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Atmospheric Beasts: Exploring Life in the Upper Atmosphere

The ConfessionalsDecember 19, 20231h 8min21,594 views
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The Layers of Our Atmosphere

  • ☁️ The atmosphere is divided into layers: the troposphere (where we live, up to 10 miles), the stratosphere (containing the ozone layer, 11-31 miles), and the mesosphere (32-85 miles).
  • 🌡️ Temperatures fluctuate dramatically: it gets colder through the troposphere, warmer through the stratosphere, and colder again in the mesosphere, creating habitable zones.
  • 🌊 The upper atmosphere shares similarities with the open ocean environment, characterized by vastness, lack of cover, and extreme pressures (or lack thereof).

Adaptations and Similarities to Ocean Life

  • 🐙 Marine life like the blanket octopus and blue sea dragons exhibit unique survival strategies such as mimicry and toxicity, paralleling atmospheric creature behaviors.
  • 🐟 Many open ocean fish are silver to reflect light, a trait also observed in some reported UFOs that appear metallic but have organic components.
  • 💨 Creatures like the sargassum fish mimic their surroundings (like plants), similar to how some atmospheric beings are thought to resemble clouds to blend in.
  • 🐙 Extreme environments, whether deep ocean pressure or upper atmospheric low pressure, foster extremophiles that adapt in remarkable ways, potentially explaining the large size of atmospheric beings due to gas-filled cells.
  • 🥚 The lack of hard structures in both environments leads to strategies like scatter spawning to ensure reproduction, with some animals releasing millions of eggs.

Scientific Evidence of Upper Atmospheric Life

  • 🔬 NASA studies, particularly from 2014, 2017, and 2019, have confirmed the presence of microscopic and macroscopic life in the troposphere and lower stratosphere.
  • 📊 Initial expectations of finding only a few species (mostly bacteria and algae) were vastly exceeded, with surveys discovering around 4,000 species, including jellyfish-like organisms, fungi, bacteria, plants, algae, and insects.
  • 🍽️ Researchers believe the actual number of species could be as high as 11,000, as larger organisms were found to consume smaller ones within the survey units.
  • 🚫 Despite compelling evidence, NASA has not widely publicized these findings, leading to speculation about why this research might be downplayed.

Biological Principles and Atmospheric Giants

  • 🌌 Keebler's Law suggests that larger animals are more energy-efficient for travel and heat conservation, a principle applicable to atmospheric giants.
  • 🐳 Similarly, deep ocean gigantism (Brigham's Law) explains how creatures grow large to take advantage of rare food opportunities and conserve energy in extreme environments.
  • ⛰️ Mountain ranges may act as nutrient upwellings, attracting atmospheric creatures similar to how ocean upwells attract whales, and also serve as
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