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Aliens Are Enormous, Science Suggests
newsweek.com ^ | April 5, 2015 | Douglas Main

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.

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To: PROCON

They ain't seen me yet!

41 posted on 04/05/2015 2:01:03 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: PROCON
Aliens, if they exist, are likely huge.

All the alien encounters here on Earth would suggest otherwise. Almost to a person, every abductee and witness to alien craft crashes, describe the aliens as small and frail. Somebody is lying...it's either "scientists" or crackpots and at this point I'm not sure who to trust.
42 posted on 04/05/2015 2:47:36 PM PDT by 762X51
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Thanks PROCON. The author uses some dazzling thinking there. ;') Extra to X-Planets!
 
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43 posted on 04/05/2015 3:05:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: PROCON

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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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44 posted on 04/05/2015 3:16:58 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: bgill

A distant cousin of mine.

45 posted on 04/05/2015 3:17:08 PM PDT by xp38
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To: uglybiker

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Is he doing some version of the “Pants Dance?”

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46 posted on 04/05/2015 3:19:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
How can he speculate on the size of anything for which there is no evidence of existence?

Because the genius uses "mathematical models".

Kind of like the "climate models" the AGW warmunists use in order to derive bogus climate data.

47 posted on 04/05/2015 3:29:23 PM PDT by PROCON (It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled -- Mark Twain)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

I think my horn is about twenty pounds.


48 posted on 04/05/2015 3:52:35 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: PROCON
Fat bastard photo:  20131103_015212_LLS-1_zpsc71bc650.jpg
49 posted on 04/05/2015 4:03:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: PROCON
It was big in the movies.


50 posted on 04/05/2015 4:07:53 PM PDT by BBell (breathe easy obey the law)
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To: JennysCool

Why are those guys running around and not looking up? She is wearing a skirt after all.


51 posted on 04/05/2015 4:08:32 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools)
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To: Talisker

No, but this author has a heavy load of Bull Poo for brains. I hope we taxpayers didn’t pay for this horse hockey!


52 posted on 04/05/2015 4:17:54 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: xp38

But where is the little guy, the outstanding Salacious B. Crumb, in that pic!?


53 posted on 04/05/2015 5:30:05 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: PROCON
Aliens, if they exist

Okay, why write this article?

54 posted on 04/06/2015 4:33:52 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: PROCON

He needs to change his writing to the science fiction genre if he wants to stay relevant...


55 posted on 04/06/2015 4:36:45 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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