Wired / Panspermia / Papua New Guinea
Wired magazine has answered this question: The year 2012 is approaching. What should I stockpile to survive the Mayan apocalypse?
That Red Rain that fell on India in 2001 contains red cells, lacking DNA and quite like blood cells. Now scientists have discovered that the cells multiply when at 121 degrees C. This adds to the likelihood that the cells are extraterrestial in origin, and life exists elsewhere, and perhaps life did not originate on Earth.
Settlements dating back 49,000 years have been found in Papua New Guinea, at a height of 2000 metres, puzzling scientists:
Fairbairn said he had been shocked to discover the age of the finds, using radio carbon dating, because this suggested humans had been living in the cold, wet and inhospitable highlands at the height of the last Ice Age.
“We didn’t expect to find anything of that early age,” he said.
The findings, published in the journal Science, suggest that the prehistoric highlanders of Papua New Guinea’s Ivane Valley in the Owen Stanley Range Mountain made stone tools, hunted small animals and ate yams and nuts.
But why they chose to dwell in the harsh conditions of the highlands, where temperatures would have dipped below freezing, rather than remain in the warmer coastal areas, remains a mystery.
Perhaps the mystery has something to do with a crustal pole shift, although having a different climate back then could have been possible without one as well.
49,000 years ago was about the time that the Barringer Crater in Arizona was created. Some people probably had their own apocalypse at that time.