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Posted: 5/19/2018 6:14:13 PM EDT

Scientists declare octopi life from another world

Evidence of the octopus evolution show it would have happened too quickly to have begun here on Earth. Published in the Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Journal, 33 scientists have declared the invertebrate sea-dweller an alien whose eggs landed from space.

But the scientists go on to make an even more extraordinary claim concerning octopuses, which seem to have evolved on Earth quite rapidly something like 270 million years ago, 250 million years after the Cambrian explosion.

The paper states: “The genome of the Octopus shows a staggering level of complexity with 33,000 protein-coding genes more than is present in Homo sapiens.

“Its large brain and sophisticated nervous system, camera-like eyes, flexible bodies, instantaneous camouflage via the ability to switch colour and shape are just a few of the striking features that appear suddenly on the evolutionary scene.

“The transformative genes leading from the consensus ancestral Nautilus to the common Cuttlefish to Squid to the common are not easily to be found in any pre-existing life form – it is plausible then to suggest they seem to be borrowed from a far distant “future” in terms of terrestrial evolution, or more realistically from the cosmos at large.

“One plausible explanation, in our view, is that the new genes are likely new extraterrestrial imports to Earth - most plausibly as an already coherent group of functioning genes within (say) cryopreserved and matrix protected fertilized Octopus eggs.

“Thus the possibility that cryopreserved Squid and/or Octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted as that would be a parsimonious cosmic explanation for the Octopus' sudden emergence on Earth circa 270 million years ago.”

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:15:42 PM EDT

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Definitely trusting “boingboing.net” to break this huge news story.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:17:23 PM EDT

[#2]

lol yet somehow these ‘alien genes’ are in the exact same ATCG genetic language, and seamlessly integrated into their genome of the organism.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:17:34 PM EDT

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slow news day

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:18:19 PM EDT

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I welcome our Octopus Overlords.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:19:01 PM EDT

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Well at least we know that our ailen overlords didnt grant their offspring the RTKBA

So fuck you octopus

Boiling Live Octopus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0wmidtJb8

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:19:03 PM EDT

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Beat me to it.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:19:29 PM EDT

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Other than their beak, how much of an octopus would be fossilized.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:19:38 PM EDT

[#8]

I want to believe.

I spent a summer on the north african coast catching critters in tidal pools as a kid. Its pretty freaking hard to keep an angry octopus trapped in a five gallon bucket with no lid.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:19:43 PM EDT

[#9]

The same scientists that say the global temperature change is man-made rather than caused by the sun scientists?

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:21:16 PM EDT

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Cuttlefish are the ones from outer space.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:21:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/19/2018 6:21:54 PM EDT

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Perhaps invertebrates don’t leave much of a fossil record.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:23:18 PM EDT

[#13]

Pseudo - scientific gibberish is the best gibberish.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:24:01 PM EDT

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Discovery channel made a documentary about the future earth. They hypothesized that invertebrates will be the next intelligent life to dominate the world.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:26:20 PM EDT

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" icy bolides"

I think i used that shit to relieve the swelling after i got hit in the sack with a softball......

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:27:53 PM EDT

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Discovery channel made a documentary about the future earth. They hypothesized that invertebrates will be the next intelligent life to dominate the world.

“The future is wild” it was kinda fun to watch but I wouldn’t take it for any more than that. It was fun to see them apply evolutionary adaptations of current animals to future environments though. You see most of what they applied to future animals already in the animal kingdom, they just switched the animal around.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:28:36 PM EDT

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I KNEW it!

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:30:11 PM EDT

[#18]

Well, Hell, then we just had a really big plate of fried space alien on our anniversary Wednesday night.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:30:14 PM EDT

[#19]

I am okay with this.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:31:29 PM EDT

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No, actually.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:32:39 PM EDT

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Aliens are good eatin'. I like mine brushed with olive oil and charcoaled.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:33:49 PM EDT

[#22]

The Simpsons did it first...

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Posted: 5/19/2018 6:33:55 PM EDT

[#23]

OP, did therealghurkadin PM that link to you?

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:43:22 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/19/2018 6:43:27 PM EDT

[#25]

I don't eat shit that looks like that. Slimy, spiderlike, rubbery, full of suction cups. Hell no. Ditto for squid, shrimp and lobster (the latter two are nothing but insects of the sea, complete with too many legs, antennae, and exoskeletons).

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:57:50 PM EDT

[#26]

Where is my tin foil.

Posted: 5/19/2018 6:59:48 PM EDT

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I just had octupus for lunch and it looked very much like that but chopped into pieces. It was excellent.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:05:01 PM EDT

[#28]

And they are evolving on to land, we're in trouble

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:07:16 PM EDT

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Cuttlefish are the ones from outer space.

http://weekendreviewkit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cuddly_Cuttlefish_by_zhe_universe.jpg

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This is the real truth. Those fuckers are bizarre,and smart.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:10:21 PM EDT

[#30]

Hail Hydra

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:12:27 PM EDT

[#31]

Ammonite's say this is wrong.

Also, calamari and octopus sushi is delicious. I love seafood. Grew up on the ocean. Science.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:14:02 PM EDT

[#32]

EXTERMINATE!

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:14:05 PM EDT

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I don't eat shit that looks like that. Slimy, spiderlike, rubbery, full of suction cups. Hell no. Ditto for squid, shrimp and lobster (the latter two are nothing but insects of the sea, complete with too many legs, antennae, and exoskeletons).

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But they're sooo delicious!

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:14:18 PM EDT

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Not all octopi are TRULY smart.

Don't know about boiling but here's one that's been known to get baked just about every danged day.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:15:17 PM EDT

[#35]

So that's why the Japanese want to fuck them.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:15:25 PM EDT

[#36]

Huh I thought it would have been elephants.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:15:52 PM EDT

[#37]

put down the bong, son, and come with us. We have this nice jacket for you and your own padded, sound proofed room.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:22:16 PM EDT

[#38]

Hail Hydra...

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:28:30 PM EDT

[#39]

... every once in a while I'll eat octopussy at a local sushi bar

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:31:54 PM EDT

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Yea... not seeing anything about aliens in the peer reviewed Journal this article is suppose to be in.

Link for those who want to verify.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/progress-in-biophysics-and-molecular-biology/vol/33

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:34:14 PM EDT

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"Sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie, but I wouldn't know..."

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:40:04 PM EDT

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Another time the Simpsons was right

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Posted: 5/19/2018 7:41:20 PM EDT

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I heard that the other day on Prager's show.

It is okay to believe in alien life forms. Fine.

It is not okay to believe in a higher power. Not so fine.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:46:21 PM EDT

[#44]

Well technically we're all stardust.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:48:46 PM EDT

[#45]

"Paul, Paul Atreides. We want him killed. I did not say this. I am not here."

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:51:36 PM EDT

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I don't eat shit that looks like that. Slimy, spiderlike, rubbery, full of suction cups. Hell no. Ditto for squid, shrimp and lobster (the latter two are nothing but insects of the sea, complete with too many legs, antennae, and exoskeletons).

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Exactly this.

Do not want to even smell it cooking.

Posted: 5/19/2018 7:54:20 PM EDT

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In other words they want more funding

Posted: 5/19/2018 8:02:01 PM EDT

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Worse than that. It comes from Express.co.uk ... a publication that routinely publishes stuff about bigfoot on Mars.

Posted: 5/19/2018 8:07:50 PM EDT

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Well at least we know that our ailen overlords didnt grant their offspring the RTKBA

So fuck you octopus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0wmidtJb8

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I'm not a particularly compassionate individual and I don't subscribe to humane dispatch being the paramount of cooking animals but they are smarter and more aware than dogs and that was unnecessary. Just chop it a bit first.

Posted: 5/19/2018 8:26:08 PM EDT

[#50]

The part about their being aliens is bullshit.

Real scientists have said no such thing.

Anyone want to cite a paper published in a refereed journal that supports this horseshit?

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