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NASA probe discovers 'alien' matter

By T.K. Randall
February 2, 2012 · Comment icon 8 comments

Image Credit: NASA
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system.
It's the first time that matter from elsewhere in the galaxy has been picked up. "This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of — it's really important to be measuring it," said IBEX principal investigator David McComas.
This so-called interstellar material was spotted by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a spacecraft that is studying the edge of the solar system from its orbit about 200,000 miles (322,000 kilometers) above Earth.


Source: Space.com | Comments (8)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by Pandachoko 12 years ago
Wow i would be awesome if they found other life
Comment icon #2 Posted by Flawsious 12 years ago
Gee I hope they are not predators, yikes
Comment icon #3 Posted by Psycho78 12 years ago
Aside from the fact that this article is about inorganic space dust... Of course they are predators, Kaku and Hawkings both announced this fact separately in the same week. I'm sure no one paid them to do that. Don't you watch Hollywood movies? If a species has the technology to travel the stars, the only motivation they can possibly have is the elimination of all sentient beings in the universe. The only proof you need of this is to see what we did to the native Americans (as Hawkings pointed out). Because there is virtually no difference between 15th century Europeans and ETs that are 1000s ... [More]
Comment icon #4 Posted by Spectre1979 12 years ago
Interesting read.
Comment icon #5 Posted by The Id3al Experience 12 years ago
Aside from the fact that this article is about inorganic space dust... Of course they are predators, Kaku and Hawkings both announced this fact separately in the same week. I'm sure no one paid them to do that. Don't you watch Hollywood movies? If a species has the technology to travel the stars, the only motivation they can possibly have is the elimination of all sentient beings in the universe. The only proof you need of this is to see what we did to the native Americans (as Hawkings pointed out). Because there is virtually no difference between 15th century Europeans and ETs that are 1000s ... [More]
Comment icon #6 Posted by encouraged 12 years ago
SW thanks for the nice article. I didn't know that was still going on!
Comment icon #7 Posted by Chaserr 12 years ago
Aside from the fact that this article is about inorganic space dust... Of course they are predators, Kaku and Hawkings both announced this fact separately in the same week. I'm sure no one paid them to do that. Don't you watch Hollywood movies? If a species has the technology to travel the stars, the only motivation they can possibly have is the elimination of all sentient beings in the universe. The only proof you need of this is to see what we did to the native Americans (as Hawkings pointed out). Because there is virtually no difference between 15th century Europeans and ETs that are 1000s ... [More]
Comment icon #8 Posted by Razer 12 years ago
If a species has the technology to travel the stars, the only motivation they can possibly have is the elimination of all sentient beings in the universe. Well that is just false. As imperfect as WE are, if we got the tech tomorrow to travel to other stars we would not do so with the intention to eliminate other forms of life, sentient or not.


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