So as not to highjack the “Who do I work for?” thread over in GQ, lets discuss here some *Ancient Aliens * theories.
kaylasdad99 was wondering, if monkeys and aliens really crossbreeded to make humnas, where is there DNA now?
I posit that is in the massive amount of the so called junk DNA in our code. I am far to lazy to look it up and cite it, but I learned in cell biology that after our code was cracked, only like 15% of it is “actual genetic code”, the remainder is a mystery. That code is a mystery is because it’s alien.
Another theroy that I can find plausible is that the worlds religions are based on visits from aliens. Gods from the sky stories cross all the worlds cultrues and histories.
One thing I am also too lazy to search for is a timeline built from the Ancient Aliens theroies. Has anyone seen one?
And just because it doesn’t code for specific genes doesn’t actually make it “junk”. It may also control gene expression, cell growth rates, and morphogenesis. It is interesting to note that species in less complicated kingdoms such as Eukayrota (single celled organisms with membranes, a cellular nucleus, and well-developed organelles) have a much smaller proportion of so-called “junk DNA”, and Prokaryota and Archaes (which have no nucleus, often lack a full lipid membrane, and generally have less developed organelles) have considerably less. Viruses (which are not technically alive) have almost no “junk DNA” at all.
And of course, there is the extreme unlikelihood that even if an alien species used the DNA molecule to code the equivalent of its genome, it would be compatible with the human genome.
Stupidest part of Ancient Aliens is the claim that the standing stones at Carnac exist to be a roadmark to get aliens in flying saucers from the middle east toThule.
I would imagine that if you could make flying saucers you wouldn’t need a bunch of rocks to tell you to hook a right to get to your destination. :dubious:
In a futile effort to inject facts into this vast morasse of stupid, I’ll just say that the term “junk DNA” is very quickly becoming meaningless. This:
has been wrong for decades. While it’s true that only a small proportion of our genomes code for proteins, we’ve been going crazy finding out what the rest of it does. The ENCODE project has been in the news lately for figuring out a shitload of it. I won’t go into all of what’s been figured out. Suffice it to say that the “junk” term was stupid from day one, and most biologists I know wish that it had never been coined. The only parts that we really think are genuinely useless are the long stretches of highly repetitive DNA that clearly hold no information. Even then, they may be serving structural purposes - keeping coding sequences separated in 3D space, for instance.
Also, the idea that somehow alien DNA has been mixed with earth DNA is just mind-bogglingly idiotic. There’s just no freaking way that our genome would be compatible with an alien genome. No way. And even if you ignore that, the idea that our genomes could hold all that alien information without us being able to detect it is even more mind-bogglingly idiotic. We can read our genomes now. We can compare to other organisms and see exactly where all of it came from and how it got there. I think many lay people haven’t yet grasped just how advanced these techniques are. Given enough population genetic data, we can literally go from single nucleotide to single nucleotide and tell you the evolutionary history of that single letter. If stretches of DNA sequence suddenly popped into existence from aliens, they would immediately pop out like a giant sore thumb.
The ONLY way we could share any sort of genetic information or structure with an extraterrestrial life form is if life itself originated on another planet, in which case every organism on earth would be equally extraterrestrial in nature. The idea that humans have been altered, but nothing else on earth has been, is just simply impossible. It has been clearly proven wrong.
smeghead, thanks for your reply. I think that you have hit the nail on the head when you say
. Non-cellular biologists do not understand this subject, and TV can fill in the blanks.
Now that we’ve discussed alien DNA, how about the Angels and Aliens episode? This one says that all our stories of angels, and of god and heaven above, can be traced back to actual, living creatures that decended from the sky in times past. That the humans that were on the recieving end of these encounters did not understand that these creatures were from another planet, and attributed god-like status to them. And as time passed, we built our religions around these stories.
From a scientific perspective, it’s just…nothing. There’s not the tiniest shred of evidence to support the idea. It’s like if someone says the whole universe is really just the filling of some giant being’s sandwich. It’s not testable, it’s not falsifiable. It’s just…an idea. As such, it deserves no more serious respect or consideration than any of the millions of other baseless, evidenceless ideas that drunk, high, and/or bored humans have been coming up with for the last few tens of thousands of years.
Alien evolve on distance planet
1a. Humans evolve on Earth
Aliens manage to achieve spaceflight
Aliens manage to achieve interstellar space flight
Alien travel hundreds to thousands of light years to earth
Aliens find an evolved primate capable of rationalization that excels at pattern recognition
Aliens land, meet the primates and may or may not have had sex with them.
6a. Assumption being that aliens from a completely separate evolutionary chain can have sex with said primate.
Primates build religious figures around Aliens
Aliens leave and leave no obvious traces
While the rest of us would likely go with :
Human evolve on Earth
Human recognize patterns in nature and rationalize intent behind them
Humans retroactively apply supernatural endorsements of public figures
3a. Some humans intentional take the trappings of supernatural endorsements for status purposes
Human beings have shown they can, will, and do have sex with just about anything that sits still long enough (and many that don’t), including family members, animals, plants, appliances, and who knows what else.