Here is the epilogue of
Cometary Encounters which might constitute the backbone of a third book. In a nutshell, the line of force is centered the two following questions:
do new viruses enable in their host enhanced connection to the information field? Are major cometary events the window of opportunity that 'intelligent design' uses to remove obsolete life forms through mass extinction and to introduce more elaborate life-forms via the new DNA carried by viruses?
N.B.: Like the epilogue below, all the illustration in
Cometary Encounters are in black and white, it allows a better reading experience on Kindle-like support and cheaper selling price for the printed book.
Epilogue
In
Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic connection, we saw that life on Earth is punctuated by mass extinctions, most them being due to cyclical cometary bombardments
[1] as illustrated in the graph below showing that out of 19 events (black circled dots), 11 (grey circled dot) lie on the vertical lines showing a 27-million year interval:
© Sott.net adapted from Melottt & Bambach
Plot of extinction intensity and cyclicity from the Sepkoski data.
For years, I considered those cometary encounters as solely agents of mass destruction. But while writing this second book, I made some extra research about the Tunguska event and stumbled upon this excerpt:
It was found that the
genotypic dispersion has sharply increased in the Tunguska trees. The effect is prominent, has a patchy character and
concentrates toward the epicenter area, as well as toward of the TSB [Tunguska Space Body] trajectory projection (Vasilyev 1999, 2000, 1998).
At maximums the genotypic dispersion shows about 12-fold increment (Vasilyev 2000). One of the maximums coincides again with the Mount Chirvinskii, another - with the calculated center of the light flash.
[2]
Well, increased mutations are compatible with cometary encounters being exclusively agents of destruction. But Tunguska trees revealed another peculiarity:
The cause of the
anomalous growth of tree rings after 1909 is more controversial. We collected tree ring data for 9 spruces, 1 larch and 1 Siberian pine. A comparison of the average tree ring width over about 30 years before 1907 and exactly the same period after 1909 has confirmed the width increase for all the 11 trees examined.
From these data no correlation with the tree position has been found. The trees were divided into two groups: 5 trees with an average ring width before 1907 equal to about 0.4 mm and a second group with a ring width of about 1 mm.
After 1909 both groups reach approximately the same ring width of about 1.2-1.5 mm with an increase for the first group by a factor 3-4, as against a factor 1.2-1.5 for the second group.[3]
An
increased growth doesn’t sound like a random detrimental mutation but like a beneficial one. Could cometary mass extinction improve life forms? Maybe
Tunguska was an isolated case, so I had a look at other documented cometary induced mass extinction, in particular the well-documented K/T boundary
[4] when 66 million years ago, the
Chicxulub impact wiped out the dinosaurs along with 75%
[5] of all species on the planet as shown by the black arrow in the cyclical cometary extinction diagram above.
The K/T boundary is a geological term referring to a very thin strata
[6] of clay - shown by the white arrow in the picture below - sandwiched between the sediments of the tertiary above and the sediments of the Cretaceous below:
© Creative Commons
The K/T boundary
Right below the K/T boundary lie the fossils of the dinosaurs and right above the K/T boundary – meaning right after the mass extinction – lie the fossils of fully developed new species with no known ancestors:
Immediately following the end-Cretaceous, primitive birds enjoyed a
surge of development, and large flightless birds like today's ostrich suddenly appeared. Tree sloths, armadillos and anteaters saw dramatic development, as did egg-laying mammals such as the platypus and the echidnor. Other mammals, until then not much bigger than a house cat, took off in a
rapid and spectacular diversification, all with no known ancestors.
Sea-dwellers enjoyed the same fate. Twenty-one of the twenty-seven species of lampshells (brachiopods) were completely obliterated at the K-T boundary, only to be
suddenly replaced by twenty-four entirely new species.
[7]
The K/T boundary is not an oddity. Virtually each
geological period exhibits the same pattern. It starts with a mass extinction quickly followed by new fully developed life forms appearing out thin air:
Look at the
Ordovician, when
jawless fish with no known ancestors suddenly appeared; or the
Silurian,
when algae crawled out of the sea and onto the barren ground; or the
Devonian, when
coniferous trees suddenly appeared, as did ferns, seemingly out of thin air […] So many new kinds of fish appeared in the
Devonian that it's called the "Age of the Fishes."
Sharks appeared suddenly, and the first amphibian, Ichthyostega, crawled out of the water and onto the land.
[8]
The correlation between the aftermath of mass extinction and new life-forms is stunning. In fact almost all major living branches of life appeared right after a mass extinction:
© Eisenberg
Mass extinctions and new forms of life.
The above clearly suggests that
major cometary impacts are not only acts of destruction through the removal of obsolete life forms during mass extinctions but also creative acts through the introduction of more elaborate life-forms.
Then the main question became “How can cometary impact infuse new and more complex life-forms?” This question lingered in my mind until the COVID hysteria, about which I wrote an article
[9]. During this process I learnt a lot about viruses, including their pervasive presence in the genetic code of all life-forms, including humans:
"One of the most earth-shaking papers of this century was the publication of the human genome sequence
. About half, possibly even two-thirds of the sequence are composed of more or less complete endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) and related retroelements (REs) [...]. The origin of REs is being discussed as remnants of ancient retroviral germline infections that became evolutionarily fixed in the genome.
About 450,000 human ERV (HERV) elements constitute about 8% of the human genome consisting of hallmark retroviral elements like the gag, pol, env genes and flanking long terminal repeats (LTR) that act as promoters. Howard Temin, one of the discoverers of the reverse transcriptase, in 1985 already described endogenous retrovirus-like elements, which he estimated to about 10% of the human and mouse genome sequence.
The actual number is about 45% as estimated today. In some genes such as the Protein Kinase Inhibitor B (PKIB) gene we determined about 70% retrovirus-related sequences. Is there a limit? Could it have been 100%?[10]
Not only viral DNA constitutes a large part of our genetic code but it has been demonstrated that this “foreign” DNA offers new beneficial functions to the host:
In 1996, Roy J Britten, of the California Institute of Technology, was able to list
ten examples in which endogenous retroviral sequences helped regulate the expression of a useful gene. Seven of the ten examples were human.
[11]
Actually, the role played by viral DNA is so critical that hosts’ reproductions would be simply impossible without it:
[...] when Corrado Spadafora, the Italian researcher who has produced such pioneering work in cancer research, applied an anti-reverse transcriptase drug in this very early stage of embryogenesis in the mouse,
all development ceased at the four-cell stage. It would appear that endogenous retroviruses are playing a very profound, if completely unknown, role at this early stage in mammalian embryogenesis.[12]
In the light of the quote above, viruses seem more fundamental than even life itself; they are the
information carriers -genetic codes- from which biological life stems. Viruses are more than life: they are the very source of life; they are the informational precursors, the initiators of life forms.
Knowing the central role played by virus in the genetic code of life-forms, could it be the infusion of new virus that triggered the evolutionary leap that marks the aftermath of cometary-induced mass extinction?
The fact is that cometary material is unexpectedly rich in organic material. 52 amino acids have been found in
Murchison meteorites
[13] while there are only 19 of them naturally occurring on our planet. More than that, several researchers including NASA’s head of astrobiology research
Richard Hoover[14] have published a number of papers about the presence of bacteria in meteoritic material:
© NASA/MSFC
Cyanobacterial filaments in the Murchison CM2 meteorite
Not only meteorites carry microbes but the Earth’s upper atmosphere is also laden by microorganisms. Dozens of types of microorganisms, including three species
[15] –two bacterial and one fungal- that are unknown on Earth have been found as high as 41 km
[16], where no air from lower down would normally be transported
[17]
From the above,
meteorites directly carrying new virus and meteorites puncturing the atmosphere and enabling the entrance of new viruses are the two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to explain the infusion of new virus on Earth.
At this point one last question remained. How does viral DNA shape the new complex life forms? Mainstream science postulates that DNA is the code that controls the synthesis of proteins – the building blocks of life. Different DNA = different code = different proteins = different morphology. It’s a simple and neat explanation, but is it true?
How to explain that in one host every single cell carries the same DNA, but those cells follow different developmental paths. One becomes muscle cell, another one a neuron, a third one a bone cell. How to explain that when a salamander loses a limb, it grows a perfect replica of it? Where is template, where is the blueprint of the whole limb?
[18].
© Whited
Steps in salamander limb regeneration
I dedicated the last part
[19] of
Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic connection to demonstrating the existence of a non-local information field. I won’t transcribe here this 100-page part, but one excerpt case might suffice to convey the main idea:
There’s a young student at this university who has an
IQ of 126,
has gained a first-class honors degree in mathematics, and is socially completely normal. And yet the boy has virtually no brain [...]When we did a brain scan on him, we saw that instead of the normal 4.5-centimeter thickness of brain tissue between the ventricles and the cortical surface, there was just a thin layer of mantle measuring a millimeter or so.
His cranium is filled mainly with cerebrospinal fluid.[20]
© Lorber
(Left) A horizontal scan shows the brain ventricles in a normal individual
(Right) Large cavities in a hydrocephalic patient
An individual virtually devoid of any brain and being fully functional intellectually and socially suggest that
our ideas, thoughts, memories might be non-local instead of being stored/created in our brain as usually assumed.
That’s the main premise of the concept of information field that contains all information including the ones relating to life-forms morphology.
So, if information, including morphic information is non-local, and the acquisition of new viral DNA enable morphologically more complex life forms, so
viral DNA must be able somehow to modulate the connection of life forms to the information field.
Could viruses act like some antenna? Viruses are DNA and DNA recently revealed all the feature of a fractal antenna when exposed to electromagnetic fields:
The wide frequency range of interaction with EMF is the functional characteristic of a fractal antenna, and
DNA appears to possess the two structural characteristics of fractal antennas, electronic conduction and self-symmetry. These properties contribute to greater reactivity of DNA with EMF in the environment,
[21]
So,
do new viruses enable in their host enhanced connection to the information field? Are major cometary events the window of opportunity that 'intelligent design' uses to remove obsolete life forms through mass extinction and to introduce more elaborate life-forms via the new DNA carried by viruses?
The answer to those two questions and the general content of this epilogue might very well be the topic of a next book.
[1] Lescaudron, 2014. Chapter 15 “Enter Nemesis“.
[2] Vasilyev, N. V. (1999). “Ecological consequences of the Tunguska catastrophe”,
in Problemi radioekologii i pogranichnikh discipline, 89
[3] See: . Longo, G.
et al. (1994). “Search for microremnants of the Tunguska cosmic body”.
Planetary and Space Science. n. 2, 163--177.
Serra, R.
et al.(1994). “Experimental hints on the fragmentation of the Tunguska cosmic body”.
Planetary and Space Science, n. 9, 777--783.
[4] Cretaceous/Tertiary
[5] Kaiho, K.
et al. (2016). “Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction”.
Sci Rep 6, 28427
[6] About 1,2 cm (half an inch).
[7] Felix, Robert. (2008). “Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps: The True Origin of Species”.
Sugarhouse Publications. P. 33.
[8] Ibid.
[9] Lescaudron, Pierre. (2020). “Compelling evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade”.
Sott.net
[10] Moelling, K. & Broecker, F. (2019). “Viruses and Evolution - Viruses First? A Personal Perspective”.
Frontiers in microbiology, 10, 523.
[11] Ryan, Frank. (2013). “Virolution“.
Harper Collins UK.
[12] Ibid
[13] Cronin, J.R.
et al. (1983). “Amino acids in meteorites”.
Advances in Space Research. Volume 3, Issue 9, Pages 5-18.
[14] See chapter “Impact On Human Populations”.
[15] Shivaji, S. et al. (2009). "Janibacter hoylei sp. nov., Bacillus isronensis sp. nov. and Bacillus aryabhattai sp. nov., isolated from cryotubes used for collecting air from upper atmosphere".
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (Pt 12): 2977–86.
[16] 25 Mile
[17] Narlikar, JV.
et al. (2003). "Balloon experiment to detect micro-organisms in the outer space".
Astrophys Space Sci. 285 (2): 555–62
[18] See for example: Sheldrake, Rupert. (2009). “Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation”.
Inner Traditions/Bear.
[19] “Part IV: Role of the elites, the human-cosmic connection” pp.192-290.
[20] Lewin, Roger. (1980). ‘Is your brain really necessary?’,
Science, Dec 12, , Vol.210, p.1232(3)
[21] Blank M., Goodman R. (2011). “DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields”.
Int J Radiat Biol. 87(4):409-15.
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