Is A Recent Fossil Discovery Proof That Life Exists On Planets Other Than Earth?

[Dryson]

The first possible proof of life existing elsewhere other than Earth.

Are the Fossils Alien in Origin or Are The Fossils Earth Based?

http://cnn.it/2ls3LwK

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old but water has been around for 4.6 billion years.
According to a Google search on how old the Earth is the Earth is 4.543 billion years old.
If the microfossils are 4.28 billion years old that is a difference of only 263 million years.

Quartz grows in very hot watery conditions.

http://www.quartzpage.de/gen_form.html

What can be theorized about the Earth at B.E. 263^0^6 or Beginning Earth 263,000,000 years after the start of Earth is that the Earth had water on its surface that must have been very hot.

It might also be possible that the specimens came from another planet that is in a close by solar system and then traveled to Earth as free traveling planetesimal debris.

The only way to determine if the microfossils are in fact from Earth is to determine how long and when water first appeared on Earth.

I did another Google search and scientists have discovered that water has been on Earth for 4.6 billion years. National Geographic conducted the research and can be considered factual.

The problem is that if the Earth is 4.543 billion years old and NG is saying that water has been on Earth for 4.6 billion years that means that water was present 57 million years before the Earth formed.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/.../141030-starstruck.../

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Your NG link doesn't work.

 

[2takesfrakes]

It might also be possible that the specimens came from another planet that is in a close by solar system and then traveled to Earth as free traveling planetesimal debris.

What the ... ? That's such a huge stretch. Like a Hail Mary pass. Why's it so hard to accept that the Earth generated its own Life?

 

[Kane2026]

I can imagine if life started on Earth about 4.6 billion years ago it would have bene able to spread very quickly. Life, in what ever form would have no rivals, boundaries and such. Development could have come very quickly. That said, It does make you think if a meteorite placed life here on Earth.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Panspermia -- sounds quite exciting, doesn't it.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

I love the idea. I remember the feeling I got when I finally understood that all life on earth was really one life form. Imagine if it turned out that all life in the universe (assuming there is more out there) had one common origin point. I don't necessarily think it is true, but it is always a fun idea that could be true.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

One certainly can't discount it. Even if we don't find primitive life, we should be able to find molecular evidence one way or another by examining samples taken from the other planets, moons, comets, plutoids and asteroids in the solar system.

 

[publiusr]

Key word to learn--spallation.

 

[Spider]

Even if we create living biological life in the laboratory, we still won't know how life began on earth. There are to many possible paths for chemistry to become biology, and any actual evidence is gone. We'll probably never know.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Would synthetic life forms created in a laboratory be "life" would they be alive by any current definitions?

 

[Spider]

Would synthetic life forms created in a laboratory be "life" would they be alive by any current definitions?

Depends on your definition of life. At a minimum life should be considered a self sustaining chemical system that can reproduce itself. If a non-sentient planet can create life, I would think we eventually can.