from Ron McGhee | 15 Mar 2008
19:51:24 +0000: Brig - So, back to the drawing board about how objects enter the atmosphere?!? So, meterorites (rock) CAN survive the decent.... and life forms in them???
Streamlined meteorite hit Peru fast and hard, Concast.net News, 11 Mar 2008.
A meteorite caused illness in Peru? is our original story about this meteorite, in What'sNEW, 20 Sep 2007.
Comets: The Delivery System is a related CA webpage.
Mutant Cockroaches from Outer Space! | from Larry Klaes | 23 Jan 2008
11:45:11 -0500: Space Roaches Develop into Super Mutants.... Maybe it’s time to welcome our new insect overlords. In what sounds like the prequel to the movie Alien, Russian news Agency Novosti, reported on an experiment involving baby cockroaches conceived aboard a satellite in back in September. Apparently, they found, a trip to space gives roaches “superpowers”.
The cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than 'terrestrial' ones, a research supervisor confirmed on Thursday. The research team has been monitoring the cockroaches since they were born in October. The scientists established that their limbs and bodies grew faster. "What is more, we have found out that the creatures... run faster than ordinary cockroaches, and are much more energetic and resilient," Dmitry Atyakshin said. The full article here: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/01/space-roaches-d.html
Inheritance via RNA | from Stan Franklin | 4 Jan 2008
[...Genetic information can be passed on to following generations via RNA, in addition to DNA, according to research at Princeton University studying the reproduction of the singled-celled ciliate Oxytricha trifallax, whose cells have two nuclei.]
New route for heredity bypasses DNA, Physorg.com, 4 Jan 2008.
Neo-Darwinism: The Current Paradigm is a related CA webpage.