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Lol, have I been thrown in with the other loonies on Ancient Aliens now?

Haha, don't worry about it.

But seriously, with a thing like this, be as realistic as possible.

I believe there is enough evidence to support the theory that humans are actually just one big experiment and we are created by ALIENS.

No lol, I was just pointing out that is something someone on Ancient Aliens would say. I remember watching something about what earth would do in the event of an alien invasion. I couldn't believe what I was watching. I couldn't help but just sit their and chuckle to myself about the stuff they were on about, as if they already knew what the aliens were going to do, "we know for a fact the aliens won't be stupid and will probably send down mini robots bubble things to kill us all before getting engaged in urban warfare."

The South Park episode with the Ancient Aliens thanksgiving thing is really funny because it is probably what they would think.

Its hard to find that balance of open mindedness and being realistic. They way I look at it, I'd bet a million dollars its not alien, but there's still the small possibility it could be one. Its also more fun to be on the optimistic side of things once in awhile.

Sure, in some cases it may be hard to balance it out. And in this case it is. But generally speaking, it ain't that hard.

But as you said, it's most likely not alien, but it could be since we don't know for fact. And that sounds rather openminded and realistic to me.

Let me rephrase that. Trying to be open minded about a subject you find interesting without letting your intrigue get the better of you. The basis of my OP was to discuss the possibilities that it could be real, not stating a claim that it is real. Quite a few people jumped to that conclusion though.

I still feel your earlier remark fits as being realistic and open minded, without veering into fanatical open mindedness or being bewildered and wildy enthusiastic about it.

-The possibility is there because there is no contradicting fact. Doesn't sound so unreasonable in my ears.
-But at the same time, thinking it's probably something earhtly and "natural" would make sense since there is no foundation for it being anything else.

Both are sensible to me anyway. Without fact, there can only be assumptions.

But some claims can be very ridiculous, no doubt about that.

Appreciate your understanding. Too tired... to... continue. must.... sleep...

It's possible, I certainly believe aliens exist.... out there.... somewhere :cold:

But in all likelyhood this is either a very good fake or something such as natural deformity

That's not how probabilities work, you don't just take 100% and divide by the number of possible options.

Can we please just say that categorically, it is NOT an alien. I've seen more than enough hominid fossils and birth defects to know that. It's almost certainly an infant human that either went through skull elongation as mentioned before, or suffers from birth defects.

I thought oooh wow. Then I looked at your source

Keep in mind, it says "symptoms may include". This means they are not limited to what's on that list.

I think it could possibly be an alien. No one pointed out that it has molars, which no baby has.

It could be Hydrocephalus but that doesn't explain the size of the eyes. Those are definitely bigger than a natural human's. Although it is true that babies tend to have large eyes since your eyes do not grow, you're born with your "advlt size" eyes. Those eyes look to be double the size of any advlt's. But since there's probably some sort of eye enlarging sickness, we'll let it slide. The thing has molars which only advlt humans have, I doubt there's an ailment that gives people molars. So it can't be a baby (credited to the size of the being) and it can't be an advlt (also credited to the size of the being). The body is the size of the head, about 20cm in length, as is the skull.

What are your explanations? A deformed mega midget? Doubt it.

I'm going to stick with physics on this one: interstellar travel is impossible.

Add common sense: even if an alien species was capable of it, it would be such an effort that they wouldn't come here for just for a picnic, there'd be a lot of evidence found of them.

Add Occam's Razor for good measure: there's a lot of much more propable explanations than aliens for this, many mentioned in this thread already.

Therefore, not an alien. Next mystery? :hehe:

No doubt there are intelligent alien species out there, but they are stuck in their solar systems like we are in ours.

What about Progeria?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria

The skull certainly looks distinctive to me (plus adding in the deformities which may have been inflicted by that society), and these kids also seem to show advanced signs of aging, despite remaining very small - maybe that could account for the molars on such a small body?

Yeah I took one look at Daily Mail and didn't go any further. Normal media outlets or even scientists wouldn't find something like this and then immediately go "IT MIGHT BE AN ALIEN! ALIENS ARE REAL! *maybe*". There are far more reasonable first claims than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

This is actualy what the book "A Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, aliens visited earth for an unknown reason (scientists joked about them taking a roadside picnic on the way to some other planet) and where the aliens landed they would distort the fabric of reality, causing the laws of physics to no longer apply in some instaces.
The dead buried in these areas would come back to life, people who were in the area when the aliens were there would expierence weird thing like blindness when they left the area, and then there were the artifacts and anomalies created.
The artifacts were basically alien trash, but were wonderous things to humans, such as a rod that supplies infinite power. And the anoamalies could be random lackings of gravity in some areas, of areas that would litterally grind a man up.

From what I can gather from that book, aliens have most likely not been to earth.

Precisely my thoughts.

Looks human to me. :shrug: Elongated and deformed skulls really aren't anything new or unusual anymore.

Though if you believe Giorgio Tsoukalos and co. humans did this to themselves to try and make themselves look more like alien visitors. :rolleyes:

I heard of that book in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. forums, people said it had similar setting as the games. Should propably pick that up sometime.

Ex-wives don't count as aliens even though they can be quite strange.

Truthfully I think the skull may not be quote human by what they say however we've seen various rituals that can shape a person's skull.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is loosely based off of A Roadside Picnic actualy.
The developers have said it themselves.

It was the only website I could find in english, gimme a break lol