If the latter, how realistic is the science fiction created by humans?
2006-10-12 09:49:26 · 26 answers · asked by martin48732 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Unfortunately the former, but I reckon most of our Sci-Fi stuff is nothing like the stuff thats actually out there...
The stuff thats out there will either be too similar to us that we couldn't comprehend it, or so different, that our limited imaginations could never think of it!!
2006-10-12 09:51:48 · answer #1 · answered by Nathan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i was debating the other day if "latter" meant the first or second answer - i said the second one...i could be wrong.
I think we're all part of an alien science project (-:
However science fiction is interesting but doesn't wash with me. i think we are all not quite what we think we are. Many millions of years ago aliens came to visit earth and created a new form of DNA for us humans. this may explain the gap in the so called process of evolution where we evolved from Neanderthals to present day beings and scientists haven't quite found how we got to be the way we are today. this would also explain why humans are the only living thing on the planet to have "2 strands" in it's DNA structure, whereas everything else has only one!! it may sound a bit extreme but that's only coz it's hard to accept because it's not scientifically proven - YET! (if you compare an ape and a typical stereotype of an alien, combine the two and it kind of creates what looks like humans as we are today - go on laugh - i believe it - only sceptics choose not to believe coz reality scares them)
One book is the cause for me believing this...see source below!
2006-10-12 10:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Tickle 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like AndyPandy, I too am a Timelord from Gallifrey. I have been here on Earth for just over 160 years. Unlike the Doctor, MY Tardis has a functional Chameleon Circuit - you might have seen it, it's parked in Trafalgar Square - I believe you humans call it 'Nelson's Column'
Some of your human science fiction is a good picture of what's out there - however, your imagination just isn't wide enough to encompass the whole of the universe.
Don't worry too much about your future - you have a great one.......as long as you keep an eye on this poor planet and stop your rape and murder of it.
2006-10-13 01:46:55 · answer #3 · answered by twentieth_century_refugee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
humans are best placed to answer that one.
The point of science fiction is abstraction, distillation and education.
Take something that's crazy about normal life, but that's not noticed because we just got used to it. Put it on another planet or a spaceship or something (abstraction). The context of normality is gone - all you have left is this weird thing going on that stands out like a sore thumb (distillation). There - you've created a morality tale that teaches people how nuts one of their favourite habits really is (education).
Douglas Adams was the master of it. Every word he wrote was a satire of normality as we see it; he wasn't really trying to say anything about space. Same is true of Phil Pullman, though in a much more subtle way.
2006-10-12 09:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I'm a hybrid. Mom is terrestrial, Pop's an alien posing as human.
Dad says that the X-Files species that's fighting the abducting-cloning aliens is about right. He likes Star Trek's portrayal of Klingons and Vulcans but NOT Romulans, Ferengi or Cardassians. Borg are scary but nonetheless a possibility.
He says the worst representation of alien life include ALF, ET, Close Encounters and Roseanne.
Don't understand his Roseanne comment, though!
2006-10-12 09:55:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I am aware, I am an earth-human and have never been to any other planets. I may have met an alien once, but I am not sure. I wonder if they have written any stories about us?
I think Ray Bradbury's book was very good, about the earth-people that went to live on Mars and became Martians
2006-10-13 09:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by used to live in Wales 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently if you add up all the criteria for the probability of intelligent life on other planets there's like a billion to one chance of there being some elsewhere in the galaxy. I'm upset by this. Bloody Newsround shattering my dreams of Starfleet.
2006-10-12 10:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by peeve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would make sense if I'm an alien life form from another planet. At least that way, I won't have to feel ashamed for being such a pathetic excuse for an "intelligent species."
2006-10-12 09:58:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Human sci fi is sadly rather less intelligent than our own, well apart from the teleport and faster than light travel, we turned a few pooches inside out, smashed into the odd comet and whenever we try telepathy all you seem to be thinking about is having sex with your wife's best friend and food, still that's progress for you.
2006-10-12 10:08:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. I'm a figment of your imagination. I exist only in dreams. I'm the lover who sweeps in on a white horse and disappears in the night, I'm the landlord, hungry for his rent, but settles for a smile from his beautiful tenantI, I'm the wind that musses you hair, The sun that darkens your face and the love that I know you keep hidden away deep within your breast.
2006-10-12 11:07:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually your species make a pretty good fist of what we look like. It's almost as if you've met us. Couple of my brothers disappeared over Roswell a few decades ago. Don't know if thats got anything to do with it? Oh and leave off with this abduction crap will ya, it's tarnishing our intergalactic image
2006-10-12 09:53:40 · answer #11 · answered by Warlock Fiend 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋