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If we make contact?

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?
November 7, 2008 at 9:22 am
(November 7, 2008 at 8:53 am)Darwinian Wrote: We are talking about the sort of aliens you get in Star Trek!

Not really ... I'm simply saying that things like 3 legged aliens might not occur because of evolution and sound engineering principles for the same reason that Laver's demonstrates how King Kong and Godzilla are complete crap (from an engineering standpoint). A tripetal (is that right?) life form might evolve but (and I'm guessing here) might not be very efficient.

So yeah a little bit like trek and most other SF series (though to my mind Trek does such characterisation worse from an entertainment POV) but not exactly.

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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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