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“Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress

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"Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children."

It does not seem to be the most credible person to show evidence.

Re: “Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress

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Wouldn't we expect to see substantially more than 30% of the DNA be different.

I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA.

I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time.

There are probably a thousand more reasons this is blatantly false, to those with scientific knowledge beyond my early highschool experiences.

It's bizarre and fascinating the Mexican government has entertained this.

Re: “Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress

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post #6

Wouldn't we expect to see substantially more than 30% of the DNA be different. I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA. I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time. There are probably a thousand more reasons this is blatantly false, to those with scientific knowledge beyond my early highschool experiences. It's bizarre and fascinating the Mexican government…

It is like a highschooler tried to makeup a convincing story. If they had DNA it would have been sequenced and the code shared the next couple days. It would have been THE BIGGEST find in molecular biology, ever.

All that happened is some idiot Senator invited some idiot scammer to give a talk about his scam. I don't think they really had to "entertain" it and it has no legitimacy.

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post #6

Wouldn't we expect to see substantially more than 30% of the DNA be different. I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA. I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time. There are probably a thousand more reasons this is blatantly false, to those with scientific knowledge beyond my early highschool experiences. It's bizarre and fascinating the Mexican government…

The DNA difference is likely mostly due to failed sampling and lack of good data in existing databases

https://www.reddit.com/r/genetics/comments/16hb5th/nhi_genom...

Re: “Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress

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post #6

Wouldn't we expect to see substantially more than 30% of the DNA be different. I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA. I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time. There are probably a thousand more reasons this is blatantly false, to those with scientific knowledge beyond my early highschool experiences. It's bizarre and fascinating the Mexican government…

There are (~conspiracy) theories out there for hybridized/synthetic human-alien biologies, so it's not completely unexpected or unprecedented discourse in the UFO world.

Humans share ~60% DNA with fruit flies, so the reported ~70% similarity seems quite low for such a "quasi-human" figure.

Perhaps you could make a case that DNA retrieval from such an old sample would be corrupted. It does seem more like the figure is tuned by the exigencies of pop-sci click bait.

Anyways they shared the full sample online, so legit geneticists could potentially weigh in.

Re: “Alien corpses” shown to Mexican Congress

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post #4

"Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children." It does not seem to be the most credible person to show evidence.

On the other hand, there aren’t many credible people working in ufology. The US government representatives were in the hearing. Other universities should be able to confirm and validate any results.

Like with room temperature super conducting, extraordinary claims need extraordinary validation.

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