Posted on 04/05/2015 12:14:03 PM PDT by PROCON
Aliens, if they exist, are likely huge. At least that’s the conclusion of a new paper by cosmologist Fergus Simpson, who has estimated that the average weight of intelligent extraterrestrials would be 650 pounds (300 kilograms) or more. ET would have paled in comparison to these interstellar behemoths.
The argument relies on a mathematical model that assumes organisms on other planets obey the same laws of conservation of energy that we see here on Earth—namely, that larger animals need more resources and expend more energy, and thus are less abundant. There are many small ants, for example, but far fewer whales or elephants.
Thus, throughout the universe, as is the case on Earth, there are likely more small animals than large ones, says Simpson, a scientist at the University of Barcelona. Since the number of planets inhabited by relatively small animals would outnumber the amount of worlds where large ones predominate, it is most likely that we find ourselves on a planet with relatively small animals—and are ourselves probably one of the smaller intelligent beings, he adds.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
They ain't seen me yet!
Thanks PROCON. The author uses some dazzling thinking there. ;') Extra to X-Planets!
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“Cosmologist Fergus Simpson” is anything but a scientist!
What a moron.
There is presently zero evidence that there is any biological life anywhere else in the universe. How can he speculate on the size of anything for which there is no evidence of existence?
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A distant cousin of mine.
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Is he doing some version of the “Pants Dance?”
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Because the genius uses "mathematical models".
Kind of like the "climate models" the AGW warmunists use in order to derive bogus climate data.
I think my horn is about twenty pounds.
Why are those guys running around and not looking up? She is wearing a skirt after all.
No, but this author has a heavy load of Bull Poo for brains. I hope we taxpayers didn’t pay for this horse hockey!
But where is the little guy, the outstanding Salacious B. Crumb, in that pic!?
Okay, why write this article?
He needs to change his writing to the science fiction genre if he wants to stay relevant...
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