Yes, my news consumption consists primarily of whatever blurbs come up on my "Trending Now" and Yahoo updates when I open the computer up in the morning and therefore are not necessarily "current". I just became aware of an apparently 10 year old mystery in the form of the "Atacama Humanoid". In short (pardon the pun) 10 years ago a tiny 6 inch skeleton was found in the Chilean dessert. A six inch humanoid skeleton (see pic below). My first impressions were that this was an aborted mutated fetus, given the obvious visible deformities, however it turns out that this child lived to be between 8 and 10 years old! Of course others clung to the belief that this was in fact evidence of alien life.
OK, so yes, I am a believer in "life out there". Do I believe in visitation and alien "probing"? Enh. I'll try and give the short answer. Just on the basis of probability, given the number of galaxies in the universe (recent analysis puts the number around 500 billion! Yea, that's with a "B". And each one of those galaxies gives home to 100's of billions of stars) not to mention those solar systems we have discovered that have Earth-like planets? I think the likelihood that we are an exclusive club are slim. As far as "visitations"? There's allot going on out there, just in our skies alone. How much of that is accidental? Government tests? or ET taking a wrong turn at Albuquerque? I don't know but I grew up in Exeter NH (to understand that statement just google "The Exeter Incident" you'll get several million hits) and have experienced a couple moments of real curiosity personally. Truth is the technology required to travel the distances between galaxies in a reasonable amount of time escapes us, so it's easy for some to say "impossible". But really its more like impractical. Theoretically, faster then light travel, teleportation even time travel are all possible we just haven't figured it out yet (although NASA is currently working on it) So it's rather egotistical to say that some other race might not have already figured that out. Just look at what was once science fiction on our world and is reality today? Not to go into a long list but I can remember sitting and watching Jean Luc teching away on a P.A.D on the Next Gen, and now 15 years later hardly anyone gives the touch screen micro computer they carry around a second thought!
The real question to visitation is "motive". What could they possibly want from us. Lets face it, if it was conquest, natural resources and human slaves (or human lunch meat) they probably would have done it long ago, as close encounters have been recorded for centuries, not waited for us to reach a technological point capable of defending ourselves. Or perhaps it's just research, like a zoologist living amongst the apes but not interfering, yet. Or possibly, they just stumbled upon this "backwater" "pre-warp" culture and thought "hmmm?"
I'm gonna just leave the whole "probing " thing alone because honestly I just think that's some people with issues looking for attention.
Back to the little guy. Tests have shown that of the DNA they have recorded is "human". So, OK...but considering that everything in the universe we know of is comprised of the same "cosmic stuff" is it to hard to comprehend that possibly it all grows the same way? Just adapting in physical manifestations pertinent to it own natural habitat? All life on our planet evolves from the same six components. Who's to say that's not true of ALL life? And just look at the features of this creature? Then look at the common popular ideal of the "alien". Bulbous head, big eye's, long spindly limbs. These images have been recorded for millennia! I mean somethings going on here. The least of which is that this creature survived for up to ten years! And was six inches tall!!! The smallest human in recorded history is a whooping 21.5 inches! And then you read the articles and it's so dry as to say "hmmm?...how quaint." Could there have once been a race of "micro humans" on our planet? Not unlike phylum of dinosaurs that grew to smaller size as predicated by their habitat on smaller, isolated landmasses during the time periods when their cousins were quite a bit larger. We have only been a sea faring race for a few thousand years but found evidence of human evolution all over the planet. What if on some remote space as of yet visited land, a micro version of humanity had evolved. Determined by its smaller adapted surroundings an adult may have not been more then a foot or so tall? Sounds fantastic I know. We only have found roughly 10% of the fossil record of bygone eras. Presumably because the bigger a critter is, the more evidence it leaves behind, but using any number of current ecosystems as a model, we know there have to have been any large number of distinct smaller ones around to make the whole thing sustainable. So who's to say they didn't? Perhaps being so small, there's just not much of them left to discover? During our evolution there were periods where several other distinct humanoid creatures coexisted on our planet but died out. Could this be evidence of that, and in turn their obvious physical differences cast them in the mold of aliens? Or possibly dependant upon the prevailing historical social norms, Fairies? Elves? Dwarfs? Leprechauns?
Lord, that WOULD be interesting.
But the real sad part is, what caused the demise of this poor creature? I hate to enforce my own strict "human" code of morality but if this was in fact an alien "child" why was his corpse left behind? does his culture not possess organized funeral rituals? Grieving parents? Or was he given "proper" burial only to have it desecrated by curiosity seekers? His remains were found wrapped in a simple linen cloth? Was he a deformed human that was simply discarded? But then having lived to 10 years and being so small and so frail someone had to have been caring for him.
Honestly I think there are more interesting mysteries and unanswered questions here then as to whether or not he was of extraterrestrial origin.
ANYWAY!
Sorry to get a little maudlin on ya there! Managed to get only one new goodies out yesterday. 'Twas a day of false starts! For the uninitiated a "False Start" is where some schmuck forgets to check and make sure he has all the parts before starting a project OR starts it and realizes what he HAD doesn't work!
I was that schmuck.
Three times.
BUT on the fourth try...got out a sweet FULL re-furb on a Trek Navigator 100! This one had sat in someones back yard for several years so needed...well...just about everything! Now shes sittin' pretty! Also was quite busy with repairs (thank you all so very, very much!). Now just need folks to come in and get them. Getting to the point where if I exhale something pokes me! Well, at least I'm keeping Terry supplied with an unending run of scrap.
Speaking of s"crap", it's starting to drizzle outside so I can only assume I'm gonna have plenty of time to build some more today!
Y'all have a great day!
(brave the weather and come in and check us out!)
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