• Question: Does alien,ufo,sea monster,any mystrious animals exist

    Asked by anon-187768 to Stewart, Miriam, Marton, Laura, Kathryn, David on 8 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-187764.
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      Laura Kent answered on 8 Nov 2018:


      Thats an interesting question…its possible! But we just dont know it yet.

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      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 8 Nov 2018:


      One thing about working at CERN: it attracts a LOT of conspiracy theories. People believe that we’re trying to e.g. open a portal to another dimension (we’re not!). There is a problem with this:

      It’s really hard to keep a secret, particularly at a place like CERN when there are lots of visitors. So in 2016 when we thought we might have found a new particle, it was all over newspapers and websites long before the official announcement. For the CERN conspiracy theories to work, the thousands of staff and visitors involved would have had to keep a secret for at least 10 years, or possibly 61 years if it went right back to the beginning.

      For sea monsters, I’m sure there are creatures down there that we’ve never seen. In 1930 a fish called the Coelacanth was found – it was thought to have been extinct for millions of years. We know very little about the deep ocean.

      For UFOs and aliens – they may exist, but it’s seems like they haven’t visited us. Particularly interesting that you don’t hear about these so much now compared to when I was growing up. Most people in the UK have smartphones with cameras, so there would probably be some convincing pictures and videos if they really were visiting.

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      Miriam Hogg answered on 8 Nov 2018:


      I think that life exists on other planets! but I don’t think they have visited us!

      There are billions of stars in our galaxy and we think a lot of them have planets, if life formed on Earth it will likely have formed on other planets too! But they would probably not even know where we are even if they could visit us!

      I also think that there are many species of animal we haven’t yet discovered. The sea is very large and we haven’t explored most of it so there could be all types of fish and other things we have never seen down there. There are also parts of the land we haven’t searched, like jungles, caves, underground lakes which could have animals we didn’t know existed in them.

      For the most part any new animals we discover are likely to be small though. Any large animals would have been found by humans already as they would need a large area to live and lots of food and most of the large habitable areas are already filled with humans!

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      Marton Olbei answered on 8 Nov 2018:


      Oh you don’t have to leave the planet to see mysterious animals! There’s a bunch of them on our planet!

      Take the bigfin squid:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid

      It’s incredibly rarely seen, it lives in very deep waters – the first one was seen at a depth of 4,735 metres!

      If you want to go to the other size of the spectrum take a look at tardigrades:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

      They are found virtually everywhere and are incredibly resilient: they survive “extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and low), air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation.” They can also be seen under regular microscopes, so if you’re lucky you might even see one for yourself!

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