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News Briefs 26-10-2007

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  1. ‘Alien Autopsy’ film
    Any film cameraman or film technician who used a 16mm camera in the 1950s would know that the ‘Alien Autopsy’ film was faked. I wrote about this footage in some detail a few years back on TDG, and nothing released by the people involved has changed my view or the facts since then.

    And for the record, whilst film (both safety and nitrate stock) can shrink and warp, get scrathed and dirty, it is a very resiliant medium and Florida’s humidity would not have ‘degenerated’ the footage to such an extent that it was unuseable. Note: nitrate film can undergo a chemical reaction with moisture, but the autopsy film was shot on safety film.

    Regards

    Nostra.
    (just retired after 40 years in the film industry)

    1. Retirement
      Hey Nostra,

      Congrats on the retirement. Hope that gets you diving into more fun stuff. I have a year to go, but when it’s over, look out. I am definitely going to be looking for trouble in all the right places.

      X_O

  2. Redheaded Neanderthals
    So this new DNA study seems to prove some neanderthals showed red hair and pale skin, which makes me wonder about the cryptozoological studies on Almas the Caucasus equivalent of Bigfoot and the Yeti.

    There are accounts that the Almas display a reddish color in their hair (or fur, since they are entirely covered by it).

    There’s also the weird story of Zana, a female Almas that was captured in 1850 by some russian villagers, and kept in captivity for the remainder of her life, although it seems by in the end she was quite happy living among the villagers, and when she had her chains and shackles removed, she did not intend to escape o the forest. She became a hard drinker and apparently died of liver failure, not without first giving birth to several hybrid offspring, not all of the same father (yes I know, the first time I read this I was a kid, but still made a HUGE impact, life in that village must have been BORING AS HELL!!!).

    So anyhoo, although most of Zana’s babies died, apparently either due to the inexperience of the mother who went to bathe them in the freezing waters of a nearby river, or by the lack of strength of these “half-breeds” who were half human. But some managed to survive after being taken away from Zana, and they lived well until adulthood. They displayed broad noses and DARK SKIN, and this is the point I wanted to reach, since many homininologists (cryptozoologists who specialize in the study of human-lke cryptids) are of the idea that Almas might be surviving Neanderthals.

    I personally don’t think so, but maybe that’s because nowadays neanderthals have been depicted more and more human-like in museums exhibits and television documentals. Indeed, you see these modern depictions of Neanderthals, with their clear eyes and pale skin, and not covered entirely with hair, and you couldn’t possibly think of them as Almas, who seem more ape-like and apparently do not display any superior tool-making ability or mastery of fire (if you believe the accounts of witnesses that is).

    But if Almas are not Neanderthals, what are they? Seems they are able to interbreed with us humans, and these “hybrids” were sexually fertile and able to reproduce too (Zana’s children got to marry and had children of their own, once again, those villagers displayed a great deal of tolerance, which seems to imply they saw Zana and her offspring as “human”) that means Almas must be a part of the “Homo” family. But is it a now extinct branch or a completely undiscovered one?

    Maybe Almas are Homo Erectus, which is related to both modern humans and Neanderthals, and were morphologically more ape-like. H. Erectus was able to reach a very wide and varied land extension, even colonizing islands like madagascar or Flores, where the recently discovered “hobbyt” H. Floresiensis is still a matter of interesting controversy between academics.

    Maybe the answer to the differences between us humans and our closest extinct cousin, the neanderthals, could only be settled if we managed to CLONE a neanderthal child from a h. sapiens egg. But that certainly would be ethically questionable.

    One thing is certain, Neanderthals are very popular right now. Perhaps they make us think about the inability of our species to interact with people who seem “different” than us, in the slightest of forms. The inherent xenophobia in human beings, like the violent attack a poor 16-year-old ecuadorian girl suffered from a 21-year-old boy from Catalunya Spain, on a subway train on Oct 7th.

    So we wonder if the extinction of this branch of the Homo genus is our fault or not. Are we humans biologically incapable to coexist peacefully with other species? Maybe the example of the russian villagers who accepted Zana for what she was, might give us reason for hope.

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  3. Neanderthal finding
    The fact that they have DNA sequenced Neanderthal bones to determine that some, if not many, of them were fair skinned and red-haired was aired on the ABC 7 o’clock news (Aust) on Sunday night. Indeed, we are constantly learning that much we previously thought about Neanderthal is wrong.

    I was disgusted that both the ABC reporter and the scientist who was interviewed referred to Neanderthals as “creatures”. Evidently Homo Sapiens is so bloody egotistical in some sections that our present race cannot have what I would perceive to be the courtesy to at least refer to these almost unknown members of a branch of the human family as “people”.

    Regards, Kathrinn

    1. Not people
      COUSINS! 🙂

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

  4. Two species eh?
    The descriptions of the future man and woman.. well the ones that look ok that is…

    All of us coffee colored? That doesn’t seem likely with the genetic variance possibilities does it?

    All of a sudden the movie “The Lathe of Heaven” popped into my brain.

    Now there is a social science fiction film worth pondering I believe.

    m

    1. future differences
      ok, check me in 2000 years or 5000 years

      The difference between men and wmen will be approximately the same as it is now.

      And the same as it was 2000 years ago, or 5000 years ago.

      —-
      If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.

      (Bill Clinton, and perhaps others)

        1. physical
          Well, I am confident that my consciousness is ok for a while yet.

          My physicality over the next 5000 years – I am not so sure 🙂
          Probably I will get even more ugly.

          But we shall see, I might be the best looking 5000 year old guy.

          —-
          If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.

          (Bill Clinton, and perhaps others)

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