It seems we are not alone. I’m kinda scared bros…

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        m8 if these things came from another world, it’s unlikely their biology relies on DNA in the first place. To assume DNA is the only thing in the universe that does what it does is the pinnacle of selection bias.

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            Because a different planet would induce different assemblies of life. DNA is not a universal building block. It is specific to Earth.

            Have you looked at the sequencing results? All it shows is that whatever they tested was human. Where is the publication expounding on this other 30% of unknown genetic material?

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              It’s a huge story that is constantly updating. Initial rumors are saying the dna is reptilian however multiple United States institutions are verifying. It’s not out yet. Just hold your horses.

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                …What the fuck is a reptilian? In the biological sense.

                You’re posting this drivel as if it’s truth without any actual evidence. You’re not scrutinizing what’s coming out of this because you desperately want this to be real.

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                  A reptilian contains reptile DNA. Humans don’t have the same DNA entirely as reptilians.

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                    Please cite your sources for this. I’ve never heard of a ‘reptilian’ species ever being discussed, documented, or researched in earnest throughout any scientific field.

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            Because that’s one planet. If I looked at someone and said “that person is Asian, therefore all humans must be Asian”, I’d look pretty stupid, wouldn’t I?

            To assume all life in the universe functions the way it does here on Earth is idiotic.

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            Just because it happened this way here, why would you assume it would happen that way elsewhere?

            There’s other molecules that can do the job, and that’s assuming that they’re even even carbon based (as apposed to say, silicon.) Even on earth, there’s microbes that use arsnic instead of phosphorus in their DNA.

            Hell, it’s a 1-in-4 chance they have the same chiralty we do (amino acids and sugars turn in the same way. Most of not all life in earth, amino acids have a left hand spiral, and use sugars that spiral to the right).

            Absolutely no reason they have the same biochemistry we do- they would be, after all, entirely alien to us. Actually, that they appear to recognizably humanoid is the first tip off this is fake, the next is that they apparently have dna. Then, that they have recognizable markers at all.

            If a species evolved independently on another planet… it’d extremely unlikely they would look anything like us.

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              Your arguing against people that already mapped out the DNA. There is no alternative system that we know. If there was the DNA on these creatures would be unmappable. It would be something we haven’t seen before.

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        Clicking your link doesn’t take me to the results pertaining these alleged aliens. How am I supposed to search for them?

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          There’s several links in the article. Two include the Dna, and the final link contains the full livestream of the test.

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        Judging by your other comments, you haven’t actually scrutinized the DNA sequencing. There’s nothing in there about what they had sampled being anything alien. In fact, it’s stating that it’s fairly unremarkable, if damaged, human DNA.