About fifteen letters describe living conditions on their planet in painstaking detail, with many pictures.
Intersting, anyone found any of these pics?
They give their society the term "social network"
Odd that aliens from another planet have a society that is so easily and similarly described in human terms no?
Many scientific subjects are described in detail
But no workable new science from it eh?
www.ummo-sciences.org...
These roots are nothing less than the biogenetic bases of evolution [...]The adult has a different psychology than a child or a teenager of
group. [...]but remember that the current Earth human, just like the OEMII of UMMO, is a continually evolving being.
Not too surprising that they seem to be repeating what was once very popular in europe, as the Biogenetic Law nonetheless: that ontogeny recapitulates
phylogeny. That there is a strong correlation between age of an individual and evolutionary stage. This is a very european and academic idea, which
isn't surprising since the stories appear in europe and are most popular there (iow, its how we might expect educated europeans to talk about the
subject, rather than actual aliens)
the appearance of the first anthropoides and the present is much longer on UMMO than it is on Earth.
This is also very much in keeping with old ideas about how evolution worked. Planets woudl go through inevitable 'stages', a fish stage, an
amphibian stage, an age of reptiles stage, and ultimately an apish stage with intelligent "humanoids". I like star trek, but I don't expect it to
be a very sensible description of the universe in all its variety.
You know that all animal and vegetable matter is made of millions of cells. Using Earth terminology, we remind you that in these cells there
are four elements or major parts. A complex mass called PROTOPLASM. A central mass called NUCLEUS. A membrane which surrounds the cell.
A membrane which surrounds the NUCLEUS.
This is a rather poor and rather dated description of a cell. I don't think that there are very many people today who are familiar with the subject
who'd actually refer to the cell as beeing filled with a complex "mass" of 'protoplasm'. The interior of a cell is made up of a large variety of
organelles and not this old concept of a gelatinous protoplasmic mass. I don't care if the aliens are talking to a population that still refers to
cells as such, it doesn't make the least bit of sense for it to come out this way. They might as well be saying that living things arise from
rotting meat, as with maggots.
O [This O no doubt refers to FIG 4? Scanning technician's note ] represents the RIBOSE bond which distinguishes it from DNA
DNA is distringuished from RNA not in the Ribose, but in the oxygen attached to the ribose sugar which makes up both of them, not the 'ribose
bond'.
But Earth biochemists ask themselves the following question: why do these mutations (these accidental phenomena which modify the code of life)
always result in a positive change (orthogenesis),
Again, more language that is specific to the time and inherently wrong and thus indicative of it being a fraud from a moderately educated person of
those times. And no one thinks that mutations allways result in beneficial mutations, nor would that process properly be called orthogenesis, which
is better described as change in a particular and constant direction.
They [mutations] should on the contrary bring about a genetic aberration, thus creating a monstrous being with atrophied arms or without lungs!
No, they shouldn't, and this isn't a problem for evolutionary biology. The 'answer' for this 'problem' that is presented is ridiculous, that
Krypton is present all throughout the dna of gametes. There simply is no such structure as these 86 diads of krypton on dna. They also note
This axis also described a harmonic vibratory motion whose frequency and amplitude varied with temperature
Which is more of the above. Talking about vibratory frequencies and harmonic motions like this was quite popular in pop-fiction/science of the time.
Its also utterly wrong. Another product of the specific age of the hoax itself.
. As you know, electrons occupy instantaneous positions governed by probability in each subatomic level
This too is a product of its time, but, very interstingly, its more in line with (what I understand as) the more accurate and 'scientific'
understanding of things at the time, as compared to the somewhat backwards description of biology. Perhaps the fraudsters were indeed university
students, but specifically physics students, who only had a basic understanding of the biological information.
Though it is rather hard to say how well these things were understood. The authors describe DNA as existing as a double helix. DNA was long since
known to be the genetic material, but the fact that it was specifically a double helix wasn't known until 1953, published by Watson and Crick in a
letter to Nature. So once it was known, it would've become widely known, certainly amoung university students, and this particular letter was
written in 1967.
The impact, if it does not rupture the chromosome, brings about at the very least a change in the nucleotide sequence. It then changes their
interpreted meaning and we can say that a MUTATION occurred.
The representation of radiation is facile, to say the least, and the above description is incorret. Radiation isn't going to allways cause a
substitution of a base pair, radiation can cause all sorts of mutations, its not like a bullet knocking out a single peice.
little like an Earth dictionary or a manual (for a pair of 86 atoms); a page of this dictionary of 43 sheets where ALL POSSIBLE SHAPES OF
LIVING BEINGS compatible with the universal biogenetic laws are catalogued.
This is simply absurd mumbo-jumbo.
Initially, it COLLECTS information coming from the cellular cytoplasm by codifying it temporally
Gibberish.
Let us take a living being which is familiar to you: the crab. You know that one the species, very common to the American coast, has a blue
shell due to the colour of certain rocks covered with a bluish algae. How did the crab get to be this colour?
Its utterly senseless to suggest that this is the mechanism by which coat colour in this crab species arose.
[quote\]Neither the theory of natural selection coming from Earth geneticists, nor those concerning mutations caused by external radiation can
explain a fact of such importance.
This, for me, is very informative. Before the Modern Synthesis of natural selection and genetics, of Darwin and Mendell you might say, in the lat
30's and early 40's, genetics and natural selection were, as ideas, kept rather seperate and seemed to almost conflict with one another.
The person the prepared this hoax probably keeps abreast of whats going on in science, not necessarily was a student in the pre-synthesis days, but
perhaps was taught by someone that was a student in those days. That could mean that they are university students at the time of the letter (1967),
or it could mean that they were already a bit older by that time.
The other possibility is that they/he/she is simply a well educated lay person, the information presented isn't necessarily that complex or unusual.
Though others seem to be saying that the physics aspects of the papers indicate that they are more involved than a lay person.
in the case of our Galaxy
I had thought that these aliens were comming from another nearby planet, not another galaxy. It seems far fetched that they detected a signal sent
from earth that only had 15 years to travel (iow, were within a 15 light-year range), and at the same time were in another galaxy. This would at
least require that they had scout ships all other the place, which is plausible,
but then certainly the first signal that they get would be one
of the earlier EM transmissions, which would have propagated a much greater distance.
Anyway, the papers are entertaining at least.
