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Originally posted by SLAYER69
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The question in my mind has always been, Why? How did this tradition start? Were their ancestors trying to retain a certain look that they were losing through the advancing generations or mixing with more and more Homo Sapiens? or were their ancestors trying to emulate something or someone they once saw?
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Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
To add hopefully they will examine its spinal structure to determine if its spine was designed to carry a heavier head, there should be signs of tear and wear on spine i fnot natural. If spine is intact and seems to have no structural damage then it may be natural development in this way for this being.
Originally posted by LGND1SOUL
After all these years of discovering elongated skulls, no one has ever done any DNA tests until now?
Originally posted by HolgerTheDane2
My take on that is that they tried to emulate their ancestors who had a more primitive skull shape.
that's an interesting point which lends credence to the idea that we don't belong here or have a natural niche on this planet. What is the advantage as a species to do these things? if we are emulating ancestors with naturally misshapen heads then where are they? Where are the actual ones?
Originally posted by CharterZZ
People have always done stuff to there bodies, if you consider today people do millions of different things to the bodies and guess what? none of it is because of 'aliens' lol.
Originally posted by CharterZZ
Alien hunters really piss me of with this way of thinking 'If i don't understand it ALIENS DID IT'.
Originally posted by Pepeluacho
reply to post by UnaChispa
Can you help me out and try to explain the size of those eye sockets?
Originally posted by Phage
(along with a course in genetics and birth abnormalities so you can verify Pye's claims)
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by VoidHawk
As for the DNA test, I feel if there is any possibility that it would test positive for alien we'll never be told the truth.
There is no "testing positive for alien". At most the DNA would display unrecognized sequences.
Originally posted by signalfire
reply to post by PurpleChiten
Go over and read the Starchild material. Ask a neurologist if a hydrocephalic skull will have vein and brain imprints in the area where the fluid was collecting.
Did your brother's skull have fibers in it, never before seen in bone tissue? Was it extremely lightweight and extraordinarily strong? Was it symmetrical? Was he missing a normal suture in the skull? Were all his sutures fused, as seen in the Starchild skull, signifying age and health? Probably not, since the way the skull expands in hydrocephaly is the sutures widen horrifically, rather than fuse.
This site is supposed to be about 'denying ignorance', not jumping on posts inside of a few minutes denying the information in them...
edit on 27-7-2012 by signalfire because: (no reason given)
The Starchild skull is an abnormal human skull allegedly found in Mexico that is claimed to be the product of extraterrestrial-human breeding or genetic manipulation. Tests conducted utilizing mtDNA recovered from the skull have established it as human. Experts believe it to be the skull of a child who died as a result of known genetic or congenital abnormalities, such as congenital hydrocephalus.
DNA testing in 1999 at BOLD (Bureau of Legal Dentistry), a forensic DNA lab in Vancouver, British Columbia found standard X and Y chromosomes in two samples taken from the skull, "conclusive evidence that the child was not only human (and male), but both of his parents must have been human as well, for each must have contributed one of the human sex chromosomes."[4]
Further DNA testing in 2003 at Trace Genetics, which specializes in extracting DNA from ancient samples, isolated mitochondrial DNA from both recovered skulls. The child belongs to haplogroup C. Since mitochondrial DNA is inherited exclusively from the mother, it makes it possible to trace the offspring's maternal lineage. The DNA test therefore confirmed that the child's mother was a Haplogroup C human female. However, the adult female found with the child belonged to haplogroup A. Both haplotypes are characteristic Native American haplogroups, but the different haplogroup for each skull indicates that the adult female was not the child's mother.