Starchild Skull 2010 DNA result.

[TEAMJACOB]

lol at the guy with the black and white cut off

[SS Junk]

Bullshit. How is it forensic scientists have trouble obtaining DNA from skeletal remains found that may be less than a year old, but they can accurately analyze the fuck out of this?

[turbostang]

Bullshit. How is it forensic scientists have trouble obtaining DNA from skeletal remains found that may be less than a year old, but they can accurately analyze the fuck out of this?

budget.

The projects like this are largely privately funded as far as I've heard.

Interesting shit, for sure. I still don't see how anyone could think that we (humans) are the only existing life in the universe.

[Jimbo]

budget.

The projects like this are largely privately funded as far as I've heard.

Interesting shit, for sure. I still don't see how anyone could think that we (humans) are the only existing life in the universe.

I understand that point of view. However I am of the school of thought that thinks our time here on this planet is a tiny moment in the scope of the universe. While other life in the vastness of the universe is more than possible, it seems that two types coinciding in time would be unprobable.

[gonzoss]

I have seen that video no less than a dozen times over the years and there is still no way I would watch it alone at night. That thing freaks me out!

rubber johnny??? I'll check it during the day...

[jdgregory84]

I understand that point of view. However I am of the school of thought that thinks our time here on this planet is a tiny moment in the scope of the universe. While other life in the vastness of the universe is more than possible, it seems that two types coinciding in time would be unprobable.

How so? Life on Earth has been around for hundreds of millions of years and the universe is really damned big. Thinking that we're as good as it gets is pretty self-righteous. As long as man can keep from ending it's own existence, who knows what kind of crazy shit we could accomplish over the next few centuries. A little over a hundred years ago flight was laughable, now we've been to the moon, and have sent unmanned spacecraft successfully to the outer reaches of the solar system.

I would like to go back in time 20 years and show a computer nerd a microSD card and watch him shit himself when I tell him it holds 32gigs of memory on it, when his supercomputer can store about 100 megs.

[jdgregory84]

Bullshit. How is it forensic scientists have trouble obtaining DNA from skeletal remains found that may be less than a year old, but they can accurately analyze the fuck out of this?

Do they?

What are the circumstances of said year old skeletal remains?

[SS Junk]

Whenever there are news reports of skeletal remains found, a round about time of death can be determined, however it is stated over and over again how dental records had to be used to ID them.

[threefortytwo]

Nice presentation. Very cool.

[jdgregory84]

Whenever there are news reports of skeletal remains found, a round about time of death can be determined, however it is stated over and over again how dental records had to be used to ID them.

Is it that dental records HAD to be used, or they are the easiest and cheapest way to ID somebody instead of extracting DNA from bone marrow? Is this the case for all skeletons? Skeletons that have been burnt to a crisp?

Like somebody else said, I'm sure budget has something to do with it. A state funded crime lab or a privately funded research lab is probably a little different.

[NoClassic]

There is usually usable DNA samples within dental pulp hundreds of years after someone dies.

I pretty much lost trust in that dude after he referenced a Dremel disk as a scientific measure of durability.

An ancient case of progeria is much more likely than it being alien.

[lowthreeohz]

the wiki makes no mention of alien dna, while citing that both X and Y chromasomes were present and that it did infact have a human mother and father.

[Clifton]

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155351/retard-babies-butt-sex

[Jimbo]

How so? Life on Earth has been around for hundreds of millions of years and the universe is really damned big. Thinking that we're as good as it gets is pretty self-righteous. As long as man can keep from ending it's own existence, who knows what kind of crazy shit we could accomplish over the next few centuries. A little over a hundred years ago flight was laughable, now we've been to the moon, and have sent unmanned spacecraft successfully to the outer reaches of the solar system.

I would like to go back in time 20 years and show a computer nerd a microSD card and watch him shit himself when I tell him it holds 32gigs of memory on it, when his supercomputer can store about 100 megs.

You might try reading what I posting again. Relative to the universe our existence here covers a small period in time, I believe that our "blip on the radar" is less likely to coincide with another "blip". No self righteousness at all, in fact I believe other forms of life are more than possible, as I said. The rest of what you said has no relevance regarding my opinion.

[Jimbo]

There is usually usable DNA samples within dental pulp hundreds of years after someone dies.

I pretty much lost trust in that dude after he referenced a Dremel disk as a scientific measure of durability.

An ancient case of progeria is much more likely than it being alien.

Agreed.