/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1091046

I must respectfully disagree. I believe if we were to ever come across aliens we likely would not recognize them as they will have nothing in common with us whatsoever. Who is to say they their vision involves constructing a mental image through the use of sonar? Or they see an entirely different part of the radio spectrum? Who is to say they won't communicate via electromagnetism? Binary? Something similar to Morse? There is no guarantee they will have evolved vocal chords, much less a method of transfer for information that is anything like ours. Their intelligence is likely to be nothing like we've ever known, and so foreign we might not even recognize them as intelligent, instead skimming over them due to our own naive preconceptions. They could be completely abstract to our very notions of what constitutes intelligence life, or even life in itself. They won't necessarily have to be carbon based either, they could be silicon based. Who is to say we've mapped every element in the universe? Or every part of the universe follows the same laws of physics? The possibility exists, however narrow, for other elements such as carbon or silicon to facilitate the means to compose organic chains. What if they don't even exist fully in this dimension? Instead existing marginally over multiple dimensions? The possibilities are far too numerous to narrow down in any manner.

I guess what I'm really trying to get at here, the root of my rambling tangent is; mudkipz.