in the shots of brains and eyes they kept using, the "eyebrow" portion was the cingulate cortex and corpus callosum. the former recieves inputs from the thalamus but is certainly not part of it. the latter is the main line of connection between the hemispheres - but not for the thalamus, which has its own "interthalamic adhesion". also, if you cut it up (to cure epilepsy, usually) you get split brain. seriously don't get why these people don't just stick with crazy-ass indisputably real phenomena like that. anyway anything the neuroscientist they had on said was fine because neuroscientists are all great.
DNA is digital in that it is formed of discrete "letters", one of four, in a sequence. There are pretty fascinating digital operations on DNA, rewrites and amino acid codings and error correction codes and such things. It is however nothing like machine code at all. It has "an order" in that it won't code for the same things if you rearrange at random, but it's not like there's a program counter.
also helices are not spirals. pretty mad at däniken for that. ever played roller coaster tycoon, mother fucker??
It has been repeatedly proposed to expand the scope for SETI, and one of the suggested alternatives to radio is the biological media. Genomic DNA is already used on Earth to store non-biological information. Though smaller in capacity, but stronger in noise immunity is the genetic code. The code is a flexible mapping between codons and amino acids, and this flexibility allows modifying the code artificially. But once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales; in fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature, if that conforms to biological and thermodynamic requirements. As the actual scenario for the origin of terrestrial life is far from being settled, the proposal that it might have been seeded intentionally cannot be ruled out. A statistically strong intelligent-like “signal” in the genetic code is then a testable consequence of such scenario. Here we show that the terrestrial code displays a thorough precision-type orderliness matching the criteria to be considered an informational signal. Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of the same symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing rather than of stochastic processes (the null hypothesis that they are due to chance coupled with presumable evolutionary pathways is rejected with P-value < 10–13). The patterns are profound to the extent that the code mapping itself is uniquely deduced from their algebraic representation. The signal displays readily recognizable hallmarks of artificiality, among which are the symbol of zero, the privileged decimal syntax and semantical symmetries. Besides, extraction of the signal involves logically straightforward but abstract operations, making the patterns essentially irreducible to any natural origin. Plausible ways of embedding the signal into the code and possible interpretation of its content are discussed. Overall, while the code is nearly optimized biologically, its limited capacity is used extremely efficiently to pass non-biological information.
Icarus is apparently a legit planetary science journal. Used to be edited by Sagan. I guess they just don't care any more.
you ever see a sentence and say "I am quite sure that this is the first time that anyone has ever typed or written this sentence"?
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Endoscopic examination of SCP-108 reveals that the area accessible via the subject's nostrils is not the human nasal cavity, but rather a bunker system of Nazi German construction dedicated to the production and maintenance of WW2-era Messerschmitt Me 262 fighters.
hello friends i am popping in bc crystal told me to let y'all know about The Other Questionable Alien Show (the one I make Calica watch with me late at night when I can't sleep) Unsealed: Alien Files. I cannot in good conscience say I recommend the sister show Unsealed: Conspiracy Files bc that one can get kinda dicey really fast, but Alien Files is good for the chuckles.
We're watching that Jesse Ventura show eventually, so the Conspiracy Files one might be a good one to watch, too. Jane would probably have to vet it beforehand, though.
I don't care if we get into "the government is gonna steal ur guns" territory but about where I draw the line is when the phrase "racial realism" gets brought up.
Very. Like not even The X-Files passes that metric, but I'm willing to go through Conspiracy Files and check What Is Good on the rewatch and let you vet from there if you want.
I have been trying to find more shows in this vein. I know Decoded is good and there are probably some old Hitlery Channel-era goofs we could watch about Nostradamus or somethin.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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This is Hermes. He is not an egg.
it, tragically, doesn't hold a candle to the nazi nose scp
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We're watching that Jesse Ventura show eventually, so the Conspiracy Files one might be a good one to watch, too. Jane would probably have to vet it beforehand, though.
there's no guarantee I'll have my internet back by Friday anyway.
...Which is pretty standard as far as conspiracies go.