[meteorite-list] COME ON! Alien Life Topic

From: Jerry Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:01:32 -0400
Message-ID: <89C91185FFBD4B6680DC53E894D55543_at_ASUS>

How true. soooo true.
WO the personal attacks [ I'm not referring to formal legitimate warnings
about potential threats to cash or claims of authenticity if documented]
this is an ideal forum where all can share a wide range of interests and
delete non interesting topics.
So let the List live long and prosper!
jerry Flaherty

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From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:45 AM
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>; "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] COME ON! Alien Life Topic

> Michael, List,
>
> I completely agree that the occasional movie
> reference is non-meteoritic (unless the movie is
> about meteors, asteroids and such), but the connection between meteorites
> and life that may exist off this planet is as intertwined as
> any two topics could be.
>
> The hypothesis that meteorites could bring life (or alien life) to
> Earth is almost as old as the recognition that meteorites actually do fall
> from the sky. In 1864, Louis Pasteur performed
> careful experimentation to extract, without contamination, a sample from
> the depths of the Orgueil meteorite to culture for micro-organisms.
> He did so because he was searching for an
> alternate origin for life on Earth in distinction
> to spontaneous generation, which he had already
> disproved in his laboratory.
>
> The result of his search for microbes in Orgeil was negative, BTW.
>
> Every few decades there is a meteorite-life
> issue that becomes a matter of hot dispute in
> science and the broader world. The latest was the Martian meteorite with
> traces of microbial life, or was there? There were many hundreds of posts
> on this List to one side or the other as
> that dispute raged on.
>
> It's an on-going debate. (There was another claim of fossils in Orgueil
> in 2004!) The entire question of the existence of any life off this
> planet is germane to meteorites even if specific
> meteoritic evidence is not in question. The two
> subjects are intimately related. IF there is any
> other life, meteorites would potentially present the easiest evidence to
> access and the only samples of "otherworldly" matter that we have. If
> there is no life (as has been alleged in these posts), much research on
> meteorites is being wasted.
>
> We all have to recognize that everyone of us
> brings a different perspective to the subject of
> meteorites. For example, the question of whether
> or not a particular meteorite was or was not a
> "hammer" is of only the mildest scientific interest,
> being a purely anecdotal matter, and is largely irrelevant.
>
> However, it is to be recognized that that subject
> is of great interest in the arcana of collectorship
> and highly important to some (but not to others).
> However, since all of us DO bring a different perspective to the subject,
> it would be, well,
> impolite, for those who are less interested to tell those that are most
> interested to stop posting about it. Likewise, the long sequences of Posts
> about the cost per gram of this or that stone -- it's like listening to
> the farmers down at the round
> table at the Chatterbox Cafe talk about the price of corn or hogs --
> intensely interesting if you sell corn or hogs, but if not it's just
> fatback talk...
>
> This is not the Meteorite Collectors' List, nor
> the Meteorite Commerce List, nor the Meteorite Market List, nor the
> Meteorite Hunter's List, nor
> the Meteorite Trade and Freebies List, nor the Meteorite Impact List, not
> the Meteorite Crater List, nor the Meteorite History List, nor the
> Meteorite Stamp and Coin List, nor the Meteor Shower List, nor the
> Meteorite People List, nor the Meteorite Theoretical Science List, nor the
> Meteorite Petrology List, nor the Asteroid List, the Planetary List, the
> Interstellar Dust List, nor the Alien Life List, nor even The Meteorite
> Quibble List --- it's ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
>
> It's the Meteorite [Inclusive] List, and it's far
> better off for being what it is than if it were too
> narrowly defined, maddening as it may be at
> times.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
> To: "GREG LINDH" <geeg48 at msn.com>; <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
> Cc: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] COME ON! Alien Life Topic
>
>
>> PLEASE stop this Alian Live and Movies/TV
>> Crapolla on the METEORITE LIST.
>> MLB
>>
>
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Received on Fri 04 Sep 2009 10:01:32 AM PDT