“Barbie Pig” “Alien” creature found at the bottom of the ocean – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia Pink guinea pigs, sea fish and transparent unukukuma cucumber - these are the results of a recent expedition of scientists to the Pacific Ocean area located between Hawaii and California. This region, called Clarion-Clipperton, is rich in biodiversity. Its fauna is of particular interest to science. Fold your legs into sausage toes. The expedition, led by Dr Adrian Glover of the Natural History Museum in London, is reported by IFL Science. Marine biologists have discovered several new species of deep-sea creatures on the ocean floor. Particular attention was drawn to a wonderful creature that looked like an alien. It was pale pink in color (its brethren were white) and had stilted legs with sausage-shaped toes. The animal moves them along the bottom, looking for food among the silt. Scientists explained that these are plantains from the genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers. It is also called a "porpoise", although this phrase is usually used to describe other animals in the marine mammal family. Representatives of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute explain that scotoplanes live at a depth of 1-6 thousand meters. They are found on the bottom plains of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and some related species are also found in Antarctica. These unusual creatures feed on decaying organic matter, extracting it from bottom sediments. They have been observed to favor food that has just fallen to the bottom, and schools of them have previously been spotted over whale carcasses. The specimen discovered by scientists was jokingly called “Barbie Pig.” Firstly, because of its pink color, and secondly, because some members of the research group watched the movie “Barbie” on the plane en route to Costa Rica. In addition, British scientists told IFL Science about a transparent “non-cucumber” cucumber and a tentacle fish, which they noticed in the depths of the ocean. It is unclear whether the creatures discovered in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone are species new to science. Perhaps it was simply not possible to see them well before - this is the first time photographs of such high resolution have been obtained. "We can imagine that many of these species will be new to scientists," said marine biologist Regen Drennan. “They have been observed from time to time during seafloor surveys, but have not been formally described or studied due to a lack of specimens.” The body on the surface will turn to jelly. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is a unique region in the Pacific Ocean. It does not belong to anyone, but contains a huge amount of rare metals: cobalt, nickel and manganese. First of all, this aroused interest in the zone. Scientists are selected there to conduct research on mining. But this is precisely what frightens biologists: if large-scale mining begins, the local fauna will be in danger of extinction, so they will not even have time to study it properly. Although the International Seabed Authority (the name of the intergovernmental organization that monitors activities in deep sea areas beyond national jurisdiction) has limited metal mining in the region, many contracts have already been signed. The deep-sea Clarion-Clipperton Plain is located between California and the Hawaiian Islands, its depth is approximately 4 thousand meters. Almost no light penetrates there, and the water temperature is only slightly above 0 ℃. Previous studies of this zone have estimated that about 6 thousand species of animals live here, and about 90% of them have not been previously studied. Many of them are endemic, meaning they are not common in other places. So, in 2016, oceanologists discovered 12 specimens of living creatures there, seven of them were unknown to science, and two represented not just a new species, but a new genus or even family. According to scientists, the rich biodiversity of this region is associated precisely with deposits of metals - mainly manganese. As for Scotoplanesa, which so impressed the expedition of British scientists, it is said to belong to the genus of deep-sea holothurians, and they are quite common on the bottom of the World Ocean. Another thing is that it is unclear whether this is a new species or an already known one. Sea cucumbers' tendency to hide in the abyss makes them difficult to study. If you remove such a creature from its natural habitat by raising it to the surface, its body will simply turn into jelly due to the pressure difference. Therefore, researchers still do not have answers to many questions about these creatures. Therefore, it is unclear how long they live. And when did they appear on Earth? The most terrible monsters of the deep sea The most terrible monsters of the deep sea Source link Source link
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How many alien civilizations are there in the Universe? • Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia There are 2 trillion galaxies in the Universe, and you would have to be extremely narcissistic to think that humans are the only intelligent beings. But it turns out that the number of technologically advanced civilizations can be counted... In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake. developed a simple equation to estimate the number of "technically active" civilizations in our galaxy. This simple mathematical formula is considered the second most famous in science after Einstein's equation E=MC2. If you look at this formula, it is easy to see that it takes into account a number of factors, including the probability of the presence of habitable planets. around the stars, the likelihood of life emerging, and the likelihood that simple life forms will evolve in such a way that eventually intelligent beings will emerge. But even without trying to make calculations based on the Drake equation, we can use similar reasoning to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations and the distance separating us from the nearest humanoids. Let's start with recent studies that showed that one in six stars has a suitable . planet for life Not one in a million, but every sixth. So, let's take this number as a basis and continue. We'll have to make a few assumptions. In particular, to decide what fraction of planets similar in size to Earth ever became home to technologically advanced inhabitants. Life on our planet began quite quickly: a random chemical reaction in 1.5 million billion cubic meters of ocean water gave rise to a replicating molecule. . only a few hundred million years. It follows that it doesn't take much to create life. It is then quite reasonable to assume that at least half of all inhabited planets have sooner or later given rise to some form of life. Dinosaurs were well designed, but didn't do very well in school. However, suppose that one of the 100 planets on which life exists will eventually be marked by the appearance of intelligent beings. And, according to Frank Drake, let's also assume that some aliens manage to survive on their planet for 10 thousand years until they destroy themselves (nuclear war, man-made environmental disaster or something like that) or meet their doom for some. Another reason: By performing simple arithmetic calculations, we will find that in each of the 100 million star systems there is a technically advanced civilization. It's not much different than your chances of winning next week's Powerball lottery. So, how close to us are the closest aliens sending out signals of their existence? If we paid good money for a hyperspace drive capable of faster-than-light travel and went to visit our neighbors, how far would we have to travel from Earth? Well, the average distance between stars in our part of the Galaxy is 4.2 light years (the distance to the star Proxima Centauri). That is, in each cube of space, the edge of which is 4.2 light years, there is on average one star. Now imagine a large cube with an edge at a distance of 2 thousand light years. It will contain approximately 100 million star systems and, somewhere between them, one advanced civilization. Based on these rough and not particularly careful calculations, it can be assumed that the nearest “aliens” are located at a distance of one to two thousand light years. In other words, no closer than three bright stars in Orion's belt. Of course, neighbors can be much further or closer. But this order of magnitude estimate tells us that they clearly do not live next door. They don't hear our news and they hardly have any incentive to come to us. They simply do not know anything about our existence, moreover, it is very likely that we will not be able to visit them either. The fastest of today's rockets would take about 20 million years to get there, by which time even the bravest astronauts would probably be terribly tired of government food and other inconveniences of flying. Yes, alien civilizations likely exist, and only in ours galaxy. there may be up to 10 thousand of them, not to mention millions of other galaxies. Perhaps they are quite far from us. But nevertheless they can be detected. That is why people stubbornly continue to comb the sky in search of radio signals launched into the air by our brothers in mind in time immemorial. Source link Source link
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Criminologists have denied the alien origin of mummies from the Nazca desert in Peru Posting in CHAT: Russia "Humanoid mummies" found in the Nazca Desert in Peru were collected from animal and human remains. Flavio Estrada Moreno, a specialist at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, spoke about this. "Mummies of Two Humanoids" was presented to the Mexican Congress in September 2023. Journalist Jaime Maussan claimed that the 60-centimeter bodies, about a thousand years old, are believed to belong to aliens. However, further research showed that this information is not true. — The fingers of mummies are made of human bones. They were presented as remnants of foreign origin, which is completely false. They (the bones of mummies - approx. “VM”) are similar to the skulls of llamas or alpacas, which could be found in archaeological cemeteries of Peruvian cultures, for example the Nazca culture, RIA Novosti quotes Moreno in September 2023, Mossan presented. Latin American politicians managed to discover several archaeological finds. The man, under oath, stated that he discovered the remains of aliens during excavations in Peru in a layer of fossilized algae. Soon, the Minister of Culture of Peru, Leslie Urteaga, denied the foreign origin of the mummies of the Nazca desert. According to the study, they turned out to be remnants of the pre-Hispanic period. Source link Source link