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The Answer to Whether Alien Life Exists May Be Hiding Inside Our Bodies
The answer to whether alien life exists may be hiding inside our own body!
According to a new theory, human genetic code is embedded with a
"designer label" that may be an indelible stamp of a master
extraterrestrial civilisation that preceded us by many millions or
billions of years.
Researchers Vladimir I shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University
of Kazakhstan, and Maxim A Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical
Institute, hypothesise that an intelligent signal embedded in our
genetic code would be a mathematical and semantic message that cannot be
accounted for by Darwinian evolution.
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Our Sun's Classification
Like most scientists, astronomers like to categorize the Universe around
them, and stars are no exception. Here’s how astronomers classify stars
into different groups; let’s learn a bit about star classification.
Stars are classified based on the spectral characteristic of the
light it’s giving off. As you probably know, the light we see with our
eyes is actually a mixture of colors. You can break them up into their
different parts just like you can use a prism to break sunlight into all
the colors of a rainbow. The rainbow that we see is actually the
spectrum produced by the Sun, and it’s different for different stars
depending on their temperature. A cooler star will have a spectrum that
has more red in it, while a hotter star will be shifted up towards the
blue end of the spectrum.
What Causes that Great After Rain Smell
After a rainstorm, especially a rain storm that breaks a long dry spell,
the world smells different. What causes that strange, clean, earthy
smell?
Some of the
smell, especially the parts that people identify as "clean," probably
come from ozone. Oxygen atoms usually travels in pairs. Ozone consists
of three oxygen atoms linked together. It's naturally created in the
upper atmosphere, where the energy from ultraviolet light splits oxygen
pairs in two. Each of the newly-single oxygen atoms is then taken up by
oxygen pairs to form an ozone threesome. The same process can happen
around waterfalls and after lightning strikes.
Ozone is
sometimes used to kill off odors, especially smoky and moldy odors. The
clean scent after a rainfall is partially caused by ozone cleaning away
some of the scents we take for granted. Ozone also has a scent all its
own. Some say it's like geraniums, but others compare it to a light
bleach scent. Few sniff it for more than a moment because it does
terrible damage to the lungs, splitting open cells and causing them to
leak enzymes. A little ozone after the rain, however, does little
damage for all the pleasure it brings.
The other
main scent of a rainstorm is a sort of rich earthy smell, like freshly
turned-over dirt. Actually, it's exactly like freshly turned-over dirt.
In pretty
much any soil on Earth you'll find actinomycetes. These are bacteria
that tend to grow in rich, wet dirt. They're beneficial both to the
dirt and to us. Scientists have isolated antibiotics from dirt, and
found that they're produced by these actinomycetes. When the soil dries
out, the bacteria put out spores that can survive in the dry dirt. And
then when it rains, the rain dampens the soil and kicks up the spores,
so the scent is the of the bacteria in the air and dirt, going to work
again.
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