Why do people assume that extraterrestrials look similar to us?

Question

A head, two eyes, a mouth, and a body formed as a torso with a pair of legs and a pair of arms is unique to the Earth. The bodily dsign of insects and other creatures are also unique to the Earth only.

Why are alien visitors from other worlds, 90% of the time, portrayed as being closely related to us? They have similar features we have?

I'd imagine alien visitors to be mechanized creatures, as a replacement to less-than-efficient natural ones. They would have every necessary feature needed to take over other worlds. They would live in space, unlike us, because they are machines.

Answer 1

- Maybe because lots of people only want to perceive anthropomorphic reflects of themselves;

- Maybe because lots of ppl are narrow-minded: they can only imagine either monstruous aliens or humanlike beings;

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And why wouldn't there be non-earthian entities whose shape is similar to ours?

Nothing prooves that there are only humanoïds on Earth-planet - and nothing prooves that there are humanoïds beyond Earth...

I personaly believe that intelligent life forms exist beyond Earth, and that they can have many different shapes, more or less organic, even "etheric" - why not?

- but I have no proof about this all -

Answer 2

1. In popular fiction (i.e. movies and television) you have a limitation on what shape costume a person can fit in. Making Jabba the Hut is expensive. Making a Horta is a lot less expensive, but everything can't look like a horta.

2. Ditto print. You're dealing with a limitation of our own planet. Anyone who is going to visit us is going to have to deal with our atmosphere/temperature/gravity. Sentient lumps of jelly that swim in a cold methane sea somewhere might get a ship here, but they're going to have a hard time wandering around meet-and-greeting the natives.

3. A lot of theoretical exobiologists have wondered what creatures would look like. The book and tv series Cosmos contains some excellent suggestions by Carl Sagan about what creatures might live in the atmosphere of a gas giant like Jupiter. They look sort of like jellyfish and a cross between a dirigible and a whaleshark.

4. Read Robert Heinlein. From his three-legged Martians and their bizarre sex life to the Martians who had to visit Earth in tanks to the Venutian dragons to the intelligent ponypeople in Starman Jones, he described a lot of aliens, both physically and socially. He certainly suffered no lack of imagination.

Answer 3

Many portrayals of extraterrestrial beings in "artist's renderings" are in accordance with what the artist believes extraterrestrial beings look like. you're good that the prospect of yet another race of "human beings" cutting-edge interior the universe is narrow to none. If scientists ultimately do discover micro organism on Mars or yet another planet/galaxy/everywhere else, it may be seen an "alien race," as that's an organism originating exterior of Earth. strategies A and C are the main blatantly fake (or troublesome to have faith) of the strategies you proposed (imo). B is a threat, based upon in case you desire to take a non secular stand factor in this, yet strictly conversing technology D is the main terrific suited (or in all threat). There are greater galaxies interior the universe than there are stars interior the Milky way. This breaks down as such: Our galaxy is composed of billions and billions of stars, in basic terms a number of that are sunlight-like. around 200 greater photograph voltaic planets have been got here across orbiting different sunlight-like stars. If there are greater galaxies interior the universe than stars interior the milky way, then there is are innumerable numbers of stars, and maximum in all threat tens of millions of sunlight-like stars with their very own planets. And those are basically what we've seen. Who is conscious what else exists? the two human beings (or existence generally) and Earth or "nature's mistake," or extraterrestrial beings (of a few kind) do exist.

Answer 4

Well, aliens have to have eyes of some sort high above the ground.. They have to have hands or something like that if they are sufficiently developed.. It would be hard to imagine wheels instead of legs so they either have legs, or something that replaces them in function

Answer 5

What other models do we have to choose from? The producers, directors and writers of fiction movies are humans also! How many have actually seen a "man from mars".

Answer 6

I have often wondered if they are not already among us, given the number of really clueless materialists and liberals I see these days.

Answer 7

Look at how we created the same type of image(us) in what people call god...tom science

Answer 8

Ego. We want to think that everything revolves around us.