The notion that life on Earth has alien origins is nothing new, but a pair of researchers believe that they have cracked an ancient code which prove that life was planted on Earth by extraterrestrial beings.

 

地球生命起源的外星说并不新鲜，但是两名研究人员却认为，他们破译的古老密码证明了地球上的生命是由外星人播种的。

 

Maxim¹ Makukov from the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute in Almaty, Kazakhstan, claims to have discovered an "intelligent-like signal" that is encoded into our genetic² material.

 

Although he admits that the theory is "out there", he and his research mentor³, mathematician⁴ Vladmir shCherbak, believe that they have conclusive⁵ evidence that a message, or a signature, is in our genetic code.

 

Panspermia is the process in which life is transferred from one planet to another. Some biologists believe that life on Earth began when an asteroid⁶ collided with Mars, causing the supposedly once microbial-full soil to be flung Earthbound.

 

The Kazakhstani duo have taken this one step further, and believe that life is a result of "directed panspermia" - something was intentionally⁷ sent towards Earth to kickstart life.

 

By analysing the genetic code - which is the set of rules which translate DNA⁸ into proteins and does not alter as it is passed down through generations - they note that the number 37 crops up several times.

 

One instance is that the mass of the molecular⁹ core shared by all 20 amino acids is 74 - which is 37 doubled.

 

Another is in 'Rumer's transformation¹⁰'. Yuri Rumer first identified in 1966 that the genetic code can be divided equally in half, with one half being "whole family" codons - a codon being three structural¹¹ units within DNA - and the other half being "split family", which do not have the AC code, an amino acid that is used to build proteins.

 

There are a total of 28 codons which have a total atomic mass of 1665 and a combined side chain atomic mass of 703 - both of which are multiples of 37.

 

The scientists have a total of nine examples in their research paper published in Icarus, where they state that the chances of the number 37 appearing this many times by random¹² in the genetic code in a staggering one in 10 trillion.

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