Osg4 20110307 ALIENS

TOF  this is DR….

Over the weekend Fox news had an exclusive – the story that NASA scientist Richard Hoover had made a startling discovery – “alien life forms that may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought.”

A couple of problems though – the story identified Hoover as an astrobiologist when according to NASA he is in fact a solar physicist, and numebr two, the actual astrobiologists say the alien microorganism he found looks a lot like earthly bacteria.  More after this from Charlie:
((SPOT))

It’s just really hard to find decent alien lif.  That discovery of an organism that can live on arsenic was frankly kind of disappointing and now, NASA is distancing itself from the claim of one of it’s own scientists, Richard Hoover, that while examining ancient meteorites he found – an alien organism.

Carl Pilcher is the director of NASA’s Astrobilogy institute:

TAPE:…

Dr. Hoover claims he fractured the meteorites in a sterile laboratory and used a high power microscope to make images of the bacteria and was astonished to find they were not so different from what you’d find on earth:
But his critic, Dr Pilcher, says he should have been surprised at all:

TAPE:… from earth.”

Because no matter how far a meteor has come, once it smacks into the earth, it’s going to get contaminated.

TAPE:… contamination.”

Oh well.  Personally I’m relieved because I would hate to think the aliens are sending us their germs.
tof

And no matter how far a meteorhas traveled, once it hits earth

NASA Scientist Richard Hoover of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center