Extraterrestrials
January 31st 2011 15:49
I was just thinking the other day about extraterrestrials, and what they might be like. If metazoans (animals) have evolved on other worlds, they will have evolved to adapt to conditions at least somewhat different to those on Earth (though the variety of conditions in which animals can live on our planet is so varied that this by itself might not produce such interesting differences by itself as we at first think. After all, animals here have adapted to all sorts of local conditions, from pressure almost 100 times greater than that of the atmosphere we breathe in, to great extremes of temperature, to no light). I'm willing to bet, if it could ever be confirmed, that aliens won't look weird or 'freaky' so much as ridiculous. Just take a look at some of the animals on Earth. The angler fish, the giraffe, the platypus, and the turkey. In fact, I think that aliens almost necessarily have to appear to be ridiculous to us. Most life on this planet would, to someone who had never seen it before. So it seems to stand to reason that, since we have never seen extraterrestrial animals, a lot of them are going to look comical.
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