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Poll: What are aliens that visit us most likely to be?
This poll is closed.
Pretty human like.
22.22%
2 22.22%
Strange but recognisably organic.
55.56%
5 55.56%
Machines that have long since replaced their organic creators.
11.11%
1 11.11%
So different that we don't even recognise them as living.
0%
0 0%
Something else
0%
0 0%
Super intelligent shades of the colour blue.
11.11%
1 11.11%
Total 9 vote(s) 100%
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If we make contact?
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RE: If we make contact?
I voted pretty human like because, on the assumption that life will require a somewhat Earth-like environment (free-flowing water, gaseous oxygen, CO2 and so on), I think that evolution is likely to have favoured our "design" for a reason ... also if anyone reads Chris Laver's book, "Why Do Elephants Have Big Ears?" it appears there are some fairly sound engineering principles that dictate that certain animal types are the way they are and that the more fanciful creatures we can imagine are not just unlikely but damned near impossible.

I'm not saying there won't be differences (DNA, placement & number of some organs/limbs) and I certainly don't think inter-planetary breeding will be possible (at least not outside of a lab) but I think that if there is intelligent life out there there is good reason to think it might be vaguely humanoid.

Kyu
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Messages In This Thread
If we make contact? - by Darwinian - November 6, 2008 at 3:14 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Kyuuketsuki - November 6, 2008 at 9:06 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Edwardo Piet - November 6, 2008 at 1:51 pm
RE: If we make contact? - by Tiberius - November 6, 2008 at 4:52 pm
RE: If we make contact? - by Edwardo Piet - November 7, 2008 at 8:34 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Darwinian - November 7, 2008 at 8:53 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Kyuuketsuki - November 7, 2008 at 9:22 am
RE: If we make contact? - by allan175 - November 7, 2008 at 10:03 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Kyuuketsuki - November 7, 2008 at 10:12 am
RE: If we make contact? - by allan175 - November 7, 2008 at 10:24 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Kyuuketsuki - November 7, 2008 at 10:29 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Edwardo Piet - November 7, 2008 at 9:52 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Edwardo Piet - November 7, 2008 at 10:16 am
RE: If we make contact? - by Edwardo Piet - November 7, 2008 at 10:36 am
RE: If we make contact? - by leo-rcc - November 13, 2008 at 12:16 pm
RE: If we make contact? - by Edwardo Piet - November 13, 2008 at 10:44 pm

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