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Did life exist before the Earth itself?
Life existed long before Earth came into being, and may have originated outside our solar system, scientists claim.
Researchers say life first appeared about 10 billion years ago - long before Earth, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years old.
Geneticists have applied Moore's Law - observation that computers increase exponentially in complexity, at a rate of about double the transistors per integrated circuit every two years - to the rate at which life on Earth grows in complexity.
Alexei Sharov of the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore, and Richard Gordon of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida, replaced the transistors with nucleotides - the building blocks of DNA and RNA - and the circuits with genetic material.
Their findings suggest life first appeared about 10 billion years ago, far older than the Earth's projected age of 4.5 billion years, 'TechNewsDaily' reported.
Like in the 2012 sci-fi movie Prometheus, as our solar system was forming, pre-existing bacteria-like organisms, or even simple nucleotides from an older part of the galaxy, could have reached Earth by hitching an interstellar ride on comets, asteroids or other inorganic space debris.
However, the calculations are not a scientific proof that life predates Earth - there's no way of knowing for sure that organic complexity increased at a steady rate at any point in the universe's history.
"There are lots of hypothetical elements to (our argument) ... But to make a wider view, you need some hypothetical elements," Sharov said.
Sharov said that if he had to bet on it, he'd say "it's 99 per cent true that life started before Earth - but we should leave one per cent for some wild chance that we haven't accounted for."
The theory of "life before Earth," if found true, debunks the long-held science-fiction trope of the scientifically advanced alien species.
Moreover, if genetic complexity progresses at a steady rate, then the social and scientific development of any other alien life form in the Milky Way galaxy would be roughly equivalent to those of humans, the report said.
"Contamination with bacterial spores from space appears the most plausible hypothesis that explains the early appearance of life on Earth," researchers said.
Researchers say life first appeared about 10 billion years ago - long before Earth, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years old.
Geneticists have applied Moore's Law - observation that computers increase exponentially in complexity, at a rate of about double the transistors per integrated circuit every two years - to the rate at which life on Earth grows in complexity.
Alexei Sharov of the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore, and Richard Gordon of the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida, replaced the transistors with nucleotides - the building blocks of DNA and RNA - and the circuits with genetic material.
Their findings suggest life first appeared about 10 billion years ago, far older than the Earth's projected age of 4.5 billion years, 'TechNewsDaily' reported.
Like in the 2012 sci-fi movie Prometheus, as our solar system was forming, pre-existing bacteria-like organisms, or even simple nucleotides from an older part of the galaxy, could have reached Earth by hitching an interstellar ride on comets, asteroids or other inorganic space debris.
However, the calculations are not a scientific proof that life predates Earth - there's no way of knowing for sure that organic complexity increased at a steady rate at any point in the universe's history.
"There are lots of hypothetical elements to (our argument) ... But to make a wider view, you need some hypothetical elements," Sharov said.
Sharov said that if he had to bet on it, he'd say "it's 99 per cent true that life started before Earth - but we should leave one per cent for some wild chance that we haven't accounted for."
The theory of "life before Earth," if found true, debunks the long-held science-fiction trope of the scientifically advanced alien species.
Moreover, if genetic complexity progresses at a steady rate, then the social and scientific development of any other alien life form in the Milky Way galaxy would be roughly equivalent to those of humans, the report said.
"Contamination with bacterial spores from space appears the most plausible hypothesis that explains the early appearance of life on Earth," researchers said.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Unexplained Mysteries of THE KALPA VIGRAHA
The loss of a small 47 gm ancient Hindu brass-like metal idol of extreme antiquity called the Kalpa Vigraha has caused the American Central Intelligence Agency considerable anxiety. This unusual disclosure was made recently by a retired CIA agent on condition of absolute anonymity. |
Firstly, what was the importance of this idol; what was the CIA doing with an ancient Hindu relic; and why the angst? |
The story begins almost half a century ago. A heavy chest containing the idol was reportedly given to CIA officials for safekeeping at Lo Monthang (called "Mustang" in CIA files) by a Tibetan monk accompanied by Khampa bodyguards sometime in 1959-60. The monk apparently related to the CIA officials the importance of the chest and its contents. A curious CIA official meticulously wrote down the details of what the Buddhist monk told them about the chest and its contents. Why he thought it important to record the Buddhist monk's story is anybody's guess. But it also appears that the Americans were initially not quite impressed with the quaint values attached to objects of Oriental worship at that time when their priority was conducting a guerrilla war against the Chinese forces advancing into Tibet. |
The Kalpa Vigraha is a small crude brass idol weighing about 47.10 gms depicting a deity resembling the Hindu god Shiva kneeling or seated on one knee, a serpant's hood forming a canopy above the head of the idol. In the right hand of the figure was a discus or circular weapon, perhaps the "sudharshan-chakra" of Hindu mythology. Around its neck was a string of beads. The metal formed three "loops" on one side caused by the snake, an arm holding a conch-shell and the discus. It measured about 5.3 cm tall and about 4.7 cms wide, with an oval base 2.5 cms long and 1.7 cms wide. There was no doubt the small statue was of some extreme importance to have been preserved with such care in a chest of such strength and durability. |
But following the translation of the manuscript, events surrounding the Kalpa Vigraha suddenly took a mysterious turn. The UCRL's records were impounded by the CIA and a shroud of silence was cast over all matters regarding the chest and the Hindu idol. "ST Circus Mustang-0183" was removed from the inventory at the CIA storehouse records, and the whole episode was swept under the carpet for some inexplicable reason. |
However, the unnamed source, a retired CIA agent, revealed recently that based on the text of the manuscript found along with the idol, a series of top-secret experiments were conducted by the CIA on unsuspecting human subjects in the United States and elsewhere in the world. According to this unnamed source in Langley, Virginia, an "inner-circle" of the CIA dedicated most of their time in the early 1960s conducting experiments based on the ancient manuscript, and the Kalpa Vigraha idol itself played the most important role in this bizarre research. |
The source, who was partially involved in the research, explained that one of the experiments was particularly intriguing. It required a human subject to consume a tumbler of water each day for 3 days. This water was earlier "charged" by CIA agents by simply placing the idol in a large copper vessel containing drinking water for nine days before the human subject was required to drink it. What results the "inner circle" officials expected to see by this innocuous experiment was not known to anybody at that time, but top CIA officials evinced great interest in it. The "charged" water was also sent to various laboratories under heavy security and all reports and documents received from the labs were sent directly to the CIA director, John McCone. |
The unnamed source also recalled that during this period a number of packages containing literature on homeopathy and ayurveda were received from various parts of the globe and often circulated in the department with markings and footnotes. Barring perhaps the inner-circle, nobody quite knew what this was all about. |
A month later, the source was asked to head a nine-member team consisting mostly of women whose sole task was to feed this water to unsuspecting citizens in the US. They called themselves the "Watering Team". It was not known to the Watering Team whether the subjects to whom the water was to be fed were randomly chosen by the inner-circle officials, but what was certain as the team met up with the target recipients of the water was that they were of all ages- some in their teens, some even past their middle-ages and many being above the age of sixty or sixty-five at least. Detail instructions were handed out as to how they were to go about the "watering". What was also apparent to the team later was that all the subjects were born Americans, both black and white from various walks of life. Many were African American women. The "watering" had to be done without the subjects' knowledge by befriending them or by looking for innocuous opportunities to get them to consume a glass of water for three consecutive days in a row. The team often failed, with some other members of the target recipient's family ending up drinking the water inadvertently. The CIA required them to report such slips also. |
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Soon after the "watering" experiments were completed, the assignment was abruptly called off. In the subsequent years that the unnamed CIA official served in the agency not much was heard or spoken of this experiment, except as a joke. The inner-circle members were deployed to more pressing assignments around the US and the world. The reason for the bizarre experiment was never revealed, neither were the results ever known. Over time it was quite forgotten, and treated as some of the many idiosyncrasies that the CIA indulged in during the cold war years. |
A recent long-distant telephone call from another state in the US on the morning of December 2008 changed all that. The source, now long retired, with great-grandchildren playing around him, was unexpectedly informed one night by another retired agent of the CIA that the Kalpa Vigraha was "missing". The agent who made the call was once a member of the "inner circle", a man who knew what the experiments conducted in the early 1960s was all about. |
As he listened, it took our long-retired CIA source some time to remember what "idol" was being referred to, as today he was more familiar with the popular "American Idol" music competition program he enjoyed watching on TV with his grand and great-grand children. |
"The Hindu idol, my dear Mac (name changed), don't you remember, the one they called the Kalpa Vigraha?" the voice said. "Don't you remember the experiments that put you in charge of the Watering Team assignment? I'm only calling you this morning because I knew for certain that you would be alive and well to hear this news." |
"Ken (name changed), you call me today, thirty-two years after my retirement to tell me about an old forgettable idol that never made sense to any of us! So, what if it's missing? What's the big deal here, Ken?" |
The Big Deal |
The voice at the other end of the phone had an astounding story to tell. |
The inside story of CIA experiments involving the Kalpa Vigraha as revealed to Mac was stuff that would rival even the fictional and immensely popular X-File TV serial. |
Ken the CIA agent who made the telephone call to his former colleague on the morning of December 2008 and who was once a member of the inner-circle was a microbiologist with expertise in immunotherapy when he was initially recruited by the CIA in 1946 to analyze "Lebensborn" data confiscated from Nazi Germany after the downfall of Hitler. Ken was only 38 years old then. That makes him about 100 years old when he made the telephone call to his former CIA colleague Mac (our source), aged 98 years on the morning of December, 2008. |
Ken, the inner-circle CIA agent reminded Mac of the many subjects the CIA had targeted for consumption of the "charged" Kalpa Vigraha water back in 1960-61, many of whom had been fed the water personally by Mac. Mac could recall many of the names and even crossed-checked in his own diary to confirm and refresh his memory of all the people he had surreptitiously befriended to feed the "charged" water. |
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Mac updated and corrected the names on his own list, of people whom his own Watering Team had subjected to the experiments in the United States. In some cases he replaced the word "negro" to "African American" as it is accepted today. Ken would not have him keep the names on the larger list of people world-wide. It was irrelevant, he said. |
Ken also revealed to him that he had learnt many years after he had retired that both he and Mac apart from a dozen other CIA staff had also been unsuspectingly subject to the Kalpa Vigraha experiment before being allotted their watering team assignment. Both men shed tears following this disclosure. It was deeply disturbing now despite the loyalty with which they had served the agency. |
Mac, our source, the now-retired CIA agent who led the Watering Team in the United States chose to disclose his own list to us. But before he did that he removed the names of those test subjects he believed were still alive, as he felt he would not be able to "face" any of them if they were to ever appear on TV against the CIA when the list was published by us. |
The list of those who had died comprised of the following names. What is astonishing is that all the persons whose names Mac gave us had lived to an age of above 110 before they died, some even reaching the age of 115 and above.- |
Fannie Thomas, Sarah Knauss, Mary McKinney, Lucy Hannah, Margaret Skeete, Elizabeth Bolden, Maggie Barnes, Edna Parker, Bettie Wilson, Susie Gibson, Zora Wriggle, Maude Davis Farris-Luse, Delina Filkins, Mathew Beard, Carrie Lazenby, Myrtle Dorsey, Elena Slough, Wilhelmina Geringer Kott, Clara Huhn, Ettie Mae Greene, Emma Verona Johnston, Odie Mathews, Florence Knapp, Irene Frank, Emma Tillman, Grace Thaxton, Minnie Ward, Arbella Ewing, Catherine Hagel, Fred H. Hale, Sr., Bertha Fry, Mae Harrington, Agatha Mitchell, Moses Hardy, Corinne Dixon Taylor, Bettie Chatmon, Mary Christian, Johnson Parks, Mary Parr, John Ingram McMorran, Mary Electa Nobel Bidwell, Martha Graham, Gladys Swetland, Mary Randall, Mary Anna Boone. |
Four names, that of Ruth Golonka, Willie Lee Morgan, Steven Martin and Bert Jenkins were found to be of people who had died "accidentally". Ruth Golonka, died of a car accident, Willie Lee Morgan was murdered. Both Steven Martin and Bert Jenkins had died in Vietnam. |
The Loss of the Kalpa Vigraha |
(The following information was sought and received by us from another source (No. 2) still working in the CIA) |
The Kalpa Vigraha, the CIA store-room inventory item labeled "ST Circus Mustang-0183", was not seen or heard of for many decades. An audit conducted in 1996 revealed that the heavy metal-lined chest was very much in the store, but that the idol and the manuscript had been "misplaced". In a search conducted over many weeks, spanning many states, and enquiries made from many retired personnel, the agency was able to trace the manuscript from the house of a microbiologist the CIA had many years ago hired for analysis of the "charged" kalpa vigraha water. The manuscript was found but the whereabouts of the Kalpa Vigraha is still a mystery. Following the discovery of the manuscript, a spate of mysterious deaths of microbiologists followed. The media and the internet were rife with conspiracy theories on the death of the rather alarming number of them, but few laid suspicion on the CIA until our above-mentioned source No 2, a serving agent of the CIA spilled the beans. However hard it will be to pin all these inexplicable deaths on the CIA, the coincidences are equally hard to rule out if source No.2 is honest regarding the facts. We would not like to go into the details revealed to us and would rather allow police and the investigation agencies to arrive at their own conclusions with regard to the deaths. |
According to our CIA source no.2 the Kalpa Vigraha has since been smuggled out of the United States to India. The latest information received at the CIA headquarters is that it lies in the possession of some software employees or IT professionals at Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. For the first time in 48 years, photographs of the Kalpa Vigraha, depicting the idol from four different directions were circulated around the world by the CIA with an enormous cash reward for its recovery. |
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The Hollow Earth 'Theory'
The "problem" with what is taught about Earth and all other planets in school is that they are NOT filled with solid rock - they are hollow. Planets have their insides filled with life, usually more than on their external surface. Planets are not just rocks, they are the source of life to those that inhabit them. They have a soul - around and within their bodies.
During the ages, there were always those who knew about planetary hollowness. It is common knowledge to older, wiser Civilizations from other areas of the Universe.
Earth scientists became aware as well, but the knowledge was blocked by the new world order. The governments block this information to the people...
There are entrances to the inside plane of Earth through the poles. The poles are actually holes that go through both sides of the planet, as if a stick had perforated Earth from North to South. The area that can render a compass unusable is located near those poles, and is not a single point but would be close to a circle located on the top and on the bottom of the planet. The circle lies around the "Pole Entrances". This circle area is where the magnetic field lines that surround earth converge on the North and South Pole regions.
Satellite images are modified so that these entrance holes are not shown to the masses. The north entrance is guarded by CIA and military ships. The southern entrance is blocked by ice and has it's access blocked or made further difficult by military bases and patrols.
The planet's inner surface throbs with life and far more life energy than the external one. The reason for this is that the inner Sun, which is what holds the planet energetically together, has direct contact with the beings that live on the inner surface. Usually the outside is less protected and has too much radiation coming from space to keep a healthy level on its surface inhabitants. The inner realm on the other hand has no problems with radiation from space sources/stars because the only source of Light energy in there is the Planet's heart center: a luminous source of heat/Love, Light and Energy to the inner plane.
The inside of Earth is of a higher vibration and all who live there are pulled into the level of vibration equivalent to 4th and 5th dimensional existence. The shift is somewhat gradual, and those coming from the 3rd dimension would feel lighter and have an easier time breathing. This is the ascencion into 4th dimension that blends the light reflected on physical surfaces into the surfaces themselves, making them more permeable to energy, and turning energy reflection into emission of energy. Things become less dense and shadowy. This is not to be confused with the Darkness that controls - that is darkness that limits. The lessening of shadows on higher realms is due to the change of the behavior of energy and how it is less dense than its materialized 3rd dimensional form. Walking into the inner plane would feel like a soft transition to a dream, but subject to being forgotten as it is exited - unless the person has enough consciousness development to remember and integrate the memories into the 3rd dimensional brain, or there are measures taken for the remembering to take place. Forgetting can also be helped, and some things are forgotten because they were made so.
The Inner Sun's Light allows for people/animals/different species of beings to receive healing energies directly into their auric fields. Plants grow larger and with juicier fruits. Men and Women live longer, and are better able to develop their spiritual and physical functions. It is always day and the weather is always warm there. There is a tale of viking immigrants that set sail north in search for the land of eternal spring. They did find the land, it is inner Earth. And they were right about eternal warm weather, for as you get closer to the north pole, the climate becomes hotter. There have been expeditions close to the opening that confirm that there are butterflies and less ice after a certain latitude. Peoples living in Greenland know of the entrance, natives are aware of travelers from the inner plane that stop by for supplies once in a while.
Besides the top and bottom entrances to inner Earth, there are also other pathways that go through the solid surface. Many tell tales of hidden galleries and underground ancient cities, which for the most part, really exist. The underground cities made of gold, long lost, were a reality and built by men that knew their path through the Earth's Crust. Men like these were present in many civilizations - the aztecs, the mayans, the egyptians, and some others.
Many pyramids and ziggurats have underground galleries and deeper hallways with endless stairs that will lead to a place of zero gravity. Then there is the jump zone, where the traveler will jump to the other end, and fall upwards so that he is able to crawl until he is again pulled to the ground. He is now walking on the inner plane of the planet, pushed outwards by the outer plane and walking on the inside plane.The inner plane is populated with many races of evolved intelligence and humanoid form, also of large animals such as mammoths and other extinct dinosaurs. The inner inhabitants are concerned with the world situation outside, but are unable to interfere, due to non -interference intergalactic rules. If they openly put their finger on what they constantly watch, then the inside of Earth will be brought into play, and there is no need for further compromising Earth's health.
Yet, most of this is also possible on the outer layer. Here on the outside, Earth's health feels lesser because of all the turmoil that WAS ALLOWED to take place, all the sickness spread by those who sell the medicine and the darkness they bring. Be it pollution, crime, addiction or diseases - all of these are man-made sickness, that harms Earth as much as its humane "complement".
Dark "Man" destroyed the healthy atmosphere that filtered much of the radiation transmitted to Earth, polluted the planet and deteriorated much of its aura. It is time that pollution is cut at the root as these companies will not last through the next few years. Earth cleanses itself to return to what it used to be.
It will become what it was before the dawn of the dark domination era, with the ascended survivors (right now a small percentage of those on the planet) aiding in the reconstruction of the world. The others will be removed, through wars, world catastrophe, whatever it takes. But much of the traumatic changes can be avoided, by renewing the ways of "humanity". We say "Humanity" because much of the world's population is not of a human nature, instead, they are souls from other species, from varied planets... Many of them are made of dark light, here to usurp the dark state of society, the exploitation and domination that warms their hearts, reminding them of what their dark origins feel like. They are resistant to the pollution, both on a physical and on a non-physical level. They are well adapted, they were born on places where these levels of darkness are normal.
Take heed, know how to avoid the disasters, see and become wary of what you let happen which will bring you no gain. Watch out for what outlanders come to do with your planet, to a planet of Light. Enjoy the time and the place you are when you see the opportunity to stop dark agendas from moving forward. Let your lives become of service if your Heart calls you to that, and realize the feeling of integration to Creation that is born with that Service.
Many feel that it is dishonest that earth on its external layers is destroyed, while on it's inner plane there is so much exuberance. Know that the external plane is damaged because it's people let it become damaged... The inner plane will not interfere, and will disappear with Earth if it is destroyed.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Lincoln and Kennedy
- Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. - Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. - The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
- Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
- Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
- Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
- Both were shot in the head.
- Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. - Both were assassinated by Southerners.
- Both were succeeded by Southerners.
- Both successors were named Johnson.
- Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
- Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
- John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839.
- Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939.
- Both assassins were known by their three names.
- Both names comprise fifteen letters.
- Booth ran from the theatre and was caught in a warehouse.
- Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theatre.
- Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trials.
- And here's the kicker :
- A week before Lincoln was shot he was in Monroe, Maryland.
- A week before Kennedy was shot he was with Marilyn Monroe
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Scientist ‘finds extra-terrestrial fossils in meteor fragment’
A controversial British scientist claims to have found ‘proof’ that
aliens exist - after cracking open a lump of rock which he believes fell
to earth in a meteorite shower.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, formerly of Cardiff University, claims the two-inch wide lump of space rock is pitted with microscopic seaweed fossils similar to those found on Earth.
‘These finds are crushing evidence that human life started from outside our Earth,’ said the professor, who is notorious for his theories that life on this planet was ‘seeded’ from outer space.
‘We are all aliens - we share a cosmic ancestry,’ he said. ‘Each time a new planetary system forms a few surviving microbes find their way into comets. ‘These then multiply and seed other planets. ‘These latest finds are just more evidence to point to the overwhelming fact that life on Earth began on other worlds.’ ‘Our provisional assessment is that it was part of a comet’, he told MailOnline.
‘The stones look extremely unusual, and have a porous structure, with a lower density than anything we have on Earth.’ Professor Wickramasinghe’s claims are outlined in a freely accessible paper on the website of the Journal of Cosmology. It says ‘a few percent carbon as revealed by analysis confirms the status of a carbonaceous meteorite.’
However, today he admitted key tests to prove it is an uncontaminated meteorite have not yet been carried out. ‘This was a rapid publication - we wanted to provoke interest, and we will be publishing in a peer reviewed journal, but we are not sure which yet one.
‘It is the facts that will prove this - and we hope to have conclusive proof within weeks.’ However, a string of experts have already lined up to dismiss his claims as ‘laughable’ and argue that the apparent extra-terrestrial fossils are clearly present as the result of contamination here on Earth. Another points out that it has yet to be proven that the rock is actually from space at all. ‘Describing it as laughable is a natural reaction, that is the traditional view, and until all of these tests are completed, these criticisms are out there,’ he said.
The research alleges that ‘microscopic fossilized diatoms (a basic form of algae) were found in the sample’, which fell in Sri Lanka in December last year. The finding, it suggests, is a ‘strong evidence to support the theory of cometary panspermia’ - the idea that life across planets is spread on rocks hurtling through space. The still-smoking meteorite fragments were picked up by villagers in central Sri Lanka after they crashed to Earth in a spectacular fireball, it is claimed.
They were analysed in a British laboratory where fossils of algae were apparently found.
It is claimed the finds are similar to micro-organisms found in fossil remains from the dinosaur age 55million years ago. A mathematician by training, Professor Wickramasinghe believes that life on Earth was seeded by comets and asteroids 3.8billion years ago. He also believes that pathogens like the SARS virus arrived here from deep space. He was head of Cardiff University’s Centre for Astrobiology until two years ago when funding for the department was withdrawn and he was dismissed from his post.
The controversial professor, the only scientist to testify against evolution in the famous 1981 creationist trial in Arkansas, has since carried on the project as a private company and charity. He said: ‘The algae organisms are similar to ones found in Earth fossils but the rock also has other organisms we have not identified.’ Astronomer and lecturer Phil Plait wrote in his blog on Slate that the chemical analysis presented in Wickramasinghe’s study ‘doesn’t prove it’s a carbonaceous chondrite, let alone a meteorite,’ and there is ‘no reason to trust that what they have is a meteorite.’
Plait also cited a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Patrick Kociolek as saying that there was no sign that the diatoms illustrated in the study were ‘fossilized material’, and that most of them were species that represented ‘a clear case of contamination with freshwater’. Monica Grady, professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University’s Faculty of Science, told MailOnline she finds the whole thing ‘laughable’. ‘There are serious inconsistencies with the data presented in the paper,’ she said.
‘The most important is that the rock they have found is yet to be proven to be a meteorite. ‘Until that is done, no credence can be placed on the findings presented, especially when they are published in a non-mainstream journal.’ Professor Wickramasinghe, 74, claims microbes from outer space arrived on our planet from comets which then ‘multiplied and seeded’ to form our life. The two-inch wide piece of meteorite was found near a village a few miles from the city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka. The fragments were said to be still smoking when they were found by woman villagers. They were sent to Cardiff University’s School of Earth Sciences where they were examined under a scanning electron microscope.
Professor Wickramasinghe, who is originally from Sri Lanka, and his late colleague Sir Fred Hoyle championed the ‘life from outer space’ theory from the 1960s. He said: ‘Evidence from astronomy overwhelmingly supports the view that life did not start on Earth but was seeded from outside.’ daily times monitor
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, formerly of Cardiff University, claims the two-inch wide lump of space rock is pitted with microscopic seaweed fossils similar to those found on Earth.
‘These finds are crushing evidence that human life started from outside our Earth,’ said the professor, who is notorious for his theories that life on this planet was ‘seeded’ from outer space.
‘We are all aliens - we share a cosmic ancestry,’ he said. ‘Each time a new planetary system forms a few surviving microbes find their way into comets. ‘These then multiply and seed other planets. ‘These latest finds are just more evidence to point to the overwhelming fact that life on Earth began on other worlds.’ ‘Our provisional assessment is that it was part of a comet’, he told MailOnline.
‘The stones look extremely unusual, and have a porous structure, with a lower density than anything we have on Earth.’ Professor Wickramasinghe’s claims are outlined in a freely accessible paper on the website of the Journal of Cosmology. It says ‘a few percent carbon as revealed by analysis confirms the status of a carbonaceous meteorite.’
However, today he admitted key tests to prove it is an uncontaminated meteorite have not yet been carried out. ‘This was a rapid publication - we wanted to provoke interest, and we will be publishing in a peer reviewed journal, but we are not sure which yet one.
‘It is the facts that will prove this - and we hope to have conclusive proof within weeks.’ However, a string of experts have already lined up to dismiss his claims as ‘laughable’ and argue that the apparent extra-terrestrial fossils are clearly present as the result of contamination here on Earth. Another points out that it has yet to be proven that the rock is actually from space at all. ‘Describing it as laughable is a natural reaction, that is the traditional view, and until all of these tests are completed, these criticisms are out there,’ he said.
The research alleges that ‘microscopic fossilized diatoms (a basic form of algae) were found in the sample’, which fell in Sri Lanka in December last year. The finding, it suggests, is a ‘strong evidence to support the theory of cometary panspermia’ - the idea that life across planets is spread on rocks hurtling through space. The still-smoking meteorite fragments were picked up by villagers in central Sri Lanka after they crashed to Earth in a spectacular fireball, it is claimed.
They were analysed in a British laboratory where fossils of algae were apparently found.
It is claimed the finds are similar to micro-organisms found in fossil remains from the dinosaur age 55million years ago. A mathematician by training, Professor Wickramasinghe believes that life on Earth was seeded by comets and asteroids 3.8billion years ago. He also believes that pathogens like the SARS virus arrived here from deep space. He was head of Cardiff University’s Centre for Astrobiology until two years ago when funding for the department was withdrawn and he was dismissed from his post.
The controversial professor, the only scientist to testify against evolution in the famous 1981 creationist trial in Arkansas, has since carried on the project as a private company and charity. He said: ‘The algae organisms are similar to ones found in Earth fossils but the rock also has other organisms we have not identified.’ Astronomer and lecturer Phil Plait wrote in his blog on Slate that the chemical analysis presented in Wickramasinghe’s study ‘doesn’t prove it’s a carbonaceous chondrite, let alone a meteorite,’ and there is ‘no reason to trust that what they have is a meteorite.’
Plait also cited a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Patrick Kociolek as saying that there was no sign that the diatoms illustrated in the study were ‘fossilized material’, and that most of them were species that represented ‘a clear case of contamination with freshwater’. Monica Grady, professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University’s Faculty of Science, told MailOnline she finds the whole thing ‘laughable’. ‘There are serious inconsistencies with the data presented in the paper,’ she said.
‘The most important is that the rock they have found is yet to be proven to be a meteorite. ‘Until that is done, no credence can be placed on the findings presented, especially when they are published in a non-mainstream journal.’ Professor Wickramasinghe, 74, claims microbes from outer space arrived on our planet from comets which then ‘multiplied and seeded’ to form our life. The two-inch wide piece of meteorite was found near a village a few miles from the city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka. The fragments were said to be still smoking when they were found by woman villagers. They were sent to Cardiff University’s School of Earth Sciences where they were examined under a scanning electron microscope.
Professor Wickramasinghe, who is originally from Sri Lanka, and his late colleague Sir Fred Hoyle championed the ‘life from outer space’ theory from the 1960s. He said: ‘Evidence from astronomy overwhelmingly supports the view that life did not start on Earth but was seeded from outside.’ daily times monitor
Scientists encode MP3s, PDF, photograph, and algorithm to DNA
Scientists have written MP3 files to DNA, according to a report published in the journal Nature.
The data that can be written isn’t limited to just to audio files,
however, and is achieved using trinary encoding. In this particular
experiment, the researchers encoded all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, as
well as a part of Martin Luther King’s speech, a photo, a PDF, and the
binary-to-trinary algorithm used for encoding.
The computer data had to be converted from binary to trinary due to the number of bases in a DNA molecule. While there are four bases, the researchers utilized one of the bases to avoid straight sequences of a single base, resulting in a total of three bases for data. This was done in order to avoid the errors that would result from utilizing the single base sequences.
The encoded data was split into sections, tagged with an ID, and marked to indicate its position within the overall file. In most of the instances, the files were then reconstructed correctly, with only one having a mistake in the sequence, although the mistake wasn’t so severe that the researchers weren’t able to recover the missing data.
The team responsible for the project stated that the storage density per gram was an astounding 2.2 petabytes. In this project, the DNA used was dried before being sent out, but for the purpose of long-term data storage, the DNA can be chilled, which will have longer lasting results. Estimates say that DNA can be used to archive data for 5,000 years, with it becoming economically viable for a shorter term duration (50 years) within the next decade.
The computer data had to be converted from binary to trinary due to the number of bases in a DNA molecule. While there are four bases, the researchers utilized one of the bases to avoid straight sequences of a single base, resulting in a total of three bases for data. This was done in order to avoid the errors that would result from utilizing the single base sequences.
The encoded data was split into sections, tagged with an ID, and marked to indicate its position within the overall file. In most of the instances, the files were then reconstructed correctly, with only one having a mistake in the sequence, although the mistake wasn’t so severe that the researchers weren’t able to recover the missing data.
The team responsible for the project stated that the storage density per gram was an astounding 2.2 petabytes. In this project, the DNA used was dried before being sent out, but for the purpose of long-term data storage, the DNA can be chilled, which will have longer lasting results. Estimates say that DNA can be used to archive data for 5,000 years, with it becoming economically viable for a shorter term duration (50 years) within the next decade.
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