Alien Life Forms on Mt. Everest!?!

A former astronaut is climbing Mt. Everest in a hunt for alien life on Earth. Read more here.

If there is alien life on Everest, do we really want to find it? Anything tough enough to survive in the harsh environment of Mt. Everest could be a serious threat to mankind. To illustrate this point, here are two stories that clearly portray the dangers of searching for alien life in the frozen and hostile climates of Earth.

Story #1 is H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, the terrifying story of a scientific expedition to the arctic that discovers the ruins of a vast alien civilization and the preserved remains of highly evolved creatures that aren’t as dead as they appear.

Story #2 is John Carpenter’s The Thing, which recounts another arctic expedition’s encounter with a deadly alien organism that’d been frozen under the ice for hundreds of thousands of years.

If you don’t knkow these stories, we highly recommend you familiarize yourself with them. They are a clear warning against the current exploration for alien life on Mt. Everest.

Here’s the trailer for The Thing.

Aliens on Earth?: Placozoa Continue to Perplex Scientists

Although they might appear to be the simplest multi-celluar organisms on Earth, the mysterious creatures known as Placozoa continue to leave scientists scratching their heads over their origins, genetic makeup, and abilities, thus making them far from simple.

Placozoa are small, living, blobs of cells. They feed through their ’skin’, can regenerate from only a small amount of cells, and reproduce asexually by splitting off parts of themselves. However, they have only rarely been observed in nature and scientists have yet to find any fossils of Placozoans.

placozoanImage of a Placozoa.

A new theory by our resident space biologist Allen Gringholm states that Placozoa are actually descendants of a massive blob of an alien which crashed into Earth millions of years ago.  Read more