Peruvian Scientists Discover Alien Corpse
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So, in a world where people accept THIS
As mundane, a slightly larger primate skull is the alien.
Seriously, if there are any aliens on this planet, it's the platypuses.
As mundane, a slightly larger primate skull is the alien.
Seriously, if there are any aliens on this planet, it's the platypuses.
I'm praying there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, cause there's bugger all down here on earth.
I'll see your platypus good sir, and raise you a Abyssal Sea Cucumbertheheroofaction said:So, in a world where people accept THIS
As mundane, a slightly larger primate skull is the alien.
Seriously, if there are any aliens on this planet, it's the platypuses.
OT: Looks like a kid with a deformed head. Weekly World News might be interested in it though. DNA Tests please.
I really don't know whether this is believable or not.
There have been a lot of very good hoaxes in the past, but then again scientists and doctors were confirming this, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life is always there.
I'm just gonna sit on the fence for now and let time decide.
There have been a lot of very good hoaxes in the past, but then again scientists and doctors were confirming this, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life is always there.
I'm just gonna sit on the fence for now and let time decide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation
Case closed, go back to your wearing your tinfoil hats.
Case closed, go back to your wearing your tinfoil hats.
"It's clearly a conspiracy. The Russians are working with aliens to try and fool us into believing in a completely different breed of aliens, so that the other aliens, who are invisible, can invade, which was covered up by the U.S. Government. You didn't think of this first?"
OT: Alright, sorry. I cannot view anything on the internet relating to the "existence" of extraterrestrials without posting an Agent Mulder reference.
I'll believe this when they get back the DNA test.
Yes and no. Arguements in defense of the scientific method tend to largely be made when it either reinforces, or delays, something people don't want to believe in or accept. Generally speaking this usually comes down to a situation where for something to be "accepted" it needs to be peer reviewed. That means politics come into play, as most of those "peers" by definition have their own theories and findings from which their fame, power, respect and authority are derived. They have a vested interest in not supporting anything that doesn't support whatever made them an expert to begin with, or works counter to other theories they are working on.Istvan said:
In the case of many scientific discoveries, especially big ones, the guys doing it usually wound up on the outs with the general scientific community for exactly this reason.
Granted this DOES create a sort of no-win scenario, in a case like this proof is mostly going to come down to things like DNA testing if and when it happens, rather than a close adherance to the scientific method and acceptance through those channels. Right now we know very little about it.
As far as me commenting on debunkers being as bad as the hoaxsters, while it's not a direct analogy I tend to look at things like the statues on Easter Island as an example. They were allegedly debunked due to the natives in the region saying "okay we admit it, we made those, and here is how we did it", the thing is that the techniques they said they used were those conceived by engineering majors years before about how it could have been done using what was availible to a primitive people, as unlikely as that was. The methods though relied on a degree of engineering knowhow in putting everything together well beyond the people in question, if they had possessed those techniques their entire civilization would have been far differant in terms of their own buildings and capabilities since they would have been applied to more than just building some statues for the lulz. In short what basically happened was that the debunkers/investigators wound up creating an answer someone else liked and then embraced without supporting evidence. This is just one example since it was on TV again a few years ago, but there has actually been similar events over the years where those doing the debunking have themselves been debunked.... oftentimes the same way when dealing with peoples who like to think of their own anscestors as having been more advanced and civilized than they actually were. Basically "if they did something like this in this fashion, they would have used it routinely and had done this and this, and we'd find evidence".
In the case of this article we don't know this is an alien, but we do not know that it is either. The remains don't show the kind of markings you would have expected from head binding and similar things. Deformity is also a possibility. While Occam's razor would lead me to believe it IS likely a set of unusual human remains, we do not yet know that for sure, only that it's likely. Truthfully the biggest support for it being an alien body is that there were 5 experts who examined it and said it was not human remains. That's in question because their identities have not been revealed and it might not have happened. However given how well known the regional practices are in deforming the heads of childen and such if there WERE 5 doctors and suck all looking at it seperatly and they all agreed that did not happen and it wasn't a human body... well that right there DOES mean something. Right now though the lack of identification on the experts leads to the question as to whether they were ever there or if the guy reporting the article made that up.
First they find 95% proof of the existence of yetis, now a skull that definitively proves the existence of aliens! Science, you've done it again! Like the yeti thing, I notice they didn't mention what field these scientists worked in, or what university they were from, who anything that you would consider important in scientific research. Where are all these McScientists coming from?
I love how that guy tries to justify himself by saying, "Am I saying for sure that it was aliens? No, but it is a possibility." Just say what you are thinking already and stop bullshitting us is what I have to say to that guy.Sassafrass said:This image pretty much sums up the news story.
