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Tom is our insect wrangler.

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It's going to help us set up a demonstration

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on one of the coolest animals on Earth, the Bombardier beetle.

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This animal is a chemical warrior.

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This guy has a couple of chemicals in his abdomen,

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and it's able to shoot out boiling hot streams

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of a really toxic liquid that have the same sort of mix as rocket fuel.

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How cool.

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You can actually see the squirts, the mists, the veils,

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the squirts, the mists, the vapor.

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What was the evolutionary process of this beetle

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for that defense mechanism to even exist?

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It defies evolution.

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Houston, Texas, December 11, 1992.

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In one of the strangest alien abduction cases on record,

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eight different people report being taken

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onto an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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Even stranger, it's the fact that the same eight people

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were allegedly abducted again three days later.

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Daryl Sims, a former U.S. intelligence operative,

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is the first to investigate these separate cases as a single event.

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All of these people came back with the same identical information,

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exact same story, same location, same entities, same everything.

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I was just absolutely amazed at the clarity of the information.

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All these people were kept separate and apart from each other.

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No one had any knowledge of any mass abduction.

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Each of the self-described abductees reported being taken aboard a small craft

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that transported them to a much larger spaceship.

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They were all let out through this massive hallway.

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It looked like a museum.

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They seemed to have collected species, animals, people, all kinds of things.

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This room that they found themselves in that was straight out of a science fiction movie

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with these glass tubes and glass cases.

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in these glass cases, they saw creatures that they had never seen before,

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but also creatures from planet Earth.

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When we look out into the cosmos, we have to ask,

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is it filled with beings of different kinds of types of animalistic characteristics?

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Bird-headed beings, other animal-headed beings that exist within the cosmos.

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Thousands of abductees have given us information on a wide variety of extraterrestrial beings

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in all kinds of shapes and forms.

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there are extraterrestrial entities of every form, size and shape that we can possibly imagine.

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Insectoid, octopoid, looking like giant cats or birds.

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being of a lineage from animals that we have here on Earth?

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Could the accounts given by the eight people who were abducted in Houston

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and numerous other reports of encounters with animal-like aliens

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point to the possibility that humans are not the only lifeform on Earth

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to have been captured and examined by extraterrestrial visitors?

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In 1859, biologist Charles Darwin introduced the world to the theory of evolution

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with his book On the Origin of Species.

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occurring due to natural selection had resulted in the modification of all existing species.

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While scientists agree that this process does, in fact, take place to some extent,

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in recent years, evidence has been presented that suggests evolution alone

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cannot account for all of the species present in the animal kingdom.

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There's one species of dog, but look at it from Shawao as the St. Bernard's

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to Bulldogs, everything in between.

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This is crazy. This is like going from this generalized wolf-like creature

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into this huge variety of dogs.

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And then we have the present.

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And there's no intermediate form.

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It's got to have a different heart.

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All of that software for the animal has to be ruined,

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and you're telling me this all happens overnight.

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Ancient astronaut theorists propose that if some, or possibly all of the lifeforms on Earth,

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cannot be explained as the product of natural selection or evolution,

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it may, in fact, offer proof of not only intelligent design,

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And they say the overwhelming evidence can be found

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by examining the practices of ancient cultures all over the world.

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Manchester, England, September 2015.

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Researchers from the University of Manchester used the latest medical imaging technology

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to reveal the first look inside more than 800 mummies from ancient Egypt.

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The deceased are not humans, but crocodiles, cats, baboons, birds,

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and numerous other species painstakingly preserved for thousands of years.

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When we think of mummies, we tend to think of people being mummified.

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What we actually find out is that Egyptians also mummified a tremendous amount of cats, dogs,

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alligators, all sorts of things were being mummified in ancient Egypt.

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The mummification of animals was so pervasive that in 2015,

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archaeologists discovered that a catacomb underneath the temple dedicated to Anubis,

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the canine god of the dead, held a staggering 8 million dog mummies.

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The dogs were thought to have a direct connection with Anubis, the lord of the underworld.

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That was the jackal-headed god, so when a dog died, it could carry a message.

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which is roughly the same as the number of human mummies that have been found.

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This went on for the whole 2,000 to 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian civilization.

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But why did the ancient Egyptians mummify their animals?

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In Sakharah, you see thousands of birds mummified right next to each other, thousands of them.

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The reason that huge amount of animals were mummified in Egypt was because they believed those animals were sacred.

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They are equivalent to lighting a candle when you go to a church.

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You bring a mummified animal that the god would employ.

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Historians believe that the reason for this is that Egyptian people originally were animist.

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In other words, they saw the entire universe around them as filled with life.

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And they attributed deity, divinity to the animals in their universe.

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But it wasn't just in ancient Egypt where animals were so highly revered.

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Similar practices of animal worship can be found among the ancient Sumerians,

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the Maya and Aztec of Mesoamerica,

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and the Australian Aborigines, just to name a few.

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And in each of these separate cultures can be found stories in which animals are involved in encounters with alien visitors, otherwise known as gods.

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Animals have always played a very interesting role in the Bible.

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One of the races of angels themselves who was witnessed by Ezekiel in his famous chariot vision are in Hebrew called hayot, which translates as animals.

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And indeed they had the faces of animals, lions, eagles and the like.

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So in all these parallel cultures we have a crossover of spiritual beings and extraterrestrial beings manifesting in these forms that's repeated over and over again.

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Could it be that these were the same extraterrestrial beings that were visiting each of these cultures at different times?

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If cultures all across the world revered animals as having a connection with gods that came down from the sky, could this be evidence that certain earthly creatures possess a link to extraterrestrial entities?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that some of the planet's non-human life forms may even be directly related to mankind's ancient alien ancestors.

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Within the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut, one of the few female pharaohs of ancient Egypt, is a carving of the bull god Apis, depicted with a solar disk above his head.

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Although he is little known today among the Pantheon of Egyptian deities, historians suggest Apis was the very first god to be worshipped in Egypt, emerging around 3000 BC.

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He was considered to be the creator of humanity.

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Animals were so important in ancient Egypt that one of the creation myths starts with the bull.

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The bull that comes out of nowhere, the bull that comes out of the sky that appears in the middle of the endless ocean, is the one that creates humanity.

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That bull is the father of all humanity.

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In many mythic traditions, it is an animal or sometimes a council of animals that creates people.

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Sometimes this is a particular ancestor to humankind.

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We find this very commonly in the northwest coast, Native American groups, where you'd have different clans that would have different lineages,

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sacredly founded by different animals, the wolf clan, the bear clan, the frog clan.

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Many ancient cultures throughout the world not only had stories that humans were created by animals, but also depicted their gods with animal features.

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Ganesh, the Indian Hindu god, the one with the head of an elephant, could intervene and solve problems for the faithful.

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The monkey god, Hanuman, was a bit of a trickster, but he could be seen interacting with human beings walking among us.

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Many of the animal gods were described as descending from the sky.

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The Egyptian believed in Toth, the god with the head of an ibis who taught science, philosophy and magic.

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Keppri had the head of a scarab and played a major role in the creation of the world.

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Most of the gods were depicted with the animal head and a human body, because ancient Egyptians knew that the head had the wisdom.

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If the ancient stories of flying monkeys and animal headed gods are literal accounts of what our ancestors witnessed as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

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is this evidence that humankind was created by other worldly beings that are genetically connected to animals that still roam the earth today?

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Or did the extraterrestrials disguise themselves as animals to appear more friendly and acceptable to early humans?

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We could be dealing with extraterrestrials, extraterrestrials who chose to incarnate as cats and dogs and other animals in order to guide humans

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and also to disguise their true form, to manifest on earth in a form that would be perhaps more palatable to humans.

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Zeus is one of our most well-known gods from the Greek pantheon and we have Zeus transforming himself into a bull,

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which is part of the story of how the people of Europe were formed, or Europa.

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We have Zeus transforming himself into a swan, Zeus and Lida.

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In the traditions of West Africa, the Vodun traditions, papalegbats, he's sometimes called, very often appears as a variety of animals.

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In the Native American Pawnee culture, the sky god, the creator god, the great spirit would never come in direct form,

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but use animal forms, many different animals, as a way to communicate with the humans.

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In the Pawnee tradition, young men entering adulthood would go out on vision classes.

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They would isolate themselves from the tribe, perform ritual prayers and fast.

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Through this process, they would enter a trance-like state in hopes of communicating with these intelligent animals.

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A bear might come up to you and say, hi, it might be a caterpillar, it might be a squirrel,

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but at some point something interacted with you, some animal actually interacted with you.

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And that was held to be very, very profound in terms of your own identity, in terms of your own spirituality.

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So the idea is that each animal, therefore, is connected to their own animal spirit,

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so that a single caribou is in part in touch with this larger caribou spirit.

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So, in terms of the vision quest, you might figure out who your guardian spirit was.

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to not only communicate with other worldly creatures, but in some cases, transform into the animals themselves.

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In all these traditions, the encounters are taken very seriously.

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These animal energies are very real and tangible, and the wisdom is extremely valuable.

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Some ancient astronaut theorists propose that while extraterrestrials may disguise themselves as animals,

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they may also have a real physiological relation to certain creatures on Earth.

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And they suggest that those creatures were put on this planet with a very specific purpose,

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one that is vital to the advancement of humanity.

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Thousand Oaks, California, May 2017.

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Ancient astronaut theorist, Georgiosuchlos, visits the Ventura Bio Center

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to examine one of Earth's most curious creatures, the Bombardier beetle.

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This little bug is a marvel of evolution, or some say, intelligent design.

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Peter, good to see you. How are you?

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How are you? This is Tom. Hi.

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Hello, Tom. Pleasure. How's it going?

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Tom is our insect wrangler, and is going to help us set up a demonstration on one of the coolest animals on Earth, the Bombardier beetle.

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That's fantastic, because about a year ago, Eric Fundandekin gave me his latest manuscript for his newest book,

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and we all know that there are these multiple creatures that seem to defy Darwinian evolution,

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and one creature that jumped out at me that I hadn't heard before was this beetle right here.

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This beetle is fascinating from an evolutionary point of view,

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and in fact, it's been used by many people to suggest that evolution doesn't work at all.

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And the reason is the enormous complexity of this thing.

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This animal is a chemical warrior. It's able to shoot out boiling hot streams of a really toxic liquid that has the same sort of mix as rocket fuel.

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That's amazing.

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And it can shoot over 500 of these bursts per second.

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But the process happens so fast, it's almost in a blink of an eye.

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So we have a high-speed camera over here that can shoot about 2,500 frames per second.

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And with that camera, we can slow down this process, and in seeing that process, we can work out the exact sequence of events.

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So let's set this up with Tom and watch this take place. Let's do it.

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Okay, guys, so what I've got is some non-toxic, very mild adhesive,

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and I'm just going to touch it to the beetle's back, and that will suspend him in the air.

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We're going to give him a little bit of stimulation with these forceps,

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simulates the predator, and makes him feel defensive.

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There it was.

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While it is almost imperceptible to the naked eye, with the high-speed camera,

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the beetle can be seen blasting rapid-fire streams of deadly chemicals directed at any would-be predator.

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Projected it in that particular direction.

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You can actually see the squirts, the mist, the vapor.

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The appendage which allows this to happen can rotate, it can move back and forth,

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Yeah, this is really awesome.

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Dr. Ward has set up a computer-generated model of the Bombardier beetle.

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To show Giorgio the incredible process that is taking place inside its body.

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You've got the organs that produce the chemicals, and two separate chemicals are being made.

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We've got this hydroquinone, which is actually a makeup of the organics of the creature.

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It's part of this external skeleton.

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The second one is a chemical called hydrogen peroxide, which is rock and fuel.

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what we can do is build this chemical material that's going to get really hot and blast out the back of the bug.

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So one of the coolest things about this whole system is it's got a one-way valve.

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the last thing you want is having to blast back into the interior of your body.

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So it can direct it, squirts out this super-hot, super-tossed material into that predator's face.

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Yeah, that's a critical question.

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If evolution takes place step by step, what's the intermediate?

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How does this thing not blow itself up?

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This is experimenting through time.

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How do you go from just a garden-variety beetle to a super beetle like this?

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or at least the genetic material for this creature came here as a finished product.

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Could the physiology of the Bombardier beetle be proof that there are animals on this planet of extraterrestrial design?

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The guess is that the beetle of myths can burn the skin of humans.

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And if the mechanism it holds within its body was constructed on a larger scale, it could be a very deadly chemical weapon.

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Is it possible that aliens place certain creatures on this planet so that humans can learn from them and recreate their abilities?

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Throughout the animal kingdom, there are other organisms that also have tremendous abilities.

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The Dung beetle is able to pull upwards of 1,100 times its body weight.

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The Mantis shrimp, they can see things like polarized light, UV, infrared light, squids and octopus.

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They basically change their body coloration and the patterns and even the texture of their skin as they move across different substrates, which is just incredible.

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Many advances in human technology have been inspired by the animal world, an approach scientists refer to as biomimicry.

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Airplanes were designed to imitate the winged flight of birds.

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Military camouflage evolved out of observing the way squid, octopuses and chameleons take on the appearance of their surroundings.

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Sonar, used in the navigation of submarines and ships, is a skill taken from dolphins, whales and bats who emit sound waves to locate both prey and predators.

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We have stolen so many attributes of animals in the past for our own technologies.

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We're taking on this world view of what an animal can do and using technology to rebuild it.

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We're taking clues from the natural world in order to develop technologies.

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This may be part of a greater hidden extraterrestrial initiative, perhaps for a seeding of a technological and human revolution that we're just starting to see now.

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Could extraterrestrial beings have intended for mankind to study the other animals of Earth in order to advance our technology, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

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And if so, what are the other technologies that we can use to develop our technology?

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Is this the continuation of an experiment that they have been conducting with different lifeforms on Earth for thousands of years?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining the recent discovery that humans have not always been the most intelligent animal on the planet.

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Researchers studying the genome of indigenous Australians living in the Andaman Islands uncover a mysterious strand of DNA dating back 40,000 years.

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A strand that is not human.

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Although they do not know what species this DNA belongs to, they theorize that if it commingled with the DNA of humans, it would likely add one more name to the ever-growing list of intelligent hominid species that lived alongside our ancestors.

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To date, archaeologists have discovered that at least eight other intelligent human-like species have existed on Earth.

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One of the surprises of really the last decade has been that now that we can break into bones and extract ancient DNA,

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it is surprise, surprise that we seem to have been interbreeding with creatures that are not of our species.

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We've got pieces of DNA, these foreign, if you will, non-homo sapiens DNA within us.

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This discovery adds to the ever-growing list of hominid species that were roaming around the planet in the ancient world.

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And it brings up the question just how many other intelligent species were there out there that humans, as we know them, were interacting with.

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Perhaps we're going to discover fossils of other versions of humanity that were made or hybrid versions of other animals that we have yet to discover.

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How is it that there were so many other intelligent human-like species that inhabited the planet thousands of years ago, but only humans remain today?

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that Earth may have acted as a laboratory in which extraterrestrials experimented with various life forms,

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and as evidence, point to the numerous ancient stories of hybrid creatures.

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Hybrid creatures abound in mythology all over the world. We get animals that are partly one thing, partly another.

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In ancient Greek, we hear about the Cerberus, a terrifying three-headed dog who was the guardian of the portal to the underworld.

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The Greeks also had the centaur, half human, half horse, a large and impressive creature.

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In Hindu mythology, we have the Naga. These are strange-looking characters, serpentine at the bottom, human torsos and heads of faces.

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Even in the Kuran, the horse that was said to have flown Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem was a flying horse with a human face.

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Either it's all fantasy or our ancestors witnessed these things, and if they witnessed them, there's two options to that.

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Either these creatures actually came here or whatever extraterrestrials were here created them.

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If the hybrid creatures described in ancient mythologies really did exist alongside humans and other intelligent hominids,

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is it possible that Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection played a role in the rise of humans after all?

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Could it be a case of alien intervention on Earth, creating numerous species that were then forced to fight for survival?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining stories of an ancient cataclysm often referred to as the Great Fly.

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The Bible teaches us an ancient legend that there was a global flood.

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We all know that the sins of the people would cause God to intervene.

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But yet, legends tell us that the actual problem that occurred at this time was an extraterrestrial involvement and manipulation of human genetics.

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The Bible speaks in Genesis chapter 6 of the sons of God who came down from heaven and took the daughters of men as wives,

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from which were born a race of titans, giborim is the Hebrew word, and that they unleashed terror havoc upon the world.

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The books of Enoch teach us that these sons of God were the angels who came down from heaven.

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The development was going in the wrong direction, and then they decided to start the whole experiment again.

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They decided to create a great flood.

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We have stories of the Great Flood practically all over the world, not only in the Bible, not only in the Gilgamesh Epis, not only in the Enuma Elish from the Sumerian.

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We have it in Central America among the Mayans, we have it in South America among the Kogi Indians, they live in Colombia.

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They live in Colombia, always the Great Flood started, but in every case there was a so-called God who gave instructions to construct a ship.

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And this is where ancient legends get very interesting, because while Noah was building his ark and saving his animals,

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other legends say that others of his generation took other precautions, some building other types of ships, which were to go to the stars.

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Does the story of the Great Flood provide evidence that extraterrestrials have been experimenting with different life forms on Earth for thousands of years?

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that such experimentation continues to this day, but that it is now being directed by humans.

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Rappallo, Italy, 1988

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While studying marine life off the coast of Italy, German biology student Christian Somer discovers a microscopic species with an incredible ability.

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It never dies.

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The animal, a jellyfish called turritopsis donae, repeatedly reverts back to its earliest polyp state and begins its life cycle over and over again.

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Now there's something strange going on here.

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There's something that doesn't appear to happen in any other life form that we've ever identified in the millions and millions of different creatures that live on Earth.

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There is no theoretical limit to how much this creature is able to recycle itself.

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That completely defies all known scientific laws of biology as we now see them.

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Scientists have nicknamed the species the immortal jellyfish and are attempting to unlock its biological secrets in the hopes that they may hold the key to increasing the lifespan of humans.

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But how did such an incredible creature come to exist in the first place?

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe that extraterrestrials may still be seeding our planet with new life forms to help direct the path of mankind's evolution.

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The idea that life on Earth may have an otherworldly origin has fascinated mankind for thousands of years.

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It was first proposed in the 5th century BC by Greek philosopher Annexagerus.

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He believed that all living things came from cosmic seeds scattered throughout the universe.

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He called the concept penspermia.

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Significant thinkers throughout the ages have considered this possibility.

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Annexagerus in ancient Greece.

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Lord Kelvin.

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Fred Hoyle.

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Francis Crip.

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The co-discoverer of DNA who, by the way, thought that it was too complicated to have been developed on Earth alone.

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Up to Stephen Hawking in our time have considered this idea that life came from beyond the planet.

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Is it also possible that what we're looking at is a series of ETs that might have been visiting Earth for hundreds of thousands of years,

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and have been systematically dropping off some of their favorite creatures from other biological worlds very similar to our own,

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that have certain special ingredients so that once we reached a certain level of technology,

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we could adapt those qualities into our own life?

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Is humanity still under the influence of animals introduced to Earth by otherworldly beings?

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and suggest that we are beginning to become like our alien ancestors, playing a hand in the evolution of life on Earth.

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One of the cutting edges of biology now is we are taking human stem cells,

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putting them into embryos of animals, and then hoping that it becomes a human organ itself.

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We can take a DNA molecule within an animal and knock out specific genes.

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We've been able to do that for a while, but now we're able to replace them with specific genes the very first time,

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and we're able to replace them with a gene that's been unleashing lots of Frankenstein monsters.

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Right now, what we've seen the most interesting and to me scary example of this comes from China,

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where they have taken a single gene, inserted it into a beagle,

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and caused that beagle to have twice the musculature than it otherwise would have.

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These things are like super beagles, and that begs the question,

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if you can do it to a beagle, can you do it to a human? Absolutely.

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This could be the first step of a revolution in biology that leads to us starting to have the type of abilities that are commonly reported

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in the ancient lore of extraterrestrial gods visiting Earth.

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Is it possible that mankind is beginning to reach the level of our alien ancestors,

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as ancient astronaut theorists propose?

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And do they continue to assist us in this process, secretly introducing incredible new life forms on Earth?

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Frankfurt, Germany, September 2016.

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German physicist Dr. Claudius Gross of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Goethe University

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introduces a new theory titled the Genesis Project,

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which proposes that mankind should not simply search for life on distant planets, but create it.

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So in exoplanetary research, we have realized now that there will be planets which will be habitable but life-ness.

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And normally people believe, well, that is bad luck because we are looking for a second Earth.

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But it offers us a new opportunity, namely to bring life to these planets.

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The Genesis Project calls for depositing single cell living organisms onto lifeless planets.

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If you really want to kick-start this thing, you find an already oxygenated world.

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And then you can put out cells such as ours that have a big nucleus that can move directly into an animal grade, which is multicellular.

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In a sense, this kind of seeding that Professor Gross is wanting to do in the near future is exactly the kind of thing that extraterrestrials would have probably have done in the remote past.

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In planning to transmit life to other planets, are humans today replicating what extraterrestrials did on Earth?

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Are we continuing a cycle that has been taking place throughout the universe for many millions of years?

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The fossil record, while it's there, doesn't necessarily correspond to Darwinian evolution.

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Because you don't see the transitional creatures in between whatever evolution there may have been.

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So this suggests to me an outside influence.

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Whether it was panspermia, direct panspermia, or later the artificial mutation of our genes by extraterrestrials, I think in fact it may be a combination of all three.

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It's very possible there have been lost cultures and species that have literally evolved and left the planet.

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When we look at the various races of extraterrestrials that are possibly visiting us today, there could be some connection to various species here on Earth.

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With all of these incredible stories of ancient human animal hybrids and strange creatures coming from the stars, coupled with modern stories of people that have had experiences with aliens.

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And as we begin to meet these beings, are we meeting with past versions of ourselves or perhaps future versions of ourselves?

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The first thing we do is we look at the cosmos.

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We look at the cosmos and we look at the Earth.

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We look at the cosmos and we look at the Earth.

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We look at the cosmos and we look at the Earth.

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And we look at the beings.

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Are we meeting with past versions of ourselves or perhaps future versions of ourselves?

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Is it possible that extraterrestrials seeded the Earth and continue to use it as a genetic laboratory in which humans are just one of many experiments?

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If so, could there be another species destined to overtake us?

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Or are we in the process of merging other animals with ourselves to become more like our alien ancestors?

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Perhaps one day soon, we will learn that such genetic manipulation is happening not only on Earth, but throughout the universe.