Science fiction movies and TV shows routinely portray a brutal race aliens they visit Earth in their spaceships and enslave the unfortunate earthlings.
But according to one expert, extraterrestrial life may actually be too frightened by “dangerous” and “violent” people to want to come here.
Dr Gordon Gallup, a biopsychologist at the University of Albany, said people were “dangerous, violent and constantly involved in endless bloody conflicts and wars”.
For this reason, aliens with the technological ability to visit Earth – if they exist – are likely to tend to stay away from fear of death and genocide, according to Dr. Gallup.
Life outside of Earth has never been discovered, and there is no evidence that extraterrestrial life has ever visited our planet. But this may be due to the fact that extraterrestrial life is too scared of “dangerous” and “violent” people (artist’s impression)
Dr. Gordon Gallup (pictured) is a biopsychologist at the University of Albany
Dr. Gallup presented his argument in open access paper published in the Journal of Astrobiology this month.
“If [alien life] it exists, it may have found us so far, and it has found that people are dangerous, violent, and constantly involved in endless bloody conflicts and wars, and they are constantly developing even more powerful weapons of mass destruction, ”said Dr. Gallup.
“It would also be obvious that as a by-product of growing pollution, habitat destruction combined with endless wars, looting, death, destruction and the desire to conquer, humans pose an incomparable and unprecedented risk not only to other life on Earth but for the life of other planets.
As an example, Dr. Gallup cites the “complete destruction of the highly developed Aztec and Inca civilizations” and the subsequent genocide of local people, their temples and buildings destroyed and their wealth and natural resources stolen.
“If the people of Earth find out about advanced civilizations and desired resources in other worlds, can these local alien populations end up suffering the same fate that befell the natives of Mexico and Peru?” He wrote.
“If there is intelligent life elsewhere, they can see people as extremely dangerous. Perhaps that is why there is no evidence or convincing evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence: we pose too great a risk and they do not want to be discovered.
During his lifetime, the famous British astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking (pictured) expressed concern about the dangers posed by intelligent and hostile aliens
DOES EXTRAORDINARY LIFE EXIST?
Life outside of Earth has never been discovered; there is no evidence that extraterrestrial life has ever visited our planet.
However, this does not mean that the universe is lifeless except on Earth, according to NASA.
The space agency says: “Although no clear signs of life have ever been found, the possibility of extraterrestrial biology – the scientific logic that supports it – is becoming more and more plausible.”
One popular school of thought is that our own existence is proof that there is certainly life on other planets, as the probability of the Earth being “one-off” is almost zero.
However, one of the arguments against this is – if there is extraterrestrial life, why have we not found any evidence of this?
During his lifetime, the famous British astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking expressed concern about the dangers posed by intelligent and hostile aliens, said Dr. Gallup.
These aliens may arrive to conquer, enslave, destroy and colonize humans in order to exploit the resources of our planet after they have exhausted their own.
This has long been supported by television and film – for example, Battlefield Earth, a 2000 film based on a novel written by the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, depicts a brutal race of giant aliens called “The Psychlos” subjecting humans to slave labor.
According to Professor Hawking, the result could be similar to when Columbus came to America, which was not good for the Indians, says Dr. Gallup.
But the truth may be quite the opposite – it is also possible that aliens live in fear of being found.
In general, people are unique because “they have developed the technological ability to cause their own extinction.”
“People seem ready to reach a turning point when it comes to our dependence on fossil fuels and the resulting effects on climate change,” said Dr. Gallup.
“The trajectory suggests that, for the first time in Earth’s history, we are heading for mass extinction, which occurs as a result of the actions of one species; i.e. person.
In “Battlefield Earth” (2000), a brutal race of giant aliens called “The Psychlos” who have enslaved humans for 1,000 years
So far, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed to orbit other stars in our galaxy. The photo shows an exoplanet and its moon by an artist
The document is based on the Fermi paradox, which is the obvious contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates of their probability.
In other words, if there is extraterrestrial life, why haven’t we found any evidence of that?
According to Eric Zakrison, an astrophysicist at Uppsala University in Sweden, there are 70 quintillon planets in the universe – 7, followed by 20 zeros.
In the Milky Way galaxy alone, there are up to six billion Earth-like planets, according to a study for 2020 by astronomers at the University of British Columbia.
According to NASA, about 4,933 exoplanets – planets outside our own solar system – have been confirmed in 3,704 systems.
Most of these exoplanets are gaseous, like Jupiter or Neptune, not terrestrial, according to NASA’s online database.
As for whether intelligent life exists other than Earth, Dr. Gallup says: “The history of Earth’s biology makes it clear that intelligent, technologically advanced life is the exception rather than the rule.
“Despite billions of different life forms, the experience of intelligent life with complex toolmaking skills and cognitive ability to achieve self-awareness shows that it has appeared only once, making the prospect of finding technologically complex intelligent life elsewhere exponentially distant. . ‘
WHAT IS A FARM PARADOX?
Fermi’s paradox begs the question of why, given the estimated 200-400 billion stars and at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy, there were no signs of extraterrestrial life.
The controversy is named after its creator, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
He first asked the question in 1950.
Fermi believed that it was very unusual that a single alien signal or engineering project had not yet been discovered in the universe – despite its vastness.
Fermi concluded that there must be a barrier that limits the rise of intelligent, self-conscious, technologically advanced civilizations colonizing space.
This barrier is sometimes called the “Big Filter”.
The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi created the so-called Fermi paradox in the 1950s. He examines why there are no signs of extraterrestrial life, despite the 100 billion planets in our galaxy
If the main obstacle to the colonization of other planets is not in our past, then the barrier that will stop humanity’s prospects from reaching other worlds must lie in our future, scientists theorize.
Professor Brian Cox believes that the advances in science and engineering that a civilization needed to conquer the stars ultimately led to its destruction.
He said: “One of the solutions to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to rule a world that has the power to self-destruct and that needs global joint solutions to prevent this.
“The growth of science and engineering may inevitably outpace the development of political expertise, leading to disaster.”
Other possible explanations for the Fermi paradox include that no other intelligent species have appeared in the universe, intelligent alien species exist – but they lack the necessary technology to communicate with Earth.
Some believe that the distances between intelligent civilizations are too great to allow any kind of two-way communication.
If two worlds are separated by several thousand light years, it is possible that one or both civilizations will disappear before a dialogue can be established.
The so-called zoo hypothesis claims that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists there, but deliberately avoids any contact with life on Earth to allow its natural evolution.