If there are aliens, what will they look like?

Jstpssng · Feb 27, 2022

stuckmotor said:
Isn't chloroform the anaesthetic tree surgeons use before they amputate a limb?

I was wondering why burning green leaves always puts me to sleep!!!

BravoXray · Feb 27, 2022

Jstpssng said:
Uh, the green is the chloroform which most plants need to create photosynthesis.

You mean chlorophyll?

BravoXray · Feb 27, 2022

Jstpssng said:
It's very highly unlikely that we are the only planet in the entire vast universe that holds life. That would mean that we are here purely by luck... and I don't believe in luck.

As Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) said in Contact, if it's just us, it's an awful waste of space.

bigtiller · Feb 27, 2022

stuckmotor said:
I kind of hope.they look like the character with the two part head at the intergalactic bar in Star Wars.

I hope they are built like seven of nine.

CalG · Feb 27, 2022

oosik said:
Current thinking says a biological unit can not live long enough to make the interstellar trip. It's most likely to be computer synthesized units or some form of probe.

Mushroom SPOOR can make the trip. From anywhere. Tough little bundles of life they are.

CalG · Feb 27, 2022

JasperFrank said:
For a good long time, the first life on earth used C02. Its the original atmosphere of this planet, just like Mars.

It changed to O2 by bacteria and killed nearly all other live forms on the planet. The biggest extinction event we know of.

So, we know that happened. So other life forms can use C02 and evolve and find O2 to be toxic.

If the first life here was C02 based, and it was a freak event that bacteria would off gas O2, this would be a toxic planet to the majority of life of other worlds. Cause maybe that freak event didn't happen on their world and they stayed CO2 based.

Aliens might not recognize Green as a good color. You will notice that there are two colors of leaves that trees and plants use. One is green and the other is sort of Violet. They are very close as to spectral reflection, and there is speculation that the Sun changed up its light waves, at some point, to favor green plants. Other wise the Earth wouldn't be called "Green." It would be called the "Violet Earth."

There are SO many reasons, WE shouldn't be here at all.

To think some something else is out there, and is remotely possible to be able contact us, is just pure fantasy. And a way for people to sell books, and movie/TV scripts. ALL SCI-FI is political........ It always has been.

So there are UFOs. But they are not extraterrestrial aliens.

On this theme, and a distraction from a lively bit of fantasy....

NO NEW OIL OR COAL can be produced on our dear mother earth. What we have is all we will ever have.

Why? Because the mechanisms that allowed sequestration of vast amounts of carboniferous "waste" has been Anhilated by those pesky bacteria! Now (and for the past several millions of years) those little buggers break down the plants and dinosaurs and turn them into gas. It's like a dead and bloated cow out in the field. No oil or coal to be had in any lifetime.

OK, back to Aliens.

They are all going to carry little hand baskets. At least the ones that have been here did. That's been recorded all around our earth. IN STONE! ;-)

check · Feb 28, 2022

bigtiller said:
I hope they are built like seven of nine.

YES!

ruffdog · Feb 28, 2022

It is very important to know how to apply decon gel when stationed in space too.

2LaneCruzer · Feb 28, 2022

CalG said:
On this theme, and a distraction from a lively bit of fantasy....

NO NEW OIL OR COAL can be produced on our dear mother earth. What we have is all we will ever have.

Why? Because the mechanisms that allowed sequestration of vast amounts of carboniferous "waste" has been Anhilated by those pesky bacteria! Now (and for the past several millions of years) those little buggers break down the plants and dinosaurs and turn them into gas. It's like a dead and bloated cow out in the field. No oil or coal to be had in any lifetime.

OK, back to Aliens.

They are all going to carry little hand baskets. At least the ones that have been here did. That's been recorded all around our earth. IN STONE! ;-)