This is just something I have been thinking about lately.

Say that the typical aliens that are depicted in our media/imagination/abductions/dmttrips/etc... the ones with the skinny arms and legs, humanoid-like face with slits for nostrils and ears and the huge black eyes... say they are human beings but after mankind has evolved for millions of years.

As technology gets more advanced, so do the needs to do things physically and for ourselves. For example, with the internet, we no longer have to go shopping for various things or go to the library for books... we can order anything from our comp and, without a doubt, it has resulted in more people sitting on their a**es and not getting enough sunshine.

So say this kind of advancement makes things more and more controlled. The human being gets smarter and smarter, but physically weaker and weaker. Their heads start to enlarge, and due to the significance we put on our physical senses degrading, things like our ears and nose diminish. Thoughts begin to be accomplished via telepathy and so our lips, tongues, and vocal chords get phased out (perhaps even teeth if food becomes intravenous, or soaked up through the skin as energy). Our limbs become thinner, for there is simply not a need for physical action and strength anymore. Our eyes blacken out and enlarge from staring at the screen, or not "seeing" things as we see (in other words, we see in a multidimensional aspect and not just "vision" as we use it). The lack of pigment in the skin can be from being inside the mind, rather than the physical (perceived) world, and skipping around dimensions and space, thus achieving the pale complexion.

What if the aliens that we are most associated with here on Earth... are actually us in the distant future?

As an animal that lives in the depths of the ocean, or ones in a cave... ones that no longer need sight... or somewhere else smell... or feelings... the more we become inseparable to our computers, where the input of our world becomes, steadily, through televisions, radios, computers, etc... what would you imagine a human being to look like after a period passed that got more technological, more advanced, and was sufficient enough for evolution to take place?

If we evolve, improving upon the characteristics of our ancestors, what is the next logical step for mankind?

Just a thought

[edit on 14-7-2008 by astronomine]

[edit on 14-7-2008 by astronomine]

I read somewhere that greys are nothing but clones of humans at the infant stage. I have no evidence to support this other then reading it on a few internet sites.

They somehow use our modified DNA.

I have heard a lot of claims on the subject though with no hard evidence to back it up. You gotta take everything with a grain of salt.

Personally I don't follow the evolution trail between current humans and the typical grey, if anyone knows the scientific answers to the following that would be of interest to me.

Could the reduced need for physical strength ultimately cause those physical changes ?

If it could be possible to clone two couples so that you have identical geneology then have one couple spend 3 years developing superfit strong bodies whilst the others do the opposite, then have them both conceive under identical circumstances, would the resultant child differ in any way ?

Or would the child just be predisposed mentally to develop in a particular way or even just develop according to the lifestyle of the parents ?

If the children were swapped is it possible that the child of the strong parents would then develop greater physical strength than the other, despite being the offsprong of the weaker ?

Would any differences be greater if the process was over 300 or 3000 generations ?

All the changes so far in homo sapien can be put down to "lifestyle" (as in diet and education etc), other than that we still have the same features and in reconstructions I have seen of ancient corpses if you put a suit on them they could work in finance.

I would think it more likely that we have been genetically modified by the grays from either basic existing stock or original introduced material.