Proponen otra razón por la que todavía no hemos contactado con extraterrestres

Un científico del Instituto de Investigación del Sureste, en Colorado, asegura que lo que puede estar retrasando nuestro contacto con civilizaciones alienígenas es la enorme cantidad de hielo en los mares de otros planetas.

Se llama Alan Stern y, según su teoría, la mayoría de las criaturas extraterrestres se encuentran en lo más profundo de sus planetas, en los océanos subterráneos cubiertos de agua helada, y no en la superficie.

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La teoría que podría explicar nuestra soledad en el Universo

La teoría fue presentada en el 2017 durante una reunión de la División de Ciencias Planetarias de la Sociedad Americana de Astronomía en Utah (Estados Unidos) y ha sido publicada en Guidebook.

La presencia de océanos en el sistema solar es algo sobre lo que los astrónomos han comenzado a prestar atención hace relativamente poco. Existen océanos, por ejemplo, en las lunas de Júpiter, Saturno, Neptuno y Plutón. Esos océanos están congelados, pero bajo la corteza planetaria el agua está en estado líquido. Sus corrientes podrían transportar nutrientes que formasen ecosistemas parecidos a los que existen en lo más profundo de los océanos del planeta Tierra.

La teoría de Stern coincide con la conocida como 'paradoja de Fermi', que expone la contradicción de que existan miles de universos que alberguen vida inteligente y que aun así la humanidad todavía no haya sido capaz de ponerse en contacto con ellos.

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La idea es, según Douglas Vakoch, presidente del METI (Mensajes a Extraterrestres Inteligentes) de San Francisco —una organización que investiga las posibilidades de contactar con otras civilizaciones—, intrigante, aunque reconoce que no tiene por qué venir a corroborar la paradoja de Fermi. En su opinión, la vida en otros planetas es difícil de detectar a distancia porque se necesitan mejores telescopios y tecnología más avanzada.

Stern lo tiene claro: si no hemos sido nosotros quienes los hemos encontrado, es porque han decidido que comunicarse a larga distancia no vale la pena, sobre todo si están atrapados en pequeños mundos helados. 

Stones of the First Encounter’ May Depict Mayan-ET Contact

With so many Mayan artifacts seeminglydepicting what we today would describe as extraterrestrials or aliens, it gets harder to dismiss them as hoaxes or misinterpretations of Mayan drawings and carvings of conventional objects, animals or people. Get ready for more. Word is spreading about a discovery in March 2017 of jade stones carved with so many realistic engravings of what look like aliens and spaceships that they’re being called “Stones of the First Encounter.” Are they?

As with many of these discoveries, it’s difficult to determine who found the stones first due to language differences and the involvement of parties with television shows or YouTube channels. According to alien-ufo-sightings.com, these jade (jada) stones were found by local residents in a forest cave between Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, in March 2017. At some point, the stones were either given to or viewed by Javier Lopez Diaz of CincoRadio, who claimed on Twitter that some of the images showed “contact” with beings from other worlds.

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That apparently got the attention of Jose Aguayo at JAC Detector, a YouTube channel described as “searchers of treasure.” Aguayo says he led a team through the jungle where the stones were said to have been found and “by chance” came upon the cave. It was in this cave that they found small thin sheets of gold and broken stones with designs of what look like “a spaceship with a gray alien-like being with an oval object in his hand and a former head of pre-Hispanic culture who apparently has an ear of corn.” It was this group that gave them the name “Stones of the First Encounter” or “Stories of the First Meeting.”

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A legend adds some flavor to the discovery. Many locals tell the tale of a spaceship that was trapped in a cave and believe the depictions could either be records of it made by Mayans or messages left by the extraterrestrials. Connect the dots and people like Héctor Pavón, who was on the expedition, say things like this (rough translation):

“They are extraterrestrial ships and more than anything they are teaching us, that aliens had contact with the Mayans, who were actually talking and exchanging.”

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Artifacts discovered in Mexico, whether they look like they show grey aliens and spaceships or not, fall under the jurisdiction of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico, which casts a skeptical eye on such claims. Jose Aguayo offered them a challenge:

“If at any time the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico decided to take an interest in this discovery and collect the pieces of stones, for both groups of research would be better, because in this way would accept the fact of the existence of the contact With aliens, many of whom have always denied the existence of the evidence. “

Would the experts agree that these stones are conclusive evidence of a “first encounter”? Probably not yet. Some alien remains or metallic fragments of a spaceship would do more to move the needle towards belief than yet another collection of artifacts showing beings with big heads and almond eyes. While they‘re interesting, controversial and puzzling, they’re not unequivocal proof.