If there are aliens, what will they look like?

[Citydude]

Trad, you're not attacking my belief system just disagreeing with it, as I am with yours. Apologies if this thread about scientific (if religious) possibilities may not hold your interest, though you'd be missed, especially during a long wait to see proof of aliens much less predict what they look like.

btw, To save you saying "That Jon should be the one to talk. Hah." I wouldn't be offended. What we are is far more important than what we say. I'd roll with the punches if I saw them coming my way.

Cheers!

Once again. Huh? Your posts are hard to navigate.

 

[BravoXray]

No offense to your dad, but I hated those pigs! That's because I had to load them with freight, and you had to push it uphill, since it was a taildragger. But that's the only reason. Otherwise, they were pretty cool. Got to fly one over Lake Michigan going over to O'Hare to pick up some small stuff late one night. Even in that, you feel pretty small taxiing around O'Hare.

I pulled many dead bird parts out of the radial engines. I thought the nose wheel converted ones, and the turbine conversions were neat, too.

You ever hear of the drag racer Connie Kalitta? He owns Kalitta Air, a freight company. Huge. But back then, he'd fly in a twin beech and take a nap in a hammock strung up in the back when waiting. He used the air freight company to fund his drag racing habit.

No offense taken, a Twin Bonanza is a different animal altogether. Great airplane.

There was a Twin Beech (C45) domiciled at Goshen for a few years, and I did some avionics work on it a couple of times. I was able to shoe horn my big ass into the nose compartment to access the wiring behind the panel. Probably spent a total of 6 or 7 hours in there over a couple of sessions, took 10 minutes to get unfolded when I got out of there.
After I did some work one day, the pilot asked if I wanted to ride in the right seat for a test flight to check out the nav and comm radios. In the front seats you are setting just a couple of feet from the ends of the props, and even with noise cancelling headsets the noise is nearly deafening.

 

[BravoXray]

Somewhat relevant to the original subject of this thread, I'm watching a Netflix series called "Alien Worlds." They examine some terrestrial life forms and propose what some extraterrestrial life forms might look like on different planets with different environments, one of which is a planet that is tidally locked to it's star, so there was a narrow zone around the planet where conditions weren't too hot or too cold for life to exist. Lots of interesting ideas for life on other planets.

 

[Citydude]

Watch "howtohunt" on YouTube. There is some "concerning" info there.

 

[the old grind]

Once again. Huh? Your posts are hard to navigate.

I'm not here to be 'easy'. If you could read the many comments I delete vs post (19/20 or so) you might be no less confused. Writing is cathartic for me but IMO my opinions are hardly worthy of attention much less recognition, or are a window into who I am. (this response reduced by seven paragraphs or so before posting)

Anyway in a nutshell IMO why we shouldn't expect to see aliens besides distance is because we subjectively vs objectively imagine that the actual timeframe of their ascendancy, progress, and visitation is somehow in sync with ours. The odds aren't as good as many take for granted. (The hubris of the human ego, but part of how we became what we are)

So we may be the aliens who visit a planet, and one so primitive that we aren't recognized by intelligent life. I'd bet we won't walk around it naked like aliens have been .. er .. confirmed to do when they keep coming here right on time and never to be filmed as beings vs as their craft.

 

[Citydude]

I'm not here to be 'easy'. If you could read the many comments I delete vs post (19/20 or so) you might be no less confused. Writing is cathartic for me but IMO my opinions are hardly worthy of attention much less recognition, or are a window into who I am. (this response reduced by seven paragraphs or so before posting)

Anyway in a nutshell IMO why we shouldn't expect to see aliens besides distance is because we subjectively vs objectively imagine that the actual timeframe of their ascendancy, progress, and visitation is somehow in sync with ours. The odds aren't as good as many take for granted. (The hubris of the human ego, but part of how we became what we are)

So we may be the aliens who visit a planet, and one so primitive that we aren't recognized by intelligent life. I'd bet we won't walk around it naked like aliens have been .. er .. confirmed to do when they keep coming here, and right on time.

Thanks for the "explanation"?

 

[CalG]

Somewhat relevant to the original subject of this thread, I'm watching a Netflix series called "Alien Worlds." They examine some terrestrial life forms and propose what some extraterrestrial life forms might look like on different planets with different environments, one of which is a planet that is tidally locked to it's star, so there was a narrow zone around the planet where conditions weren't too hot or too cold for life to exist. Lots of interesting ideas for life on other planets.

Moon Valley was modeled after such a condition. Ask Dick Tracey, He KNOWS! ;-)

 

[MossRoad]

this horse was dead 20 page ago but yet it’s still kicking just like this chicken

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Mike the Headless Chicken (April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947) was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off. After the loss of his head, Mike achieved national fame until his death in March 1947. In Fruita, Colorado, an annual "Mike the Headless Chicken Day" is held every May.

RIP Mike.

 

[MossRoad]

No offense taken, a Twin Bonanza is a different animal altogether. Great airplane.

There was a Twin Beech (C45) domiciled at Goshen for a few years, and I did some avionics work on it a couple of times. I was able to shoe horn my big ass into the nose compartment to access the wiring behind the panel. Probably spent a total of 6 or 7 hours in there over a couple of sessions, took 10 minutes to get unfolded when I got out of there.
After I did some work one day, the pilot asked if I wanted to ride in the right seat for a test flight to check out the nav and comm radios. In the front seats you are setting just a couple of feet from the ends of the props, and even with noise cancelling headsets the noise is nearly deafening.

Do you remember the Ercoup sitting at the grass strip in Midway along 33 all those years?

 

[the old grind]

Somewhat relevant to the original subject of this thread, I'm watching a Netflix series called "Alien Worlds." They examine some terrestrial life forms and propose what some extraterrestrial life forms might look like on different planets with different environments, one of which is a planet that is tidally locked to it's star, so there was a narrow zone around the planet where conditions weren't too hot or too cold for life to exist. Lots of interesting ideas for life on other planets.

We hear recently that such is likely on Proxima Centauri b. IMO a planet doesn't require comparison to our own, 'ages' etc if things might more stable for longer periods of time (hundreds of millions of years of dinosaurs) with or without random mass extinctions and/or perhaps having more time for life forms to evolve.

btw, Troodon of the late Cretaceous period is said to have had the largest brain in relation to its size by severalfold among all we call dinosaurs. As carnivores they would have a protein-rich diet, not to mention perhaps nest raiding for eggs. Due to their size (40-50 lbs) and already their brain proportion what if in tens of millions of years before us or instead of us the dominant specie had become among their descendants?

So many things that could happen on another habitable planet but IMO as much a result of opportunity & conditions as design or ultimate potential. Consider the broad scope of life on earth and expect such developement to be as dependent on diversity as much as anything. Among other things a food chain comes to mind.