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>> david icke
Ex-Coventry goalkeeper, and Match of the Day presenter, lately shell suit wearing freak. Unless he's right, in which case he is a genius
If you could build a Dyson Sphere, you wouldn't need gold as a rad shield, very inefficient. Hell, we can build adequate magnetic shields now, capable of coping with stellar radiation. It's not that hard.
I could buy the "genetically engineered humans" thing, because our apparent history is a bit unlikely. External interference (especially in terms of relocation of populations) does fit the known data. I don't really buy the "mixing DNA" bit though.
Any system, however chaotic, has a tendency to self-organise and develop aspects of life. Go look up Langtons Ant (there are some nice Java applets on the web) for an example of a known system that spontaneously exhibits life-like behaviour. Or Conways Game of Life, also available on the web as Java applets, or as runtime code. The Game of Life can actually be used as a computer (not efficient, because you, like, need a computer to run it on...) it's all fascinating stuff.
All complex (ie more than single celled) life is pretty much obliged to be carbon based, Star Trek notwithstanding. Ok, maybe you can chuck a bit of silicon in for fun, but silicon based life is just a stoopid idea. Silicon doesn't chain with itself like carbon does, it forms an Si-O-Si-O chain, which is utterly unsuitable for too many processes. DNA (or something similar) may or may not be common to all life, without more data it is of course impossible to say. It may be that DNA is only one of several options, which has become dominant here. If that was the case, it would perhaps explain apparent cases of alien mutilation etc, they want to see how fucked up Earth biology works
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