M.J. Rose

Are you totally improbable or totally inevitable? 

 

Think about yourself.
You are here because…
Your dad met your mom.
Then your dad and mom conceived you.
So a particular egg in your mom
Joined a particular sperm from your dad
Which could only happen because not one of your direct ancestors, going all the way back to the beginning of life itself, died before passing on his or her genes…
So what are the chances of you happening?
Of you being here?

 

Author and blogger Dr. Ali Binazir did the calculations last spring and decided that the chances of anyone existing are one in 10^2,685,000. In other words, as this infographic figures it, you are totally improbable…

 

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Check out the graphic below. It will blow your mind.

(This is an infographic from Visual.ly.)

 

by visually via 

I recently went to a fantastic movie, “Anonymous”, about the mystery surrounding the authorship of the Shakespeare canon. While the film is fiction, it includes elements of fact that do seem to imply a feasible possibility that William Shakespeare is not the name of the author who penned the works of “Shakespeare” –

The director of the film, Roland Emmerich, has put together a compelling little video of ten reasons why Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare…

For more on the mystery, the film’s website has a debate going and a series of very educational links on the matter, here.

NPR has also done some work on this:

Is the Great Pyramid a prehistoric machine – not built by prehistoric humans?

2012 and the Old Equator

By Robert Berringer

There are many signs that extraterrestrial beings, often called gods, periodically intervene in the evolution of life on Earth. Some of the most enduring signs like the Great Pyramid have convinced me that Stone Age humans under Old Kingdom Pharaohs did not build many of the most ancient and most enduring megaliths. Our world view of the Great Pyramid is shaped by the Egyptologists, the liberal media, government teachers, parents etc. Studies by many New Age scholars have convinced them that the Great Pyramid was not built by the Pharoah Khufu as a tomb. Historians note that it is devoid of authentic inscriptions, unlike later pyramids which contained extensive religious inscriptions about their builders. The so called coffin found in the Kings Chamber was carved out of one piece of solid granite, including the cover. It is too large to have been transported into the pyramid, so like the enigmatic air shafts which point to Sirius and Orion, this most massive of all the world’s stone structures was built around these internal features. Machinists have found tool marks like those made by modern saws inside this coffin. Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert in “The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids” have used many good photos and illustrations to help convince me that the Great Pyramid is a prehistoric machine not built by prehistoric humans. As an engineer, I recognize the following photo as a very strong solid granite foundation for a heavy machine creating a very large downward force…

For the complete article click here to go to the World Mysteries blog.