What Could Most Intelligent Extraterrestrials Look Like? I have talked many times about why I felt we should not only be looking at earth like planets for alien life. If life on earth has taught us anything it is some life here can live in conditions most life could not. Why is that? Could it be not all life on this planet started out on earth? Think about it, some creatures can live in boiling water next to vents in the ocean, others can live in blocks of ice and some, in conditions while not as severe, are still too much in the way of heat, and cold for us. When scientists talk of Panspermia, they are talking about the earth being seeded from meteorites. None seem to ever mention the fact these seeds of life may not all come from the same place. The meteorites could be from all over the galaxy as was seen by the one named Oumuamua which had come from outside our solar system. Another fact which is not mentioned very much is if we are being seeded with meteorites containing genetic material and they are all from within the solar system, what objects, planets, or moons are these seedings coming from? So far it doesn’t seem there is life on any other planets, but of course this could be wrong. There seems past life might have been on Mars and we know this, but are not admitting it could have been intelligent even though there are so many indications of a past race especially in the Cydonia region of Mars. I can’t help but think things are just routinely being hidden from us and NASA has come up with too many excuses like losing all the boxes of Apollo moon photos and turning off the camera on the International Space station when something strange comes into view. Let’s explore some wild ideas about what aliens might look like. We have an entire universe out there to guess about and it is so vast other life somewhere might fit anything we could imagine. Plucking a creature from the earth and studying it, whether it be fish, animal or plant, could indicate what an intelligent creature somewhere out there might look like. Can you imagine an intelligent plant creature. This does not necessarily mean it would be routed to the ground. I remember when the 1949 movie of The Thing appeared. It looked like a tall human and the scientist in the film said it was more like a carrot. Yes, this was only a film, but who is to say aliens would even all be flesh and blood? If we check out which creature on earth is the most populous, it is the common ant. The incredible fact is there are over 20 quadrillion on the planet and some say their total weight is more than all the humans on earth weigh. Is this an indication if we find intelligent life on other planets there might be more ant-like beings than anything else? I guess we can’t assume this, but who really knows? Here is a really strange fact, 95 percent of ocean creatures are invertebrates. Jellyfish are in that group, but they don’t have a brain. What is the chance of exploring an ocean on some other world and meeting up with an intelligent Jellyfish like creature? I guess that might be one of the weirdest meetings. I think there might be much more of a chance of an octopus-like creature gaining intelligence than a Jellyfish type. The octopus has proved how smart it is here, while not getting to the human intelligence level, it has become one of the smartest creatures in the ocean. There might be intelligent life which is even more freaky to us than what I have already described. I have to cite what six Russians reported seeing while on the Mir space station and that was plasma like beings outside in space. We tend to think of intelligent beings being solid, but maybe there are some who are not. One great thing about quantum physics is more than the physics itself, it is about thinking out of the box. Some things are so strange in quantum physics they seem impossible in the world. This should be a lesson to all of us when thinking about things like alien life. Just because we think, based on the human race, a certain way when thinking about what extraterrestrials might look like, we have to shed that view and look at the bigger picture. Back to the Jellyfish. If we didn’t know better and I asked you if there could ever be a living creature without a brain, you probably would have said no. I think we have to admit anything is possible, even those ideas we thought were impossible when thinking what aliens might look like. There could be aliens out there which would blow our mind. What if we met an alien whose body parts were somehow not connected together and yet they controlled them, and we met one who look like a giant black widow spider, would we have the nerve to try and converse with them or would the sight of a giant spider frighten us so much we might run? Did you ever think we might not be the most common type of intelligent beings in the universe. Maybe there are more beings who have multiple arms or legs, or both. There could also be beings who have more than one head, or no head. There is nothing to say we are the best design for all different worlds. It could be a world full of mountains might have led to the intelligent life there having four legs and two arms. This was to make it easier to get around on the mountain surfaces. Mountain goats can do some incredible climbing, far better than humans. Maybe these beings would have stickers on their body to allow them to stick to a surface. There could be millions of different types of intelligent beings or on the other hand, only a couple of different types. Someday we are going to find out more about who is out there. Even if we are secretly meeting with extraterrestrials now, this number of races is only a tiny drop in the alien bucket and it could turn out each galaxy has a radically different type of life form. Ours might be two arms, two legs, a head and torso, but the next galaxy might feature a completely different shape of life form.
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