‘Dragon particle’ is made of carbon and oxygen
Professor Milton Wainwright from the University of Sheffield, UK, and his team found the organism while collecting samples from the Earth stratosphere.
According to the professor, the organism ‘seems to be like nothing found on Earth’. The so called ‘dragon particle’ is made of carbon and oxygen and is therefore not a piece of cosmic or volcanic dust.
Milton Wainwright and his team found the organism while collecting samples from the Earth stratosphere
This, combined with the recent news that cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station, ISS, have found strange plankton like organisms growing on the outside of the station, support the theory that life on Earth evolved from life-forms from outer-space.
Expectedly, Prof Wainwright and his team have their doubters, who claim the organic matter could have drifted up into the stratosphere from Earth. However scientists countered that the ISS is more than 200 miles from earth and there is no way that anything of this size can get to that height from Earth.
Scientists have certainly been making some big claims this week! For example, researchers from the University of Southampton conducted a study that proved there is life after death.
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