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is continually raining down on the planet Earth.

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And with them are billions of microscopic alien life forms.

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800 million viruses are falling from the skies every single day.

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Is our planet properly prepared for an extraterrestrial invasion of disease?

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What if the terrible plagues that ravaged the Earth

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were the result of alien viruses that are constantly bombarding the planet?

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But are these alien viruses meant to harm us?

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Or change us in ways we can hardly imagine?

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Sometimes viruses help human evolution.

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It is a deliberate artificial change of our DNA.

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There is a doorway in the universe.

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Beyond it is the promise of truth.

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It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.

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The evidence is all around us.

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The future is right before our eyes.

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We are not alone.

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We have never been alone.

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May 17, 2016.

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A Stanford University study published in the journal E-Life

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reveals a remarkable finding that dramatically changes our understanding of human evolution.

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The study reports that since modern humans first emerged from earlier primates,

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roughly one-third of their evolutionary adaptations have been caused

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not by means of natural selection, but by viruses.

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We have genes in our own genome that were derived from a retrovirus

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at some point in our history.

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This suggests that there has been some kind of symbiotic relationship

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with viruses since the beginning of life itself.

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Sometimes viruses help human evolution.

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According to another study, one important human adaptation that resulted from a virus

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is a special layer of the human placenta that prevents a fetus from being rejected by the mother's body.

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The genes that create this tissue are called syncytins,

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and they were not originally found in human ancestors.

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They were acquired at a couple different points in our history about 25 and 40 million years ago.

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They're important for the connection between the mother and the fetus.

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Some scientists now believe that viral genes like this were as important for human evolution as natural selection.

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I think that horizontal gene transfer being carried out by viruses or fosches

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was probably the primary mechanism whereby changes in species

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and major changes within a species occurred.

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Was it by pure chance that viruses helped to create a species as sophisticated as humans?

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Or might this viral evolution have been intelligently directed by beings from outer space?

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Anthropologists are telling us that humans evolved over time out of Africa

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and that we had certain genetic leaps where we were suddenly smarter.

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but they could have been engineered as well.

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There is no doubt in my mind that viruses that have originated from space

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somehow had to do with our development here on Earth.

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However, it is very clear that the ancient astronaut theory proposes

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that the one reason why we became humans as we are today

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is not due to an accident by some natural virus from outer space,

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but a deliberate artificial change of our DNA.

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Could humans be the subject of a bioengineering project by extraterrestrials

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who use viruses from space to alter our evolution?

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And if so, could those viruses have been delivered to Earth in comets?

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Ancient astronaut theorists point to a curious event in our evolutionary history,

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the moment humans almost went extinct.

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Around 75,000 years ago, there was a bottleneck in human evolution.

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It suggested that the human population actually went down from millions down to just a few thousand.

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This is certainly something that genetics backs up,

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and we have to ask ourselves what was going on at this time.

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The original geologists believe that that bottleneck of humanity

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was caused by the supervolcano in Sumatra, which was exploding.

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and they're leaning more towards a virus, a plague,

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that was genetically programmed for early humans.

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One controversial theory is that the cause of this bottleneck event

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was not just a virus, but a virus that was brought to Earth on a comet.

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According to this theory, a comet slammed into the planet with such devastating force

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that it created a nuclear winter, killing almost all human life on Earth.

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Almost because those that could survive both the nuclear winter and the alien virus

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emerged as a profoundly altered and improved species.

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art, music, and advanced language.

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Could it be, and we believe it did happen,

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that alien viruses infected planet Earth at this inflection point of the extinction of the human species?

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They implanted viruses in the human species that changed the brain.

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But could viruses really survive in the frozen vacuum of space?

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And if so, could they have come here not by accident, but as some kind of extraterrestrial invasion?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest further clues might be found

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by examining a controversy of theory that comets far from being lifeless are grinning with alien microbes,

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Boston, Massachusetts, August 27th, 1918.

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Two sailors visit the sick bay at a seaside pier with frightening symptoms.

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The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic is probably the worst epidemic in recorded human history.

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Medical historians estimate that up to 20 million people died during that epidemic.

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One of the things that's not often discussed is that the great flu epidemic began on the same day in two different places.

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Until recently, it was believed that radiation, extreme temperatures and the vacuum of space, that is to say the absence of any oxygen would kill any life form.

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But ever since humans first ventured into space, scientists have been finding evidence to the contrary.

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April 20, 1967.

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NASA's unmanned Surveyor 3 lander touches down on the moon and begins its mission collecting soil from the lunar surface.

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Two years later, astronauts on the Apollo 12 mission recover parts of Surveyor 3 and return them to earth.

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To the astonishment of scientists, living strep bacteria is found on the probe.

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But this is only the first of many cases of microorganisms surviving space travel.

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There have been experiments in which microorganisms have been flown to the International Space Station and exposed to the hard vacuum and the radiation and the temperature changes of deep space.

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Incredibly, several types of bacteria have thrived back on earth after spending up to two years outside the International Space Station.

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But even more surprisingly, this durability isn't reserved for single-celled organisms alone.

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In September 2007, a Russian Soyuz rocket carried tiny animals called tardigrades into space to test their legendary ability to thrive in extreme environments.

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Tardigrades are called water bears. They're found in the polar regions on mosses and so forth.

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And they're beautiful little animals. They have a very unusual life history.

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And there were experiments in which tardigrades were carried to the International Space Station.

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It's also well-established that microorganisms can very easily survive in bodies like comets and could well live in bodies like Europa and Enceladus,

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because there is ice there, there is liquid water oceans underneath the icy crust.

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Some believe that microbial life first evolved on one of these distant planets.

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Eons later, meteor impacts blasted some of them into space, where they took root in comets.

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But even if true, how could they descend to Earth and infect humans?

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We know for a fact that material from other bodies in our solar system is continually raining down on the surface of the planet Earth.

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And it could well be bringing with it dead and possibly even living microorganisms as it enters the Earth's atmosphere and then lands in oceans or lakes or streams of the planet.

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Could this explain many of the plagues that sickened and killed millions throughout history?

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In 2007, an international team of researchers set up a research facility in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Spain

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to collect data on microbes falling to Earth from the sky.

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What they discovered remains controversial.

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The total amount of viruses that were falling down on the Earth was something like 800 million individual viruses per square meter of the Earth.

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The conclusion that came to, of course, was that this was essentially viruses that were lofted from the surface of the Earth, taken up to the clouds and brought back.

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Now, I think some would have been recirculated in this way, but not all.

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And I feel that this is one of the most striking examples of science being essentially dishonest in its conclusions.

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These 800 million viruses per square meter falling on the Earth must include viruses that are coming from outside.

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Although some scientists believe that life on Earth actually originated with microbes that rained down from comets, a theory known as panspermia,

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an even more controversial theory called directed panspermia, proposes that these comets were sent here not by accident, but deliberately.

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If I'm an alien species and I want to start a colony on a different planet, think of what we're doing now.

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We want to send human beings back to the moon. We want to send human beings to Mars. What if that's not what they did?

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What if the ancient aliens didn't send complete life forms, but sent sub-microscopic life forms?

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Mainstream scientists remain skeptical that microbes can survive for thousands of years inside icy comets, much less that they might be sent to Earth deliberately to alter human evolution.

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But others argue that the proof can be found right here on Earth in the closest environment we have to comets, the icy depths of glaciers.

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WISTLER CANADA

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Ancient astronaut theorist George Osuklos and retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard Hoover are about to board a helicopter bound for a massive ice cave in the Canadian wilderness.

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Dr. Hoover spent most of his career studying fossils for signs of extraterrestrial microscopic life and is a leading proponent of panspermia, the idea that life on Earth originally rained down from comets in outer space.

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He has invited George to accompany him while he investigates the Whistler Ice Cave, where he is confident that he will be able to do anything.

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In the next minute, they will find the glacial ice teaming with microbial and perhaps even more sophisticated life forms. Life forms that may be thousands of years old.

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This is just absolutely magnificent. It really is.

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If alien viruses are reaching Earth, Dr. Hoover suggests that those that don't find a host could survive within such an environment for long periods of time.

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Today, he'll examine the glacier for the perfect samples to analyze in his laboratory.

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So Richard, how excited are you to be here to conduct this experiment?

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Well, I'm tremendously excited. This is absolutely a marvelous opportunity to do more study of life than ice.

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After a 20-minute helicopter ride, the team arrives at the Whistler Ice Cave in the Pemberton Glacier.

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Wow. This is incredible.

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Look at that. There must be a thousand shades of blue in this ice cave.

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It's absolutely fantastic.

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And here we see all of these magnificent shades of blue and up there you see big streaks of black. Glaciers like to eat rocks.

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And as they eat rocks, the rocks gather inside and when the sun shines through the ice and hits the rocks, it can cause it to melt and form nice little pools of water.

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And then when bacteria and algae grow in there and respire and produce their photosynthetic products, they make their own atmosphere.

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So around every tiny rock in this glacier, there is a tiny planetary system with its own biology, its own atmosphere, its own soil in effect, and its own oceans.

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The ice here is tens of thousands of years old, but Dr. Hoover believes it is teaming with life.

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Wow. I mean this is spectacular. So you just described basically our environment on a microscopic level.

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Exactly. There is an enormous amount of biology above us and throughout this wonderful glacier.

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What we are about to do is take a course sample of this beautiful blue ice.

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So what are you looking for specifically right now?

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What I want to do first is chop away an outer layer and get into the inner ice.

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We'll be looking inside of the ice for the ice microorganisms.

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Now we know there can't possibly be any contamination because this ice has been in the glacier and now it's only freshly exposed.

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And now we take the core.

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Now we're into the ice. I'll pull the ice core out.

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That's enough right?

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That's enough.

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Yeah, that's the first sample.

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Yeah, cap that.

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All the microorganisms that grow in ice typically grow very, very slowly.

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So in fact there are some microorganisms that only reproduce once every half a century or once a century.

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So the microbes that are found in here are they in suspend animation or are they moving around?

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So essentially what you're saying is that this entire cave is filled with life.

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Yes, but not just that. This entire ice cap is filled with life.

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There is this enormous amount of microorganisms that live and thrive and love to live in these low temperatures of the ice cave that we have here and ice caves and icy glaciers all over the planet Earth and probably all over icy regions within our entire solar system and maybe widely distributed throughout the entire universe.

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Are we essentially inside the interior of a comet? Is this what it looks like?

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Microorganisms can live in ice and ice is the dominant component of comets.

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Organisms can remain alive and protected by the icy material of the comet until it arrives into another solar system and blows off chunks of material that can find a planet that it can consider a wonderful home.

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And so this basically ties into the whole idea of panspermia.

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Water is a wonderful radiation shield and when you have a comet that is a few miles in diameter on the inside of that cometary crust there is all of this magnificent ice that has been frozen and then reworked with material going in and out.

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So comets are not just a magnificent place for panspermia.

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I am convinced that comets are an absolutely wonderful place for the origin of life.

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Incredibly, Giorgio and Dr. Hoover discovered that the glacier isn't home to just microscopic life.

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This is magnificent.

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Look, these ice worms.

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This one has just crawled out of the glacier.

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He's deep in the ice.

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Over here, two more ice worms.

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They're all in here compared to the ice.

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They're clearly looking for something.

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Yeah, he's hunting.

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We discovered life in the most inhospitable of environments.

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Amazingly, Dr. Hoover has found some of the rarest animals on Earth.

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Ice worms only exist in a handful of locations in North America.

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This is an incredible evolutionary phenomenon.

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They have apparently evolved to be able to live and grow and feed and reproduce inside of glacial ice and snow.

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They are feeding on algae, cyanobacteria and other bacteria that live in the ice and they can make burrows through the ice,

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just like an earthworm makes burrows through the soil.

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or perhaps the icy moons of our solar system like Europa and Enceladus.

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You know, it's kind of incredible because we came here in the hopes of finding microbial life.

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It's incredible.

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As Giorgio and Dr. Hoover take their samples to a lab to be analyzed,

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what kind of lifeforms might they find within the Pemberton Glacier?

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Could it support the theory that life on comets is more common than we ever thought possible?

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And if so, is it just the random byproduct of a universe that is teeming with various forms of life?

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a plan deliberately designed to alter human evolution?

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Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Sucalos and retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard Hoover

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have just collected deep ice core samples from the Pemberton Glacier in Whistler, Canada.

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First sample that we got.

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and are just now returning to life for the first time in thousands of years.

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Do you see anything?

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Oh, yes, yes, we've got bacteria.

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This is fantastic. I mean, look at this one spinning right here.

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Yeah, this one just moves straight across the screen.

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And this one is tumbling.

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And notice there's a cell that has just undergone cell division.

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Here's another one that's just undergone cell division.

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The quest for extraterrestrial life to me has been a lifelong one, as it has been with you.

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So I've traveled around the world climbing pyramids.

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I've looked at statues. I've been to hundreds of museums.

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I've read countless ancient texts.

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that may have come here millions of years ago.

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The fascinating thing is that a far more extraordinary hypothesis

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than the existence of extraterrestrial life

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is the hypothesis that life exists on the planet Earth and nowhere else in the universe.

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then we would be completely unique and we would be different from everywhere else in the universe.

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And that would be an amazing discovery, much more amazing than finding out

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that bacteria or ice worms are crawling around on the surface of Europa today.

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This is incredibly fascinating.

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You know, and it's also refreshing to hear an actual NASA scientist telling me these things.

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If, as Dr. Hoover's research indicates, icy comets are ideal incubators for extraterrestrial life

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and if microorganisms are incredibly common in the universe,

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is the Earth being regularly bombarded by tiny alien life forms?

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Life forms that could not only grow and mutate,

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but could also pose a deadly threat to mankind.

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Sussex, England, 1992.

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Cattle are slaughtered by the thousands as government officials try to prevent the spread

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of the most frightening new disease on Earth.

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Called mad cow disease, it is an entirely new kind of illness

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caused by bizarre proteins called prions.

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in the sense that it wasn't a bacterium, it wasn't a virus.

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and sort of pass on that information to other proteins

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and that sort of makes them dysfunctional as well.

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They could have been introduced from space because of the fact that mad cow disease

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seemed to have appeared rather abruptly and been transferred rather widely.

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the sudden appearance of mad cow disease raises an intriguing question.

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Could many of history's worst epidemics have come from space?

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And if so, did they come here purely by chance?

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What if the terrible plagues that ravaged the Earth

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were the result of alien viruses that are constantly bombarding the planet?

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August 26, 1976.

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The small village of Iambuco in Zaire is struck by a deadly disease

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that causes victims to ooze blood from every orifice.

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The name of the disease, Ebola.

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Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates,

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so it causes massive internal bleeding and often death in over 50% of cases.

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alert historians recognize the symptoms of Ebola

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as being identical to those of an epidemic that ravaged the Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago.

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In 250 AD, the plague of Cyprian struck the city of Carthage in North Africa.

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Incredibly contagious.

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It caused infected victims to ooze blood from every orifice,

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just like Ebola virus, and killed off half the population.

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the plague seemed to disappear completely from the planet.

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and it then disappears all the way through to the 1970s,

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if it isn't somewhere hiding on Earth,

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is it possible that it was out in space itself, perhaps on a comet,

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to rain down more misery on humanity?

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Was the virus that we know as Ebola really dormant for nearly 20 centuries?

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the answer is obvious,

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and as proof they point to accounts concerning another of history's worst plagues,

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the Black Death.

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What's interesting about these accounts is that they seem to have originated

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after something strange was seen up in the sky.

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and then it is also described that this black dust came off that particular object.

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they reported these strange figures holding some type of device, like a sickle.

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Some people feel today these reports were some types of extraterrestrials causing the disease.

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Ironically, with half the population gone,

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those who survived the plague enjoyed twice the wealth and natural resources of the previous generation.

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They also had much stronger immune systems.

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So could this have been part of some deliberate, extraterrestrial plan?

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe that such an audacious notion is possible.

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If you're an alien culture and you're seeing Earth overpopulating to the point where the planet can't sustain the population,

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what do we do with animals in the wild?

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We call them.

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What if these plagues were alien cultures calling us?

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to kill people with specific genetic weaknesses and make the rest of the gene pool that much stronger.

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But if extraterrestrials are trying to cull our population or strengthen our genetic makeup through the introduction of microbes, why?

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Some ancient astronaut theorists suspect that the ultimate objective is to make us more like them.

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Paris, France.

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July, 2013.

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Scientists announced the discovery of an entirely new class of extremely large microbes called pandoraviruses.

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Up to 94% of the pandoraviruses genome has nothing in common with any other life form on Earth.

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These very large viruses, the pandoraviruses, they have a very high frequency of genes that basically don't correspond to any other genes and other organisms that we know of.

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While seemingly alien, pandoraviruses do share one thing in common with all life on Earth.

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DNA.

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Those who endorse panspermia say that this supports a key part of their hypothesis, namely that all life in the universe is based on DNA, and therefore that life on Earth is closely related to life everywhere.

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If DNA is present throughout space, and we are a product of that DNA, and that other species elsewhere in the galaxy are also the result of the same DNA, then very clearly there's some kind of symbiotic relationship between all of us.

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If all life in the universe is based on DNA, then aliens would be closely related to humans.

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Is this why so many abductees report that their alien abductors are so interested in human genetic material?

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Many abductees have talked about how they were taken on board UFOs and subjected to medical experimentation.

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Witnesses talk about blood, sperm, eggs being removed for their bodies.

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It's very possible that an alien intelligence is tinkering with our DNA to try to make us more compatible to them, and that perhaps one day the two species will unite, and they will no longer be our gods, but we will be their equals.

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If aliens are using these microbes to make us more like them, then obviously we're going to start to show signs of that sort of genetic, physical evolution.

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In other words, our testosterone levels should go down. We're going to become more frail, probably going to become more androgynous. Our intelligence is going to be spiked.

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Some point out that these changes are happening already.

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There are trends in the evolution of human beings right now. Sperm counts are going down. Sperm counts are going down by the way, as the world's population is crashing through 8 billion to 10 billion.

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Maybe we become more like the aliens, and perhaps that means that we're actually more compatible with them genetically if that path is the one that's laid out.

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So you could actually look at the development of higher intelligence as, again, kind of a genetic trojan horse that eventually leads us to a point where it's far easier for us to be crossed genetically with alien species.

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Could human beings be the subjects of an ingenious bioengineering project conducted by extraterrestrials?

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Ancient astronaut theorists believe that not only is the answer yes, but that this process, while at times painful, will ultimately benefit humanity.

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But they also warn that the extraterrestrials may have another agenda, one that doesn't benefit us, but them.

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The scientific journal Current Biology reports that biologists at the University of Rochester have solved the mystery of the P. aphid.

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A tiny, sap-sucking insect that is normally wingless, but periodically develops wings when it needs to seek out new plants to colonize.

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What they found is that the genes that form the on-off switch for wings belong to a virus, the genome of which has become fully incorporated into that of its host.

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The researchers suggest that while this is beneficial to the aphid, it is actually the virus that induces wing development in order to spread itself around.

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Similarly, it was also found in 2019 that many wasps carry a virus that increases their longevity, enabling the virus to be spread further.

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Viruses sort of straddle our concepts of living or non-living because they require a host in order to reproduce themselves and also to carry out any life functions so they can't metabolize or they have to rely on a host cell to do that and to make copies of themselves as well.

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On its own, a virus is an earth. It only comes to life and is able to reproduce once it comes in contact with a host.

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Like the viruses themselves, if extraterrestrials are altering humans, is it perhaps to further their own species?

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Are they slowly transforming us into new incarnations of themselves, not to advance humankind, but their own kind?

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Perhaps. But some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that as is the case with the aphid and also the wasp, this process might be mutually beneficial.

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One theory is that these extraterrestrial visitors, they are a dying race and that they are injecting new genetic material which will help save them.

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Another related theory is let's take human DNA, let's take alien DNA and let's create something even better.

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I think that humankind has been part of a eternal experiment, something that's begun a long, long time ago.

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And I think that this is an ongoing process. Now, figuring out what the change is, is your guess is as good as mine.

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If we find that viruses do come from space, then we know that because there is a relationship between viruses and evolution, that this is something that must be universal.

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It's something that connects us with every other possible life source everywhere out there in the universe.

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Is it possible that the history of disease on our planet is not only a human story, but an extraterrestrial one?

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As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is a profound yes, and if such a notion is true, they insist that these so-called alien infections are not meant to destroy us, but to serve as a kind of inoculation.

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A preparation for the day when mankind comes face to face with its alien relatives.