A self-describe "UFOlogist" brought the desiccated figures in front of the Mexican congress last September, claiming they had been recovered near Peru's ancient Nazca Lines and dated over 700 years old.

Aliens have not been discovered in South America after all. The doll-like figures, photos of which went viral online last year, are just that – dolls, according to scientists.

The controversial artifacts were seized by Peruvian customs agents in October and intended for “a Mexican citizen,” the Associated Press reported.

Mexican journalist and self-described “UFOlogist” Jaime Maussan brought similar unidentified fraudulent objects in front of the Mexican congress last September, claiming that they had been recovered near Peru’s ancient Nazca Lines and dated over 700 years old.

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“They are not extraterrestrials, they are not intraterrestrials, they are not a new species, they are not hybrids, they are none of those things that this group of pseudo-scientists who for six years have been presenting with these elements,” Estrada said.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    16·
    10 months ago

    You realize humans have only had the ability to search for aliens using electronic equipment for less than 200 years right?

    The universe is ~14 billion years old. The earth is only ~4 billion years old. Humanity is only ~200,000 years old.

    You need to read about the Fermi paradox. The likelihood of extraterrestrial life existing is a mathematical certainty. We just haven’t seen any due to a multitude of factors.

    • PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      You’re mixing up the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation.

      Assuming you meant the Drake equation, more than half of the variables we have absolutely no statistical basis to decide on a fraction. Obviously they are non-zero, but they could be extremely improbable. We only have one example of intelligent life developing radio communications. Any estimate of a statistical likelihood of that using Earth as an example is meaningless without other examples.

      Some pessimistic estimates give solutions as small 9.1 x 10^-13 which indicates we would be alone.

      The Fermi Paradox riffs on the optimistic answer to Drake’s Equation. If other intelligent life is a certainty, why haven’t we found them yet?

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      If it existed within our observable limits we are likely to have heard of it.

      The Fermi paradox doesn’t imply sophisticated alien life exists on earth.

      Of all observations we have have only found one species able to leave their planet deliberately. That’s humans. There no evidence of any species leaving their solar system. Humans have never went beyond the moon, other than robots. Only one of which has reached the end of the solar system, but not entering another.

      We also have no evidence of life on another planet to base any calculations on. The best estimate of life existing anywhere else is zero. You need another observation per planet to make any realistic estimate.

      People are biased even physicts by the desire for extraterrestrial life. It adults looking for a father figure, we had god but once we went beyond the clouds and developed the ability to explain most phenomenon people look for a replacement. Someone to explain all our problems and give us solutions.