Британские ученые (бгг ;), но не хрены с горы, а из Университета Бекингем, в угольном метеорите, упавшем в декабре 2012 года в Шри-Ланке, нашли окаменелости диатомей, подобных земным диатомеям (это такие одноклеточные микроорганизмы)
Diatoms are unicellular phytoplankton characterised by elaborately sculptured frustules comprised of a hydrated silicon dioxide polymer. The intricately woven microstructure of these frustules would be impossible to generate abiotically, so the presence of structures of this kind in any extraterrestrial setting could be construed as unequivocal proof of biology.(В пдф-ке по ссылке есть интересные фото)
Comparison of the SEM images of another fossil diatom in the Polonnaruwa meteorite with a modern diatom Sellaphora blackfordensis (Mann, 1989,1999) is shown in Fig 7 and leaves scarcely any room to doubt the identity of the former. Again we stress that contamination is decisively ruled out because the structure in the meteorite is deemed to be a fossilised object, and fossils diatoms were not present near the surface of the Earth to contaminate a new fall of meteorites.
We conclude therefore that the identification of fossilised diatoms in the Polonnaruwa meteorite is firmly established and unimpeachable. Since this meteorite is considered to be an extinct cometary fragment, the idea of microbial life carried within comets and the theory of cometary panspermia is thus vindicated (Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, 1981,.1982, 2000;
Wickramasinghe, Wickramasinghe and Napier, 2010). The universe, not humans, must have the final say to declare what the world is really like.Действительно, если это не фейк, то это вообще переворот половины наших представлений о мире, науке, и прочих "и спасибо за рыбу". Найдено, как ни смешно,
тут.
UPD Вроде бы фейк ;(
Ай-яй-яй, спасибо анонимусу