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13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 0 replies · 0 points

If they're supernatural then they have no need for eyes - clearly they must be able to see through some other way (ie. astral-projection or something along those lines).

I can think of a much simpler explanation than all those ideas.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 0 replies · +1 points

If we're too genetically incompatible to breed with chimps, we're too incompatible to breed with goat, let alone lizards.

If two animals can reproduce, they must, by definition, be the same species. Mutations are cumulative, once a population diverges into two and those two cant cross breed any more they're forever too genetically distant for an embryo to be viable.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 1 reply · +1 points

Well I was being conservative in working just on the assumption of aliens having DNA. You're right.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 0 replies · +6 points

He didn't. those are the words of a quoted ARTICLE!

Goodness, can't people read any more?

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 3 replies · +1 points

Putting some human DNA and some ET DNA under the microscope isn't hybridisation, it's genetic engineering - and I'm guessing here but if they could do genetic engineering to that degree, there'd be no point even sourcing human DNA. They'd have data banks with genetic instructions on how to code for specific things.

Further problems is that they mightn't have the same DNA structure as us, which come to think of it sounds more likely. Double Helix? Current abiogenesis theory seems to reckon it started with short strands of RNA - maybe that's still their genetic medium - maybe singular or triple helix instead.

If you assume technologies to allow for this, the use of humans becomes needless.

We weren't put here millions of years ago, since our ancestors go back further as you can tell by comparative genetics. And I seriously doubt (its laughable) that we'd still be able to cross breed after millions of years of normal evolution even if we were put here.

Given enough assumptions, OK it's not impossible. But getting back to my original point, the idea of any monster (maybe doubly so since these things so often seem feral) being an alien human-hybrid is just beyond-words stupid.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 5 replies · +1 points

You would realistically have to have an infinite universe with an infinite number of galaxies before you could expect just one extraterrestrial that could breed with humans.

But that's the tricky thing about infinity. You take the probability of anything specific happening and multiply it by infinity and you get infinity.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sound is just vibrating air. Inside a mouth, we make it by vibrating sections of our throat. Stands to reason if you could vibrate any body part with great enough amplitude and frequency, you could make sound. It would be like an inbuilt speaker.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 7 replies · 0 points

Pretty sure if they meant reflective eyes (like a cats - which aren't hard to tell aren't actually glowing since when they move, they either become drastically more or less bright) they would say something to distinguish. Even "Reflective" would suffice. Then when the depictions are made, they go unchallenged.

And I can say this about alien DNA in absolute confidence: If it evolves by a darwinistic mechanism, there's exactly zero percent human cells, whether grafted directly or in reproduction, would be compatible to make a hybrid with an alien. The odds against it are incredible, astronomical, cosmological - so great that if I endeavoured to write it down, there wouldn't be room enough in the known universe for that piece of paper.

I don't have to know anything about alien DNA to know there's no reason to think human-alien hybrids are possible.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 More Terrifying and... · 13 replies · 0 points

Can I just point one thing out right now about all these silly crptids?

Glowing eyes.

Imagine how difficult to see it would be if your eyes glowed. Your eyes are their to collect light, and a glowing light collector is going to be no use to anyone. The only way it makes sense is if someone who perceives a monster with glowing eyes is looking at an animal with reflective corneas.

The notion of an alien-human hybrid is even more nonsensical. You couldn't breed a human and an alien together because, assuming the aliens have DNA, in no way will it be like earth-DNA, let alone ours. "You'd have more luck mating a human with a petunia." Nor could you graft a human and alien together since the microbiology can only be just as different, the cells would not get on well.

If these things weren't so ridiculous, they'd be scary no matter how frightening a tale the 12 year old eyewitness weaves.

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