​Aliens would not contact us because there is no trace of intelligence on Earth ● The paradox of the largest extinction in the history of life ● Arthropods weigh more than humans and domestic animals combined

Aliens would not contact us, because there are no traces of intelligence on Earth

As the Americans and Chinese have been busy shooting down “unidentified flying objects” in recent days, everyone is now talking about UFOs, aliens and space shuttles sent by other civilizations into the Milky Way.

Don’t get impatient, the odds of UFOs shot down over the US having instructions in Chinese, and vice versa for those over China, are at an all-time high! But this situation and the mysterious statements of the officials of the two countries (still a state secret) brought us back to our dilemmas about intelligent life on other planets. So, why haven’t the aliens contacted us, sir? What are you waiting for?

The Fermi Paradox, expressed some 70 years ago by the Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, drew attention to several reasons why contact had not been achieved until now. And they ranged from the possibility that intelligent aliens don’t even exist, to the possibility that they appeared too recently to develop better technology, to the possibility that they appeared too soon, then possibly disappeared.

Now we have an interesting new hypothesis put forward by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Their research suggests that there is an abundance of intelligent life in the Milky Way. The difference between “them” and us would be that they are more interested in technology than sending messages that have a huge chance of reaching germs and bacteria.

And since we’re on the subject of technology, we shouldn’t forget that we’ve been emitting radio waves into space for about 100 years. This means that the response signal will only have about 50 light years to reach us. If it comes And all this means that there should be at least one planet with intelligent life that has reached the level of industrial development, at a maximum distance of 50 light years. It’s not impossible, but the chances are almost zero.

So, for those interested in proof of the existence of the technology, we have yet to give any indication that intelligent life exists here.

The paradox of the largest extinction in the history of life

About 252 million years ago, life on Earth was on the brink of extinction after successfully evolving from microbial forms to giant synapsids, which are thought to be the ancestors of modern mammals and reptiles. The culprit of this disappearance would be a supervolcano that erupted somewhere in the territory of Siberia.

Based on the evidence and hypotheses published so far, the road to recovery and the emergence of other species to fill the niches left empty will be difficult. So hard that it would take about 10 million years. During all this time, the earth’s waters and land were marked by the existence of only a few species. Well, those assumptions seem to have just fallen apart. And this is demonstrated by a find from China.

More precisely, we are talking about fossil fragments that show us that there were much more complex ecosystems in the oceans of that time than we thought. So far, Chinese paleontologists have found about 12 classes of animals, all of which show that marine ecosystems are progressing much faster than previously thought. So we have yet to work on a picture of the greatest extinction in the history of life. Or at least to what illustrates the re-emergence and spread of life.

Arthropods weigh more than humans and domestic animals combined

If you are wondering how many arthropods (insects, crustaceans, arachnids, etc.) exist on Earth, but first of all, how much they weigh, take your time to calculate, because several Israeli researchers have already done it.

It was previously known that, despite their small size, arthropods are the most complex forms of life on Earth. Yes, but you didn’t know how many there were and how much they weighed. To solve this dilemma, the mentioned scientists collected and analyzed more than 7,000 studies and profile measurements made on all terrestrial ecosystems. From deserts to tropical forests.

So they found out that now there are about 10 quintillion arthropods on our planet (1 for 19 zeros). And they would weigh more than 1 billion tons. By comparison, all humans would weigh approximately 287 million tons. If we add domestic animals, we will still reach a billion tons, but will not exceed the total weight of arthropods. By the way, who rules the planet.

It should also be said that termites make up about 40% of the total number of arthropods. 10% more than in ants.

Now don’t store this data for too long! It will be necessary to list them in a relatively short time. why Because arthropods are declining dramatically, which has not happened since the great extinction mentioned in the previous news.

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