https://news.yahoo.com/scientific-paper-claims-octopuses-actually-161100373.html

Octopuses are from space. I know, that sounds like the opening line of a cheesy science fiction movie from the black and white days of Hollywood. But it’s actually the main part of the argument behind a research paper published in an actual peer-reviewed journal. The paper was published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Titled Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?, the paper digs deep into the origin of life on Earth.
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Believe the science.

Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

The chances of proteins being able to be used from terrestrial organisms is either near 0% or near 100%, which puts an interesting twist on alien life.

Cthulhu approves of this scientific paper.

Spawn of Cthulhu?

That theory has been around for a while. I believe other papers were claiming something similar years ago.

I don't believe it but there are a lot of fun ways to spin it into a movie plot. You could turn it into anything from Mars Attacks to Prometheus.

Pfff, already covered in Resident Alien.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!!

This was discussed on ancient Aliens awhile ago.

Dammit, now I have to sell all my scuba gear...

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Exactly, can't say I've ever seen one in Colorado.

No it doesn't.

"However consistent with this conclusion are the recent RNA editing transcriptome-wide data on the somatic RNA diversification mechanisms in the behaviourally sophisticated Cephalopods such as Octopus. These data demonstrate extensive evolutionary conserved adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) mRNA editing sites in almost every single protein-coding gene in the behaviorally complex coleoid Cephalopods (Octopus in particular), but not in nautilus (Liscovitch-Brauer et al., 2017). This enormous qualitative difference in Cephalopod protein recoding A-to-I mRNA editing compared to nautilus and other invertebrate and vertebrate animals is striking. Thus in transcriptome-wide screens only 13% of Drosophila and human protein coding mRNAs harbour an A-to-I recoding site; and there only about 25 human mRNA messages which contain a conserved A-to-I recoding site across mammals. In Drosophila lineages there are about 65 conserved A-sites in protein coding genes and only a few identified in C. elegans which support the hypothesis that A-to-I RNA editing recoding is mostly either neutral, detrimental, or rarely adaptive (reviewed in Liscovitch-Brauer et al., 2017). Yet in Squid and particularly Octopus it is the norm, with almost every protein coding gene having an evolutionary conserved A-to-I mRNA editing site isoform, resulting in a nonsynonymous amino acid change (Liscovitch-Brauer et al., 2017). This is a virtual qualitative jump in molecular genetic strategy in a supposed smooth and incremental evolutionary lineage - a type of sudden "great leap forward". Unless all the new genes expressed in the squid/octopus lineages arose from simple mutations of existing genes in either the squid or in other organisms sharing the same habitat, there is surely no way by which this large qualitative transition in A-to-I mRNA editing can be explained by conventional neo-Darwinian processes, even if horizontal gene transfer is allowed. One plausible explanation, in our view, is that the new genes are likely new extraterrestrial imports to Earth - most plausibly as an already coherent group of functioning genes within (say) cryopreserved and matrix protected fertilized Octopus eggs."

That was from the Dolphin Aliens.

The Octopus Aliens are less polite.

That's stupid. We all know there's several types of aliens but octopi aren't one of them.

Check out the book Fracture, it's about octupi evolving indepently from the rest of the world and being intelligent and cunning.

They taste good

Fragment. And it was mantis shrimp.

NEVER trust non-science accounts of science as accurate.

I you care about the issue read the paper.

Panspermia

Observing your avatar, this man knows things.

I bet Fauci sent them our taxpayers dollars to research that.

They're intelligent, but I don't think they're smart enough to build and fly spaceships.

And in Men in Black

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First thought that popped into my mind too.

Meh.

Still delicious if cooked right.

They also make great ceviche.

I got to be honest, they are definitely the smartest thing I eat.

They're hobbled by the peculiarities of their reproductive cycle.  Thankfully.

We actually do this one a lot. They’re interesting, but they aren’t aliens.

The only sane thing from the article:

This is right out of Resident Alien... a SciFy comedy series.

im tarded...TL:DR

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Quarren approved.

Of course they are, everyone knows that.

Why do you think they need these to get around?

Of course!!  I have watched the Resident Alien documentary!!


Aaarggg…too late.

They are kinda sarcastic too.

This one's an actual peer reviewed journal. Sounds so credible much bonafide after all that experts, anonymous sources and possible allegations.

Yep. I’ve been hearing this for years. But a lot of animals are proof that evolution is not
A fact.

horseshoe crabs been keeping it the same for a long time

Cthulhu is busy approving of smoked brisket right now, but will get around to reading this.

Anything is aliens from outer space if you’re brave enough

"He'd let us in, knows where we've been, in an octopuses garden by the sea."

It's not new, it's over three years old, and it's been posted a few times.

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Delicious aliens.

 

Author or year published please.


thank you,

18Z50

"My Octopus teacher" was a good documentary...

Actually just from looks alone I'd say the platypus was an alien. But the article was good for a laugh.