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« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2006, 02:33:44 am »
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They probably don't want anything to do with us, I mean look at how pathetic we are!
If we humans developed good enough space travel and we discovered a planet which has life on it less advanced than ours, we would do the same thing. We would probably want to figure out as much about them as we can without disturbing their natural evolution. Plus, we wouldn't know if they are dangerous or not, so we would make sure they never see us.
You also need to realize that to them, we are the aliens.
I disagree, We, being humans, will kidnap and experiment on them because there is no aliens rights act.
[majorsarcasm]Gee, ya think![/majorsarcasm] Zerolink, theres evidence of up to eight dimensions... (citation needed. lol wikipedia)
Evidence of 8, but according to most theories, an infinite number. They believe they can find bacteria, and they believe they may have found fossilised bacteria, however whether they is bacteria or not us unknown.
Also they believe they have found what may be running water, however they only have black & white photos of it, so again it may have been where water was once flowing, however no longer is.
One presumption we all have is that Aliens will look relatively Human, or need the same substances as Humans to survive. But what if the bacteria doesn't need what we need? What if the bacteria doesn't need water? Would the creatures of that planet also need water?
Exactly, we assume right now that all beings require water, but this has no basis, maybe all CARBON based life needs water, but surely not all life. A presumption that they will look like us is dumb. We have evolved because of our history...and the need to survive the planet's changes. Each planet will be different, and therefore any evolution that undergoes on that planet will also be different. Aliens might look slightly like us...but considering the atmospheric differences they've found on the moon and Mars...the likeliness of similar beings is pretty small. There might be slight genetic similarities, just because pretty much every species on our planet has some slight genetic similarities...we all came from the same bacteria assumedly, but on another planet the species will only share similar genetics with the bacteria from that planet. Maybe if WE put organisms on another planet they could look like us a little more...but there would still be a lot of variables, such as the fact that it might not survive in the different atmosphere, or it would adapt to be like the other bacteria and STILL not look like us...etc. It's a touchy subject, genetics.
Right, it is almost immpossible for them to look anything like us. Because life works with chance, seen in Micheal Crichton's Jurassic Park, life always finds a way, by some abseen chance. Like that in JP they used frogs instead of like lizards. Chaos theory says that nothing is predictable, which is completely true. And there is like 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance that they would look like us. That is Hollywood that does that. Because what if a meteor didn't wipe out the Dinosaurs, and they had evolved instead of mammals. I'll tell you, we would be lizard creatures, if they did indeed evolve. And then what are the chances of getting dinos? There are an infinite number of possibilities for how we are, apes just got REAL lucky. For example oxygen used to be a poison, that is why plants don't use it. There are only 4 dimensions...
And aliens do exist, maybe not the ones that we make up in movies (the odds that we know what they look like is pretty iffy...although I'm sure with all the different alien species that have been created for Star Trek and Star Wars and stuff, they would have to be close), but we've found like living bacteria and stuff on Mars, I believe...and so obviously there is life on other planets. It's doubtful that much life exists in our solar system though, because we've basically checked all the habitable ones (kinda hard to live on a gas giant), and they're dead. We have a really boring solar system...but we can't be the only life forms in this universe, it's too large. There's no way there's millions upon billions of planets...and only one with life on it. Although, if that is true...it sure blows a lid off the Science over God theory.
Correct why would we be the only ones. And *cough* Jupiter's moons *cough* maybe *cough* inhabitable *cough*
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