https://www.metabunk.org/threads/hoax-three-fingered-nazca-m...
There is a lot more that's odd and not believable of course, this is just something that stood out to me.
I don't think this is relevant. For C-14 dating, the way it works is that as you are alive, you take in sources of carbon, and some well understood and modeled percentage of that carbon is a radioactive isotope. That isotope is produced when csomic rays hit the upper atmosphere, and that C14 then reacts with oxygen to make C(14)O2. Plants turn this radioactive CoO2 into other organic matter that is eaten by other things and incorporated into their body.
The moment that animal dies, C14 stops being added to their body. As C14 has a known rate of decay, you can look at the percentage of carbon in the sample that is C14, plus the decay products, and estimate how long that sample has been not alive, which for old things, correlates well with how long ago it was alive.
It does not seem to be the most credible person to show evidence.
Like with room temperature super conducting, extraordinary claims need extraordinary validation.
Now, I'm not sure about the other claims, it's interesting to see that the ones that seem more legitimate are actually no more than what pretty much everyone knows... weird objects in the sky moving in ways and speeds that we know no technology is capable of. There's also similar things in the ocean and some describe certain "weird objects". But... that's about it. I mean, there's _a lot_ of it and from different countries; so I'm very much willing to believe.
But then, on the other hand, you get people like these showing off these "alien bodies"... it really takes away from the more credible claims.
I think, personally, if you're more seriously interested in this kind of phenomena just following what Avi Loeb is up to might be enough.
Let's just remember what happened with LK-99, if there's a big discovery that is in any way credible we are most definitely going to see a flurry of scientific development/refutations around it. Now, it's true that governments might be keeping things from us and we deserve to know; so I'm still very happy to see these kinds of hearings going on.
I don't think carbon dating can be used to extract DNA.
I also would have thought DNA would have degraded significantly over that period of time.
There are probably a thousand more reasons this is blatantly false, to those with scientific knowledge beyond my early highschool experiences.
It's bizarre and fascinating the Mexican government has entertained this.
All that happened is some idiot Senator invited some idiot scammer to give a talk about his scam. I don't think they really had to "entertain" it and it has no legitimacy.
Humans share ~60% DNA with fruit flies, so the reported ~70% similarity seems quite low for such a "quasi-human" figure.
Perhaps you could make a case that DNA retrieval from such an old sample would be corrupted. It does seem more like the figure is tuned by the exigencies of pop-sci click bait.
Anyways they shared the full sample online, so legit geneticists could potentially weigh in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/genetics/comments/16hb5th/nhi_genom...
