So I know I just made a post on a similar topic around half an hour ago if I remember correctly, but I wanna speak about this anyway. Apparently it’s not just a fun thought experiment I randomly came up with, but an actual scientific hypothesis based around the idea of theoretical alien life.
What if we’ve already found aliens, but rather than the government covering it all up, we simply haven’t realized or can’t see them?
Theory 1: Cloaking
I’m not talking about high-tech sci-fi cloaking devices, but rather a mundane, common organism capable of hiding its presence from electronic devices like ROVs, radars, and satellites.
This is just an example of one sci-fi creature which evolved a way to disarm electrical devices. The Crabsquid. If you don’t know what they are, they’re a gigantic deep sea octopus-like crustacean native to the tropics of the fictional alien planet 4546B. They compete with another apex predator: the Shocker/Ampeel. And the two don’t get along.
What the crabsquid does is it generates an EMP field to disable the Ampeel’s electric-based defense/hunting mechanism to make the bulky fish an easier target.
What if life on Mars has evolved something similar for a similar reason? A cloaking device to hide from electronic/radar based predators. Think of how a shark like the hammerhead senses electric pulses to help track down prey. Now combine that with deep sea animals such as the big red jellyfish, vampire squid, and several species of whalefish and toadfish. Since red light doesn’t reach that far down into the sea, the red coloring makes them practically invisible to most predators. Of course there’s species like the loosejaw and barreleye which have evolved counters to this strategy, but overall it’s an incredibly effective cloaking device.
What if alien life isn’t on the visible color spectrum, or has evolved to avoid detection from electronic devices? Most of Mars’ water is groundwater, so it’s likely if the planet has any complex life it would be underground. And radar-like vision would very much assist a subterranean predator.
Anyway Reddit is having a stroke from how much I’m typing (I’m wondering how tf horror writers put up with this) so imma cut this short.
Submitted December 14, 2021 at 10:08AM by Artsy-Mesmer https://ift.tt/3dNHTtF
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