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Phish · March 17, 2013 at 5:23 pm

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/15041...trial-life

Pretty sweet ah?

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**Silver** · March 17, 2013 at 5:29 pm

Cool cool cool.

**Minimalist** · March 17, 2013 at 5:35 pm

Quote:But, as always, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Oddly though, that standard does not apply to ancient texts scribbled out by ignorant goat fuckers. Those are treated as the word of fucking god himself by far too many morons.

**Jackalope** · March 17, 2013 at 5:39 pm

I think I'll wait til these findings have been run through the wringer before getting too excited.

Nine · March 17, 2013 at 6:00 pm

So its finally

[Image: images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTHw5-X3HLkkYpg-2LDfHq...aYPKUpIS37]

**popeyespappy** · March 17, 2013 at 6:15 pm

This was met with more than a little bit of skepticism when announced.

Anomalocaris · March 17, 2013 at 6:22 pm

The fact that even normally gullible and easily excitable news outlets haven't run with this suggest this story came from fairly sketchy sources.

**Tiberius** · March 17, 2013 at 6:30 pm

Yeah, looks like this scientist has a history of exaggeration and bad science: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...wrong.html

**Minimalist** · March 17, 2013 at 8:11 pm

http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.1845

The abstract of the report....

Quote: The existence of numerous nitrogen depleted highly carbonaceous fossilized biological structures fused into the rock matrix is inconsistent with recent terrestrial contamination. Oxygen isotope results compare well with those of CI and CI-like chondrites but are inconsistent with the fulgurite hypothesis.

Some big words there for a news industry which really only wants to know who Kim Kardashian is blowing.

**Cyberman** · (This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 9:27 pm by Cyberman.)

Fascinating news if it does get confirmed, in fact it'll be the most important discovery of all time. The fossil I mean, not the Kim Cardassian thing. That's not news by any stretch of the definition.

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