What if outspace aliens are insects with human like intelligents?
I always hear of some outer space aliens looking like praying mantis only the size of a human with an IQ way higher than a humans.
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Acetek say: then they are intelligent insects
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Tom say: So, what if? --- That's what they would be.
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say: I think they talk like Stephen Hawking.
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kurisutarusqueaker say: as of right now, it's science fiction. but if that happens, hey, maybe they can teach us some stuff and not rip our heads off while trying to mate with us.
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Bulldog redux say: And what if those outspace, intelligents aliens have dictionaries?
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Barney Google say: insects could be optimal for space flight? I think not. They're so little, how are they going to use it?
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Raymond say: "I always hear..."
yeah, right.
What if they are whales with weapons able to wipe out entire planets... oh wait, that has already been done in a Star Trek movie.
What if they are rocks able to reproduce... oh wait, that has already been done, in the original series of Star Trek.
What if...
They have all been done in movies or TV series or science fiction books.
With "What if..." you can build any case you want.
Of course, in reality, none of them have ever been encountered.
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Ronald 7 say: If the Dinosaurs hadn't died out
This is who could be inheriting the world
With Binocular vision, 3 fingers and 3 toes
and what a liniage ?
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quantumclaustrophobe say: It's possible....
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johnson say: They is
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Acetek say: then they are intelligent insects
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poldi2 say: These kinds of "what if" questions have no answers.
What if oranges were the size of cars.
What if butterflies were carnivorous.
What if seashells were edible.
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sparrow say: That would be horrible. It would be hard to look at them.
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Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. say: If they have the intelligents [sic] of the human who asked this, we have nothing to worry about.
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ReductioAdAstronomicus say: Firstly, there is no evidence whatsoever that life exists elsewhere in space. It would be wise to prepare yourself for the certainty that this situation won't change.
Secondly, it is becoming clearer that the possession of an oversized brain is a liability rather than an asset, at least in land dwelling animals, and it offers no long term sustainability to an upright land dwelling species. It is essentially an evolutionary blind alley.
But let's play a little mind game and speculate that another planet hosts living organisms. Exactly the same way that we could far more plausibly speculate that there is a hidden island on Earth somewhere which is inhabited.
Then considering that out of the millions of species on Earth, most are insects, including half a million species of beetle, and only a handful of species are primates, then one could reasonably expect to find mostly insects on this hypothetical planet.
But insects have an inefficient respiratory system, which is why they are all small. Your hypothetical novel giant insects would have to have evolved an extraordinary physiology in order to be a couple of metres tall.
Then the big question is whether they would have evolved an intellect comparable to mammals, particularly the primates called Homo sapien. Or even more extraordinarily whether they would compare to whales, dolphins and octopi.
Finally there is no reason to believe that animals can evolve an intellect more advanced than that possessed by Earthly mammals. The rather questionable intellect possessed by Homo sapien may very well represent the maximum that can be maintained by a flesh-and-blood brain, considering the energy penalty occasioned by that brain.
However I agree on one point: it is becoming very clear that the type of intellect boasted by humans is more of a threat to the species than an asset. This is not so much about raw brain power, but more about the way that power is wielded, which depends upon a whole raft of evolutionary and cultural factors.
Insects live in large colonies where the members work together for the common good. Unlike human society where we all compete with each other, and it's only the political and social structures that make our populations refrain from outright crime (except for the activities of the kleptocracy, and except during war, when violent crime is rewarded).
So to sum up, our hypothetical undetectable planet could be expected to be inhabited by numerous insects, none of which would have any excess intellect beyond that needed for immediate survival, unless that intellect was wielded in a way which was markedly different to the way humans direct their intellect.
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Luke say: They won't be insects or mammals or reptiles. Those are all Earth creatures. They'll be a type of creature no one on Earth has ever heard off.
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say: It's all fiction and movie stuff. Nobody knows how aliens look like if they exist.
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Roger the Mole say: What if outer space aliens don't exist?
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