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Originally Posted by troutman
Also, why would they look somewhat like humans (ex. two eyes, two arms, two legs etc)? Seems to me, aliens would look nothing like us.
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I remember reading a paper on the prospect of Alien communication, and the biggest issue besides appearance because even a slight difference in Environment creates a look thats highly unique, is that there's no basis for any kind of communication let alone common thought.
They theorized that if humans work on mathmatics based on 10 pair, that it would be totally inconvievable to an alien who has based his math on 3 pair.
Even our way of thinking might be completely alien to a visiting alien. Our concepts of up and down, left and right might not exist in their mind.
I believe if Aliens ever came to earth it would be like a grade 10 dance, neither side would do anything but stare at the other side.
Hell even the human belief that advanced civilizations must be peaceful, might be a totally foreign concept to a race born in a hostile environment.
We should stop trying to communicate with other species and try to hide ourselves, because man, we don't know whats out there, how they think, how they communicate and if they're hungry.