What Will Aliens Look Like?

[@codyamann12345]

"It's pointless talking about it" "Yeah, it is kinda" *Creates 5 part video series*

[@kennethj1956]

According to Star Trek; every basic alien planet has #1. Scantily clad Hot Chicks Kirk can't resist. #2. Butt Ugly men who live to fight #3. Great lighting and 1960's retro-future decor. #4. Breathable air and 100% earth's gravity #5. 1960's Social problems that only Kirk can judge and fix; (but ironcally he's never supposed to interfere)

[@firstname2lastname207]

Mr. Johnson what nationality is Captain Kirk?

[@kennethj1956]

I don't know. Even though Captain KIrk is going to be born in Riverside, Iowa; Is there still a United States at that time?

[@Davidhench142]

I like this guy, he seems honest :p

[@bartsshorts]

David Henchman seems*

[@simmerocky2393]

seems*

[@Davidhench142]

:(

[@simmerocky2393]

David Henchman :)*

[@XDerbyX]

David Henchman your profile picture look like a butt :D

[@davidabonyi4556]

If we encounter alien life I can imagine these scenarios: A; They are much more advanced than us - they couldn't care less about stupid apes so they just ignore us - they come to us and reveal themselves by destroying/enslaving/quarantaning us, so they can kill off future competition (and maybe take Earth for themselves if they like) - we encounter them by visiting (for colonization/exploration reasons) on of their colonies (or their home). they may greet us and we become friends (they may allow colonists to land or redirect them to another place with new fuel to actually reach it) or they trace back the spacecraft and nuke/enslave/quarantine us. - we encounter them in deep space. they spot one of our colony ships/probes and either destroy it, trace back it's starting point and eliminate/enslave/quarantine us or greet it with joy and we become friends. B; They're are microbes or other primitve life - we exterminate them by colonizing their planet/moon - we destroy most of their ecosystem through terraforming, barely any species survive (or they may adapt, so some kind of ecosystem survive). alternatively, their planet is reeeaaallly similar to ours' and we'll live next to each other like we just colonized the Americas. After planetfall, we my destroy them because space cowboys need more land for their space cows - we only study them because their planet/moon is too inshospitable for us to colonize or even start terraforming (like Alpha Centauri b or Bellerophon) - we never find out they exist (maybe they're living kilometres beneath the surface of a moon-like dustball) C; They are intelligent, but they're either don't use tools (they could be super intelligent snakes or fish wothout the ability to manipulate complex tools) or nowhere near our technological level. - we exterminate them like the Indians and colonize & terraform their planet/moon - we settle their planet/moon and interfere little with their life - we settle their planet/moon and heavily interfere with their life, basically becoming their gods/masters/good buddies from another world (like Iraq and Murica.. sorry, couldn't miss this joke, ha ha (dont judge me, at least I laughed so it worth it)) - their planet is inhospitable to us, but we do visit and study them D; Their technological level is similar to ours - we encounter them while en route (with a sublight colony ship or probe) to their a planet/moon, they destroy the ship and we'll never know. alternatively, the colony ship or probe sends pictures/videos back to Earth/another human colony so we discover them after years depending where the hell those aliens live - we encounter them while en route (with a sublight colony ship) to their planet/moon. They either destroy the ship and we'll never know (except if the ship sends data back to us), or redirect them to another star system or planet with giving additional fuel to reach it. alternatively, they may allow us to live on their planet (quite possibly under their authority) - we make first contact by miracolously discovering each others' radio signals (who the hell would use radio signals in the future when we have laser communication??). we may become good friends (due to the lack of competition in the absence of physical contact) or send death threats to the other one. either way, it wouldn't matter if we can't reach them (of course, it would have a huge impact on society, but we would still for example, mine the moon for regolith eventually. it wouldn't change the everyday life of our colonization efforts) - we make contact, we're in each others' stellar neighbourhood and we want the other one dead, so we (and them) invent various ways to destroy them like building a large fleet of sublight AI warships (and hope they don't go crazy), throwing asteroids at them (highly unlikely unless we know the exact details of their star system(s)), sending Von Neumann killing robots to them, launching interstellar nukes and whatever technology and human resourcefulnes will allow. This is assuming nor we or them have any kind of magical FTL drive. Feel free to leave suggestions and other scenarios. Useless post scriptum: I am currently writing my first novella (or short story? i don't think it's that long (that's what she said (again, at least one person laughed. ha ha ha.))) Useful post scriptum: Sorry for the grammar and bad editing, English is not my native tongue. Another useless post scriptum: HA! You were amazed this comment is this long when you opened it, weren't you?

[@chrisms6446]

Dávid Abonyi I can't wait for your book

[@davidabonyi4556]

Christopher Spain Haha, as do I!

[@chrisms6446]

One scenario you sort of leave out is that of peace. Also this video was mostly on the appearance of said aliens. What would some of the aliens look like and why in your scenarios? It might interest you to know that for years now as a species we've been more than capable of building sub light speed interstellar crafts. About 70% the speed of light last time I checked with the Russians. NASA also has plans to build the IXS Enterprise! The goal of the IXS is to acheive warp 1. Although its engine the Alcubierre drive does have the potential to surpass the speed of light unless Einstein was wrong. Asides from engines and warp drives though there's warped space. Worm hole and stretched and squished space time. It's not that far fetched that we wont be able to develop warp gates during the years before the IXS is completed. We are just learning now how to really control gravimetric wave distortions (bending space time). A CERN sized gate it would be but it'd be worth it. www.isciencetimes.com/articles/5719/20130725/light-stopped-germany-fastest-particle-crystal.htm Learning how to control the flow of light is integral to advancing ionic propulsion drives and is in ways necessary for warp drives too. The idea of super accelerating ionic plasma sends pleasant tingles up and down my spine. p.s. you might like this guy alot kzbin.infofeatured p.p.s. HA! You were amazed this comment is this long when you opened it, weren't you ;?

[@chrisms6446]

Oh yeah and Tachyons move faster than light. In theory.

[@davidabonyi4556]

Thanks for the tips! I'm aware of the Alcubierre-drive, but I'm more than skeptic about it. I mean, we would need a magical thing called negative matter (not antimatter) to fuel it. But we don't even know if these exist! Wormholes... Yeah, they may exist. or may not. And even if it's possible theoretically, it doesn't mean they actually exist, however sad it is.. There is a theoretical star system containing three stars orbiting each other in an eight shape. And the system is stable, provided the stars don't differ in mass. But this last thing rules out that they exist (mostly). About peace.. Well, I didn't leave that out, we could be friends with aliens, but if you look at our history, and apply the laws of nature (kill, eat, reproduce) to another civilizations.. It becomes clear that we would compete and even fight, just like wolves and coyotes fight each other over food and territory. In the scifi thingy I'm working on, humans achieve FTL travel by ripping a temporary hole into the subspace that connects celestial bodies (basically the gravitational link between them) using a focused radiation. they use the exact (but with switched wave pattern) radiation to open a hole to normal space and exit. I have more pseudoscience into it, but I don't want to torture you

[@logical1989]

I like to think imagining alien life is a bit like trying to imagine a new colour

[@aramkaizer7903]

yup, pretty much

[@logical1989]

***** It's kind of the same. Our brains have evolved to understand Earth's biology. Alien life could easily be beyond our comprehension, something we couldn't imagine until we saw it.

[@logical1989]

***** I think it's fair to say that there are almost definitely many elements that we haven't discovered yet. Also, it is quite possible life will be very different from us, i.e. not carbon, nitrogen based etc. Plus we find things on earth, that we are related to, that nobody had ever even dreamed of before they were discovered. Our knowledge, and even our primate imagination, is based entirely on what we have already seen.

[@logical1989]

***** Also, we know how life works here on Earth. We have absolutely no ideo as to how life works elsewhere. Life either only exists in the way that we know it (statistically is incredibly unlikely) or exists in many different ways. Either way, given that people denied the existence of the Platypus, I sincerely doubt we can accurately guess anything about an alien species, unless of course we have more information about them (planetary ecology and chemistry, for example, could give insight into life in a specific place, although even that would be more a hypothesis than a prediction)

[@logical1989]

***** Using our galaxy as a sample size for the universe is like scooping a glass of water from the ocean and declaring that there are no whales.

[@bloodandwinearered]

That is simply not true about Star Trek. They had a crystal life form that referred to humans as "ugly bags of water" and a rock life form that Bones helped with a concrete repair.

[@bloodandwinearered]

Christopher Spain You ignore my examples of the stone life form and the crystal life form.

[@chrisms6446]

I should've mentioned: the budget gains ground from cheap episodes. The gained ground is used to make 'the real' episodes. Like ST-TNG s4e16 Galaxy's Child. The episode cost more than the humanoid centric episodes and is possible because of them. I learned this from some Star Trek extra video where they talk about what goes on behind the scenes. Wish I remember which one ;/

[@ZeroTwo-gd5nq]

what would we be considered if were currently a type 0.7 race but had tech from like a type 5 race skipping the tech from 4, 3 and 2? what would we be considered like we found a way to make type 5 tech without making the type 2-4 tech to skip it

[@thiccityd9773]

A type 5 would be controlling the multiverse, and even if we had the technology, it still would be 0.7, because 1 is getting all energy from the planet, type 2 is getting all the energy from the home star, and type 3 is getting all the energy from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Galaxy, so no, you can't skip steps.

[@chrisms6446]

EpicClone5082 Gamer To skip the steps in between would seem to require a time portal. Or perhaps we are a type 5 civilization and wont find out until our parent planet comes and tells us. Otherwise... some kazam style ascensions? Anybody else have any ideas?

[@sofieKEI]

I like this show, but the audio is SO quiet that I have to turn up the volume all the way, and it's still quiet.. I hope you can fix this :)

[@Xorran]

What mic are they using??

[@calsta619]

Even better question: if we find alien life, would we get told?

[@brucecrawford649]

calsta619 Thats what I always say! Wouldnt the government hide it from us?

[@Trickey2413]

Bruce Crawford why would they hide it, besides aliens that are actually intelligent enough to travel to our planet will probably not be able to be captured against their will by a goverment

[@DarthRevanWoad]

calsta619 What would be the motivation of hiding it?

[@brucecrawford649]

maybe because it may cause chaos among people who are very religious. Unfortunately I think most people on earth are not open minded enough to except such news.

[@DarthRevanWoad]

Bruce Crawford Whatever. Fuck the religious

[@p.s.8171]

Lem's "Solaris" gives a very interesting view on that topic.

[@altonquarles8316]

are elements (periodic table of elements) universal or just something that exists on our planet? maybe there's a whole other spectrum of elements in other galaxies

[@AverageAlien]

My profile should answer that question....

[@trumfit]

Props for mentioning Europa Report

I like the TestTube Plus project, but you should try to get a little bit away from your notes. Maybe just take some general notes and some hard facts with you and improvize more. This is much better with this topic where you got a dialogue partner, but you could elaborate some things more in detail with him instead of moving on according to your notes. I bet he could add a lot more details and content to those videos. Nevertheless, keep the good work up!

[@joncody8344]

In regards to the ocean moon missions, an issue I feel isn't discussed enough is contamination. I know they build their spacecraft in clean rooms, but is that enough to ensure not a single microbe can hitch a ride? Especially the internal components once the probe runs out of fuel and begins to wear down. Are the internal components as clean as the outside? What do we do if we accidentally seed an ocean moon with life?

[@chrisms6446]

Jon Cody Then it begins all over again in a new place. This was already kind of happened in a different way. When large objects impact the earth they can spew bio matter into space. This bio matter will mostly die but something like a tardigrade might very well survive to colonize other worlds.

[@grandsome1]

We'll compare the DNA of the found microbes with anything alive that we know, if it doesn't match current populations either it evolved distinctly or we'd have a case of ancient panspermia.

[@adamcommenting7848]

Jon Cody I have thought about this too...

[@Lobos222]

One thing these kind of thoughts are missing is the aspect of *IF* live on Earth started in the "easy" spots and migrated to the harsher ones rather than the other way around. It could be that life needs ideal conditions to get going... If so, then there will be no life on Jupiters Europa moon.

[@snash152]

So the if there is no life on titan could we sent that cell that was created on to Titan?

[@speedydog45]

I know what aliens look like, they wear sombreros and mow my lawn

[@demondlord1234]

***** the no chill is strong in this one...

[@josebobadilla6926]

Fucking racist

[@thiccityd9773]

The only part of this that is racist is the mowing the lawn part. Mexicans that come to america are called illegal aliens,

[@josebobadilla6926]

I know what there called but does have to include mowing his lawn part.

[@josebobadilla6926]

He doesn't have to include mowing the lawn part

[@SailorBarsoom]

So the final (for now) answer to the question in the title is "we don't know." Now this isn't the most satisfying answer, but it is the most honest one, and I'm glad DNews went with it.

[@littlemuffin3851]

Sailor Barsoom they look like dinosaurs that's what I learned from trey

[@lahagemo]

"Alien Aesthetics" is my new catch phrase:)

[@davidk1308]

Please do Starships in July!

[@Delosian]

Species 8472 / Undine / Fluidians in Star Trek: Voyager had three legs. Many species also looked like jellyfish, but often took human form. Q was an energy-based being who took human form to interact with the human crew. In Star Trek: Enterprise energy-based life-forms took control of the crew so they could experience physical contact.

[@chrisms6446]

Delosian The majority of onscreen species in all Star Treks are indeed humanoid. There are others though. If technology, finances, and marketing would allow it they'd have more of the expensive episodes.

[@Lobos222]

Christopher Spain Still though. There are a bunch of things a spices need to be able to become a advanced civilization. They need to have a big enough brain, be social, have arms or similar in order to build stuff, be mobile and so on.

[@Delosian]

Lobos222 They also need a symbiotic relationship with domesticated animals; they need meat for the fat and protein content that only meat can provide and pack animals for labour. One of the reasons the Inca, Aztec, Mayans and other Native American empires failed to progress into the Iron Age was because they didn't have pack animals to move the iron ore to the smelters. The horse was introduced to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadores, popularly known as the Mustang.

[@DamianReloaded]

There must be some mechanical constraint or rule for which most terrestrial animal life on earth has bilateral symmetry over other types of symmetry. If it's related to gravity and energy efficiency there is a high chance a broad percentage of places similar to Earth (to a threshold) will present bilateral symmetry also.

[@chrisms6446]

Damian Reloaded To an extent yes. When I think of how varied the forms of life on Earth I'm amazed. From the bottom Marianas Trench to the Mountain Goat. Pretty crazy stuff.

[@Royaleah]

Base chemical is methane(CH4) instead of carbon??? What does the C symbol mean?

[@chrisms6446]

Royaleah Crap :P

[@chrisms6446]

Alien life will look like what kind of life works in that environment. Which is to say that each niche has a kind of key. The niches are there and as life evolves across the universe it discovers what shape fills them. The form of those shapes is what aliens look like to start. A long while after which things like peacocks and genetically engineered kazams will sprout once things are going well. :0

[@mikehickey152]

Just found your channel, extremely entertaining stuff.

[@eepmeep8550]

I have to defend star trek here. There's a plot reason most aliens in the alpha quadrant look similar, and it is because they are related. When it comes to the gamma and delta quadrants, I can't explain any plot reasons for this. There are however, many forms of aliens in star trek that are non-humanoid.

[@sampafc2846]

Loving his lovely West Country accent!

[@gonzotown9438]

Alien life, could look like anything, but technologically advanced life would probably have some commonalities. Advanced creatures would need appendages for manipulating the world around them. Also they would need to have a way of recording information, to be used by others. And they would need a way of building up their technology from rudimentary to high tech. For instance, it's hard to build a forge underwater, so underwater intelligent creatures would be more limited in what they could manufacture.

[@AxiomApe]

I think you would love Planet "Snaiad" by CM Koseman. It's a fully illustrated animal kingdom on another planet (Snaiad). You would like his other drawings as well like in "All Tomorrows" having limbs/appendages that can manipulate their surrounding environment is also a key element in his work. His aliens are designed in a very realistic way, I think you would like it. Peace ~

[@mitchelldubeau7006]

"methane instead of carbon" isnt methane a hydrocrabon?implying it has Carbon? if im not wrong Methane is CH4.

[@shalee73]

The interesting thing about life on the icy moons is that they wouldn't be able to see the sky, so they might not even be aware that there's a universe out there!

[@ceplio]

i love the podcast feel

[@CreationTribe]

So ... you pose a question and end with the same question after having the same discussion most thinking people have had in their own heads before they turned 8? I was hoping for a bit more speculation - taking possible environments into account and how evolution might differ in each seperate environment, and maybe even discuss other forms of evolution and what might bring that about and what the running results might be. BTW, I'm not talking about non-scientific religious bum-shruggery, but like in The Culture novels where the Idiran's form of evolution that was not based on natural selection in the sense that survival of the fittest gave rise to us, but a much more synergetic (plus factor) symbiotic form of evolution. ie: instead of A eating B or A surviving over B, A helps B gain sustenance in a synergestic manner or A improves its wellbeing by helping B survive as well ... heh - or something like that :P

[@charliey1007]

hmm, this video made me wonder.. what if there is actually intelligent life forms that have colonized on their own surroundings even here on earth?.. think about it, we've only discovered/explored only about 4% of our oceans, what if evolution made another species which is capable of what we're capable of in our own planet? but we just don't know?.. also what about Jupiter? or Saturn? what if under those toxic clouds, there is a species of creatures which are intelligent, that have evolved and adapted to live there, and the toxic clouds on those planets is like how oxygen/nitrogen/etc is to us?

[@TeamDragofied]

*on titan* "honey the sinks getting molds" "ill get the water..."

[@nhemchanreasmey]

after watching Dnews now TestTube Plus. I don't know why i'm the fan of u .

[@justinarivera5231]

I don't think we should rule out the fact that there could be dangerous life. as far as we know there's a lot more things out there that could be as just as dangerous as the animals on earth so if we head out to space on a equal yet different Earth we could meet a mystery creature that may or may not attack.

[@Klimmilk-i2s]

Is he English or Americanish(guy on left) I cannot tell

[@NHR_Music]

He is more Irish/Scottish

[@thebusinessgoat]

ayy lmao

[@AdventureThroughLife]

ayy lmao

[@321haiqal]

ayy lmaooo

[@keitra666]

Ayy lmaoooooo

[@GoofyMcGigglesWorth]

+321haiqal lmaooooooo ayyyyyyeeeee!!

[@telmjen4662]

Ayy lmao

[@frosted1030]

Aliens tend to look very humanoid, because this is the optimal shape to support what we call intelligence.

[@davidabonyi4556]

frosted1030 Except it's not THE optimal. It's one optimal in the list of endless variations

[@frosted1030]

Dávid Abonyi Yeah.. no. There are some strange beings out there but the ones with intellect on par with us tend to be this same basic shape, with only a few very odd cases.

[@chrisms6446]

frosted1030 non-humanoidist! many shapes support intelligent life. Human.

[@frosted1030]

Christopher Spain Not naturally. Most intelligences that are non-humanoid are artificial.

[@chrisms6446]

frosted1030 No most intelligences that are non humanoid are not artificial. Think of earth. Most intelligent life on this planet is non humanoid. The rest of the universe is probabilistically at least similar. Humanoid is the optimal shape to support a technologically advanced civilization only to a non-humanoidist. I would guess that a species with eight arms and multiple opposable digits would fare better with building things than us. Why do some humans cling firmly to scraps of egotistical narcissism?

[@BobzeMovie]

"Alien Aethetics" might not be correct. Just saying.

[@autisticmystic8540]

Jellyfish are so cool, though!

[@MrRaxicorniopholus]

Let's be honest, it would be lonely if we we're the only life out there

[@CoramDeogenua]

such easy listening

[@KZN02]

~You're a squid now, you're a kid now!~

[@infrieser]

why squids? and not mushrooms or plants or something like that?

[@dawntavishflynn8802]

I heard that an alien could be composed of cosmic dust suspended in a plasma in a helical structure.

[@CaasiU999]

A planet that is capable of sustaining life should be very earth-like, hence why we haven't found other life in the known universe. In saying so, evolution on planets able to sustain life should also be very earth like and the homo-sapien being the current hight of evolution, i won't put it past alien life forms being very human-like. Maybe different skin tone and other small changes, variations just like we have on earth, but it definitely should be homo-sapien or in line with becoming homo sapien--that of course is if homo-sapien is the height of evolution.

[@gr5791]

I don't get it, isn't methane another hydrocarbon, doesn't that defeat the purpose of making life that isn't carbon based?

[@rawstarmusic]

I realize that finding life outside of earth would not change the religions we have. Religions would include everything in the original creation. Religion would say they predicts an other world, paradise elsewhere and angels are not humans. So aliens and search for outer space life could be finding paradise.

[@SovereignHumanBeingX]

Any one notice the Thargoid reference?

[@Royaleah]

The problem with Silicon based life C02 and Si02 are very different.

[@pradyumnamahajan4910]

Yes, Silicon compounds are not very stable as compared to Carbon compounds

[@lol233333355555]

AYY LMAO

[@paul2334]

Ayy

[@MHMecklin]

I would watch the new Titan movie. I think you’d enjoy it.

[@TheComsicCurator]

I bet the reason why Dr. O'Neal doesn't like math is because of all the linear algebra you have to do in astrophysics. I want to become an astrophysicist I'm a good ways down that career path, but I really really REALLY hate linear algebra

[@MCraven120]

Neon Helium Argon Radon Krypton Xenon. The six rare gases, radon being the heaviest and helium the lightest.

[@VioletRosesmith]

Multiple races in Star Trek are bi-pedal humanoids because they're related to a common ancestor race that seeded the galaxy with life similar to itself.

[@chrisms6446]

charlichigo Scape goat horse shit my friend. Even though what your saying is true. It was mostly about budget concerns.

[@akhenatten]

Unfortunately, in our search for life we've been biased. Instead of looking for life in general, we've been looking for carbon based life forms that prefer environments much like our own. I believe once we let go of these preconceived ideas of what life is supposed to be, we will find that life is literally everywhere. I think of the universe as a desert with tiny oases spread throughout, and while we are preoccupied searching for an oasis we neglect to notice that the desert itself is teaming with life.

[@Asidders]

What accent has this scientist fella got? A Brit having lived in America for a long time? I'm so torn about it

[@ignaodd]

*finds alien microbe, returns back and kills every living thing on earth.

[@KingAwesomeOutputs]

"I communicate through a process known as Jessica's feet... er um...Telepathy"

[@NumeMoon]

The lonely thought.... what if we're the first life forms to have evolved to the point of civilization? I'm willing to bet there are microbes and some moss out there on distant planets and moons, but the strangest realization would be if we are somehow alone in the universe... just us and our unfulfilled curiosity.

[@sethdominickortiz]

good talks.

[@cursivevalkyr7102]

I LOVE YOU TIM OLYPHANT

[@calibribody6776]

2 questions: 1. if there are methane based life then does that mean we can call them fart aliens XD 2. and also you know how u are saying how we base evertything off our life well then if there are things that dont go with are life is it possible that the goldilocks zone dont exist? i mean seriously we have not actually found life on a planet in the zone except for earth so really couldn't all planets have life? maybe life evolved to put up with hot tempurtures or cold, think about we just say that there is a zone because of our planet.

[@adamcommenting7848]

caleb herobrine steve Technically there could be life on every planet. Technically there could be life in the middle of suns living of, of the energy the sun is producing.... But we wouldn't define that as life, just as we don't define a computer as life. Therefor what we define as "life" we probably has the biggest chance of finding in the goldilocks zone.

[@calibribody6776]

AdamTheGamer Here! thats kind of my point, we always define life on what earth is like whilst there is different types of life.

[@adamcommenting7848]

caleb herobrine steve Yep.

[@bruno5842]

VORLONS, yeah, but do not forget the SHADOWS.

[@Morfeusm]

If you are going to Z'ha'dom, you will die

[@radw1mp]

What if they look like goombas from mario bros movie:D

[@kempmt1]

They would look similar to us with some serious differences. Skin color and texture would be different. Plus, the intelligent aliens, in my opinion, cannot be animals, reptiles, insects, birds, fish...house plants or rocks.

[@jimmybeesknees5099]

I agree with kempmt1. Our current understanding of the universe tells us that life should exist on a massive scale throughout the universe. But this is simply life, I think what Kempmt1 is talking about is intelligent life. From what we understand, Intelligent Life can only evolve on very pristine planets, such as Earth making it rare. There are probably only a few intelligent species in our galaxy. This ties in with the theory of convergent evolution, the idea that evolution always finds one way. For example, life forms that are on the land have 2 eyes so they can see their prey easily. Or how ocean life forms all have cylindrical shaped bodies so they can swim through water easier. Its not to much of a stretch to say, that if we are correct in saying intelligent life evolves only on pristine planets, that they would share various basic traits as us. They would be bipedal life forms with opposable thumbs, probably 5 senses (although that can be put up for debate) and a large brain capable of self reflection. Its not an easy topic to study and the theory could very well be wrong, but we have enough examples of convergent evolution on Earth to believe that it occurs on other planets in the Milky Way.

[@CrazyTobster]

An intelligence would need to have a body that allows them to build technology so I do think they will have a body like ours

[@jimmybeesknees5099]

No they really couldnt. Evolution pretty much tells us they couldn't. Because they can only form intelligence if they survive long enough on a world that is perfect, like Earth. Oxygen Rich, Small Rocky World with Trees and Ecosystems. Evolving in such similar conditions would mean similar life forms. Plus, convergent evolution tells us that evolution finds the simplest and most effective evolution to carry out. For them to be intelligent, they would need to have large brains (thus eliminating the idea of many smaller individuals), appendages to manipulate their environment with and to some extent, opposable thumbs to pick up things. They would have to be some sort of humanoid or bipedal lifeforms man. Although I disagree with kempmt1 saying they arent going to be birds or anything like that because depending on where they evolve, they could resemble lizards or birds. If they developed consciousness on a planet with large amounts of desserts, they may have evolved cold blooded and scaled to shield them from heat. Regardless, for them to be at the point we are, they would require various similar traits. Yes, we compare them to us a lot, but we have to and its a very good place to start. We are made of some of the most abundant chemicals in the universe, primarily carbon. Its logical to assume that if we are made of some of the most common elements in the universe, other life would also be like that. We assume they would look like us, not out of egotism or anything like that, but because thats what the evidence suggests. Because the most intelligent life forms on our planet (humans and apes), are bipedal humanoids.

[@thesuckysix4242]

I always wondered why velociraptors never left any signs of culture behind... We're quite alike really, bipedal, functional digits, pack hunting and carnivorous, could somebody put simply why velociraptors never became self aware? if the reasons go beyond sheer brain size, that is.

[@jimmybeesknees5099]

Um no thats not true at all. In fact for the first organism oxygen wouldnt have been much of a need at all. Even the first multicellular organisms would not have needed oxygen for a while. The first breathing organisms would have been fish and even they would have pulled oxygen out of the water through their gills. Soz fam, u wrong.

[@ImNoctica]

Bring the split hearing back

[@bartsshorts]

all that microphone technology and you cant even make it loud enough to hear!

[@ronniehopper2726]

Star Trek The Next Generation dexplain that whole human body plan thing. and some were truly alien

[@B_R-]

What if aliens are us in the far far far future but they time traveled back to the past cause they realize when they we're doing history it was us in the skys that we call aliens so they go back in time cause that's what they have to do so that time won't change and they do stuff in the past and research

[@Alex-444x94]

an alien passing by earth would be the equivilent of a human being walking by an ant pile on their way to work... not a single fuck given...

[@TowMater603]

you ever notice he talks with his hand a lot more than he does in DNews ?

[@SpunckyJew6969]

Video was totally over at the beginning

[@peyondi]

if there is life out of earth then it doesn't have to be smarter than us in a scale we would be at the middle and maybe life in our galaxy isn't that smart enough to communicate shit so many questions but no time to be answered

[@unitedeagle8887]

Answer to this video is , just watch Star Wars and boom that's how the future will be , all different aliens and planets with big cities ,

[@kemolegend907]

I'm sorry, "Methane instead of carbon"? You realize methane is literally one carbon atom bonded with 4 hydrogen atoms.

[@andrewbrown3902]

what if we found other human-beings?

[@eden7010]

We asked what will aliens LOOK like, not what they'll be made of.

[@someoneinthecrowd4313]

+Everything Explained masthead-picker-active-account

[@eden7010]

+Muhammad Al Kherim ?

[@TarynBell]

I had the thought that if someone goes and gets an abortion, that the doctor could remove the baby and grow it in an incubator and once it's as a certain stage, send it into space with a machine that nutures it and send it to these places so by the time it's like 50-70 it will arrive at this new place and be able to explore it or whatever. But then you'd run into ethical issues...etc and honestly id be appalled if that actually happened.

[@jollyleprechaun5436]

Kepler 186f...

[@dawntavishflynn8802]

EUROPA! Woohoo! I love Europa!

[@evandugas7888]

we can garentee they would have to have some kind of hands to interact with there emverment and would have to be socital and

[@spycozelot]

that will prove they are smarter than us and way more advanced.

[@leonardoa6704]

So trace I have a theory what would happen if we were the alians we ate the ones who need to go and and explore and meet lower intelligence beings

[@leonardoa6704]

When I said ate I meant to say are

[@neonshoji]

LEONARDO-SILVANO ALMONTE-MIRANDA You can edit your comments, ya know.

[@ToneyCrimson]

LEONARDO-SILVANO ALMONTE-MIRANDA Go to war and take their oil!

[@chrisms6446]

LEONARDO-SILVANO ALMONTE-MIRANDA Fat chance, but unlikely possible.

[@NikesZ28]

I think George Lucas had a really good imagination when he made Star Wars. :) Allot of different weird aliens there.

[@Stonedape726]

What if there was a super developed society that survived off of methane and was like hey could a life form suvive off of water and then made a multi cellular being put it on earth and tgen here came us

[@edwardcunningham6315]

Aliens are the ANGELS!

[@sonicquake00ad26]

Intelligent Alien Lifeforms may look humanoid or vastly different to us, but I'll bet their home world has pretty much the same things as here on Earth - animals, insects, water, dense vegetation, viruses, bacteria and other microbes, oxygen or a form of 'breathable' gas and even four seasons, summer, autumn, winter and spring.

[@SabrinaRosa02]

What if they look a lot like us but more evolved like can breathe in water ?😂

[@adamcommenting7848]

Sassy Sabrina What if they look like humans but have developed a fish tail and can breathe under water? A planet with a super advanced mermaid species would be fucking awesome wouldn't it? :D

[@obsidiancraft7702]

Flashy things!

[@juleswild9498]

VOOORRRLLLOOOONNNSSSS

[@Nico-bd4cg]

I want an actual E.T.

[@KusagariBlues]

I find it humorous when petty Earth beings declare humankind the only sentient/intelligent life in a universe far larger than anything they could possibly fathom. It's such an erred statement, and the brazen nature in which it is often said, re-assures my disgust.

[@angelolopez8720]

what if they looked like dinosaurs?

[@stalkingself]

I wonder what sugar, spice, and everything cats microbes would look like...

[@definitelynottheriddler]

Am I trippin, or does this have almost nothing to do with what aliens will look like?

[@FLuiDDomenance]

Yeah, but honestly that's because we have no idea

[@GamingTranceSeer]

-Somewhere out there are photosynthesizing beings(because their planet is full of mostly carbon dioxide)that have green skin called Nameks.- Frieza destroyed their planet nevermind.

[@AxiomApe]

lolz