Friday, March 13, 2015

No, I am not suggesting that blue-eyed visitors from outer space came down and interbred with our brown-eyed ancestors. There is plenty of evidence that a genetic mutation occurred right here on Earth about 10-12,000 years ago on one person’s OCA2 gene which caused them to have blue eyes. But as John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked: “The question really is, ‘Why did we go from having nobody on Earth with blue eyes 10,000 years ago to having 20 or 40 percent of Europeans [and smaller but noteworthy percentages elsewhere] having blue eyes now?” In some regions, such as Northern Europe around the Baltic Sea, almost everyone has blue eyes.

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I have a simple suggestion that explains why this new eye color allowed the individual who had it to breed like crazy, and why following generations of blue-eyed people were chosen over others: their eyes looked like the giant blue “eye” which was visible in the sky 12,000 years ago and their blue eyes made them seem more godlike.

Every spiral galaxy – including our own Milky Way galaxy – is now understood to be a Seyfert Galaxy. About one out of seven spiral galaxies has an active galactic center – immensely bright (sometimes brighter than all the other stars in the galaxy combined) actively spewing out immense quantities of visible light, infrared, X-rays, gamma and other forms of radiation, the neutrinos believed to carry the force of gravity, and clouds of dust. The light blue wavelengths of visible light are by far the brightest ones we can see, and within a galaxy with a central black hole showing its active phase – a bright blue oval would be visible, even in daytime. Around 1940, it was believed that this one-seventh of spiral galaxies were a special class or type of galaxies with continuously active black holes at their centers. It is now understood that all spiral galactic centers are dormant most of the time, with an active phase lasting over a thousand years.

SNIP