On that note, just wanna say that all fictional aliens are hilariously human-centered. The idea that life on another planet, would follow the exact same paths as our planet's species did, is absolutely beyond preposterous. I'm talking about our warm-blooded mammals thriving over the cold-blooded reptiles, so life on another planet could look like absolutely anything.
Despite the vast distances separating their homeworlds, many humanoid species have been found to share a remarkable commonality in form and genetic coding. These similarities were believed to be evidence of a common ancestry, an ancient humanoid species, who lived in our galaxy's distant past some four billion years ago.
It's of course a necessary explanation to make the show feasable in a world without infinitely powerfull CGI, but Star Trek isn't that thoughtless.
Nah my problem was that I never watch movies, less sci-fi and I had just gave my Physics 1 exam, so on top of bitching about plotholes and lines I couldn't stop bitxhing about all the brocken laws of physics and shit.
There are restrictions to getting into space, tho. like, you need to be able to use tools, can't be massive or too small, probably land dwelling, reasonable life span, etc
I do think some of the suppositions that people make about the chemistry and basic structure of alien life are pretty convincing. Like any complex life form is probably going to have lots of liquid bits surrounded by solid linings, with lots of complicated carbon-based compounds throughout, simply because that's pretty much the only way you can get complicated chemical things to happen. Water is a good bet for being the main liquid component because it's extremely common and is a good solvent, though something like ammonia is also plausible.
Beyond that I think it's hard to be sure of anything. All kinds of strange body shapes could make sense on a world with different gravity, different geological formations and different plant life from ours. To be fair, a big reason why a lot of sci-fi sticks with aliens that are roughly the same size and shape as humans is because it makes storytelling easier, not to mention costumes/animation.
Fair. A whale sized creature living on a planet with 1/100th gravity could work. The square/cube law starts doing weird things tho at that scale. Like, could you build a pressurized space ship that big, or would the walls have to but meters think?
The thickness of the walls is determined by pressure it's trying to contain, a city sized ship and human-sized space suit are trying to contain the same pressure.
Well, there's the argument that they might be really similar to us due to convergent evolution. Like, the traits that we have might just be favored for intelligent species that could develop civilizations and technology.
On that note, just wanna say that all fictional aliens are hilariously human-centered. The idea that life on another planet, would follow the exact same paths as our planet's species did, is absolutely beyond preposterous. I'm talking about our warm-blooded mammals thriving over the cold-blooded reptiles, so life on another planet could look like absolutely anything.
I was always tickled by the fact that almost every star trek alien is just a human with some kind of minor distinguishing facial feature
Ancient origins
Despite the vast distances separating their homeworlds, many humanoid species have been found to share a remarkable commonality in form and genetic coding. These similarities were believed to be evidence of a common ancestry, an ancient humanoid species, who lived in our galaxy's distant past some four billion years ago.It's of course a necessary explanation to make the show feasable in a world without infinitely powerfull CGI, but Star Trek isn't that thoughtless.
The idea behind Prometeus was cool, but good lord such shit movie.
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Nah my problem was that I never watch movies, less sci-fi and I had just gave my Physics 1 exam, so on top of bitching about plotholes and lines I couldn't stop bitxhing about all the brocken laws of physics and shit.
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so wack how many people hate on this episode. It worked very well for me.
There are restrictions to getting into space, tho. like, you need to be able to use tools, can't be massive or too small, probably land dwelling, reasonable life span, etc
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I do think some of the suppositions that people make about the chemistry and basic structure of alien life are pretty convincing. Like any complex life form is probably going to have lots of liquid bits surrounded by solid linings, with lots of complicated carbon-based compounds throughout, simply because that's pretty much the only way you can get complicated chemical things to happen. Water is a good bet for being the main liquid component because it's extremely common and is a good solvent, though something like ammonia is also plausible.
Beyond that I think it's hard to be sure of anything. All kinds of strange body shapes could make sense on a world with different gravity, different geological formations and different plant life from ours. To be fair, a big reason why a lot of sci-fi sticks with aliens that are roughly the same size and shape as humans is because it makes storytelling easier, not to mention costumes/animation.
That's largely determined by the planet itself though, if it's smaller or spinning faster, it's easier to get into space.
Fair. A whale sized creature living on a planet with 1/100th gravity could work. The square/cube law starts doing weird things tho at that scale. Like, could you build a pressurized space ship that big, or would the walls have to but meters think?
The thickness of the walls is determined by pressure it's trying to contain, a city sized ship and human-sized space suit are trying to contain the same pressure.
Real xeno-theoretical-biologist hours
Read Stanislaw Lem
Well, there's the argument that they might be really similar to us due to convergent evolution. Like, the traits that we have might just be favored for intelligent species that could develop civilizations and technology.