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Originally Posted by violet lightning
What blows me away about life on earth is just how much and how varied it is! And how strange the various species are and how different from each other. (I suppose at the DNA level though, we may all be pretty close) As I said before, we have all kinds of bacteria, viruses, plants, trees, insects, retiles. mammals, birds, fish, bi-valves, luminous jellyfish, and probably lots we haven't discovered yet. Life that lives in permafrost ice and life that thrives on chemicals instead of sunlight at the bottom of the ocean.
Many scientists agree that at least some life on Earth could be the result of meteors and the like bringing alien life to Earth,so the idea that some civiliazation may have done it on purpose does not seem too far fetched.
(I think Carl Sagan said "We are all made of stardust")
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Stardust in the sense that all elements that we consist of other than hydrogen were the result of prior supernovas. It's quite possible that amino acids that spawned life here could have come from comets or asteroids. Some have been found on comets I believe. But even though there's a wide variety of live on earth, evidence shows that it all evolved here. Fossil records show transitions from one species to another, and mitochondrial DNA show a transition as well. There is such a wide variety of life because there is such a wide variety of environments coupled with increasingly advanced life forms that evolve to suit these environments in more and more varied ways.
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Originally Posted by Rachel
While fishing on Stellwagon Bank about 150 miles east of Montauk L.I , I saw a silver object in the sky. This object was at an extreme altitude yet left no contrail. It was moving fast as I saw it but then really poured on the throttle and was gone. Now being that far out to the East we were clear of the city smog. I was laying flat on my back on top of my cooler looking up into a clear blue sky. I saw this object for about 5 seconds. This was the first of two things I've seen that cant be explained. More to come...
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Was it within the last year or so? If so, it could have been the space station. It is getting large enough to see in the day time if you happen to be looking at exactly at the right spot. It will appear slow towards the horizon and to gain speed as it goes overhead.