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How do you imagine aliens to look like?
You can also join me in my dump of alien pictures (preferably not too humanoid looking).

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>> No.1998776

intelligent aliens? humanoid, dont ask me why

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>> No.1998789

I imagine them to look like bacteria.

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I have these things I worked on for a while. Humanoid greys, but based on cephalopods.

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>>1998776

hm I guess we often like to project ourselves on other beings. But if you think about it then it's not very likely is it. Like Michael Shermer often points out: Bipedal primates evolved only once on this planet (and there are millions of species) so why should aliens share the same or a very similar evolutionary history with us?

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The adults have a very simple digestive system, but the juveniles have a complicated digestive system and make honey that the adults can eat.

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>>1998800
>>1998793

interesting

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>>1998760
After being years in space they will have very weak bones and muscles.
Keep that in mind

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>> No.1998820

>>1998816

I am not only speaking of space traveling aliens (which might as well have found a way to make artificial gravity) but also the flora and fauna on other planets.

>> No.1998822

Evolved, intelligent aliens would be humanoid. It's the most convenient body form that does not sacrifice too much in terms of efficiency. Arms and hands with opposable thumbs (for easy grasping of objects), located at the sides of the body (like vertebrates). Doesn't have to be bipedal, but they do need enough legs to not need their arms for ground movement. Almost everything else from their sensory organs to their skin and hair would depend on the kind of environment they are from.

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>> No.1998831

>>1998822

Why hands and not tentacles that can just as well grasp objects or even better? What about a sphere of jelly like skin that can put different pressure from all sides surrounding the object they "swallow"?

>> No.1998835

>>1998822
what about tentacles?

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>>1998793
>>1998800

I was trying to make them eusocial to some degree, but also individual and highly competitive. Hence the requirement for producing offspring in order to feed, they will starve if they eat normal food since their systems can't handle it.

So they are genderless, and reproduce by budding. One implants another, which then carries it to term. Budding is fairly harmless if there is just one, but some societies pick one member that is implanted multiple times, and so is quite debilitated, though well fed and protected.

also 'solid eyes', their eyes are just solid crystals, not filled with fluid like ours. They are very simple, but they can see well into the ultraviolet and infrared.

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>>1998816
They might exercise to keep their bone and muscle density to a decent level like astronauts.... If they have bones and muscles or whatever holds them together.

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>>1998831
>>1998835
They could be tentacles or just an appendage with suction cups or something. The main point is that they need to be able to efficiently hold and manipulate objects with top precision and dexterity.

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>>1998863
We're doomed, stop production of tubes and we might live

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>>1998760
>implying we don't already know what aliens look like and that they are not already here and control our government.

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>> No.1998892

I remember watching a 'documentary' on Animal Planet a few years ago about a hypothetical planet where alien life was discovered. Two robots were sent to scout and report what they found. They had some great CGI aliens.

Does anyone remember what this series was called?

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Wayne Barlowe does some nice stuff, you might recognize it from that "Alien Planet" show they had on Discovery. As for what they would really look like, probably not much like us or things on our planet, but with some recognizable functions, there are just too many variables.

>>1998892
That's Alien Planet.

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>>1998901
ah, thank you!

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>> No.1998935

this thread is sagans

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Scum

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>> No.1998978

Why don't they have any eyes? They eye has evolved independently so many times, the changes that aliens will have eyes are very high.

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>> No.1998996

>>1998985
My turkey dinner learned to fly!

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>>1998985

Thank you for these great contributions. Keep going :)

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>> No.1999702

>>1998822
Bullshit. Any body configuration has the potential to develop sentience as long as it has manipulating appendages.