Sorta a response to the ," is finding aliens a good thing," forum post. I know we all have Mass Effect and Star Wars and list of sci fi universes to choose a race from, but what if they look just like us? Maybe with a few differences in height l or skin pigment, but what I everything else is human? You ever think that aleins might look like humans?
Poll: Do you think aliens look like humans but with a few differences or exactly like humans?
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It makes sense in most pop-culture sci-fi to make aliens humanoid. Easier to understand, film, animate, etc. In reality, though, the odds of aliens being anything like us is...well, who knows?
I once came up with an alien race that were more like giant slimy spiders, with a big mouth on top and lots of tentacles. Imagine a walking venus flytrap with several dozen Doc Ock tentacles with a body the size of a Hummer, and you're pretty close. The point was, I wanted something so absolutely nonhuman that it seemed really alien. And it was the villainous race, so making them seem like horror monsters also helped.
Trying to think through all the sci-fi I've witnessed, the most alien race I've seen would have to be...the giant floating glowing Jello-looking jellyfish from Mass Effect. The hanar, I believe?
Every other race in the ME universe didn't feel alien. Asari? No way. Turian? Nope. Drell? Krogan? Salarian? Volus? Quarian? Batarian? Vorcha? Sorry. The most alien to me were the Geth, because they thought differently than humans. All the other just felt like quirky humans. The geth (and, of course, Legion) were so fascinating because they operated so differently from humans. I really hope Legion comes back for ME3.
Wow, that got out of hand.....
I once came up with an alien race that were more like giant slimy spiders, with a big mouth on top and lots of tentacles. Imagine a walking venus flytrap with several dozen Doc Ock tentacles with a body the size of a Hummer, and you're pretty close. The point was, I wanted something so absolutely nonhuman that it seemed really alien. And it was the villainous race, so making them seem like horror monsters also helped.
Trying to think through all the sci-fi I've witnessed, the most alien race I've seen would have to be...the giant floating glowing Jello-looking jellyfish from Mass Effect. The hanar, I believe?
Every other race in the ME universe didn't feel alien. Asari? No way. Turian? Nope. Drell? Krogan? Salarian? Volus? Quarian? Batarian? Vorcha? Sorry. The most alien to me were the Geth, because they thought differently than humans. All the other just felt like quirky humans. The geth (and, of course, Legion) were so fascinating because they operated so differently from humans. I really hope Legion comes back for ME3.
Wow, that got out of hand.....
Doctor Who. Yes, I made an account just to say that.Xpwn3ntial said:
As for the poll, I'm guessing sentient aliens would evolve to adapt to their environments, so it seems like they'd at least be humanoid if they lived on an Earth-like planet.
No.
In all likelyhood, most aliens won't even fit into our definition of life.
They may be mercury based organisms that are in a gas state for all we know.
In all likelyhood, most aliens won't even fit into our definition of life.
They may be mercury based organisms that are in a gas state for all we know.
I vote maybe, because I'm open to the idea that our origins could be from another civilization in some other part of the universe. But that could be wrong, and we could definitely run into a being that evolved in some other kind of epic and fascinatingly different way from us.
A humanoid figure would make sense. There is a reason we evolved into it- its incredibly effective.
Beyond that, probably no similarity.
Beyond that, probably no similarity.
