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Scientific paper claims octopuses are aliens from outer space
- gryfft 5y agoHeh, sort of relates to this amateur NaNoWriMo from 2020. [1] Not a scientifically interesting paper, from the looks of it, but I'm amused by personal coincidence here. [1] https://zalbert.net/octo https://zalbert.net/octo
- endofreach 5y agoThis must be true. I am believing this ever since i fell down the octopus rabbit hole one night. I then googled „are octopus aliens“ to see what comes up. And a few „theories“ about that did. Obviously not scientific (until now, haven‘t even read the article yet of course)… But who cares? If there is a god, it must be a god to the universe. He might have sent the high intelligent super developed octopi onto the earth as a punishment for fucking up their planet, forcing them into funny bodies and a short life span. And all they can observe and have to think about is how these humans use all their power to pray to people who make loud and funny sounds like justin bieber. Who knows, we might be banned into other funny bodies on another planet, if we fuck up this planet. Well now, i will go and actually read the article.
- smt88 5y ago> Obviously not scientific (until now, haven‘t even read the article yet of course)… It's still not either scientific or science, any more so than anything you've written. It's just conjecture. There is no new evidence in the paper. It is as "scientific" as a plausible sci-fi story. > If there is a god, it must be a god to the universe. Why would you assume this? Why does a god need to be an omnipotent controller of the entire universe? For the vast majority of human history, most humans were polytheistic (and, like Hindus, they still are) or henotheistic. Monotheism and an omnipotent "one true God" are pretty new concepts.
- tasogare 5y agoSo many fields are masquerading as science and the word is also hijacked by politicians to justify the worse abuses of power that it would be great if real science forks itself from that and come back to its roots.
- jqpabc123 5y agoConjecture without supporting evidence. To be more scientific, they should at least try to freeze some fertilized cephalopod eggs and see if they can replicate the required state of "stasis" needed to survive in space. My guess is they can't. The eggs will die as soon as they are frozen.
- jhbadger 5y agoAnd more so than that, the issue is that cephalopods are clearly related by every measure we can find (morphology, DNA) to other mollusks like slugs and clams. And are even (although far more distantly) related to us. So it is a bit hard to imagine how this could be the case if they didn't all have a common ancestor here on Earth.
- sockpuppet_12 5y agoOr all life on Earth was designed by the same engineer. Which would explain the similarities in components and designs.
- jqpabc123 5y agoThis is more or less the same argument. The only difference is perhaps your mental image of the "engineer" and his methodology.
- Pompidou 5y agoSo I love to eat braised space alien.
- treesknees 5y agoI prefer my space alien fried.
- mrlonglong 5y agoMine's tastier smoked.
- chrisma0 5y agoHere's the mentioned review from Keith Baverstock (University of Eastern Finland): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.006 Quote: "Steele et al. is a long and comprehensive review that urges (it cannot be described as neutral as is usually the case for a scientific review) the reader to accept Panspermia as the basis for the phenomenon of evolution"
- pvaldes 5y agoScience has been fully replaced by politics and become a joke nowadays