What will Aliens really look like??

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Most people who get asked this question will give you some very extreme answer like "spines out of their heads, multicoloured skin that glows in the dark, shoot laser beams out of their eyes", and other sorts of things. I believe that aliens will look like (amazingly freaky as it sounds) exactly like us. It's not completely impossible and I think it's the most probable.
 
Nothing, because Aliens do not exist.

Except for Human Aliens.
 
I also think they look like us. In Star Wars, the common species seems to be humans. Aliens may at least be humanoid in appearance.
 
Why do people think the alien planet will be inhabited by one species. It will be just like earth, with a huge variety of plants, animals, bacteria, etc. Because that's how it works. Whatever it is, it will be completely logical. If it's a hot planet the creatures will be 'built' to withstand this. Etc.

And there might not even be a dominant species like we have on Earth. It all depends on the condition of the planet, and how old it is. (How much time the life on it has had to evolve)
 
Why would people assume they'd be human looking...?
I mean, the odds of two seperately developing intelligent species developing into the same general physical shape is just not nearly as likely as them looking completely different

::assumes we're talking about the dominant species on the planet since puppies cant drive space ships::
Or can they :O
 
The only reason people might picture aliens as humanoid, is because it's easy to put on a humanoid costume in movies.
 
It's been a really long time since i've seen the Blob...
Was that an alien... or just.. an earth blob...?
 
Well you can't really expect information out of a thread based entirely out of theory :p
 
vegeta897 said:
Well you can't really expect information out of a thread based entirely out of theory :p
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And yet i still learned something ^_^
You're like Jesus. Except whiter. And more asian.
 
Neither do magical elves, but that's for another thread.

What really ticks me off, is when people talk about aliens can't exist because the probably of their being another planet out there like ours is so small. It aggravates me because they don't realize our planet did not form itself around our needs, we evolved around what our planet gave us. Then ruined it (but that, like the magical elves, is for another thread).

Aliens don't have to breathe air like ours, and drink water, and live within a certain temperature range like we do. I like how M. Night Shamalayn did the aliens in 'Signs', because he made water act like acid when it came in contact with the aliens.

On a side note:
The Star Alpha Herculis is twenty five times larger than the circumference described by the earth's revolution around the sun. This means that twenty five diameters of our solar orbit would have to be placed end to end to equal the diameter of this Star.

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars and it is estimated by astronomers that there are 100 billion other galaxies in the universe.

A galaxy of typical size, about 100 billion suns produces less energy than a single Quasar.

A Pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.

The Sun contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the whole solar system (with Jupiter taking up most of the rest)
 
I'd get really pissed if some alien came here and cut me.
You are one sadistic bastard there Danimal.

This is why nasa won't let you play with them
(That, and you're yogurt...)

But on topic, i live in southern california
Most of the aliens i see are named juan and have dark skin..
 
xcellerate said:
and live within a certain temperature range like we do. I like how M. Night Shamalayn did the aliens in 'Signs', because he made water act like acid when it came in contact with the aliens.
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You do realize that this is based on logic... It can be impossible for life to exist on a really high temerature. Why? Because they are made of elements. Elements that we have discovered and know the properties of. Some of these properties include how they react to heat. (Or lack of) So don't expect to fine anything on Mercury, or anything as hot. Or as cold as some distant planet. The "water = acid" thing may work, there might be an element that acts like that, but probably wouldn't make up the alien's entire body.

Meh I don't know much about chemistry or whatnot, but this is just plain logic coming into play.
 
Ikerous said:
Why would people assume they'd be human looking...?
I mean, the odds of two seperately developing intelligent species developing into the same general physical shape is just not nearly as likely as them looking completely different

::assumes we're talking about the dominant species on the planet since puppies cant drive space ships::
Or can they :O
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You've seen nibbler from futurama, right?
 
Raziaar said:
You've seen nibbler from futurama, right?
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NOOOOO...he was like a carnivorous space-penguin. With teeth.
 
Raziaar said:
You've seen nibbler from futurama, right?
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Lol, i think we should ALL live our lives as if Futurama were a documentary
Just imagine the world.. <3

If anything it'd make the answer to this thread pretty obvious
 
Ikerous said:
I'd get really pissed if some alien came here and cut me.
You are one sadistic bastard there Danimal.

This is why nasa won't let you play with them
(That, and you're yogurt...)

But on topic, i live in southern california
Most of the aliens i see are named juan and have dark skin..
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What I meant was know one here knows what all aliens look like, they're not just one particular type of alien, string is just not one particular size.

Anywho, NASA NEEDS YOGHURT d00d!!1 They need it for thier yoghurt powered yoghurt machine used to produce a yoghurtized yoghurt beam of yoghurt.

Idioth. :p
 
I think it's likely that a planet like ours could have life forms that look a lot like ones on Earth...
We're pretty sure life on Earth started out in the water, and moved onto land. Birds even took life into the sky (think about that, how the ****?). I think life on another planet would start out the same way, evolve in a similar way, and maybe even look similar.

Obviously nothing like what you might see on star wars/trek. OMG shes got some slits and bumps on her forehead, shes an alien! Or hes got scrotum sacks for ears, ALIEN!

But I mean alien life would have similar body systems, like digestive, nervous etc. Even similar physical structure, like vertabrates/invertabrates, maybe we'd see cephalization...maybe eyes and ears?

Then again, maybe alien life would be completely different...like one of these:imu:
 
Quote:

Life lives everywhere it can. Where it can't, it takes a little longer.
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- Terry Pratchett, (probably Hogfather. Maybe)

Anyways, aliens will look like anything the environment has shaped up for life in that area. You want to define life? Cognitive Function? Space Algae?
 
It will depend on what conditions they evolved through.
Edit: To quote Dr. Breen "sentient fungea"
 
There might be a planet exactly like earth and have human-looking aliens in them.
 
I'd imagine being carbon based biological constructs they'd have followed a similar process of evolution. Not an identical process however so we might see creatures that resemble our earth creatures, with additional features.

The dominant species would have to be intelligent so they would have large brains, they would probably have a similar organ structure inside their bodies to us, give or take a few - eg they would need some form of lungs or gills to get oxygen, a blood system and a digestive system.
So it may be likely that intelligent life resembles us slightly.
 
Aliens are as variegated in the universe as animals are on our planet. The reason we keep seeing the same type come to our planet (like Greys) is because they want us to see somebody different enough to get us thinking, but not different enough to cause insane fright.

But to get us thinking about what? I think the answer is pretty obvious..
 
Aliens could look like anything - they evolved in their environment on their planet, which could be anything.

Mindless thread :p you could also ask how insects would look like.
 
No one knows. That's the end of human imagination. Every life one earth is related somehow, humans are relative with worms etc. Of such huge differences can exist within two species that are related, then imagine the diffrences between two spiecies that aren't.
 
In SciFi it was easier for film makers to put people into costumes, so aliens were very human looking. When scientists actually started thinking about it they all agreed that they would look completely different to anything that exists on Earth; partly because their planet would be different but also because evolution involves random mutations. That means that there are possibilities that were never explored on our world that could easily have come about on another.

Now however there is a rising opinion among scientists that aliens would look surprisingly similar to what exists on Earth. This opinion is based on the fact that, for example, eyes have evolved many times independently on Earth, and of all the species that have existed with eyes only about 3 types have spread throughout many different species (the human type of eye, I believe is called the “camera eye” and the insect type called the “compound eye” are the only two I can remember).
 
The thing that bugs me in programs like Star Trek is that all the aliens seem to have developed the same look, as has already been mentioned, but also the same mannerisms and traditions. For example I was watching one episode when one of the aliens proposed a toast. They expect us to believe aliens that evolved clear across the galaxy have also developed the toast? Also the way they speak. It's obvious that the human imagination is heavily limited to what we expect as humans so it'd be hard to imagine aliens. The Japanese are weirder than 99% of the aliens on Star Trek.

About the eyes, I think that's an Earth thing. What if the world where the aliens developed on had a very low visibility? For example it was a very dusty planet or had a low light level originating from the sun, eyes wouldn't be much use. There're so many factors like that determining how things evolve. You just have to look at our own oceans to see how weird things can get on this planet, never mind another planet with completely different environments. For example what if in the depths of the Ocean there is a super-intelligent Jelly Fish, now that'd be weird!
 
Any intelligent species that hasn't artificially modified itself and is carbon based will probably require some form of dextrous limbs to allow them to make and use tools, I doubt any species could get very far in brain evolution if they didn't have some way of manipulating and exploiting things around them in ways that an instinctive animal could never think of.

Size would all depend on atmosphere, climate, food sources, and predators. There is probably no way for us to concieve of a likely size but there are probably maximum and minimum sizes we can consider and I wouldn't be surprised if humans are a pretty close to being right in between those two extremes.

Ability to create and "enjoy" some for form art might be a requirement since without it there wouldn't much of a drive for intellectual endevours. Thats assuming however their brains aren't extremelly different from ours.

The way they think would all depend on their environment they evolved in. If they had a lot of competition for food and had to fight off predators then they would probably be fairly violent and war like. If they evolved in a land of plenty with few predators and little competition then they would probably be fairly peaceful and subdued. However when you think about it, being peace loving and subdued may not allow for intelligence to evolve since one of the biggest reasons we as humans learned to create and use tools was so that we could gain on edge with our competition.

A "head" that contained the brain as well as major sensory areas would probably be needed since if the brain was too far apart from such areas then the species probably wouldn't last long against predators due to having a slow reaction time.

Thats just a little of what I have come up with.
 
If you've noticed there seems to be a common ration of leg configuration depending on the size you are. For example, Biped and Quadrepeds seem to be the only creatures bigger than, say, a cat. Anything smaller than a cat you start to see stranger leg configurations (6, 9, etc). The same applies to eye configurations, 2 is the most common, however the smaller you get the mores eyes you get, as a rough ratio and could be worked out by percentage or chance.

So, if there is another planet with the same mass as Earth, you might find that any intelligent species the same size as us will either be Biped or Quadreped. Although alien civililization will tend to be Biped as this is the lightest option, whilst still retaining the ability to manipulate objects with arms and hands (Presumably replacing two of the legs with arms)
 
Blobs. Just big blobs.

The great thing about something like this is no-one can ever prove you wrong.
 
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