- claims the director of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology.
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However, his article caused not only positive reviews – astronomer Phil Plate criticized the words of the eminent astrobiologist. “Wikramasingh assures everyone that living cells come to us from space, but its evidence is very doubtful. Geologists first examined the meteorite, reported that perhaps this is an ordinary stone, in which hit the lightning. Personally, I doubt that a piece of rock fell from heaven, ”is the opinion of the Plate, which he shared with readers of Slate magazine.
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It is worth noting that earlier Wikramasingh stated that pathogens leading to epidemics on Earth is also brought from interplanetary space. Anna Romantseva
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