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I bet a dollar it's easily falsifiable bullshit.

You didn't watch the video

It's theory. They provide dissenting opinions too.

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.

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.

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.

I didn't watch it either. Snopes says: That's some bullshit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/octopus-dna-origins/

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.

Found this on Snopes too.

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