I can understand what you mean by not look like us, but what im trying to point out here is that the mentality is also key to the way that lifefom will look in some respects..

If we take basic logic here and say ok we have 2 planets bother are identical! and we let them fester... the same things that happen on one would not infact happen on the other at the same time "number of factors" wind rain geolgy ect"..

Infact you could have 2 planets with the excat same thing and one may never have life on it and the other one will.. why is this? because in order for life to happen it must be planned..!!

Now if we scale this up to our universe.. the amount of earthlike planets are good alot infact, will like take hold on one of them "well we know that for sure because we are here" would life on that planet evolve humans from the very first spark "well we know for sure it can because we are here" now if we take into account what the earth is made from ect we can say that any earth like planet would hold a good change of making the same stuff on it.. Tho we dont know the chances of it actualy making humans becuase of metor impacts ect... but the "basic" blocks are there that give the "chance for it" to happen just like it did on earth and with that world called infinity you can bet ur bottom doller its happend alot!!!

Now would aliens Look like us from a planet that is not the same "lets say jupiter" well no way would it look close, infact nothing on the planet would come close to any alien that resided on jupiter.. would it have intelegence? well if life is there then the possiblity of it getting or making intelegence is 1 because we have life "prerequsist ofc"...

So with that i can firmly say yes other aliens do stand a very good chance of looking like the way we do.. and some will not "they are the ones who may not visit" infact i find it hard to imagen why they would bother...

now another thing also is Bactira, there is a good possiblity of GIANT bactira aswell that live in the skys of planets.. just like the pretty worms we see floating about in ours, i dont think like is limited to only planets i can imagen life living in space aswell...

dont ask my what the hell it would look like lol but the place in witch we live is VERY odd indeed, we should know this because we are here!! that is odd on its own dont you think? ; )

Originally posted by symmetricAvenger
now another thing also is Bactira, there is a good possiblity of GIANT bactira aswell that live in the skys of planets.. just like the pretty worms we see floating about in ours, i dont think like is limited to only planets i can imagen life living in space aswell...

I think I could agree with you on that much at least, symmetricAvenger.

There exists the possibility of bacteria-like organisms etching out a living in exotic places we've never thought to look.

Recently, unique forms of bacteria were found to be living in our upper atmosphere, totally independent from others of its type.

He doesn't have to believe, but then that is his loss. He's missing on on the most critical information there is. Also, he isn't showing critical thinking, as he cannot accept that the many different types of testimonials that exist, including from astronauts, truly indicate something significant, and no, its not that they're all delusional.
Again, its his loss. Its also not critical thinking.
This kind of argument is beyond me in any case, more concerned with motives since I know whats out there. And how this interplays with the leadership and cartel on this planet. More interested in exposing everything so people can critically assess what changes they wish to see in government and what needs to be done.

"Why do UFO proponents, "contactees," "abductees" and other supporters always seem to depict their aliens as humanoid? Why are they insistent that these alleged life-forms follow the human body-plan?"

To be fair to the OP i dont thinks he/she is saying there aint no life in space or on other planets but i think hes more interested in how they could look like us..

As you seen in my posts i have gave very good logical arguments based on logic mathmatics and abit of my own understanding for life "to the best of my understanding neways"

and it is a good thread so far

I think a basic humanoid form, like a Grey, is quite plausible, considering it makes sense to have two eyes, arms, legs, etc because of balance and all.

Originally posted by easynow
failed to add anything ?

they are depicted as humanoid because that's what they seen with their their own eye's

what part of that don't you understand ?

Right, just like I said.

You are pretty much saying: "They are humanoid in appearance because I know people who have seen them, but no, I can't prove anything."

So, in all honesty, it really appears that you were the one who misunderstood.

if your expecting someone to adequately explain why it is possible for a bipedal being to exist on another planet your setting yourself up for nothing but conjecture and speculation.

Yes, this was mentioned several times in the thread. People are aware this is a hypothetical proposal. Are you suggesting otherwise?

I think I'm being generous enough in even entertaining the idea that aliens are visiting earth in the first-place.

do you see any fault in that ? or are you purposely being obtuse ?

Let's look at what we have here.

• You state that alien beings visiting earth are (or would be) humanoid in appearance and base that on circumstantial evidence and personal anecdotes.

• When explained why this is not adequate evidence or proof, you immediately resort to some non sequitor about "having to see the truth for myself" and all kinds of vague hand-waving.

• When asked to elaborate on why you think aliens would be humanoid in design without relying on second-hand stories, you went right back to square one.

I mean, if you cannot discern that or even explain with reason why you believe these things I seriously doubt I'm the one being "obtuse."

So, just to be clear this time around: Do you or do you not have some sort of evidence or reasonable proposal as to why these particular people believe aliens would appear humanoid in design? Can you explain this from a biological, chemical, or evolutionary standpoint?

I've explained why I believe that they won't be humanoid throughout this thread, and even in biologically feasible terms right above this very reply.

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Interesting idea, but if we stop looking upon humans as the first and superor being, and maybe think in the terms of 'we' looking like 'them', rather than 'they' looking like 'us. We cant just take for granted that humans were or are the first intellegent life in that huge space above us.

You must take into count that our solar system is pretty young in the astronomical terms, and EArth could well be used as a 'testing ground' for bio-engeneering, who are to say..

So if the 'aliens' have humanoid featurs wouldn't be that odd if our 'design' of using two legs to stand and two arms to work is an 'working model',if you get my drift.. I tend to think along the lines of sitchin, good work he has done over the years, and it dont involve fantazillion years of a single cell turn into huge sivilizations...

I read an article last night where they claimed that for all the right enzymes(?) to get together in the right order to create life was like 10/40000nds of a chance and would take longer than the age of our 16 billion year old universe..I think I wrote this in a wrong way. I will try and find the link to that page...I dont blindly belive that, but EVo I dont buy into.. Sorry you monkeys out there, nothing personal ..

I do belive creatures adapt, they have to, but let us say an pig evolved into an flying turtle, would that be possible.. ? I think so, in a lab..