• Blue and Orange@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      27
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 年前

      Should we ever discover real aliens, I’m confident they won’t look like the stereotypical little green men that humanity has portrayed them as in popular culture for decades.

      • Aldehyde@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        22
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 年前

        If we find aliens, they almost certainly won’t look like any organism on earth, because they would have evolved independently.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 年前

            Turtles I think too. Either way, probably not humanoid. Maybe similar to other things on earth, assuming they evolved in a similar situation.

        • li10@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 年前

          I always think something jellyfish like would be most likely, if I had to picture something like creatures we know

        • Harpsist@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          1 年前

          That’s why they made them that way. Possible deniability.

          Next you’re gonna say the government wouldn’t ever intentionally infect 1000000s of thousands of people with a virus and then spend decades studying the untreated ailments of it.

          Or bombing their own towns.

          Or mowing down with assault machine guns their own population. Or poisoning their own drinking water.

      • unphazed@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 年前

        Most likely the first evidence of extraterrestrial life will be mechanical (IE rovers, drones, landers) as they can survive indefinitely in space and are at the least risk of damage from the environment.

      • Duckef@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 年前

        This is gonna be the real challenge in 1000 years, historians deciphering what ayy lamos are.

    • li10@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      1 年前

      That’s obviously an alien!

      It looks exactly like they do in the movies.