• Question: If aliens exist, what do you think they will look like?

    Asked by Rubycarter12345 to Camilla, Dan, Katie, Mike, Rhys on 17 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by TCardinal, Charles.
    • Photo: Katie Sparks

      Katie Sparks answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      It could look like anything!
      I think the small stuff (bateria/ ameba) would look pretty similar, but then the rest of it totally depends on what the environment is like: do they have a shell, can they fly, do they have fur, what colour are they, what shape are they? I really don’t know!
      I think they’ll have a similar “head” arrangement to us, if it’s happened so many times on Earth, it’s probably for a good reason.
      Personally, I’m hoping for something like a dragon and something like a unicorn.

    • Photo: Camilla Weiss

      Camilla Weiss answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      There are so many reasons that we look the way we do – evolution, environment, genetics. If you started off with two planet Earth’s with exactly the same microbes on them it’s very likely that the life forms that evolved would be completely different from each other due to tiny tiny changes at each stage of evolution. I think this makes it really hard to say what aliens might look like, which is great because it means we can let our imagination go crazy. I’d be disappointed if they turned out to be little grey men.

    • Photo: Rhys Archer

      Rhys Archer answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      Completely nothing that we could ever imagine! When we think of aliens, sometimes we think of sci fi and that can influence what we imagine. But even when we try to think of an unusual being, we are still using what we see around us and what we are used to to try and form that idea in our head. We, and all life on earth is carbon based, and thats because of our planet, how it was formed, and the atoms around at that time. Who knows what is out there – what would a being formed of hydrogen be like? Could it even move, eat, sleep like we do? Maybe it gets its fuel another way than eating – maybe it doesnt need fuel at all? Maybe it moves through air differently to us, maybe it interacts with the surroundings not by seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting – but by really different types of ‘senses’ we can’t even comprehend! Interesting stuff!

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