{"id":137608,"date":"2022-04-02T01:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T06:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/our-dna-is-older-than-earth-itself-where-did-it-come-from-oct-2-2018"},"modified":"2022-04-02T01:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T06:02:47","slug":"our-dna-is-older-than-earth-itself-where-did-it-come-from-oct-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/our-dna-is-older-than-earth-itself-where-did-it-come-from-oct-2-2018","title":{"rendered":"Our DNA is Older Than Earth Itself \u2014 Where Did It Come From? \u2014 Oct 2, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_5U4N7nRUI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How can you prove that we may not be from here? The complexity of our DNA doubles every 600M years (Moores Law) so if you take the timeline back to where it intersects when life must have begun, it would be about 9.5B years ago, but the Earth has only been around for about 4.5B years. What gives?<\/p>\n<p>This video is a short 1 min 12 second clip from a great documentary by Caroline Cory, \u201cET Contact: They Are Here\u201d, available on iTunes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/movie\/e-t-contact-they-are-here\/id1286966239\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/movie\/e-t-contact-they-are-here\/id1286966239<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trailer: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/movie\/e-t-contact-they-are-here\/id1286966239\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/movie\/e-t-contact-they-are-here\/id1286966239<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7230004\/\">https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7230004\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014About Making Contact Project<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/our-dna-is-older-than-earth-itself-where-did-it-come-from-oct-2-2018\">Continue reading \u201cOur DNA is Older Than Earth Itself \u2014 Where Did It Come From? \u2014 Oct 2, 2018\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you prove that we may not be from here? The complexity of our DNA doubles every 600M years (Moores Law) so if you take the timeline back to where it intersects when life must have begun, it would be about 9.5B years ago, but the Earth has only been around for about 4.5B [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}