What would they look like

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What would they look like?

• by
• Alex Quiroga

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What would they look like?

• The popular images and ideas about aliens, and
  why we may have them
• Possibilities of life on other planets, and how
  life may arise
• What we can probably expect them to look like

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What would they look like?Popular images
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What would they look like?Popular ideas

• Aliens would be benign

• Some pretty far fetched ideas of aliens life
  in our universe

• Aliens would have a humanoid figure

• Why would they have a humanoid figure?

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What would they look like?Why a humanoid figure?

• Easily identifiable
• Provides comfort in thinking we are not alone
• A wee bit arrogant

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What would they look like?Possible life, and its
birth

• Life as we know it on Earth may not be the status
  quo
• But it is all we know
• Makes it difficult to make any new ideas when we
  only have our knowledge base

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What would they look like? Possible life, and
its birth

• Diverse types of life
• What we dont know could be what out there
• Life finds a way

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What would they look like? What we can expect

• Astrobiologists, scientist who study the
  possibilities of alien life
• Duncan Steele (a space researcher in Australia)
  believes in humanoid aliens
• Ken Nealson of NASA has a few ideas
• General consensus is that aliens would be a bug
  like creature, but more believe they simply to be
  microbes.

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What would they look like?What can we expect

• Biologist Jack Cohn and Mathematician Ian Stewart
  have a few different views
• "They might look exactly like people. Or cats. Or
  houseflies. Or they could be invisible, or
  lurking just outside our space time continuum."

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What would they look like?What can we expect

• Cohn and Stewart have a few other ideas as well
• aliens could also be concealed inside atoms, or
  they could exist only in the gaps where the human
  perceptual systems are in their refractory phase
  and cannot register their existence."
• And more

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What would they look like?What can we expect

• Clifford A. Pickover has more ideas.
• An intelligent octopus-like creature
• entire planet of immobile, silicon-based "trees"
  that communicate with each other via electrical
  signals
• giant interstellar cloud be "alive" and
  intelligent
• And more still

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What would they look like?What can we expect

• In the end, what can we expect?

Microbes
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But I'm opting for this