The Tiny Atacama Desert Mummy

The partially mummified remains of a humanoid creature dubbed Ata was discovered in the Atacama Desert in 2003.

The facts about Ata

The specimen is about 15 centimeters tall
It is certain that this is not a monkey
A sufficient amount of intact DNA was extracted from it and studied
It's DNA is closer to human DNA than any other species including our closest relative, the chimpanzee
It has at least one human ancestor
It has 9 ribs (humans have 12, rarely 11, very rarely 10)
It has been determined that it is only a few decades old
It is not a fetus, it lived to the age of 6 to 8 years
It was breathing, eating and metabolising
If this is a human mutation then this would be the most mutated human being ever discovered with significantly more individual genetic mutations than anything else

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Quake3 in HD

Dust off the old PK3 files: Although it's over 10 years old, Quake 3 is still being played in offices around the world. Since id software has open sourced the Quake 3 engine; a community of developers has created an updated engine called ioquake3 and has recently also included a high resolution texture pack . ioquake3 is 100% compatable with Quake3 v1.32 so you will be able to join servers running the original Quake3 engine and vice versa. All you will need are the original pk3 files found in your Quake 3 baseq3 folder.

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A Profound Understanding of Technology

The rate of technological growth is very predictable and is exponential. To draw a correlation; the Mayan calendar is understood to be a measure of significant technological events with an exponential decrease in interval time. This almost immediately disproves the man-in-the-sky idea of god because once we have successfully reverse engineered the human body we will be able to make vast performance improvements. The predictability of technology also simultaneously proves that there is some kind of divine plan at work. The machines will eventually take over but we won't be separate from them, we will become self-engineered, bio-mechanical, super intelligent beings. The singularity is upon us :D

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