Why no aliens visit earth

Why no aliens visit earth

Nature always seeks balance.

Ever wonder why no aliens visit us on this planet? Here is a reason one race of space travellers, who landed in England, never visited again.

The hoot of the barn owl broke the silence, this wisest of nocturnal creatures floated on silent wings, the only sounds it made were those it intended to make. In an area devoid of humans, a large securely fenced off wild life reserve; the owl has few enemies. It has prey and it has competition for that prey but few would risk these talons, few would dare to try and challenge a bird that could hear you coming but who could move so silently that they could not be detected. Grey squirrels and rats who had developed an ability to climb, may take eggs from unattended nests but they had to be quick and nimble. If the owl returned while they were still at the site of their theft, they died. Nature does not include probation or even imprisonment, in her punishments for the slow and unwary. The fringes of a forest, where the density of trees eased, where there were spaces for grass and bracken, and for wings to be opened, these are the hunting ground of the barn owl. In a place with no humans, it has no barns to take over but nested in the hollows found in ancient trees. The bird did not know it was supposed to find a barn, then it did not know it was a barn owl. It's snow white plumage clearly separated its family origins from all other owls, in fact from all land based birds. Only the geese and swans, the terns and gulls; all creatures of the water, could match the clean white soft feathers. These never ventured into the woodland, not even the fringe.

Dawn came and with it the first of the airborne rivals for the barn owl's food supply. A kestrel hovered in the clear air some twenty feet from the edge of the woodland. It uses eyes and speed to take its food. Any mouse or vole silly enough to venture into its sight was doomed. Darting across the clear blue sky came a sparrow hawk, intent on using its fantastic skill in flight to take down any flying birds smaller than itself, they do not have to be much smaller, even the largest of the pigeons will die and be devoured by a female sparrow hawk. These winged predators roamed the daytime but kept out of the deeper forest. The barn owl uses both darkness and the ability to glide between trees to hunt. So while they all feed off the same part of the food chain, they are never in actual conflict over territories or access to that food. On the ground the smaller rodents had other problems, badgers were nocturnal and noisy so easier to evade but the grass snake and the adder were tricker to avoid. Foxes would also take anything that moves when hungry. The pole cats were sparse and scatted but in the territory of a mother pole cat with kittens to feed, the rodents had to be very vigilant to survive.

Night follows day, rain follows sunlight, heat follows cold, life follows death. Nature likes a balance. When there is an abundance of food for the rodents, they multiply quickly. When there is an abundance of rodents, the owls and the hawks are well fed and so raise more chicks. If the time is of drought and all food right down to the insects and seeds, that feed the rats and mice of the forest, is scarce; then their numbers dwindle and so the owls and foxes go hungry and they reduce the numbers of offspring, a balance is restored. Life survives.

Into this world of Gaia, this delicate but also brutal, balance of life and death, came intruders. An alien species that was alien to the solar system, let alone to our planet with its complex rhythms of rise and fall. They had no advance knowledge of the intricately woven web of species, that live on Gaia's vast lands. The strange life form did not intend to land here, mechanical failure of a kind so severe that all the strangers expected to perish in the cold void of space, caused their arrival. That they did not all die in space, was just luck, chance, one of those random events that occur in creation. Some of the crew even survived the impact of landing. The survivors used their technology to indicate an acceptable air supply and so space travel, the mechanical and unnatural world, came to this unspoilt part of Gaia.

It was unfortunate for these intruders that they were physically small, when fully grown they were the size of a baby rabbit; and to all the flesh eating predators, just as tempting. They were even less knowledgable about the dangers of life here on earth, more ignorant of danger than those baby rabbits. At least a baby rabbit has a knowledgable mother to warn them. The fact that they also had wings with which they used to explore; exposed them to the sparrow hawks. They attempted to move about on land, during the day and the Kestrels grabbed them. Their attempt to travel at night, fed a whole nest of owls for a week. Mother fox fed her cubs for a day and even the badgers grabbed a couple. The badgers powerful claws also destroyed the damaged space craft beyond all recognition. It was broken up into tiny fragments which dissolved away in the acidic soil. The destruction of these aliens was mostly due to their total ignorance of violence in any form, their total ignorance of how to avoid a predator; understandable since no predators existed on their home world; which is why their home planet had become so over populated that they were forced to travel through space for incredible distances, seeking a new home. Their lack of awareness let alone knowledge, caused their swift extinction. They just had time to send a warning to all other space travellers. Avoid this place of evil, death and destruction, where every creature seeks to kill and devour, this is a place no sane creature should attempt to visit.