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originally posted by: Emerys
It also goes off the deep end a little bit when it tries to verify whether or not this thing is an alien..further research appears that it is human? Sort of? Not sure if the results are conclusive yet.
"The DNA was modern, abundant, and high quality," he says, indicating that the specimen is probably a few decades old. To the chagrin of UFO hunters, Ata is decidedly of this world. After mapping more than 500 million reads to a reference human genome, equating to 17.7-fold coverage of the genome, Nolan concluded that Ata "is human, there's no doubt about it." Moreover, the specimen's B2 haplotype—a category of mitochondrial DNA—reveals that its mother was from the west coast of South America: Chile, that is.
originally posted by: RomeByFire
I may actually watch it now, I liked your diagnosis.
Are you familiar with Dr. Steven Greer?
I've been on ATS for a few years... He's not a very popular nor is credible according to many here.
I personally think he just wants to make money, he's always advertising and always wanting you to buy things, but I have not looked into him extinsbly.
I may give it a watch sometime, if anything just to see how crazy he's hyped up to be
originally posted by: Emerys
a reply to: hellobruce
Thanks for replying! But please do avoid using Wikipedia as a source in the future. If the DNA is human, I wonder why it looks so non-human!?
originally posted by: Emerys
a reply to: hellobruce
Thanks for replying! But please do avoid using Wikipedia as a source in the future. If the DNA is human, I wonder why it looks so non-human!?
At least one expert has a more prosaic take—but agrees that the specimen is human. "This looks to me like a badly desiccated and mummified human fetus or premature stillbirth," says William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York. He notes that "barely ossified and immature elements" of the hands and feet, and the wide open metopic suture, where the two frontal bones of the skull come together down the middle of the forehead.
originally posted by: Spader
I count 9 ribs for a total of 18. But still weird.