A balloon returned from a high altitude flight this year covered with microscopic life forms that seemed not to be from this world, and revived the debate about whether life on Earth actually began here, or elsewhere.
This year, other scientists have argued that life originated on Mars, due to a mineral that was found in Martian meteorites, a concept that is crucial to the genesis of life. Another experiment showed that amino acids could have come with the impacts of comets, which suggests life could be broad in the solar system.
But a new book by American environmentalist Dr. Ellis Silver, Humans are not from Earth, argues that human beings may very well not be from Earth - and may have arrived separately. Silver offers arguments, based on human physiology, that suggest that we have not evolved along with other forms of life on Earth, but that we have come from elsewhere, brought here by aliens only a few tens of thousands of years ago.
Extraterrestrial beings created mankind
Does it sound crazy?
Silver, an environmentalist who is currently working on the effort to clean plastic waste from the Pacific, says his book aims to spark debate, and is based on scientific work on the difference between humans and other animals.
"The Earth roughly meets our needs as a species, but maybe not as intensely as whoever has brought us here initially thought:" Silver said in an interview with Yahoo News.
“Lizards can sunbathe for as long as they want, and many of them do. We can only get away with ours for a week or two. But day after day in the sun? Forget this."
“It's the same as just lying on the highway and waiting for the bus to hit you, we are dazzled by the sun, which is also rare, says Silver, most animals are not.”
Silver says that some chronic diseases that affect the human race - such as back problems - could be a sign that we have evolved in a less serious world. Silver points to other unique human traits, such as the fact that babies' heads are so large that women have a hard time giving birth, in earlier times, this was often fatal to the mother, the child or both.
"No other truly native species of this planet has this problem, " he says. Silver also points to the 223 "extra" genes in humans, which are not found in any other species, and the lack of a "missing link" fossil.
Silver decided not to publish it in a scientific imprint, he wants to inspire an open debate.
Critics have compared Silver with other space observer theorists like Erich von Däniken, while others have said, "It is possible to drive a carriage and horses through several of their arguments."
Silver also states that the human race has defects that mark us as possibly "not of this world."
"We are all chronically ill, " says Silver. “ In fact, if you can find a single person who is 100% fit and healthy and does not suffer from any (perhaps hidden or undeclared), condition or disorder (there is an extensive list in the book) you would be extremely surprised, no I have been able to find anyone. ”
“I think many of our problems derive from the simple fact that our internal body clocks have evolved to wait for a 25-hour day (this has been demonstrated by sleep researchers), but Earth Day is only 24 hours."
"This is not a modern condition, the same factors can be traced all the way back through the history of humanity on Earth ."
Silver does not suggest an answer, but a possibility that early pre-humans like Homo Erectus were crossed with other species. It also suggests several possible origins, including the closest star system to the sun, Alpha Centauri.
“Humanity is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, however, it is surprisingly inadequate and poorly equipped for the Earth's environment: damage from sunlight, a strong aversion to natural (raw) foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic diseases, and more. ”
"In addition, there is a feeling that prevails among many people that they do not belong to this place or that something 'is not right'."
“This suggests that (at least for me) humanity may have evolved on a different planet, and may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this, discussed in the book, is that the Earth could be a prison planet, since it seems that we are a naturally violent species, and we are here to learn how to behave. ”
"Humans are not from Earth was published primarily to assess the reaction of readers and provoke reflection, especially among those who might not have considered that possibility before."
The claim that bacteria came from space has also caused controversy, and revived the idea of "panspermia, " where Earth's life could have "pollination" to other nearby planets ...
"There is probably truth in the report that curious things are found in the atmosphere, " said Chris McKay, a NASA astrobiologist.
"The jump to the conclusion that this is extraterrestrial life is a great leap and would require extraordinary proof."
Professor Wainwright and his colleagues at Sheffield University aim to conduct more tests.
“In the absence of a mechanism by which large particles such as these can be transported to the stratosphere, we can only conclude that biological entities originated from space, ” Wainwright added.
Our conclusion is, then, that life is continually reaching Earth from space, life is not limited to this planet and it is almost certain that it did not originate here.
Silver's most radical idea is presented as controversial, with the intention of inspiring arguments.
The initial reaction has been positive, although one critic thought it was a parody, while others found the writing style very dictatorial, he admits.
The debate about the origin of life seems to be intensifying. Simulations in supercomputers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US they have found that amino acids, the basic blocks of life, could have reached Earth through comets.
This suggests that life could be found in another part of our solar system, or even beyond.
Nir Goldman suggests that the simple molecules found in comets (such as water, ammonia and carbon dioxide) could have supplied the raw material and the impact with the primitive Earth could There would have been a prebiotic reaction.
A series of experiments in which projectiles were fired in a comet with mixtures of ice formed amino acids the building blocks of life.
These results confirm our previous predictions of impact synthesis of prebiotic material, where the impact itself can produce life-capable compounds, Goldman said.
These results represent an important step forward in our understanding of the origin of the basic components of life. This increases the chances of native life and being spread throughout our solar system, Goldman said.
However Silver wants to raise the question of whether humans arrived separately, recent scientific reports suggest that life itself might not be from Earth, but could have come here on meteorites or comets. This primitive way of life then evolved over millions of years in what we find on Earth today.
`` My thesis, '' says Silver, `` proposes that humanity did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (like the fully evolved Homo sapiens ) between 60, 000 and 200, 000 years ago s.
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http://conspiraciones1040.blogspot.com/2013/11/los-humanos-llegaron-desde-otro-planeta.html
Humans arrived from another Planet
