2006-12-05 06:38:10 · 15 answers · asked by forest lover 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Depends upon where they are from. I think that their "home" environment would shape their physiologies -- aqua = gills, heavy gravity = huge "legs" or whatnot, etc. etc.
2006-12-05 06:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by Shibi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you do the math there is a GREAT chance that aliens exist in just our galaxy. Not in the local cluster or galaxies I think there is 10,000,000. But I may be off a zero. So if you think about it that means there very well may be 100,000,000 forms of intelligent life. Oh yeah all these classify as intelligent life. Which means they have to be able to communicate with each other. So with that many people, or aliens running around the possiblitiles are endless. I wouldn't doubt if little green men are real. Thats all hope that helps.
$Brandon$
2006-12-05 09:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by brandon_fargerson 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they would look alot like us. Although there are many different creatures here on earth, all life and matter in the universe are made up of the same elements. Alien life forms would probably need the same elements to breathe, live, and survive as humans. The things that make humans so advanced such as walking upright, the thumb, large brain, etc. would also be found in alien life.
Also, there is a part of me that still believes human life on earth started from alien influences, and may have been direct descendents.
2006-12-05 08:42:06 · answer #3 · answered by clone1973 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to tell what they would look like, but I think they would have some basic similarities. Only a main sequence star like ours lives long enough for aliens (intelligent ones) to develop. That means they would develop on a planet around a sun similar to ours. Therefore, being bathed by all that light, they would naturally develop vision in the same region of the spectrum as ours. Also, I think to become intelligent, you need some way to manipulate your surroundings. You need to build tools and experiment with them, therefore they would have some way to manipulate their surroundings, hands, tentacles, claws..... Finally, in order to build an advanced civilization, they would need language. Of course, maybe they would communicate with radio waves or some other form of non-verbal communication. There are probably some other natural similarities you could come up with, but I would not expect them to look like Klingons or little green men.
2006-12-05 15:13:14 · answer #4 · answered by ZeedoT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of use are easily altered to appear Human and that is why we were selected to study Earth. Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species. Your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you and neither does your penchant to breed beyond your planet's ability to sustain you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.
2006-12-05 11:43:06 · answer #5 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could anyone know?
I think most of us now agree that we are all descended from something that crawled out of the sea.
Maybe, if that thing, or should I say our great great great etc grandfather, crawled out a day later than he did - we'd look different to what we do now?
Maybe, if, after he came out, he crawled left instead of right he would have finished up in mud as opposed to being on the grass. That could have made a big difference.
There are millions of maybe's. We are the result of millions upon millions of events. If any one of them had been different we could have our head in the middle of our back, whatever.
Only one thing can be certain.
Whichever way we could have turned out - I would still have been a magnificent speciman!
Ho Hum
2006-12-05 06:52:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Hawking
2006-12-05 07:27:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DNA could produce virtually any appearance,look at life on earth.
Alien life would require some sort of construction language to specify there appearance.
Draw something and it could be them!
2006-12-06 02:32:18 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they evolved on a planet similar to earth, then it is likely they would be very similar to us. We have been shaped by evolution - survival of the fittest - Useful qualities enabled our ancestors to procreate, whereas disadvantageous traits the opposite.
Two eyes for stereo vision for example seems to be an optimal configuration. As is standing upright to have use of two limbs for doing things with.
2006-12-05 08:09:34 · answer #9 · answered by Leonardo D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They'ld look like bathroom plungers with Mickey Mouse hands.
2006-12-05 06:51:58 · answer #10 · answered by Crash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely unlike human. they would not be anthropomorphic. It would depend on conditions and other species on their planet. And BTW, who said that they have to be build from carbon as we are? ;) Maybe their equivalent of our DNA would be based on diamond or, say, iron?
And now imagine people made from the dark matter... or antimatter... Sounds stupid? Impossible? Prove it :p ;)
As Shakespeare wrote once
"there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" ;)
2006-12-05 06:47:23 · answer #11 · answered by enthernae 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋