[seahorse2]

Anyone see this article? Anyone care to comment on the article, the people quoted, the "human genome project"? I'm curious about this, but not very scientific. I got a D in high school biology and called it quits.

Human Genome Project

[NEOPO]

If true this would reconcile evolution and creationism.

[J-Rod]

I don't know how they can extrapolate that the DNA code is extraterrestrial in origin without something to compare it to. Then again, I am ignorant to biology at that level. I suppose it is something like a programmer looking at a full source code, and seeing the greater design. It's also interesting that it seems like biological science is backing up the archaeological findings by Zecharia Sitchin, they reach the same conclusion through different means.

[seahorse]

First, I was trying to find out if this article is even correct. I tried to pull up the genome project on the web to see if it was accurate but couldn't find anything. I also don't know anything about this "news" source. For all I know, it could be the equivalent of the Star Magazine in the States. If anyone knows anything about the news source or the information quoted attributed to the Genome project, I would appreciate it. I like to follow up on any science that challenges our current way of thinking, but most often it turns out to be junk. Good science evolves about as slowly as mankind.

[NEOPO]

Of course and so true.
I found a few relevant articles.

Alien message 'may be in our DNA'

Message for the curious: please phone ET, at home

[cynicalheretic]

Maybe, just maybe the Stargate is real

[J-Rod]

I liked that second article, Neo. Good find.

[gego]

Judging by some of the post on this site, I think one could conclude that some of us are still in outer space.

[seahorse2]

Depends on what the definition of "is" is.

[Kingcoal]

I'm an alien, I guess my secret is out now. BOW DOWN, WORSHIP ME!!! YOU ARE ALL UNWORTHY AND WILL BE ANNIHILATED!!!

[Aaron]

I for one welcome our new... yada yada yada.

I got nuthin.

[gego]

When SETI at home first began distributing data sets to people to run on on their home computers I volunteered and ran data for quite some time. I quit after a while when there were no results, and after I started reading more about peak oil. The thought crossed my mind that maybe what was happening here on earth had happened elsewhere in the universe multiple times, and that other civilizations had blown through their own energy reserves giving rise to just a short period of industry, electricity, radio wave emissions etc.

Maybe this is a common happening in the universe. Maybe the universe operates at too low an energy level for current energy received anywhere to be high enough to support anything but stone age existence, except for the little flicker when we ignite the stored energy savings account. The fire from our binge is hardly noticeable except to us.

We certainly are not alone in the universe, but maybe this little point in time at the zenith of our technology is as far as the laws of nature allow.

[TITAN]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'W')hen SETI at home first began distributing data sets to people to run on on their home computers I volunteered and ran data for quite some time. I quit after a while when there were no results, and after I started reading more about peak oil. The thought crossed my mind that maybe what was happening here on earth had happened elsewhere in the universe multiple times, and that other civilizations had blown through their own energy reserves giving rise to just a short period of industry, electricity, radio wave emissions etc.

Maybe this is a common happening in the universe. Maybe the universe operates at too low an energy level for current energy received anywhere to be high enough to support anything but stone age existence, except for the little flicker when we ignite the stored energy savings account. The fire from our binge is hardly noticeable except to us.

We certainly are not alone in the universe, but maybe this little point in time at the zenith of our technology is as far as the laws of nature allow.

[gego]

I hope I can remember enough of this idea that I read many years ago that does support the idea that DNA is extraterrestrial, but not in the way you might thing. This is my memory of someone else's idea:

The earth is continuously being hit by waves from elsewhere in the universe. Locally the sun has a significant impact, but there are also waves coming from much farther away, both in our galaxy and elsewhere. The closer, the more impact they potentially can have.

At the time that life began to form here on earth in the sea of chemicals, these waves of energy were causing atoms to vibrate, just as they do today, and just as electrical waves cause neon to vibrate in a neon light, for example. These primitive combinations of chemicals were energized to some extent, by waves of energy of many sizes arriving from many places. Some of these waves would have little effect on some atoms because the size did not match. Some of the waves arriving from deep space were of appropriate size to match. The chemical combinations that occurred randomly were subject to natural selection so that those that were fostered by the existing environment (including the arriving electromagnetic spectrum) had a tendency to recur. Those combinations that had a tendency to break apart after becoming too large, and then attract similar components would again "grow".

Part of the environment was the spinning of the earth that would give a recurring, but changing environment to the emerging chemical combinations. The chemicals would alternatively be subjected to direct waves (radiation) from space and then shielded as the part of the earth where they were located faced away from that direction. This gave rise to the spiral shape of these chemical bonds as they were pulled in a twist by the energy arriving from space, and the motion of the earth spin.

That is more or less what I remember, but the guy thought that energy waves arriving from deep space had a significant influence on the emergence of life and the DNA spiral. Perhaps I did not remember or explain well, the entire theory, but in general that was it. I have no clue if this is close to reality or not, but I find it interesting that energy from deep space could have had some input on our design.

[PolestaR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'M')aybe this is a common happening in the universe. Maybe the universe operates at too low an energy level for current energy received anywhere to be high enough to support anything but stone age existence, except for the little flicker when we ignite the stored energy savings account. The fire from our binge is hardly noticeable except to us.

We certainly are not alone in the universe, but maybe this little point in time at the zenith of our technology is as far as the laws of nature allow.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '
')Now someone has gone to the trouble to link the binary star system to a strand of DNA.
But that is not so far fetched an idea, as you may believe.

[JustinFrankl]

On one hand, since the Earth is a part of the universe it inhabits, not seperate from it, it isn't unreasonable to assume that some kind of extraterrestrial influence affected the evolution of life on this planet. Cosmic rays, meteors. On the other hand, "extraterrestrial" usually connotes some kind of intelligent meddling, as in "aliens". We have no proof of alien life, much less alien life with technology, much less with technology and motive, so the claim of "extraterrestrial" falls a bit outside the suspension of disbelief.

I think for most people, belief in ET, or angels, or most religion, boils down to, "someone out there has the answer to our problems".

Wouldn't it be nice if we carried the solution to our problems within us. And when I say a solution we carry inside us, I'm not talking about a saw-toothed devil that pops out your chest like in Alien.

I am talking about a lot of saw-toothed devils popping out of people's chests.

Because our core problem is too many f*cking people, literally.

edit: "people" typo