The answer to whether or not we are alone in the universe could be hidden inside every cell in our body.

Astrophysicists Vladimir I. Cherbak and Maxim A. Makukov are looking for an intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code that cannot be explained by Darwinian evolution. They call it "biological SETI."

On the Discovery website, Ray Villard quotes the researchers as saying, "Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales."
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The ‘Atacama Humanoid’ featured in the documentary ‘Sirius,’ to be released on April 22, was not a fetus as has been suggested by many commentators, but was 6 to 8 years old, according to the team producing the film. According to a press release issued today by the Sirius team, a DNA sample from bone marrow extracted from the specimen provides proof of age. "Ata was male and survived post-birth 6 to 8 years," said a team spokesperson. This would mean that the body, which has nine rib pairs as opposed to a human’s twelve, is not an animal fetus.
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If we encountered alien technology far superior to our own, would we even realize what it was? Technology a million or more years in advance of ours would appear miraculous, just as an airplane or TV set would seem miraculous to prehistoric man.

Astrobiologist Paul Davis thinks that advanced technology might not even be made of matter, that it might have no size, shape or boundaries. It may not appear to do anything at all that we can figure out.
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Are museums starting to take UFOs seriously? The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas has opened an exhibit titled "Area 51: Myth or Reality," which contains what they claim is an "authentic alien artifact" from a 1986 UFO crash in Russia.

A description of the debris reads: "Three Soviet academic centers and 11 research institutes analyzed the objects from this UFO crash. The distance between atoms is different from ordinary iron. Radar cannot be reflected from the material."
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