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I bet a dollar it's easily falsifiable bullshit.
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You didn't watch the video :D

It's theory. They provide dissenting opinions too.
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Nope.

If there was some common critter whose phylogenic tree suddenly began out of nowhere, that would have been a big deal long before now.
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GORDON wrote:

If there was some common critter whose phylogenic tree suddenly began out of nowhere, that would have been a big deal long before now.
Cuttlefish are aliens. Children of Cthulu. There's nothing you can say to change my mind.
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Troy wrote:
GORDON wrote:

If there was some common critter whose phylogenic tree suddenly began out of nowhere, that would have been a big deal long before now.
Cuttlefish are aliens. Children of Cthulu. There's nothing you can say to change my mind.
Well obviously cuttlefish are aliens. .I didn't think I needed to qualify that common knowledge.
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I didn't watch it either. Snopes says: That's some bullshit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/octopus-dna-origins/
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Snopes can eat a bag of dicks. They're as trusted as the Weekly World News.

Nowhere in that video is the claim made that Octopus have alien DNA. I think that was more people running with the story and adding their own tidbits.

This was simply that a collection of scientists came together to speculate that such a thing was within the realm of possibility. Octopus aren't the only species mentioned either.
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Found this on Snopes too.

e: Also the writer of the original article misspelled "researchers"
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