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so obviously aliens in movies and mass media are humanlike to some degree because it helps the audience engage with them and relate, and it makes the costume budget a little more sane if we're talking movies. but after discovering YouTubers Isaac Arthur & John Michael Godier and watching Arrival im really fascinated with the idea of intelligent aliens that bare no resemblance to humanity and break all the expectations we come to expect of earthlike species. it makes the whole first contact scenario a lot more interesting when you think about how we, as an anxious warlike species come into contact with an alien species we cant even figure out how to begin communicating with. what do you all think? also since this is gbs, if we can't come up with a good discussion, we can at least talk about how quickly humans would try to have sex with aliens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OpoWJbo7oM buglord fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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they would probably look like crabs
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Sep 12, 2022 06:37
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To be honest it's really hard to say. There's so many variables. For example: A lot would depend upon what they looked like and how the meeting goes.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:00
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I bet we’re really small compared to them. Average intelligent species are probably elephant sized or larger. I mean, I bet.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:08
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have you read solaris?
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Sep 12, 2022 07:17
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Kinda like your mom, OP.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:18
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What do you think alien boobs look like? 
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Sep 12, 2022 07:27
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Chances are they're out there, but chances are also we'll never contact them, so maybe it doesn't really matter. I generally agree with you though, OP. Depicting aliens as humans with different colored skin or weirdly shaped foreheads has always struck me as being incredibly small minded. Most life in the universe is probably completely different from what we define life to be here on earth.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:28
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Mostly the same as us but with weird ears or penises
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Sep 12, 2022 07:30
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:Mostly the same as us but with weird ears or penises What if aliens had penises where their boobs should be and boobs where theie penises should be
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Sep 12, 2022 07:33
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They'd probably look like they immediately regretted coming to our shithole of a planet, OP.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:40
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Nooner posted:What if aliens had penises where their boobs should be and boobs where theie penises should be I'd say that would make breastfeeding extremely concerning, no matter how you look at it
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Sep 12, 2022 07:41
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I bet they're pretty much the same except something something penises
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Sep 12, 2022 07:41
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Octopus people would be pretty cool.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:42
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We already know:
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Sep 12, 2022 07:52
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Maybe we're the aliens. If you think about it makes a lot of sense because there's way more planets that aren't earth than are.
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Sep 12, 2022 08:07
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I can assure you that regardless of how the aliens look somebody on earth would like to have sex with them. Yes, even if they are mineral based rock things.
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Sep 12, 2022 08:19
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Well OP that is a very interesting question, and I think if you look at the natural history of Earth and the different courses evolution could have taken in various branches of the tree of life to produce intelligent life based on the varied conditions that are to be found just on this one particular planet, I gotta say if the aliens don't have space tits why are we even searching for them?
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Sep 12, 2022 08:52
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they would look like anime
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CaptainSarcastic posted:We already know: This is like, the son my parents deserved or some poo poo. 
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Mooey Cow posted:Well OP that is a very interesting question, and I think if you look at the natural history of Earth and the different courses evolution could have taken in various branches of the tree of life to produce intelligent life based on the varied conditions that are to be found just on this one particular planet, I gotta say if the aliens don't have space tits why are we even searching for them? Space rear end.
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If their home planet has low enough gravity their balls are probably on top
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CaptainSarcastic posted:We already know: They built him because they're mocking us. It's how they see us. Like how Superman's disguise to blend in with other humans is dorky ol' Clark Kent.
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Well, seriouspost, I think we're not very likely to ever be able to send canned primates across interstellar distances, but we might create machine-based intelligences that can get there. With possibly some cultural and civilizational continuity to us, they might be considered our successors or even children. Something similar would probably apply to alien civilizations. Organisms that evolved on a temperate planet with an atmosphere and stuff just aren't very well suited for an interstellar existence. So, our robots might meet their robots, down the line, and they'd all look like whatever.
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It turns out stars are actually conscious and communicate with each other using fluctuations in their solar wind and magnetic fields on timescales and over distances we can't possibly comprehend, so every time you stared into the sky at night you were actually looking at the aliens all along.
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 In the future, all is devastation.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:If their home planet has low enough gravity their balls are probably on top If you do sex right the balls are always on top.
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I think the aliens would be a pretty cool guy. They would kill goons and doesn’t afraid of anything
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Groke posted:Well, seriouspost, I think we're not very likely to ever be able to send canned primates across interstellar distances, but we might create machine-based intelligences that can get there. With possibly some cultural and civilizational continuity to us, they might be considered our successors or even children. Something similar would probably apply to alien civilizations. Organisms that evolved on a temperate planet with an atmosphere and stuff just aren't very well suited for an interstellar existence. This person Three Body Problems 
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what if a planet gradually lost it's atmosphere and the life on it evolved to not need one over time, maybe creating it's own little self-sufficient mini-atmosphere, and then when the atmosphere was all gone some of them just flew up into space and started wandering around
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they'll prob be very stylish they'll have space-shoes and space-jackets and stuff we can't even imagine. maybe some mind blowing space-hats
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So unimaginable we would not consider them aliens. Look at whales, intelligent, we can’t communicate with them and we can’t live in their environment without huge effort. But people don’t consider them aliens because they are already here.
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They would have no concept of lying and we would easily defeat them by telling them we are rubber they are glue whatever they do bounces off us and sticks to you.
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Extra row of tits posted:So unimaginable we would not consider them aliens. Because they're here. Making them not aliens, in the space alien term. Their origin is ultimately the same as ours. And though some whales are smart, at the end of the day they are still "just" smart animals, like crows, elephants and non-human apes. When it comes to the capacity for learning, expression, social complexity and the ability to alter their environment there is no animal on Earth that comes close to humanity.
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would blaze w/ this alien
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Randarkman posted:Because they're here. Making them not aliens, in the space alien term. Their origin is ultimately the same as ours. And though some whales are smart, at the end of the day they are still "just" smart animals, like crows, elephants and non-human apes. When it comes to the capacity for learning, expression, social complexity and the ability to alter their environment there is no animal on Earth that comes close to humanity. Exactly. Because they are on the same world and not like us people can’t consider them. Aliens don’t only come from LV426.
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Ultimately the most unimaginable alien is one that is just another human, same DNA, same everything. That's the one thing everyone agrees an alien can't be. Nothing would blow more minds than that.
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ProfessorMarvel posted:This person Three Body Problems I just finished the first book and I liked how the first third is political criticism, the second third is video games, and then BOOM 
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So the planet they come from is essentially a habitable, low gravity gas-giant. The inhabitants? 12 ton elphantine like creatures with 5 legs, 3 of which are on the sides. This is the most common.
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