Ok, so lets say intelligent aliens that can space travel turn out to be real. What do you imagine they would look like and what would their goals be? What planet would they be from?
Personally, I like the idea of some sort of fuzzy subterranean gremlins from Mars.
Elon arrives and they prank him to death.
Definitely the best idea I've ever heard for a unique take on alien life. There is a huge, awesome book to be written about interactions with this species and I won't be writing it. But I hope someone does
I found it a bit difficult to communicate with the Martians, not least because I would endure a very distracting amount of sexual pleasure with every word uttered by or to me. In hindsight I maybe could've made some sort of device to communicate for me, but perhaps that would've been taken by the Martians as a bit cold and distant.
I still think this form of communication is an interesting idea, and I've considered adding it to my conworld, but the problem is that I cannot imagine any real reason why the Martians would evolve to communicate in this way.
Like Helen Keller's contact-sign-language but horny
I think the term you meant is tactile sign language, rather than contact sign, but I get what you mean.
I want to believe that Rodenberry knew something and the Vulcans 🖖 are exactly as portrayed.
But I could see them being feathered lizard like bipedal creatures, or perhaps crab like. I think bipedal because dexterity of appendages would be necessary to develop a written language and build precision tools. It seems to be a fluke of historical events that furless mammals were the species to emerge as the highest intelligence.
Goo creatures like Yafet on the Orville would be pretty cool tho.
Yafet on the Orville
RIP Norm
But as an actual response to the bipedal thing I think some sort of cephalopod like animal is also a distinct possibility.
There does seem to be a correlation with lacking natural tools being a pressure to develop
I dunno what they'll look like but let's hope they don't have universal translators.
Cows: "There they are, the ones I told you about."
Humans:
Based on what we understand about the universe I honestly genuinely think that Aliens who could accomplish intergalactic travel would basically have to be some kind of eldritch horror to our eyes. Their biology or perception of time would be have to be so far removed from what we think of as sentient life I think we'd find them beyond comprehension.
Alien planet of corvids. Highly capitalist like ferengi. They just love how shiny gold pressed latinum is.
They would be four foot tall desert crabs. They would have at least one hand with extra pinchers so that it gives them complex grasping ability. They would live in colonies. They basically would evolve intelligence to work together cooperatively to gather resources during the wet season and then unfortunately to steal resources better during the dry season. Their complex manipulators would allow them to make tools to improve their lot and eventually create enough surplus calories to develop large brains
Energy beings are the only aliens that could possibly live long enough to make interstellar travel a possibility. Either Robots or some kind of extradimensional being.
Natural hibernators with a medusae like tellemere protection factor could work.
Some close encounter stories talk about robots and there's a theory that grey aliens are androids, or something.
You still believe in the speed of light?
If black holes turn out to b a gravitational condensate with no event horizon, you could have FTL and a hyperbolic space time at the same time, since the condensate would have negative energy pressure.
I've actually been wondering what the simplest experimental proof of relativity would be though. I know GPS is one practical application that has to account for the way gravity bends time which is based on light having a constant speed, but that's hard to demonstrate.
I really recommend watching Scavengers Reign for anyone who finds this type of thing interesting! I guess it's probably not scientifically accurate from a speculative evolution point of view, but wow the level of thought and detail put into the alien ecosystem is mind blowing. Really beautiful show.
The tiny guy in the anemone was my favorite.
that show has a weird "biology is magic" thing that vandameer has.
Also it has life cycles that make no sense, like parasites that can live in any species, gestating acid bomb clones instead of pollen, etc. neat show tho
the clone thing is so wild. Like how much energy and mass would be needed to do that when you could just evolve seeds with prickles.
they look like us , but more slender , because of gravity , and they look for Art Music and Entertaiment , as they allready have everything else under space communism.
thats also why they would not make first contact.. it would spoil the unique arts and the entertaiment they get.. , since they did first contact with Zobrob 4, they only produce shit...
Waiting for the Posadists to come out
they would look like you and me. undetected, they would walk among us in bodies resistant to fire and magic.
they are the Dutch and we must resist them at all costs.
Big humanoid bugs who are dtf
Find the Dragon Balls (look out for them all!)
Shenrong I wish for the complete dissolution of the Zionist entity
Weird.
I think they'd be weird. Like there's no real need for them to have bilateral symmetry, a distinct head that contains respiratory, alimentary, olfactory, auditory and visual organs.
They might rely heavily on senses other than sight and sound, or see and hear totally different ranges from us.
They could lack individuality, or be some kind of hive mind.
I think they'd be really weird, but also I think that due to the size of space, even though I assume one intelligent species at least must be out there, that we'll never meet one.
I'd imagine them to look like some random weird animal. People overemphasize weird sea critters when going down this route; there's plenty of convergent evolution to go around and they might only look as weird as star nosed moles (on a casual glance from the outside; their interior anatomy and bone structure would be weird as fuck).
I don't know why you'd ship actual live beings across interstellar distances. Either implies there's a way around the speed of light, or somebody is really fucking bored. The later is of course more likely.
I don't know why you'd ship actual live beings across interstellar distances. Either implies there's a way around the speed of light, or somebody is really fucking bored. The later is of course more likely.
I can see it for the closest star systems to ours, the dozen or so stars within about 10 light years of the Sun. If we can get a spacecraft to 90% of the speed of light, time dilation cuts the elapsed time aboard the ship down to 43 percent of the elapsed time on Earth. The crew would perceive getting to Alpha Centauri in just 1.84 years.
Honestly I'd expect von Neumann probes. Self-replicating machine intelligences. Given the time scales and energy requirements to send big spacecraft capable of sending organic life as we know it safely between stars at high relativistic speeds while still working within the known laws of physics, I just don't see alien spaceships as sci-fi depicts being a thing.
they're from here, scientific materialism has fundamental limits that cannot readily describe all phenomena, and i bet they look like little grey assholes.
i would guess pretty close to earth.
phospholipids naturally occur and form "cells"
amino acids naturally occur and form "proteins"
Solar energy is abundant so life forms will need to make us of it, photosynthesis will probably be used to move electrons first
glucose is so easy to make things from
They'll try to give us a vaccine against all disease but people will drive them off out of fear it will give them autism.
I think they'd have weird foreheads but otherwise be like us
I genuinely think they'd look more or less like humans with latex prosthetics. Same kinda basic layout with similar advantages and drawbacks, with miscellaneous differences based on their home world conditions. Maybe their butts are in their nipples or they smell through their hair or something, but I think the evolutionary pressures that lead species to the development of technology would end up being remarkably similar to the ones that lead us to develop it.
this guy watches star trek
