re: #52 freetoken

You want this to be an April Fool’s joke, don’t you?

Alien message embedded in our genetic code?

Well, ok, so it’s dated 2nd April… but then again it’s from some off beat Indian publication and they’re always into weird stuff… but wait, look who they are quoting:

Discover News? Ok, so let’s see what Discovery says:

Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?

Aha! The story is dated April 1st… has to be an April Fools joke… oh wait… Discovery gives a reference:

Is Icarus playing an Aprils Fool Joke? From the Icarus link:

Sigh… no. Here’s the the pre-press PDF.

When the announcement of the publication broke it got some press, and the IDiots did jump on it and those with more critical eyes pointed it out (example.)

Yet as the Indian newspaper article shows these things will have a life of their own, and once again the publishing corporations demonstrate that if you can pay the fee they’ll print it.

Pretty sure that was an episode of The Outer Limits.