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Review
. 2020:106:133-143.
doi: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.03.006. Epub 2020 Jul 7.

Experiments to prove continuing microbial ingress from Space to Earth

N Chandra Wickramasinghe  1 , Edward J Steele  2 , Robert Temple  3 , Gensuke Tokoro  4 , Willam A Smith  4 , Brig Klyce  5 , Dayal T Wickramasinghe  6 , Dhammika Magana Arachchi  7
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Review

Experiments to prove continuing microbial ingress from Space to Earth

N Chandra Wickramasinghe et al. Adv Genet. 2020.

Abstract

A wide range of evidence for pointing to our cosmic origins is close to the point of being overwhelming. Yet the long-entrenched paradigm of Earth-centered biology appears to prevail in scientific culture. A matter of crucial importance is to carry out a decisive experiment that is long overdue-establishing empirically beyond any doubt that extraterrestrial microbiota reaches the surface of the Earth at the present day. Such an experiment may of course happen naturally by the appearance of pandemics of new disease as discussed in an earlier chapter.

Keywords: Cometary dust; Detection space-diseases; Flux of space microbes; Fossils in meteorites; International space station; Microbes in near Earth atmosphere; Stratosphere pathogen sampling.

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Fig. 1
(A) Cylinder containing stratospheric air and (B) stack of cylinders launched within a liquid neon container.
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(A) A carbonaceous stratospheric particle from 41 km resembling a clump cocci and a rod bacterium. Panel (B) A clump of viable but non culturable bacteria flourescing in carbocyanine dye.
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Microfossils in the Murchison meteorite (left) discovered by Plug (1984).
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Electron micrograph of organic structure within the Murchison meteorite compared with sketch of the structure of an influenza virus.
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Fig. 5
Extinct acritarch fossil (L) and diatom frustule (R) from Polonnaruwa meteorite. C.f. Wallis et al. (2013) and Wickramasinghe, Wallis, Wallis, and Samaranayake (2013).
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