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Life probably arose on Earth some 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, but all records of the momentous event have vanished—here on the Blue Marble, at least. Traces of our lost origin story might instead be buried on the Moon, according to new research published in the journal Astrobiology.
“Unlike the Earth, the Moon has been geologically quiet for billions of years, meaning there is a good chance these organic and volatile records remain relatively intact,” Richard Matthewman, the study’s lead author, told me.
Last summer, scientists concluded that escaped chunks of Earth could have brought fossil microbes to the Moon. But whether such critters could then be preserved for eons, creating a useful archive of early Earth life, remained unknown. Now we have evidence that they can. Matthewman and colleagues discovered that organic molecules can remain intact, possibly for a very long time, if they get trapped beneath ancient lunar lava flows.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-origins-of-life-could-be-buried-on-the-moon?
[Abstract]: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2014.1217
(Score: 1) by anubi on Saturday January 31 2015, @12:33AM
I admit its a pet theory as I ponder the evidence.
I get the idea our religions are tied into it as well.
Another pet theory is that the aliens are forced by relativistic physics to time travel when space traveling, so that visits from them - from their perspective, are a matter of days, but the instances of their visits on earth are separated by time gaps of thousands of years. That one is seeded from a phrase in the Bible about a day with God being a thousand years of man.
The legends concerning the Sumerians and the Anunnaki puzzle the hell out of me.
I do not know what to make of it, so I speculate and conjecture a lot.
I am just trying to integrate the signal out of the noise.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]