Hi Enid, and welcome! It's all unsubstantiated crap to me, at least as far as an advanced civilization bringing their DNA to earth long ago. Lot's of people dearly hope to believe in something like this, but there is absolutely no verifiable evidence to support it. It's not science. There are many "alignments" of celestial objects each year, and regulary on longer time-scales. None of them add any credence to myths and legends such as this. On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Enid Norton <enierae@yahoo.com> wrote:

HI all .. so the Seven Sisters is my favorite grouping of stars but am confused... this has been posting all over facebook ... can someone please squash the myths or tell me if it is true.. thought also that this might be cool to put on the astronomy page.. thanks Enid

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Hey, Enid I agree with Chuck. The flat-Earth society folks have about as good a grasp of science as whoever came up with this nonsense. To address one excerpt from the article: ...an advanced civilization from the Pleiades star cluster introduced their genetics on planet Earth. They observed the evolution of the species, experimenting with ways to further spiritual development. Atlantis, the ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations were all Pleiadean projects. Their programmed "energy signature" was encoded and imprinted on DNA, the way fingerprints are left behind when you touch something. This energy signature responds to its own origins, like a radio tuned for one station. (end of excerpt) So, as nearly every organism on Earth uses DNA to encode genetic information am I to assume from the above statement that my dog and the elephant at the zoo undergoes some spiritual development during one of these supposed “Pleiadean” alignments. My dog tells me everything. She’d go on and on if she had a “spiritual alignment”. If the Pleiadean‘s did introduce our genetics they did so in a very unusual way. At least for an advanced civilization that’s manipulating DNA. We share about 50% of our DNA with yeast. A large proportion of human DNA is viral in origin. Our genetic makeup is all a very humdrum consequence of evolution on this planet and has nothing to do with extragalactic beings shuffling our DNA with the equivalent of very small tweezers. Believe me, if our DNA was imprinted with some type of “energy signature” we’d know about it. Why is it that these types of articles claim some type of energy for humans? Our energy is in tune with this or that. Sorry to disappoint them, but those of us within the kingdom Animalia do not produce energy. We consume energy. We take high-energy substances (food) and convert that to low-energy products (heat). The free energy released between these processes we use for thinking (well, sometimes thinking), making love, movement, digestion, etc. To illustrate, try not eating for a year and see how much energy you produce. It’s all very fascinating and because of enzymes takes place, for humans at least, at 37 degrees Celsius. These guys should pick up a biology textbook and read all about it. If they did they wouldn’t have the time to think up Pleiadean fantasies. To reiterate, it’s crap. Dave On Nov 18, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Enid Norton <enierae@yahoo.com> wrote:

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