Who's BKI?

...........Yeah, like I said, alien physiology will probably be nothing that the human imagination could create, no matter how hard they try...............

*Whistles X-files teme*

There are aliens. Why should we be the only beings in the entire Universe?

That statement alone should be enough to make any non-moron person believe in aliens.

Uh... BK the First?

..........Nice try...........

That statement alone should be enough to make any non-moron person believe in aliens.

What, my statement?

Uh... BK the First?

That statement alone should be enough to make any non-moron person believe in aliens.

What, my statement?

Yes, your statement.

That statement alone should be enough to make any non-moron person believe in aliens.

What, my statement?

Yes, your statement.

Awesome, my statement!

CtD, you're giving me bad mental images... They burn in my skull...

Anyways, I imagine alien life would be horrendously varied from ours. Their genetic structure could be completely different... I think we'll probably discover some form of life somewhere out there that is so alien and threatening we'll have to annhilate them all with bombs... Or wipe out the life there by sending containers of human germs and disease, and maybe tons of rats, to the planet, and then bomb it into a barren mess... But what if they survived, though? We wouldn't know much about them, or what they could endure. Though it would be intriguing to find out about them...

I agree with TKMOL. Every single sstar, is a sun. Each sun is in a a galaxy. In each galaxy there are planets. I doubt we are the only planet with life in the universe.

Yes I believe in aliens. I used to read loads of books about them, and get freaky nightmares.

I think you mean every sun is a star........I highly doubt every star in existance has a solar system...........

I'm with BK... Not every star has planets orbiting them...

But even still, there are a lot of planets.

I believe in aliens simply because of probability.

Also, I agree with BK in that they'd be completely different, but not in that they're unimaginable. There are no real boundaries to imagination, it's just that the likelihood of predicting their appearance through guesswork is... Not likely.

After all, unless they're completely incomprehendable (which seems to me to be unlikely), we'd have to be able to interpret them ourselves. If we can see and interpret their designs it must be possible to imagine them, even if in memory.

For example: If you saw a creature that you had never imagined anything even vaguely similar to, would you be able to remember it? Yes, unless you have a very bad memory. Your imagination would piece together bits of your memory to form an image of what you saw, and would likely fill in spaces.

Memory is influenced by imagination, and that's why it is frequently inaccurate. It doesn't snap photos; it fills in details in even the most photographic memories.

Now, if imagination fills in the details of something "unimaginable," is it really unimaginable? No, we simply don't have a place to start guessing about aliens. It is therefore possible to predict what aliens look like, but the chances of doing so are astronomical. (Pun not intended.)

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I don't think that made sense at all. I need sleep...

I believe in aliens simply because of probability.

 

Also, I agree with BK in that they'd be completely different, but not in that they're unimaginable. There are no real boundaries to imagination, it's just that the likelihood of predicting their appearance through guesswork is... Not likely.

 

After all, unless they're completely incomprehendable (which seems to me to be unlikely), we'd have to be able to interpret them ourselves. If we can see and interpret their designs it must be possible to imagine them, even if in memory.

 

For example: If you saw a creature that you had never imagined anything even vaguely similar to, would you be able to remember it? Yes, unless you have a very bad memory. Your imagination would piece together bits of your memory to form an image of what you saw, and would likely fill in spaces.

 

Memory is influenced by imagination, and that's why it is frequently inaccurate. It doesn't snap photos; it fills in details in even the most photographic memories.

 

Now, if imagination fills in the details of something "unimaginable," is it really unimaginable? No, we simply don't have a place to start guessing about aliens. It is therefore possible to predict what aliens look like, but the chances of doing so are astronomical. (Pun not intended.)

 

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I don't think that made sense at all. I need sleep...

Actually, that made perfect scence.

WX's post reminds me of a "Cthulhu's Words of Wisdom" I posted a short time ago...

Preciesly...