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Was a Tiny Mummy in the Atacama an Alien? No, but the Real Story Is Almost as Strange
NYT ^
| 22 March 2018
| Carl Zimmer
Posted on 03/22/2018 4:22:31 PM PDT by blueplum
Nearly two decades ago, the rumors began: In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, someone had discovered a tiny mummified alien. An amateur collector exploring a ghost town was said to have come across a white cloth in a leather pouch. Unwrapping it, he found a six-inch-long skeleton.
Despite its size, the skeleton was remarkably complete. It even had hardened teeth. And yet there were striking anomalies: it had ten ribs instead of the usual 12, giant eye sockets and a long skull that ended in a point. {snip}
On Thursday, a team of scientists presented a very different explanation for Ata — one without aliens, but intriguing in its own way.
Ata’s bones contain DNA that not only shows she was human, but...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: alien; ancientautopsies; anthropology; archaeology; atacama; atacamadesert; chile; dnaforensics; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mummies; mummy
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what a surprise!
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:22:31 PM PDT
by
blueplum
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:23:01 PM PDT
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: blueplum
Wait. If NYT says it’s not.
Then that must mean it is.
Cue the crazy hair guy!
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:28:49 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: blueplum
um... yeah.
This tiny 6-inch long fully formed skeleton is human.
I believe it.
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:33:57 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:37:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: blueplum
Not an alien? I’m shocked...
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:38:42 PM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: blueplum
REALLY?
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:40:55 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
To: heterosupremacist
looks like a picture of HilLIARy before she puts her make up on
(or, even after she puts her makeup on)
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:49:52 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: heterosupremacist
Spawn of Demonic Angels (Nephilim) and Humans? A hybrid.
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:50:20 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
To: blueplum
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posted on
03/22/2018 4:55:36 PM PDT
by
Revolutionary
("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
To: Roman_War_Criminal
a hybrid, but a recent one. No angels.
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:01:13 PM PDT
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: blueplum
But did it self identify as an alien?
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:03:08 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
To: Fai Mao
Galactic hate-speech spewer...
/s
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:21:58 PM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: heterosupremacist
The head and lower face remind me of Beavis.
To: Pearls Before Swine
The head and lower face remind me of Davy Hogg (and Joseph Goebbels).
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:37:33 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Yikes ! I noticed that, too. :-P
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:37:40 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: blueplum
Steven Greer put a lot more proper, scientific method research into this than what we read here.
I’m still not buying it. Read what Greer has to say.
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:37:54 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
03/22/2018 5:42:08 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: heterosupremacist
elongated skulls from Peru - adult
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posted on
03/22/2018 6:02:01 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/22/2018 8:12:57 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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