Aliens

[We Are Legion]

[Insert spooky Martian head here]


This has always been a subject I've thought about deeply. Yeah I'm a little crazy like that, but whatever.

The way I see it... sapient life has evolved on this planet at least twice and the creatures who dominated those life cycles shared similar qualities. They were bipeds with two arms, they were carnivorous, they were vertebrates, etc. Even their facial composition from top to bottom: Eyes, nose, mouth (in that order). If life could evolve twice on this planet almost from scratch and lead to such similar results, are those sci-fi movies of the big-eyed aliens with skinny bodies and long pointy fingers REALLY that far-fetched? In fact, I don't think it's crazy at all to assume they might look very humanoid.

I'm already on record stating my absolute belief in extraterrestrial beings... somewhere. I certainly don't believe anything's ever visited Earth, but with NASA's recent and continuous discoveries of all these "Earth-like" planets out there in other star systems, one would think evolution isn't something strictly regulated to our own planet, right?

I'm not saying life on other planets means that there are space-faring species out there, in fact I think it's much more-likely there are alien species that more-closely resemble that of dinosaurs and probably more intelligent versions of them. When you really think about it, our own planet's evolutional chain was disrupted by a cataclysmic event that eradicated everything that weighed more than 50 pounds. Humans REALLY shouldn't even run shit on this planet when you think about it. If life evolved elsewhere on a similar path without such a disruptive catastrophe, perhaps T-Rex's are still going hard out there somewhere.

What are your thoughts on this subject? And this is really just an open-ended discussion on the matter. What are your theories on aliens?

 

[Chris]

http://lawrencerspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/physical-universe-perspective.jpg The image is too big to post.

There's no way you could NOT believe in extraterrestrial life after seeing that image, I think there's a fair bit of other planets with life as evolved as ours, but I also don't believe any of them have ever came into contact with Earth (those pyramids are a mystery though )

 

[John McHenry]

It was the shittiest alien discovery movie ever (First Contact) that said my favorite quote about the subject " If not it's an awful big waste of space"

 

[We Are Legion]

Contact had it's moments. A film about SETI discovering a signal would have been great if it wasn't for Jodie Foster ruining it. Unneeded love story too and the whole nod to "faith" at the end was just so stupid, especially since the movie thumbed it's nose at religion the first 99% of it's duration. I'd like to see a similar movie plot that takes a more serious tone. I still draw inspiration from things that movie did right though.

 

[John McHenry]

Contact had it's moments. A film about SETI discovering a signal would have been great if it wasn't for Jodie Foster ruining it. Unneeded love story too and the whole nod to "faith" at the end was just so stupid, especially since the movie thumbed it's nose at religion the first 99% of it's duration. I'd like to see a similar movie plot that takes a more serious tone. I still draw inspiration from things that movie did right though.

Basically nailed all my issues with the movie lol. But it's probably as good as a movie about SETI will ever be.

 

[Tapout]

I seriously hope that I live to see the day where we, or more likely, aliens find us. Its probably going to be the most important history moment for anyone that lived it. Even if it was a full on take over of our planet. I would die saying "I lived to see the aliens" sounds like a cool thought to me. I highly, highly doubt we're the only advanced life form in this universe. Solar system, good chance, but the universe, no freaking way. However, I think we are so evenly spread apart though, that even with the top of line technology, no life form can reach another.

 

[John McHenry]

According to the other First Contact about meeting space aliens supposed to be 2063

 

[Mick Donalds]

Contact isn't a bad movie. As was stated earlier, the love story was irrelevant.
With that said, I think it's a good presumption that there is life out there. Why the fuck would we be the ONLY evolved planet? I know, it's shit logic, but...

Unrelated (sorta), but anybody notice any character similarities between S.R. Hadden (Contact) and Charles Weyland (Prometheus)?

 

[Wrestling with Shadows]

Of course there's going to be other life, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has said numerous times that we're not made out of any special elements, we have the same elements in us as the rest of the universe, so it's hard to fathom the thought that there isn't life.

I certainly wouldn't want to meet an Alien, considering if they are smarter than us (which they would need to be to hop stars) then they'll probably do to us what we do to live which isn't as intelligence as us, batter us and all those other grim possibilities, which something Steven Hawkins said would possibly happen.

As for what Carl Sagen's First Contact does is the very realistic approach to how we'll probably come make our first contact with intelligent live, I'm sure Adolf Hitler's speech is somewhere further into the Milky Way now than it was when that movie was written and produced.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

I think it would be badass if there was life out there. I often find myself looking up into the sky and just staring for what feels like ages. I once watched a star just randomly move and fly away. That tripped me out. If there is other life out there, I hope to live to see the day we meet.

 

[Keith]

Basically nailed all my issues with the movie lol. But it's probably as good as a movie about SETI will ever be.

I think you both deserve to be aducted by Aliens for your constant hate of Jodie Foster. She is one of the great actresses of the last 40 years and gets me interested in even the dullest of films!

 

[John McHenry]

She's been good in 4 movies. Silence of the lambs, The one which she gets raped, the one they kidnap her daughter, and The Brave One. You don't know how ridiculous it is that I don't remember the name of the middle two.

 

[Keith]

She's been good in 4 movies. Silence of the lambs, The one which she gets raped, the one they kidnap her daughter, and The Brave One. You don't know how ridiculous it is that I don't remember the name of the middle two.

You are forgetting her supporting role in Taxi Driver, such a tough part for a kid of that age and she was excellent. She is a all rounder for me even proving to be good at comedy in the likes of Mavrick and more recently Cournge. In recent years she has been used as the star face to sell basic genre films, like Panic Room and Flight Plan. She added credibility to both.

 

[John McHenry]

You are forgetting her supporting role in Taxi Driver, such a tough part for a kid of that age and she was excellent. She is a all rounder for me even proving to be good at comedy in the likes of Mavrick and more recently Cournge. In recent years she has been used as the star face to sell basic genre films, like Panic Room and Flight Plan. She added credibility to both.

Ah Flight plan was the one and yes I did forget Taxi Driver she will never do better than that role which is unfortunate.

 

[Embrace Thou Maryse]

I firmly believe in aliens, not the little green men that abduct redneck Amurricans aliens but there's bound to be life out there somewhere. As a species we've what explored 1%(?) of the estimated size of the universe. In all of that there is bound to be numerous planets that support life.

Legion raises a very interesting point with the fact that the dominant beings on Earth have shared similarities, in fact most life on earth beyond the microscopic/insect shares many of those similarities so the potential for Alien life to be very similar to us and/or what Hollywood/conspiracy theories presents to us could be pretty close to reality.

It'll be an amazing day when/if contact is ever made between our planet and another. But fact is the technology to explore the universe would need to be immense to accomplish that. One day it may happen though and it'd be awesome to experience that in my lifetime.