Re: [Goanet] Scientists find extraterrestrial code inbedded in human junk-DNA

2011-05-19 Thread Mervyn Lobo
SantoshHelekar wrote: >> Once again, I would ask Goanetters not to rely on news or stories >> about scientific issues that are reported on religious, political, >> ideological, activist, alternative medical, nutritional or conspiratorial >> websites. If you are not careful, one day you might get

Re: [Goanet] Scientists find extraterrestrial code inbedded in human junk-DNA

2011-05-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Tonybab de Sa, Jules Verne wrote fiction. He did not claim that his writings were supposed to established scientific facts that were discovered by someone like Prof. Sam Chang of the Human Genome Project. So no. Nobody would have had any reason to challenge his writings in his time or now.

[Goanet] Scientists find extraterrestrial code inbedded in human junk-DNA

2011-05-18 Thread Tony de Sa
Dr. Santosh Helekar wrote: Once again, I would ask Goanetters not to rely on news or stories about scientific issues that are reported on religious, political, ideological, activist, alternative medical, nutritional or conspiratorial websites. If you are not careful, one day you might get seriousl

Re: [Goanet] Scientists find extraterrestrial code inbedded in human junk-DNA

2011-05-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
This story is an old hoax. No such discovery has been reported in the genuine scientific literature. No scientist named Sam Chang is a principal investigator or prominent researcher on the Human Genome Project. Once again, I would ask Goanetters not to rely on news or stories about scientific i

[Goanet] Scientists find extraterrestrial code inbedded in human junk-DNA

2011-05-17 Thread Tony de Sa
I was reading 'The Last Prabhu' (Published by Goa 1556) by Bernardo Elvino de Souza, a Non Resident Goan, based in Switzerland and coincidentally came across this link posted on Google Buzz by Arvind Yadav a Techie friend of mine. The title itself is astounding perhaps not so astounding if all the