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Post by auntym on Apr 18, 2011 10:45:18 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/2pVsoD/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/from-the-x-file-dept-did-life-have-multiple-origins-in-the-universe-.htmlFrom the 'X-Files' Dept: "Life May have had Multiple Origins in the Universe"April 18, 2011 Life originated in a nebular cloud, over 10 billion years ago, but may have had multiple origins in multiple locations, including in galaxies older than the Milky Way according to Rudolf Schild of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Rhawn Joseph of the Brain Research Laboratory. Multiple origins, they believe, could account for the different domains of life: archae, bacteria, eukaryotes. The first steps toward life may have been achieved when self-replicating nano-particles initially comprised of a mixture of carbon, calcium, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, sugars, and other elements and gasses were combined and radiated, forming a nucleus around which a lipid-like permeable membrane was established, and within which DNA-bases were laddered together with phosphates and sugars, a process which may have taken billions of years. DNA-based life, they propose, may be a "cosmic imperative" such that life can only achieve life upon acquiring a DNA genome. Alternatively, the "Universal Genetic Code" may have won out over inferior codes through natural selection. When the first microbe evolved, it immediately began multiplying and spreading throughout the cosmos via panspermia carried by solar winds, Bolide impact, comets, ejection of living planets prior to supernova which are then captured by a newly forming solar system, galactic collisions and following the exchange of stars between galaxies. Bacteria, archae, and viruses act as intergalactic genetic messengers, acquiring genes from and transferring genes to life forms dwelling on other planets. Viruses also serve as gene depositories, storing vast numbers of genes which may be transferred to archae and bacteria depending on cellular needs. The acquisition of these genes from the denizens of other worlds, enables prokaryotes and viruses to immediately adapt to the most extreme environments, including those that might be encountered on other planets. Whether the universe was created by a Big Bang Universe or an Eternal Infinite Universe, once life was established it began to evolve. Archae, bacteria, and viruses may have combined and mixed genes, fashioning the first multi-cellular eukaryote which continued to evolve. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on May 2, 2011 17:45:06 GMT -6
news.discovery.com/space/space-forensics-might-point-to-a-martian-ancestry-110326.html Space Forensics Might Point to a Martian Ancestry Analysis by Ray Villard Sat Mar 26, 2011 06:03 PM ET Our search for life beyond Earth could take us down the road to a shocking look into the mirror -- a climax straight out of a Twilight Zone plot. A team of researchers at MIT is proposing to apply forensic science testing on the Martian surface. Specifically, the task would be to do DNA and RNA sequencing on Martian microbes (if they exist) to see if they share a common genetic origin with us. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2011 0:46:17 GMT -6
I'll bet in time we find that much of life has the same building blocks. According to the Bible..we all come from the same stuff.
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Post by skywalker on May 3, 2011 12:17:08 GMT -6
I agree, Jo. I think life spreads from one planet to another throughout the galaxy...possibly even from one galaxy to another. I think it was designed like that to ensure that life survives. If one planet becomes uninhabitable then life will flourish on another. It always spreads and adapts to changing conditions so it doesn't become extinct.
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Post by paulette on May 3, 2011 14:52:32 GMT -6
Another reason not to keep those Mars rocks on the shelf over one's bed...
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2011 15:47:34 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on May 11, 2011 20:44:52 GMT -6
www.unknowncountry.com/news/are-we-hybridsAre We Hybrids?Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Are we hybrids? If early humans interbred with Neanderthals, we are (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Some scientists say this happened and some say it didn't (and if you're a redhead, you especially want to know the answer to this). Now researchers have finally (?) decided that this never happened, because Neanderthals and modern humans weren't living in the same place and thus could not have connected. Paleontologists once thought that Neanderthals perished almost immediately when they came into contact with modern humans, who entered Europe around 44,000 years ago. Neanderthals bones dating to 29,000 years ago have been found, meaning that the two species could have interacted and interbred. But improved carbon dating methods show that most of Neanderthal bones are actually at least a 10 thousand years older than that, meaning that the two groups were never together in the same place at the same time. In the May 10th edition of the New York Times, Nicholas Wade quotes researcher Thomas F. G. Higham as saying, "It's only with reliable techniques that we can interpret the archaeological past." Wade writes: "(Higham) is re-dating Neanderthal sites across Europe and so far sees no evidence for any extensive overlap between Neanderthals and modern humans." He quotes him as saying, "There was a degree of contemporaneity, but it may not have been very long." TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by skywalker on May 11, 2011 21:40:33 GMT -6
I don't know if there was any interbreeding going on between the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens but I do believe the two groups came into contact with one another. I think that this is what eventually caused the Neanderthals to go extinct--they were wiped out by modern humans.
Studies have been done that show that some people who are alive today do have genetic similarities to the neanderthals but since both species of hominids evolved from a common ancestor at some point in the past it would be natural for some humans to share a closer bond to the neanderthals than others do.
While it is possible that some interbreeding did occur between the two groups, whether or not they could produce viable offspring is another unansweraable question.
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Post by auntym on Jun 3, 2011 15:23:33 GMT -6
www.huliq.com/10282/ufo-sightings-help-astrobiologists-crack-extraterrestrial-barrier-earthUFO sightings help astrobiologists crack the extraterrestrial barrier on EarthSubmitted by Dave Masko on 2011-06-01 "What if life was planted here on Earth, and it rode in on an asteroid or was put here by aliens," says Dr. David Eagleman during a May 31 NPR interview. At the same time, Eagleman - a neuroscientist who directs the Laboratory of Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas - says “physics tells us there are somewhere between nine and 13 spatial dimensions, so what if there were whole civilizations living between dimensions five and eight?” New scientific breakthroughs in how the human brain works has promoted Dr. David Eagleman to speak frankly about the idea that aliens “planted life here on Earth.” Also, there are dozens of Oregon UFO “watchers” scanning the sky here at Bray’s Point along the central Oregon coast who join hundreds of scientists who’ve pioneered the study of UFOs and alien life under the title “astrobiology.” For instance, leading scientists at Cambridge University in England first coined the term “astrobiology” in the landmark report “Planets and Life: The Emerging Science of Astrobiology,” that’s become a key part of the recently released stash of 8,500 British UFO document that link tens of thousands other UFO documents, and point to lucid accounts of “Greys,” to describe extraterrestrial beings that have visited the Earth for thousands of years. The existence of “Greys” and other aliens is revealed in both the recently released British UFO documents, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) “the Vault” online UFO files. This story is number 11 in an occasional series of reports about what the secret British UFO files contain, and what new information these documents reveal. Astrobiology scientists hunting down Greys and other ET beings on Earth “They move in gangs, and live in nondescript homes and buildings. They are not the ‘Greys’ but alien beings who’ve morphed into human form, living here on Earth for thousands of years,” states a 1974 Oregon UFO “watcher” essay -- that’s viewed by this group of UFO hunters that frequents Bray’s Point -- as “our guidance” for searching, and then making contact with alien life. At the same time scientists have hunted down and identified “exoplanets,” that Washington Post national editor Marc Kaufman describes in his new book “First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth,” as “those mysterious balls in the universe that orbit distant suns not too different from our own.” Kaufman also writes that scientists “have discovered extremophiles, the extraordinary microbes that thrive in the environments of intense heat or cold that mimic the inhospitable conditions of other planets.” Moreover, Kaufman notes that NASA scientists “have landed rovers on Mars and detected it methane, a possible signature of past life.” In turn, these UFO and alien hunters – astrobiologists – are described as a “new generation of out-of-the-box researchers, adventures, and thinkers who are part Carl Sagan, part Indiana Jones, part Watson and Crick, and part forensic specialists on CSI:Mars,” writes Kaufman in his best seller about making first contact with aliens now in 2011. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Jun 29, 2011 21:57:05 GMT -6
www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028181.700-evolution-machine-genetic-engineering-on-fast-forward.html?full=true&print=trueEvolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward * 27 June 2011 by Jo Marchant * Magazine issue 2818. Automated genetic tinkering is just the start – this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans IT IS a strange combination of clumsiness and beauty. Sitting on a cheap-looking worktop is a motley ensemble of flasks, trays and tubes squeezed onto a home-made frame. Arrays of empty pipette tips wait expectantly. Bunches of black and grey wires adorn its corners. On the top, robotic arms slide purposefully back and forth along metal tracks, dropping liquids from one compartment to another in an intricately choreographed dance. Inside, bacteria are shunted through slim plastic tubes, and alternately coddled, chilled and electrocuted. The whole assembly is about a metre and a half across, and controlled by an ordinary computer. Say hello to the evolution machine. It can achieve in days what takes genetic engineers years. So far it is just a prototype, but if its proponents are to be believed, future versions could revolutionise biology, allowing us to evolve new organisms or rewrite whole genomes with ease. It might even transform humanity itself. These days everything from your food and clothes to the medicines you take may well come from genetically modified plants or bacteria. The first generation of engineered organisms has been a huge hit with farmers and manufacturers - if not consumers. And this is just the start. So far organisms have only been changed in relatively crude and simple ways, often involving just one or two genes. To achieve their grander ambitions, such as creating algae capable of churning out fuel for cars, genetic engineers are now trying to make far more sweeping changes. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Sept 19, 2011 12:06:00 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/2sshBa/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/09/the-dark-genome-key-to-human-species-survival-for-75-million-years.htmlSeptember 19, 2011 The 'Dark Genome' -- Key to Human Species Survival for 75 Million Years?[/color] Crowd-of-business-people-blurred The importance of what scientists are calling the “dark genome” became apparent in 2001, when the human genome was first published. Scientists expected to find as many as 100,000 genes packed into the 3 billion bases of human DNA; they were startled to learn that there were fewer than 35,000. (The current count is 21,000.) Protein-coding regions accounted for just 1.5% of the genome. Could the rest of our DNA really just be junk? Far from being humble messengers, RNAs of all shapes and sizes are now seen to be powerful players in how genomes operate. In fact, gene regulation has turned out to be a surprisingly complex process governed by various types of regulatory DNA, which may lie deep in the wilderness of supposed “junk.” Far from being humble messengers, RNAs of all shapes and sizes are actually powerful players in how genomes operate. There's been increasing recognition of the widespread role of chemical alterations called epigenetic factors that can influence the genome across generations without changing the DNA sequence itself. The deciphering of the mouse genome in 2002 showed that there was an untold story. Mice and people turned out to share not only many genes but also vast stretches of noncoding DNA. To have been “conserved” throughout the 75 million years since the mouse and human lineages diverged, those regions were likely to be crucial to the organisms' survival. Edward Rubin and Len Pennacchio of the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, and colleagues figured out that some of this conserved DNA helps regulate genes, sometimes from afar, by testing it for function in transgenic mouse embryos. Studies by the group and others suggested that noncoding regions were littered with much more regulatory DNA than expected. Further evidence that noncoding DNA is vital, has come from studies of genetic risk factors for disease. In large-scale searches for single-base differences between diseased and healthy individuals, about 40% of the disease-related differences show up outside of genes. Genetic dark matter also surfaced when scientists surveyed exactly which DNA was being transcribed, or decoded, into RNA. Scientists thought that most RNA in a cell was messenger RNA generated by protein-coding genes, RNA in ribosomes, or a sprinkling of other RNA elsewhere. But surveys by Thomas Gingeras, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, and Michael Snyder, now at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, found a lot more RNA than expected, as did an analysis of mouse RNA by Yoshihide Hayashizaki of the RIKEN Omics Science Center in Japan and colleagues. CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/2sshBa/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/09/the-dark-genome-key-to-human-species-survival-for-75-million-years.html
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Post by lois on Sept 19, 2011 20:17:46 GMT -6
Well....., if I can join up with a mouse, I can probaby share Genes with alien lifeforms for sure..
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Post by auntym on Dec 1, 2011 19:13:33 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jan 17, 2012 20:48:50 GMT -6
ancientvisitors.blogspot.com/2011/08/ancient-alien-dna-manipulation.html Ancient alien DNA manipulationANCIENT ALIENS - The number of genes in humans is disappointing. Studies have been revealing for some time now, that humans share an overwhelming amount of genes with the smallest of animals. For example, 60 percent of genes are found in humans as well as flies. A core set is simply the same. On the other hand, humans seem to unique. Genes are just one part of the genome, the organism’s hereditary information. A genome also includes non-coding sequences of the DNA. Like many species, humans have many such sequences. Their existence in any species is not yet fully understood, but in humans there is an added mystery. These DNA parts do not seem to have evolved logically from those found in other species. They seem to have been inserted at a recent moment on the evolutionary timeline. Now think of how far scientists have already come in DNA manipulation. They are able to switch on non-active genes for example in chickens, making them grow teeth and a tail like (tiny) dinosaurs. Gene synthesizers already exist, machines that actually generate DNA. CONTINUE READING: ancientvisitors.blogspot.com/2011/08/ancient-alien-dna-manipulation.html
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Post by auntym on Mar 16, 2012 21:36:03 GMT -6
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46748344/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Did life on Earth actually come from the Red Planet?[/color] Mars is dry now, but it might have been more habitable than our planet billions of years ago By Irene Klotz DISCOVERY NEWS updated 3/15/2012 Given the same raw materials, Mars would have been a better host for life to arise than Earth, which some scientists believe was too flooded for the chemistry of life to gain a toehold. Without at least occasional dry land, the chemistry needed to get life started doesn’t work very well because the molecules to support genetics, such as RNA, are chemically unstable in many ways, particularly in water. That raises a problem, because life, at least as we know it today, seems to require water. "How is it possible that the chemicals that we now have supporting modern life, which is so unstable in water, could have arisen in water?" biochemist Steven Benner, head of the Foundation For Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainsville, Fla., told Discovery News. The answer could be that life evolved in places that occasionally dried out. "You can get RNA and its building blocks to be stable in an Earth-like environment, provided you put them into some environment that is deficient in water," Benner said, pointing to a place like Death Valley, where there is intermittent rainfall to provide organic compounds from the atmosphere as well as cycles of dryness. "If you get building blocks for RNA, you get genetics and you're off to the races. You've got life," Benner said. But there's a catch. Scientists who model what early Earth was like believe the planet had no dry spots. It was a water world, similar to what was portrayed in the Kevin Costner movie of the same name. "If Earth had two or three times the amount of water that it has now, there'd be no dry land sticking up," geophysicist Norman Sleep with Stanford University, told Discovery News. The nearest place that fits the bill is Mars. Though dry today, Mars is believed to have had liquid surface water in the past, albeit never in the amounts found on Earth. CONTINUE READING: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46748344/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2012 1:00:05 GMT -6
You know..what keeps me going in the darkest moment (we all have them) is that I know without a doubt that tomorrow could be the most amazing miraculous day EVER. We are subject to change (even instantaneously) without notice and I'd guess that goes for the rest of the universe too. Mars could have housed an entire population once upon a time until something changed. The second most amazing thing is that there isn't any limit to what we can speculate ;D
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Post by skywalker on May 23, 2012 11:12:25 GMT -6
I'm going to speculate that people will continue speculating. ;D
About Mars seeding the life on the Earth that is a distinct possibility. Being smaller and further from the sun Mars would have cooled off quicker than the earth which would mean that life probably would have formed there first then gradually made it's way over to the earth later on.
Some other place might have seeded Mars though. Maybe a planet that is not even within our solar system.
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Post by lois on May 23, 2012 16:35:07 GMT -6
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February 06, 2008 DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties
DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.
Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.
Even so, the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.
In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences. No one knows how individual DNA strands could possibly be communicating in this way, yet somehow they do. The “telepathic” effect is a source of wonder and amazement for scientists.
“Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA,” said the authors Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues.
This recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issue
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Post by skywalker on May 23, 2012 22:15:04 GMT -6
Telepathic DNA...what will they think of next? Naturally the scientists all said that it was impossible. It's always been my opinion that there is no such thing as impossible. That's a good article, Shami. I think that a possible explanation for how these DNAs communicate without coming into contact with each other may be that since they were designed and programmed by God that maybe he is giving them their instructions. I know that is not exactly a "scientific" explanation but it is no more improbable than anything the scientists can come up with.
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Post by auntym on Jun 11, 2012 10:50:13 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Cvt43/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/-ridley-scotts-prometheus-suggests-dna-may-be-a-constant-in-the-universe-richard-dawkins-and-other-s.htmlJune 10, 2012 Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" Suggests DNA May Be a Constant in the Universe --Richard Dawkins and Other Scientists Agree[/color] Mathematical analysis says that life as we know it is written into the laws of reality. DNA is built from a set of twenty amino acids - the first ten of those can create simple prebiotic life, and it seems that those ten are thermodynamically destined to occur wherever they can. For those unfamiliar with thermodynamics, it's the Big Brother of all energy equations and science itself. You can apply quantum mechanics at certain scales, and Newtonian mechanics work at the right speeds, but if Thermodynamics says something then everyone listens. An energy analysis by Professors Pudritz and Higgs of McMaster University showed that the first ten amino acids are likely to form at relatively low temperatures and pressures, and the calculated odds of formation match the concentrations of these life-chemicals found in meteorite samples. They also match those in simulations of early Earth, and most critically, those simulations were performed by other people. The implications are staggering: good news for anyone worried about how we're alone, and bad news for anyone who demands some kind of "Designer" to put life together - it seems that physics can assemble the organic jigsaw all by itself, thank you very much, and has probably done so throughout space since the beginning of everything. The study indicated that you don't need a miracle to arrive at the chemical cocktail for early life, just a decently large asteroid with the right components. That's all. The entire universe could be stuffed with life, from the earliest prebiotic protein-a-likes to fully DNAed descendants. The path from one to the other is long, but we've had thirteen and a half billion years so far and it's happened at least once. The other ten amino acids aren't as easy to form, but they'll still turn up - and the process of "stepwise evolution" means that once the simpler systems work, they can grab the rarer "epic drops" of more sophisticated chemicals as they occur - kind of a World of Lifecraft except you literally get a life when you play. And once even the most sophisticated structure is part of a replicating organism, there's plenty to go round. It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in order to make us. "It is just that without stars there would be no atoms heavier than lithium in the periodic table," Dawkins writes in The Ancestors Tale -A Pilgramage to the Dawn of Evolution, "and a chemistry of only three elements is too impoverished to support life. Seeing is the kind of activity that can go on only in the kind of universe where what you see is stars." Uploaded by PiroNiro on Sep 29, 2008 Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday, August 11, 2008. The interview was conducted by Paula Kirby. CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Cvt43/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/06/-ridley-scotts-prometheus-suggests-dna-may-be-a-constant-in-the-universe-richard-dawkins-and-other-s.html
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Post by paulette on Jun 11, 2012 18:52:25 GMT -6
Interesting SPECULATION. Based on what we know (obviously). An articulate man who is suggesting that we are not a unique occurance in the universe. Well...as humans we have our uniqueness but it isn't all and only about us. Here. 3rd rate star in a small spiral of a galaxy that exists surrounded by billions of galaxies (maybe uncountable numbers), stars, planets and yes, IMO life. And therefore why not sentient life???
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Post by skywalker on Jun 11, 2012 21:03:32 GMT -6
I have been saying this same thing for years. Life can spread from one planet to the next, from one solar system to the next so all DNA would be related.
I also heard Neil Tyson speculate once that not only is life capable of evolving in different places but that it may be an inevitable consequence of physics. In other words, any place that is capable of supporting life eventually will evolve life.
It kind of makes you look at the universe differently doesn't it? People used to think that the Earth was the only planet with life on it and now we are finding out that all planets may have life. The universe could be teaming with life just like the Earth is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2012 0:50:10 GMT -6
I have been saying this same thing for years. Life can spread from one planet to the next, from one solar system to the next so all DNA would be related. I also heard Neil Tyson speculate once that not only is life capable of evolving in different places but that it may be an inevitable consequence of physics. In other words, any place that is capable of supporting life eventually will evolve life. It kind of makes you look at the universe differently doesn't it? People used to think that the Earth was the only planet with life on it and now we are finding out that all planets may have life. The universe could be teaming with life just like the Earth is. *teeming with life ;D ~hides~
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Post by skywalker on Jun 12, 2012 8:12:46 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jun 19, 2012 11:15:55 GMT -6
ANNUNAKI THE MISSING LINK
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'teaming up with life' Nit-picky Amazonian ice princess (giggles to let you know I'm kidding). Some kind of planetary Johnny Appleseed planting a 'tree' here and there along the way. I'm sure it would have to depend on the structure of the planet. If the conditions are too strange (comparatively speaking) different results. I might look like a lovely canary elsewhere or a buzzard ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 16:38:36 GMT -6
'teaming up with life' Nit-picky Amazonian ice princess (giggles to let you know I'm kidding). Some kind of planetary Johnny Appleseed planting a 'tree' here and there along the way. I'm sure it would have to depend on the structure of the planet. If the conditions are too strange (comparatively speaking) different results. I might look like a lovely canary elsewhere or a buzzard ;D Buzzards are cool. I just like to mess with sky, hehehehe... I usually don't make a habit of correcting people unless I'm playing around or unless the person in question is someone I don't like... lord knows I've made mistakes on here as well... many times...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2012 0:54:43 GMT -6
Yep..and Sky needs to keep on his tosies Interesting fact about buzzards and why I admire them (from a hugeeee distance). Their main defense is that if a predator gets too close..they vomit on it. Consider what a buzzard eats and well...can't be pretty. Gotta love Mama nature..she pulls some brilliant ones
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Post by auntym on Jun 25, 2012 12:57:11 GMT -6
www.lfpress.com/comment/columnists/dan_brown/2012/06/24/19915651.html An old idea makes a comeback: Did aliens create the human race?[/color] By DAN BROWN, The London Free Press Last Updated: June 24, 2012 If you’ve read my blog or any of my previous columns, you’ll know I’m a big fan of 1970s pop culture. For whatever reason or non-reason, it’s my favourite decade. So you won’t be surprised to learn I was really looking forward to the release of Prometheus earlier this month. Not only is the new Ridley Scott film a prequel to 1979’s Alien, the motion picture that disturbed some audience members so deeply there were reports of vomiting in theatre aisles, but its central theme also reeks of the Me Decade. I’m not really giving anything away when I say the opening scene of Prometheus depicts an alien visitation in Earth’s distant past. The implication is that life on this planet is a result of an extraterrestrial intervention -- we all came from a weird test tube, more or less. That was a popular idea four decades ago. It was floated in various forms in the pop culture of the day and I’m happy to see it making a comeback. It was back then that Erich Von Daniken’s book Chariots of the Gods? became a best-seller several times over. Von Daniken claimed ancient civilizations had been visited by otherworldly astronauts and his pulpy paperback presented numerous time-worn landmarks as evidence of landing strips for their flying saucers, an argument which caused a sensation. Chariots of the Gods? was originally published in 1968. The same year saw the release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which showed how a featureless monolith from across the galaxy provided the evolutionary spark that allowed humanity to progress from dumbass ape to tool user to space-faring being. By the time the 1970s arrived in earnest, comic creator Jack Kirby had picked up the same themes in Marvel titles such as The Eternals, which featured celestial beings – “space gods” -- who used prehistoric Earth as a laboratory for breeding different races. One test of the validity of a concept is its endurance. A good idea never dies because it gets resurrected by succeeding generations (I suppose you could say the same thing about a bad idea). I would argue this notion hasn’t gone away because there are enough people who are dissatisfied with the slender selection of alternatives. How did life begin? The conventional wisdom is there are only two explanations, either you put your faith in creationism or the theory of evolution. As frequent readers also know, I’m rarely satisfied with the conventional wisdom. I refuse to believe there are only two possible options for answering the most fundamental question in the history of human thinking. There’s got to be other ways of explaining how we originated. There are enough people who agree with me, which is why the alien-visitation theory keeps popping up every few decades. CONTINUE READING: www.lfpress.com/comment/columnists/dan_brown/2012/06/24/19915651.html
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 16:23:44 GMT -6
Nah..that was the creator's job...possibly one he regrets...but turning 'aliens' into God is a big mistake I think. If I figured I needed to worship those things I ran into..I'm jumping ship. Truthfully..I love it that God is the biggest mystery of all..and the very nature of 'faith' is belief in what isn't proven. There was a time when mankind needed all sorts of gods and goddesses and had contact with them (sometimes a bit more than they wanted) but there was some god for every occasion. Or maybe the real answer is that God IS the supreme alien since the definition of alien is: 'unknown'...'Wholly different in nature' 'exotic'....differing in nature or character typically to the point of incompatibility' . I suppose in many ways God fits the definition of an extraterrestrial since he doesn't get his mail here.
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