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What are the chances the first alien species humans encouter will look like sexy human (albeit blue-skinned) women?

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If our video games are to be believed, apparantly the chances are quite high.

Posted - January 23, 2017
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  • 2500
    Probably be more like this hot little number . . .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKPLQbl44as&t=88s
      January 23, 2017 8:28 PM MST
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  • 5354
    It is a compromize. Between what is likely and what the audience is willing to believe :-))
      January 23, 2017 9:48 PM MST
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  • 3934
    I think it's more an acknowledgement we don't have good ways of mentally modeling the hopes/dreams/feelings of a completely alien life forms. What would we make of a 5-gendered sulfur dioxide-breathing Frisbee-shaped residents of Gloxnor 7?
      January 23, 2017 10:26 PM MST
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  • 5354
    Quite so. Who would have found it believable If he had stuck his finger into her nose instead ;-))
      January 23, 2017 10:34 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Think on this. What if the first intelligent alien species we encounter look approximately like us because they claim to have created us and be us and also claim to be the answer to our origin? Methink this will be "The Great Deception". This post was edited by O-uknow at September 15, 2018 12:30 PM MDT
      January 23, 2017 9:56 PM MST
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  • 3934
    That would be terribly uninteresting.
      January 23, 2017 10:27 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Many hope this will happen and have been seeding the idea in popular culture for years.
      January 24, 2017 7:06 AM MST
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  • 5614
    Different species in similar environments adapt in similar ways to solve the same problems and is why dolphin look somewhat like fish. Blue skinned humanoids are not so far fetched an idea.
      January 24, 2017 7:15 AM MST
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  • 5354
    We had an example like that not too long ago here on AM. 2 different Australean species (Kangaroos and Emus) that have evolved over a long time while the interior of australia got drier and drier, with food getting more and more scarce. In response the Emus became very good a running and the Kangaroos lucked out with superelastic sinews so they could 'bounce' and make a great many hops 'for the price of one'. 2 very different solutions to the same problem.

    But mostly you are right, species that occupy the same ecological niche tend to resemble eachother. It is called Convergent Evolution. This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at September 15, 2018 12:31 PM MDT
      January 24, 2017 9:58 AM MST
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  • 5614
    Aye, indeed. Forgot the  word for it but it was worth illustrating.
      January 24, 2017 8:06 PM MST
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