If we ever did discover aliens would they be scary like the ones on alien or would the be just like humans or the gray humanoid aliens?
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Manuel say: No idea.
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red2queen say: We wouldn't know they were alien because if we did, we wouldn't be debating what an alien looked like.
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Zheia say: Klathu Baradhu Nikthu.
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Jeffrey K say: Aliens could have evolved any characteristics at all. They will not look anything like humanoids, no matter what sci fi movies say. Its likely they would be stranger than anything people ever imagined.
I think it likely aliens would be some kind of robots. Maybe they would be a colony of ants that function as a single being. Maybe they are gas clouds. Maybe they are flashes of light inside a crystal. Maybe they are made of rocks that take a thousand years to move.
I doubt that we would even recognize that they are a life form. They certainly won't have a head and 2 arms and 2 legs.
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RO say: First aliens we discover would most likely be some kind of microscopic bacteria
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William say: Intelligent Alien life could be something like elephants or dolphins. If they are advanced, technological, they would need a strong skeletal structure and the ability to fashion tools- namely, fingers and a thumb. If there is an advanced species in the Universe besides humans, they will likely have humanoid characteristics. The laws of physics and biology are universal. Whether they are scary or not, that would be subjective.
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Ronald 7 say: What you are describing is Artistic Imagination
The Truth often is more wilder than you think
Take Jupiter's moon Europa for instance
It was always known to be very bright
On closer looks the Surface was Ice
Even closer scrutiny has shown that it has a Global Subteranean ocean
With probable Deep Sea vents too, what are the chances of something being alive down there
Life finds a way
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Starrysky say: For "aliens" (meaning from another place, unlike, different) to travel far enough and fast enough to meet us, there are some necessities:
They must be intelligent. Otherwise why would they be interested in coming? And they must be able to pass on knowledge to others at same lifetime and into following generations. Doing that must mean language. Even our own dolphins and whales and some other species have a language. Would it be by sound, signing, writing only? Seems doubtful that telepathy exists for that, no matter how far the brains have developed.
They must have sense organs to perceive around them. Eyes, ears, touch sensitive surfaces would do that for them. Arrangements might vary widely, no prediction there.
They have to have extensions of their body that can use tools easily. This would let them manipulate an environment to create a civilization.
They must have locomotion--a way to move from place to place under their own power.
They must be terrestrial (living on a land area) and not nautical (no mermaids or mermen). Water creatures cannot manipulate energy like fire in order to develop metals and control chemical reactions in contained areas.
They might be non-violent, and just curious. Or they could be interested in resources that we have, and consider us just in the way. The second idea is very doubtful. There must be lots of other places and easier ways to get stuff without going to war.
The chance of their being biological beings like us is low. That is because organics have a limited duration in the timeline of the universe, galaxies, stars, planetary systems, and evolution. A much greater chance is that the "aliens" would be technological or electromechanical (robotics) instead. Longer existence, easier development to greater capabilities, ability to endure more extreme conditions with less energy used, less volume of a spacecraft per traveler, multifunctions of one unit possible.
But all is just speculation since we have as yet not a single other indication for any life at all anywhere. The jump to considering what "aliens" might be like is just too wide or high or broad (all three dimensions, get it?)
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Paula say: It is only wishful thinking to consider this.
Or is it?
It seems to me that aliens would be physically similar to us - at least in some respects.
And I would hope that aliens would share our belief in respect for other life forms.
Even if we do not always show that respect ourselves.
If aliens are clever enough to develop interstellar travel, then they have already demonstrated their curiosity to what is out there in the universe.
I do not think that beings like that would indulge in warfare or other "scary" behavior.
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ladeane say: The most important question would be do they have titties and peepees
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Weiner say: How the **** would i know, I hope they have big titties and giant asses and I can **** them whenever I want. I also hope they have big dongs
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roberto say: there are no aliens earth nothingbeliever
any further citations about aliens and you may be selected for transport
on my mother in laws craft for experimentation and mas shopping trips
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geezer say: If we did discover life on another planet then it's highly likely that it would be a diverse as the link on our planet .. with the dominant species being like us (walking upright on two legs, two arms, hands with disposable thumbs, two eyes, two ears).
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Name say: Were all aliens, we didn't come from earth.
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Okay? say: I think they'll be like us, but nicer.
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spencer say: well at the point we are right now, the only alien life we will likely find is prokaryotic life. If we found advanced civilization, they would be the ones to find us first.
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Tom S say: Microbes most likely.
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Stuff say: It really depends on the environment of the planet/moon. Not all life in the universe would be humanoid. Even on Earth. Life is so diverse but similar in many ways.
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Adullah M say: You can imagine what aliens are like, what ever you want , but do not compare them as alike human being. Can you.
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Bob say: Or they might just look like sea slugs with tentacles.
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ChemFlunky say: I think it is highly unlikely that we would run across aliens that were "just like humans", unless, eg, some highly advanced race had taken samples of early humans and deposited them on other planets. There are too many ways life could have turned out to expect any given specific set of traits to have evolved into an intelligent being on multiple unconnected planets.
I think it is likely that they will at least *vaguely* resemble at least some Earth life form, because, well, there are only so many body plans out there that *work*. And I would not be surprised at all if they were *roughly* humanoid (eg sensory organs clustered around a neural cluster near the top of the body, bilateral symmetry, a pair of primarily manipulatory limbs near the top, a pair of motor limbs near the bottom), because I think that's probably a pretty good body plan for several lifestyles that lend themselves to the development of higher intelligence, like pursuit predation. I would also not be surprised at all if they had some radically different body plan, of course--look at some pictures of the Cambrian explosion-era critters, to see some different body plans that life could have aimed for even on Earth.
I think it's likely that they'd be omnivores. If not, they will probably be either carnivores or fructivores, rather than grazers or browsers, because brains need a lot of calories, and because you need more brains to hunt down meat, or even fruit, than to stalk a leaf.
If they are technological enough to come to us, they may either be peaceful enough to work together well, or highly driven warrior types. Any other general system is unlikely to lead to enough coordination to develop truly advanced technology. In any case, they are likely to be a highly social species, rather than something solitary like bears or octopi. If we encounter them on our own (hopeful) future space travels, they may have any psychology and social orientation from tribal nomadic wanderers to contemplative hermits.
A relatively parasitic species like the aliens in Alien seems... unlikely to evolve independently, and still be able to go to space on their own. I could see something like them being, eg, the genetically engineered shock troops of some war-like intelligent race, but unlikely (at least from what I know of them) to go to space on their own.
They might regard us as ignorant children/primitives, as potential future equals, as potential future *customers*, as potential future slaves, as annoying obstacles, or (probably less likely) as potential food. I suspect any species advanced enough to develop interstellar travel would also be advanced enough to negate any necessity to kill intelligent beings for food, rather than, eg, growing meat in culture vats. I could see certain types of aliens doing something like hunting us for sport, or as a luxury food item, but I think we are unlikely to be "on the menu" as a general matter of course.
It is unlikely for any given popular perception of possible alien intelligences to exactly match the reality, but there are enough ideas floating out there (look at, eg, Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials) that it would not surprise me at all if at least *someone* out there has come close. Throw enough darts in enough directions, and at least one of them will probably hit the dart board.
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Marcel say: We could never know until they reveal themselves. I, for one, believe we absolutely cannot be the only life form in the universe. We can’t ever say that we are without speaking a lie. But vice versa as well. An alien can range from a microbe that isn’t discovered on Earth. Or a completely sentient being, with interstellar traveling. Maybe even an animal, for all we know, one that talks.
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sparrow say: They will probably be scary. They will have evolved on another planet, in an alien environment.
If things on planet Earth sometimes look scary (octopus, insects, snakes, tigers) imagine what
an alien could look like.
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Anonymous say: It won’t be humans. Humans are evolved to live on Earth.
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Annie say: No way to know. I guess that's why sci-fi works so well - people can dream up anything with their imaginations.
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grean say: once they arrive we would find out. hahaha
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Nikki say: when darwin's natural selection is applied to other sciences like zoology, biology, microbiology, i find that there is an abundance of "opportunistic organisms" which prey or "eat" other organisms. why should exo-biology be different?
we could eat "aliens" like in the movie, "district 9"; because they taste like shrimp.
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Poseidon say: It is totally impossible to say unless, or until, we encounter them.
They may look a lot like us or they may be totally different and evolved in different conditions.
They may be benevolent and we can learn from each other or they could be malevolent and are only interested in destroying us and taking over our world.
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Climate Realist say: Trump thinks that aliens are scary.
He is building a wall to keep them out.
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OwlTrading say: Having "aliens" visit from europe wasn't very healthy for native Americans
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CarolOklaNola say: ALL kinds, including Hortas, silicon based life forms. Infinite Diversity in infinite Combinations," IDIC philosophy, the cosmic Golden Rule. I think the Solar System was quarantined in 1948 until we grow up and become civilized enough not to slaughter each other because of self-hate, fear, ignorance, sex, power, religion, faith, beliefs and destroying the planet for water, food, resources and money.
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