THE ANCIENT ONESThey sound like science fiction creatures, but they're real. They swim in acid and thrive in superheated volcanic vents under crushing pressures in the deep sea. They're found living in the polar ice, in oil wells, and in rocks thousands of feet below the soil surface. They are Archaeons (The Ancient Ones), and genetic analysis proves they are so old they are one of the three original branches on earth's evolutionary tree of life -- as old as the first bacteria! Archaeons are so hardy they will almost certainly survive any catastrophe befalling earth, whether it's nuclear war or asteroid impacts. Long after man has vanished, these nearly indestructible creatures will be earth's final inhabitants.
Discovered only twenty years ago, these amazing microbes have raised the possibility that life exists in places we never dreamed of. If creatures can thrive in such extreme conditions as boiling magma, why couldn't life also thrive on other planets, or even on drifting bits of cosmic dust?
The hardiness of microbes in space was recently demonstrated when orbital debris, recovered after several years of circling earth, was found to be coated with a film of ... well, fecal matter, probably from astronauts.
Author Arthur C. Clarke wryly notes: "This may solve one of the mysteries of life's origin on earth... Organized life forms need have occurred only once in this galaxy, if the very first spacefaring civilization was as careless about the environment as we are. It's a humbling thought that we may have arisen from (another planet's) dumped sewage; the very first chapter of Genesis would certainly require drastic revision."
In Tess's new medical thriller, GRAVITY, a seemingly innocuous culture of deep sea Archaeons is brought aboard the International Space Station for observation in weightlessness. The experiment goes terribly wrong, and suddenly NASA has a biological disaster on its hands. The orbiting astronauts, trapped in quarantine, must race to find a cure... even as they sicken and die, one by one.
Mystery of life solved- we arose from alien poop
by bboyneko 2 2 Replies latest jw friends
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joelbear
Previously posted:
The hardiness of microbes in space was recently demonstrated when orbital debris, recovered after several years of circling earth, was found to be coated with a film of ... well, fecal matter, probably from astronauts.
Joelbear concludes:
Space exploration is not normal and probably demonized too.
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bboyneko 2
Joelbear concludes:
Space exploration is not normal and probably demonized too.
Yes joelbear you are right. In Genesis 11 it sez: "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves" about the tower of babel, and we all know what happened then dont we.
So as you see, when man tries to reach the heavens it is a great sin.
-Dan