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Are your in-laws descended from aliens?

Is all life on earth descended from inter-stellar life-forms? The theory proposed by Fred Hoyle and his associate astro-physicist in the 1960s was ridiculed by other scientists but, in the last 10 years, science has learnt a lot and opinions have changed Usually, Horizon is factual and first class, although the last episode, with a rather silly presenter, left much to be desired. May be worth a look. Len

Mmm, that'll be very interesting....

I'm beginning to wonder with the amount of people who pronounce my name Alien whether my parents lied about where I came from! I always believed them when they said they found me under a cabbage! Aileen xx

len thankyou for posting this. My younger son was having a conversation with his older brother about this a couple of days ago. I always wonder why the programmes that would be of interest to two bright and interested children always have to be on when my children are in bed. I love programmes like this but why cant they give inquisitive children a chance to watch them too.

Hi Clare, My grandson is only six but very intelligent. Seems to soak up knowledge like a sponge. Think I'll tape it and watch it with him at the weekend. Len, just printed off your Genesis thread. Really interesting. Will make this my bed time reading tonight instead of starting on another book. Read a book years ago called Chariot of the Gods, I think it was called. Found that fascinating. Still got it somewhere. Aileen xxx

Len I found last week's episode really tacky and a scaremongering exercise - too much dramatic license - a shame for what used to be an informative series!

a quick nudge

It wasnt bad, apart from a juvenile humour and over-loud (and unnecessary) music. I have recorded it and will watch it again tomorrow. I would offer a report from NASA that seems to make ignoramuses out of the scientists who claim that bacteria could not withstand the extreme heat of transit through the earth's atmosphere:- 'For Hoover and his colleagues, proof of life is the real find, especially in a subterranean tomb, sleeping under ice from the Pleistocene Age. In this unlikely place, they discovered a new life form, a never-before-seen bacterial species they have dubbed Carnobacterium pleistocenium. It's roughly 32,000 years old. And it's still alive. The bacterium--the first fully described, validated species ever found alive in ancient ice--is NASA's latest discovery of an 'extremophile.' Extremophiles are hardy life forms that exist and flourish in conditions hostile to most known organisms, from the potentially toxic chemical levels of salt-choked lakes and alkaline deserts to the extreme heat of deep-sea volcanoes and hydrothermal vents.' The NASA website is well worth a visit Len