Everybody freeze
It's your buddy, me
Doin' what?
Buttin' in for some gummy mes
in my tummy please
They're so yummy, see?
Namaste
On my way like cheese
🎤🐻
This looks like an explosive because of the flash that accompanies it. Many similar explosions happen every year. What are people blowing up in suburban areas and why?
This is sad but not strange. We used to have multiple dead birds regularly outside our old office building. The birds could not tell the difference between the sky and the reflection and just smashed into the glass wall building. It was only 2 stories tall but was between a highway and a field with trees.
Want to convince me? DNA samples that don't match anything here on Earth well. Most everything on this planet, definitely the large forms, all share most of their DNA characteristics. Showing something that is even 50% different would be a falsifiable test.
I would assume other life probably has to have something DNA-related, and chemically there are constraints that would be common, but something very different in arrangement would go a long way towards proof.
There should be some biochemical macromolecules at the very least and likely some protein analogues. Anything like that would have chemical properties that are exceedingly simple to test and verify, and fairly simple to compare to existing proteins and macromolecules on Earth.
Hell, an ambitious biochem undergrad could run these tests; if the biochem community didn’t sign off, I’m pretty comfortable completely dismissing these claims.
It is pretty arrogant to assume every possible intelligent lifeform is a) carbon based, and b) looks like a mutated human, meaning appendages, face, head, all in the same relative positions. Sorry, I still believe that the reason we haven’t ‘discovered’ alien life, is because we don’t know what we’re looking for!
Absolutely on your last point, life elsewhere will have many environmental pressures that force things into a different direction. There will also be some things that work the same (convergent evolution). I used to think similarly about carbon with the idea that silicon or others could work as a base (and it may still happen) but I've seen a few good debunkings that knocked down the probability of it. Carbon is just so good chemically at what's needed for complexity.
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