Starchild Skull

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<a href="http://www.starchildproject.com/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.starchildproject.com/index.htm</a>

Hmm, so I've been reading various articles about this skull today and many claim it a hoax, but recently this year there was more experiments done and the website is claiming some interesting stuff after some new DNA testing. Does anyone have more up-to-date information on this? I can't find much on the new claims.
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    Well I imagine the website of the guy who owns the thing may not have the most objective analysis on the subject.
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    edited April 2011
    'Is the star child skull a human-alien hybrid or a hoax?'

    Rephrased:

    'Is this skull we found an example of somebody creating a viable offspring from two species more different than any two forms of life on earth could possibly be, after travelling for hundreds if not thousands of years to reach the planet, then subsequently disappearing without a trace. OR did someone in mexico 900 years ago have a deformed head?'

    I think the question is supposed to be rhetorical, but I don't think it is rhetorical in the way the person who wrote it expected it to be.

    Aliens probably don't even HAVE DNA, DNA is something earth life uses because all earth life is based on more or less the same thing, alien life could just as easily be a kind of crystal which grows quickly in sunlight and which explodes upon reaching a certain mass, launching small fragments into space which then land on other planets and begin growing again. How the hell do you make a human hybrid of that? It's even more improbable than someone making a cuttlefish-mushroom hybrid.
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    Chris, stop being so naive and OPEN YOUR MIND!


    Clearly, this oddly shaped skull from 900 years ago is an alien-human hybrid. I mean, what other <i>possible</i> explanation is there? <a href="http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1400&bih=925&q=Hydrocephalus&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=" target="_blank"> Hydrocephalus?</a>

    That's just crazy talk.
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  • juicejuice Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12886Members, Constellation
    Aliens have DNA.

    Their brains are not, however, made of plexi with crumpled aluminum foil inside with some LEDs a la the recent indiana jones.

    That is all.
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1841831:date=Apr 21 2011, 04:01 PM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (juice @ Apr 21 2011, 04:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1841831"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Aliens have DNA.

    Their brains are not, however, made of plexi with crumpled aluminum foil inside with some LEDs a la the recent indiana jones.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Starchild Skull =/= Crystal Skulls
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1841831:date=Apr 21 2011, 11:01 PM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (juice @ Apr 21 2011, 11:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1841831"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Aliens have DNA.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It's not a far stretch to claim that aliens would have something that fulfills the function of DNA, i.e. convey genetic information from generation to generation. It would likely be completely different from DNA though. Just like alien computers probably will have operating systems. But not one that is compatible with Mac OS.
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    edited April 2011
    DNA is pretty fragile, if I remember biology it is kind of like a complex protein, and most proteins aren't thermostable. It's also requires some pretty odd elements in its construction.

    So unless the aliens live on a planet with the same temperature and elemental composition as ours AND they evolved the same way we did, they won't have DNA.
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  • Konohas Perverted HermitKonohas Perverted Hermit Join Date: 2008-09-26 Member: 65075Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1841994:date=Apr 22 2011, 12:21 PM:name=Chris0132)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chris0132 @ Apr 22 2011, 12:21 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1841994"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->DNA is pretty fragile, if I remember biology it is kind of like a complex protein, and most proteins aren't thermostable. It's also requires some pretty odd elements in its construction.

    So unless the aliens live on a planet with the same temperature and elemental composition as ours AND they evolved the same way we did, they won't have DNA.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    How do you know we didn't evolve the way we did because they planted humanity here? Huh? What now? Huh? Hehe...
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  • juicejuice Join Date: 2003-01-28 Member: 12886Members, Constellation
    It's not like aliens can break the laws of physics. Things get pretty uniform down at the molecular level.

    There are only so many combinations of elements that can form macromolecules with the many wondrous and amazing properties of DNA.
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  • Chris0132Chris0132 Join Date: 2009-07-25 Member: 68262Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1842237:date=Apr 25 2011, 03:11 AM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (juice @ Apr 25 2011, 03:11 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1842237"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's not like aliens can break the laws of physics. Things get pretty uniform down at the molecular level.

    There are only so many combinations of elements that can form macromolecules with the many wondrous and amazing properties of DNA.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    All the more reason that it is far more likely that life elsewhere in the universe has evolved other ways of doing its thing which don't require horribly complicated molecules which only work on earth-like planets.
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