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A lost valley containing live, large dinosaurs is found in remote central Africa. | 8 | 11.94% | |
Amelia Earhart is still alive and living in Tahiti. | 0 | 0% | |
An augment is found to the Mayan calendar that mentions a giant meteor strike in a couple of decades | 1 | 1.49% | |
Atlantis is found under the ocean. | 7 | 10.45% | |
Bigfoot and/or yetis are real. | 1 | 1.49% | |
Bill Gates is really paying people $241 for forwarding a special e-mail message. | 3 | 4.48% | |
Disney’s head exists and is alive, and he still runs the company from his vault. | 1 | 1.49% | |
ESP is a real phenomenon. | 4 | 5.97% | |
Ghosts really exist. | 6 | 8.96% | |
Hitler's detailed diary is found, describing all of his major decisions and thought processes | 2 | 2.99% | |
Scientists discover that there are indeed forces in the Bermuda triangle that occasionally sink ships. | 1 | 1.49% | |
Scientists learn that the pyramids really were built with the help of a lost advanced civilization. | 2 | 2.99% | |
The Loch Ness monster is real. | 3 | 4.48% | |
They really do find a rat in a coke bottle. | 0 | 0% | |
UFOs exist, and they’re aliens from outer space. | 22 | 32.84% | |
Undeniable records are found showing a second Kennedy shooter and a Cuban/Russian/mafia connection. | 1 | 1.49% | |
It turns out that Carl had a bad typo in his five-year plan that completely changed it, and now he's fixed it. | 5 | 7.46% | |
Other non-religious mystery (Please specify...if you dare.) | 0 | 0% | |
None. This whole knowledge thing is overrated. | 0 | 0% | |
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I voted for UFO's/Aliens and...I get it?
Is It Raining Aliens? Nearly 50 tons of mysterious red particles showered India in 2001. Now the race is on to figure out what the heck they are By Jebediah Reed | June 2006 Courtesy Dr. Godfrey Louis E.T. Under the Microscope: Scientists have yet to identify the unusual particles [above, magnified 500 times] isolated from India’s mysterious red rainwater. As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples—water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis’s home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001—contain microbes from outer space. Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600˚F. (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250˚F.) So how to explain them? Louis speculates that the particles could be extraterrestrial bacteria adapted to the harsh conditions of space and that the microbes hitched a ride on a comet or meteorite that later broke apart in the upper atmosphere and mixed with rain clouds above India. If his theory proves correct, the cells would be the first confirmed evidence of alien life and, as such, could yield tantalizing new clues to the origins of life on Earth. Last winter, Louis sent some of his samples to astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe and his colleagues at Cardiff University in Wales, who are now attempting to replicate his experiments; Wickramasinghe expects to publish his initial findings later this year. Meanwhile, more down-to-earth theories abound. One Indian government investigation conducted in 2001 lays blame for what some have called the “blood rains” on algae. Other theories have implicated fungal spores, red dust swept up from the Arabian peninsula, even a fine mist of blood cells produced by a meteor striking a high-flying flock of bats. Louis and his colleagues dismiss all these theories, pointing to the fact that both algae and fungus possess DNA and that blood cells have thin walls and die quickly when exposed to water and air. More important, they argue, blood cells don’t replicate. “We’ve already got some stunning pictures—transmission electron micrographs—of these cells sliced in the middle,” Wickramasinghe says. “We see them budding, with little daughter cells inside the big cells.” Louis’s theory holds special appeal for Wickramasinghe. A quarter of a century ago, he co-authored the modern theory of panspermia, which posits that bacteria-riddled space rocks seeded life on Earth. “If it’s true that life was introduced by comets four billion years ago,” the astronomer says, “one would expect that microorganisms are still injected into our environment from time to time. This could be one of those events.” The next significant step, explains University of Sheffield microbiologist Milton Wainwright, who is part of another British team now studying Louis’s samples, is to confirm whether the cells truly lack DNA. So far, one preliminary DNA test has come back positive.“Life as we know it must contain DNA, or it’s not life,” he says. “But even if this organism proves to be an anomaly, the absence of DNA wouldn’t necessarily mean it’s extraterrestrial.” Louis and Wickramasinghe are planning further experiments to test the cells for specific carbon isotopes. If the results fall outside the norms for life on Earth, it would be powerful new evidence for Louis’s idea, of which even Louis himself remains skeptical. “I would be most happy to accept a simpler explanation,” he says, “but I cannot find any." Popular Science
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[QUOTE=banyon]I voted for UFO's/Aliens and...I get it?
Is It Raining Aliens? Nearly 50 tons of mysterious red particles showered India in 2001. Now the race is on to figure out what the heck they are That rules! |
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I was torn between the Pyramids/Atlantis/UFO's.
The only problem with finding out that the conspiracies are true about any of these, including some of the other choices, is that religion would take a major shot to the groin. A lot of people's beliefs will be challenged, especially if it was ever found out that these secrets had been discovered some time ago, and kept under wraps. |
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06-03-2006, 11:20 AM | #25 |
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Under "other non-religious mystery" we have Chiefs defense coming up?
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UFOs. I gotta say, if you buy the we are here by chance argument.....the idea we are alone becomes silly in my opinion.
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While I would find the pyramids and Hitler's diary to be quite fascinating, and my first reaction was to go with the UFOs, I decided to vote for ghosts.
If ghosts really exist, I think it would provide evidence that would completely change our worldview. Humans would no longer be chained to bodies, there would be at least some potential for eternal earthly life, and of course the whole question of an afterlife would become much more focused and informed. Whereas the other options would profoundly change our views of the universe, the existence of ghosts would be the discovery of a whole new universe. And that's not even considering the possibility that, if we could communicate with ghosts, we could develop an enormous understanding of human history.
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I like your thinking on this point and I agree. But we need not just rely on ghosts alone for this since more of the earth's population accept this idea that we are not chained to bodies eternally or even believe we come back. It's mainly not accepted by the Judeo-Christian and secularist west. |
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