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Poll: What are aliens that visit us most likely to be?
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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?
The problem with the whole "human-like" answer is that it simply doesn't happen with Evolution. Firstly, the environment will be different (at least in some ways), and secondly the mutations needed to turn a cell into a human probably won't happen, either at all or in the order they have done on Earth.

Remember, Evolution is the combination of two events: Random Mutation & Natural Selection. If the environment is the same (which it most likely won't be) then the Natural Selection will produce the same results, but the inputs (random mutations) are very unlikely to be the same every time.

Of course, this is all assuming that life on other planets uses DNA and not some other way of evolving.
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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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