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Is There An Alien Message in Our DNA Is An Alien Message (with apologies to The Matrix film trilogy). Have Drill and Have Ferry campaigns (pdf). Embedded In Our Genetic Therefore the idea that some programmer Other MiG examinations took place later, but details of those programs have not been somewhere wrote the genetic code for life in Code? their model universe is consistent with the declassified. authors’ suggestions. As part of the air force’s evaluation of Biological SETI inevitably smacks Soviet air scheme, the military group would Ray Villard head-on into an idea that is completely simulate a Soviet-style air defense complex antithetical to science: the concept of intelligent made out of systems with names including design (ID). The proposition of ID is that our Mary, Susan and Kathy. The answer to whether or not we are alone in biology is so complex it must have been According to the documents (pdf), the universe could be right under our nose, or, engineered by a higher power. officials were concerned about maintaining more literally, inside every cell in our body. To date, ID has been nothing more than secrecy of the space early on and it was nearly Could our genes have an intelligently biblical creationism in sheep’s clothing. uncovered by American astronauts taking designed “manufacturer’s stamp” inside them, Christian fundamentalists use it to push the routine overhead imagery. These images set off written eons ago elsewhere in our galaxy? Such teaching of creationism in schools as an an internal discussion about how to prevent a “designer label” would be an indelible stamp alternative to “secular” evolution. (Which, by exposure of the site. of a master extraterrestrial civilization that the way, is now being battled in school systems Robert Singel, National Reconnaissance preceded us by many millions or billions of in four states.) Office deputy director, said in a 1974 letter (pdf) years. As their ultimate legacy, they recast the Can the claim of an alien signature in that releasing the photos to the public “would Milky Way in their own biological image. our genetic code be any more believable, or almost certainly provide strong stimulus for Vladimir I. shCherbak of al-Farabi provable than biblical ID? media questioning and the potential near-term Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan, and We know so little about the origin of life revelation of the missions of the installation.” Maxim A. Makukov of the Fesenkov on Earth it seems presumptive to identify The site was eventually transferred from Astrophysical Institute, hypothesize that an genetic structure that supposedly defies a the CIA to the air force in the late-1970s and intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code natural explanation. Even the discovery of life became widely known in the mid-1990s. would be a mathematical and semantic message elsewhere in the solar system would not provide Area 51 was discovered by government that cannot be accounted for by Darwinian an independent test of this idea. Panspermia staffers and Lockheed Martin employees who evolution. They call it “biological SETI.” could have naturally occurred among the thought it would be a good place to test aircraft What’s more, they argue that the scheme has planets and moons. while flying over Nevada, according to the first much greater longevity and chance of detecting And, even if the genetic code is batch of documents. E.T. than a transient extraterrestrial radio ultimately considered the handprint of an Archive senior fellow Jeffrey T transmission. extraterrestrial grand designer, then who Richelson was able to review the documents in Writing in the journal Icarus, they assert: designed the designer? [] 2002, but mentions of Area 51 were redacted at “Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged the time. He submitted a request for the CIA’s over cosmological timescales; in fact, it is the history again in 2005 to continue his research on most durable construct known. Therefore it Area 51 hosted tests for aerial surveillance programs. [] represents an exceptionally reliable storage for 'secretly acquired' Soviet an intelligent signature. Once the genome is Butterflies in danger of appropriately rewritten the new code with a fighter jets global warming: UBC signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through Documents released show US air force research space and time.” examined at its then-secret Nevada base the To pass the designer label test, any MiG-21, on loan from Israel in 1968 Research by a University of B.C. student on patterns in the genetic code must be highly 48,000 individual butterflies through more than statistically significant and possess intelligent- The US government “secretly acquired” Soviet a century of records found global warming like features that are inconsistent with any aircraft during the Cold War and tested them at causes them to emerge from hibernation earlier. natural know process, say the authors. Area 51, according to documents released Heather Kharouba said Wednesday They go on to argue that their detailed Tuesday that shed light on the once-classified butterflies that wake from hibernation too analysis that the human genome (map here) and long speculated base deep in the Nevada quickly could run into sudden cold snaps or — displays a thorough precision-type orderliness desert. if their feeding plants aren’t in bloom — die in the mapping between DNA’s nucleotides and The CIA in August confirmed the from lack of food. Her research examined amino acids. “Simple arrangements of the code existence of Area 51 when it released samples of butterflies from 1880 to now, reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and declassified documents through a Freedom of comparing the creatures with weather station ideographical patterns of symbolic language.” Information Act request by George Washington data over the course of 130 years. They say this includes the use of decimal University's National Security Archive. The She found that every time the mercury notation, logical transformations, and the use of initial documents show that Area 51 was used to rises one degree Celcius, butterflies take flight the abstract symbol of zero. “Accurate and test the US government’s aerial programs. 2.4 days earlier — an accelerating trend in systematic, these underlying patterns appear as One of those programs was the recent years. a product of precision logic and nontrivial government’s investigation of the multiple “They could hit an early frost and just computing,” they assert. Soviet MiG fighter planes it “secretly acquired” get killed,” Kharouba said. “Or their host plants This interpretation leads them to a during the Cold War. The first documented might not come out yet and they might not have farfetched conclusion: that the genetic code, acquisition was the MiG-21, originally obtained food and they might starve.” “appears that it was invented outside the solar by Israel in August 1966. From January 1968 to Her research was published Tuesday in system already several billions years ago.” This April 1968, Israel loaned the plane to the US air the Journal of Global Change Biology. She said statement endorses the idea of panspermia, the force, which referred to the aircraft as the YF- the next steps include determining if the food hypothesis that Earth was seeded with 110. plants are blooming faster with the temperature interstellar life. It’s certainly a novel and bold The air force examined the plane’s rise. approach to galaxy conquest if we imagine this technical characteristics and evaluated its One problem is the lack of butterfly data was a deliberate Johnny Appleseed endeavor by performance to see how the US government’s in Canada, she said, adding websites such as super-beings. weapons and aircraft compared tactically under bcbutterflyatlas.ca are attempting to engage the However, there are other possibilities the Have Doughnut program (pdf). Similar community by getting the public to snap photos too. I’ve previously written about the far-out evaluations were conducted in 1969 with the of butterflies and record where they’re found. [] notion that the universe we observe was built MiG-17 under the not-as-delightfully-named just for us and exists inside a computer program