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A team of Uk scientists believe that they have discovered organisms in earth’s environment that originate from outer space.

As demanding as that could be to judge, Professor Milton Wainwright, the team’s leader, insists that this is unquestionably the instance.

The team, out of the University of Sheffield, exposed the little organisms (misleadingly known as ‘bugs’ by quite a lot of demanding journalists) living on a probe balloon that had been sent 16.7 miles into our environment during last month’s Perseids meteor shower.

In response to Professor Wainwright, the minuscule creatures could not have been passed into the stratosphere on the balloon. He said, "A lot of people will presume that those biological particles should have just drifted up to the stratosphere from Earth, but it’s generally accepted that a particle of the volume found can't be lifted from Earth to heights of, for example, 27km. The one known exception is by a violent volcanic explosion, none of these occurred within 3 years of the sampling trip."

Wainwright maintains that only salient conclusion is that organisms originated from space. He went on to mention that “life isn’t restricted to this planet but it nearly certainly did not originally come here”

However, not everyone is so convinced. Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) project remarked, “I’m very skeptical. This claim has been made beforehand, and dismissed as terrestrial contamination." The team responds to this by saying they were thorough as they prepared the balloon before the experiments begun.

Though, they would acknowledge that there might be an unknown method for these organisms to reach such altitudes. It should also be well-known that microbal organisms discovered in the 1980’s and 1990’s and called ‘extremophiles’ stunned the scientific community by living in environments that would immediately kill the majority of life on earth.

These creatures have always been observed living deep under Glacial ice and even 1900 feet below the ocean floor. In March of that year, Ronnie Glud, a biogeochemist in the Southern Danish Uni in Odense, Denmark was quoted as saying "In the most secluded, inhospitable areas, it is possible to actually have higher activity than their surroundings," and that "You'll find microbes all over the place - they are exceptionally malleable to conditions, and survive where they're," so this indicates more plausible that any the team is in error, or that this is solely one more case of microscopic life showing up in an extraordinary place.

Additionally, it isn’t the first time this particular team has come under fire for making such statements, either. Back in January of this year, astrobiologist Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe reported that ‘fossils’ found inside a Sri Lankan meteorite were testimony of extraterrestrial life, an assertion that’s commonly criticized by scientific community.

Other scientists have complained that there basically is not enough evidence to make such a claim, as a theory this notable would need a large body of proof to confirm its validity.

What that says to a reporter is that microorganisms can exist basically anyplace and it simply isn’t good science to jump to wild conclusions like aliens each time a more plausible answer is most probably present. Science should not be subject to such wild leaps of elaborate. Imagination is a good aid to science, but it is not a science in and of by itself. Unfortunately, Dr. Wainwright and his team seem to be seeing exactly what they want to see.

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