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How Different Will Aliens Be?
Following on from my last video, I explore the probability of an alien species being enough like us, that a meaningful dialogue could take place. We tend to anthropomorphise aliens as we do with so many other things, we can't help it, our gods are made in our image, and so are our aliens, but the truth is, the likelihood of them looking anything like us is most likely tiny, which will throw up some "interesting" problems should we ever meet.
Cryptogee
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Wow what a fantastic content 👏 👌
Thanks, what did you like about it?
Cg
Well, ummmm, they are not that different, cause DNA.
It appears that DNA is a structure of this universe (at least this galaxy)
Because space is such, DNA is such. The double helix. The amount of spirals per length...
So, aliens will be symmetrical across the middle-front, bipedal and have sight, sound, taste and touch
It appears that the "visible light" spectrum is actually pretty specific.
With only little difference into the IR or UV areas.
Now there will be some big differences. Things like having two sets of vocal cords
All you are doing is anthropomorphising.
You could argue that any new species found on Earth will be part of the carbon-cycle and any plant photosynthesise. But then you find deep sea creatures who live by sulphur vents and never see sunlight.
Assuming all aliens will be bipedal is just our human arrogance coming out once more 😊 Being a biped is great for this planet, what if you lived on a water world? Or a gas giant? You would have grown up on a planet with a completely different set of pressures, thus steering natural selection in a different way.
Again "visible light" is anthropomorphic, there are soooooo many colours we don't see, which is fine for us, because we evolved on Earth.
Two sets of vocal chords? Maybe? Or perhaps zero vocal chords and an ability to transmit complex information via pheromonal exchange.
Who knows???
Fun thinking about though!
Cg
Sorry, i am not anthropomorphising.
I am trying to say something much deeper, and much more scientific.
But we do not have those sciences yet, so we do not have words for what i am trying to convey.
DNA is DNA.
We have visitors from other planets here on earth.
Some of the mushrooms exist in a network that spans different solar systems.
And they have the same DNA structure.
(see Terrance McKenna and his discussion with Psilocybin)
DNA produces a certain set of characteristics.
This follows from the underlying code / structure / laws of the galaxy.
(i do not know if other galaxies have the same laws)
It's a fun thought-exercise, isn't it? I think it's very possible that alien species inhabiting physical bodies who've been able to escape their blue-zone home planets are likely more like us than not. If we analyze the evolutionary trajectory of our species too it's not too far out of the realm of possibility that we're evolving to be more "grey-like", with larger heads, more fragile bodies, and telepathic communication. I think the complication in regard to communication would be emotions. Humans thrive and feed off emotions but highly advanced aliens would have likely engineered emotion out of their species.
Considering how many intelligent non-hominoid species we have on Earth it's also possible that alien evolution could have gone down this path on other blue-zone planets as well but it's unlikely they would be able to escape their planet without the ability to make tools and later build and engineer.
The thought of this all has fascinated me since my earliest memory.
I used to think like you, then I learned that our star-type is pretty rare. The only reason we are the dominant species, is because an Everest size meteor struck the Earth circa 65 million years ago, which set off a cascade of events leading to us.
In fact the only reason we have seasons, is thought to be because of that meteor, if those things hadn't happened, the Earth would have had a different set of naturally selective pressures.
Imagine an intelligent species from a water world, or on a rocky planet circling a red dwarf star (the most common type in the universe). As far as making tools all you need are opposing thumbs and a brain, like crabs, parrots, or any number of creatures.
Damn! I could think and talk about this for hours 😊.
One theory I don't think I mentioned in the video, is professor Brian Cox's. He said he had always thought a great way for an alien civilisation to contact us, would be to leave easily detectable balloons in the atmosphere, as they passed by. Just a kind of "hi, you're not alone" kind of message...
Cg
DNA as we know it is not inevitable, all you need for life are elements that are capable of covalent bonding. Watch this, it's very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=469chceiiUQ
Cg
We (the people that call themselves "scientists") do not know.
I am telling you, and any who listen, that DNA is shaped the way it is because of the universe (or galaxy) that we are in. Life is this way <=> DNA is this way. It is an underlying structure of this galaxy.
It is like the large and small nuclear forces being perfectly aligned so that we don't crush into oblivion or fly apart.
The part that tells me so, but is not understood, and rejected by modern materialistic science is the life force, that energy, that sits above the DNA and communicates through the DNA.
DNA in one view is a perfect magnetic antenna. In another view it is a perfect electrical antenna.
So, this energy that sits above it, that actual place where consciousness is formed, requires DNA to be a certain form for communication.
And, you do not have billions of DNA in your body, you have one DNA in billions of places.
What i am saying goes smack against modern materialistic science. I know that. And so i accept that this information, even though true, is not acceptable scientific theory. But it will be. It will be self evident a little ways in the future.
Ah, very interesting! It looks like I have more research to do. I can't imagine not having this natural curiosity about things but many people don't. We certainly had a lot of UFO sightings in central Ohio in the 1970's when I was growing up and had a few strange first-hand experiences ourselves. We were close to Wright-Patterson air force base so many of these (but not all) could be chalked up to experimental aircraft.
I found this image recently and found it fascinating!
I’m curious as to the possibilities but I’ve read something recently where the beings that are here among us are likely able to alter dimensions in ways that we can’t fathom yet. It’s like the tic tac space ship that commander Fravert saw years ago. It seemed to bend gravity and allows it to move in ungodly ways. There’s so many things that we cannot comprehend because I think our idea of many things is so focused in one direction that is combustion. It’s certainly remarkable to think and understand that the pyramids of Giza are unfathtomably older than we have thought they were, with the Sphinx there too. There’s a lot of remarkable new trains of thought as to how they moved the blocks, cut them and all that and it’s harmonic and vibrational in nature, matching the frequencies of the object. It’s some wild shit but contemporary science isn’t willing to think in those terms in the main stream yet. Randall Carlson speaks a lot of this stuff and the reason for most of it is because the tenured professors and people who have made their entire livelihoods on the status quo don’t want that to change and they lose their paychecks. It’s fascinating stuff to think about, there is so much we haven’t the slightest clue about!