{"id":2829,"date":"2009-02-16T17:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2009-02-16T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T22:02:37","slug":"the-truth-is-out-there-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-truth-is-out-there-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth is out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed reading science fiction from H. G. Wells to Arthur C Clark; and now the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7893414.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Alien life &#8216;may exist among us&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Never mind Mars, alien life may be thriving right here on Earth, a major science conference has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Our planet may harbour forms of &#8220;weird life&#8221; unrelated to life as we know it, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;shadow life&#8221; may be hidden in toxic arsenic lakes or in boiling deep sea hydrothermal vents, he says.<\/p>\n<p>He has called on scientists to launch a &#8220;mission to Earth&#8221; by trawling hostile environments for signs of bio-activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could be right in front of our noses &#8211; or even in our noses,&#8221; said the physicist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After a good deal of digging, I have discovered an alien life form that lives up people&#8217;s noses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Here it is:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2830 aligncenter\" title=\"bishop michael bird sporting his new dentures\" src=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/birdie2.jpg\" alt=\"birdie2\" width=\"223\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always enjoyed reading science fiction from H. G. Wells to Arthur C Clark; and now the BBC: Alien life &#8216;may exist among us&#8217; Never mind Mars, alien life may be thriving right here on Earth, a major science conference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-truth-is-out-there-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[1400,2245],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-satire","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}