Secret History
Now, by analyzing 34 ancient genomes of Y. pestis from the teeth of people buried at 10 sites across Europe from the 14th to 17th centuries (including a mass grave in Toulouse, France — above), researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, have found the earliest known evidence of this pandemic comes from Laishevo, in Russia's Volga region. There, researchers found a strain of Y. pestis that was ancestral to all other genomes they studied, differing by only one mutation from those that caused the Black Death in Europe, they report today in Nature Communications.
That doesn't mean the Volga region was ground zero for the Black Death — it could have come from elsewhere in western Asia, where scientists have yet to sample ancient DNA of Y. pestis. The researchers found that once the plague made it to Europe, a single strain was responsible for the Black Death, from Italy to the United Kingdom. This strain also gave rise to other variants of Y. pestis that caused deadly plague outbreaks from the late 14th through the 18th centuries. This suggests the bacterium persisted locally in Europe, perhaps in rodent hosts, where it evolved into diverse strains that caused later epidemics.
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My mother used chewing tobacco soaked in hot water, then cooled off a bit, to wash our dogs and cats. It killed the fleas and their eggs. It worked. She also put several tablespoons of chewing tobacco in small sacks and put them in the dog and cat beds. Tobacco is not all bad and I do not smoke or chew although my dad did.
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Australian astronomers ponder mounting evidence microbial life may ‘hitch-hike’ between planets and the stars
IT’S beginning to look like life here began out there. The number of potentially habitable worlds has exploded. Organic molecules are being found in comets and cosmic clouds. So is there an interstellar conveyor belt seeding life throughout the galaxy?
This is nothing new this has been hypothesized for years, if not centuries.
[Link] Comets: The Delivery System
The objection that life can't survive in space needs examination. A serious problem for Svante Arrhenius's theory in 1908 was that spores in empty space would be subject to radiation damage, especially in the vicinity of a star. In 1978, Hoyle and Wickramasinghe observe in Lifecloud (1) that if a cloud of bacterial matter were dense enough, the inner contents would be protected from radiation by the outer layers. Other scientists have recently observed that a coating of dust only half a micrometer thick would adequately protect a bacterium from ultraviolet radiation in space (2-4). Hoyle and Wickramasinghe also discuss another means of space travel which solves the radiation problem: comets. And even before that danger was known, the idea that comets could contribute to life on Earth was afoot. Among others, Isaac Newton endorsed it. "Newton considered the continual arrival of cometary material to be essential for life on Earth" (5).
Some images below, not sure if the links work, but they are embedded in the article linked above from Australia.
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Possible panspermia fossils found in meteorites
Inset in blue, left, is a common cold virus set against material found inside the Murchison meteorite (discovered in Australia, strange, we rely on the flue virus, and it's configuration for the northern hemispheres in Australia).
Inset on the right shows two living cyanobacteria and two possible fossils found inside the Murchison meteorite. It is hard to say which is which. Photos: Chandra Wickramasinghe
And this
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The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. Clues suggest microbial life could be lifted into space from the surface of a planet, hitch a ride across interstellar distances aboard comets - and survive impact on another world.
Pause for thought!!!!!
So does this suggest, that microbial life on earth is not terrestrial, but cosmic. Ah! isn't life interesting, so many things to ponder!
"Isn't life straaa-aaa-aaa--aaa-aaa--aaa-aaa-nge?
'A turn of the page' (Moody Blues.)
R.C.
"Isn't life straaa-aaa-aaa--aaa-aaa--aaa-aaange?
'A turn of the paaa-aaa-aaa--aaa-aaa--aaa-aaage'
(Moody Blues.)
R.C.
Joan Not musically inclined?Not much musically inclined, different tunes, different era, times change, ideas change. I prefer Boroque music.
R.C.
Can't stand al the noise, prefer to listen to classical music, all most music is a mind (today) programmer, that is like a replay system, repeats and repeats it's like the program is on on constant reply, on the car radio, on the musik where you shop, radio stations for every thoughts and pattern of thinking
Different strokes for different folks,
And, to top it off, I just learned - I LOVE! learning new things! - it was based upon a classical piece! *
"Isn't Life Strange" is a 1972 single by the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues, which was based on Pachelbel's Canon In D . Written by bassist John Lodge, it was the first of two singles released from their 1972 album Seventh Sojourn, with the other being "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (also written by Lodge). "Isn't Life Strange" is one of the Moody Blues' longer songs, lasting for over six minutes.Listen and you'll hear the seven syllables of this: "Isn't life straaa-aaa-aaa--aaa-aaa--aaa-aaange" (repeats thereafter.)
R.C.
*(Tho I hate wee wee pee pee aaahhh.) . . .
RC
(Leads were simpler then.)
R.C.
Can't stand al the noise, prefer to listen to classical music, all most music is a mind (today) programmer, that is like a replay system, repeats and repeats it's like the program is on on constant reply, on the car radio, on the musik where you shop, radio stations for every thoughts and pattern of thinking1) Amen! (Of course - for me at least - if I said that to certain relations, they might try to have me dragged off to some asylum...(but to get away from painful truth . . . there's at least a small child in me that wishes to once again enter that 'la la land' of un/sur reality.
But I owe this. . . everything! . . . to NEVER stop seeking truth - despite how many people claim the truth be otherwise. I am reminded (again) of Mark Twain...something in a CT Yankee.....I'll try to find it:
You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares “that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient.”R.C.
Under that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anywa y, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.
He fought for the South in the War of Northern Aggression, - read 'A Private History of a Campaign That Failed'. From that he went West with his Brother to his California days ~1861/1862.
The point he makes is the same the DOI does. I THOROUGHLY AGREE WITH IT. If you don't, that's your call.
I read a famous quote recently about how infinitely more evil has been done by groups following orders rather than individuals following one's conscience. That too is his/my point.
R.C.
Which my original post is all about.
It it was determined, that evolution originated from extraterrestrial sources, as is suggested, if that is the case, then the whole Darwinian ideology.
It has just been just been turned on it's head, and for any right minded researcher, her can be no gong back, other than intentional ignorance, lies, obfuscation and .also those with a rabid hate for the truth.
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R.C.
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