posted on Dec, 8 2008 @ 11:44 AM
I know this sounds stupid and it looks like something that comes out from a mouth of a teenager, but..
I have been pondering something in the past every once in a while, and it popped out into my thoughts again today.
Can you find a single meat eater on this planet that is not in any way a predator. It either hunts corpses (rotten or fresh) or things that are still
alive. Given that, aliens should be predators as well. There's a remote chance to manipulate DNA of their prey so that in millions of years, their
insticts that come from predator ancestors just die away, leaving them to eat their "sitting" steaks. A prey that doesn't run away in for a million
years would do that.
If you are a vegetarian, you don't have to hunt of course, but is there any way we could possible even get a *little* hint that aliens are
vegetarian? Size does not imply it, since predators get hungry too. Given that aliens are indeed small and some greys are reported taller, we might
just as well guess that some of them eat better than the ohters.
I'm not afraid of anything, I barely believe in existence of extraterrestial life, and even in that I believe mostly that physical laws are what they
are and cannot be broken. Therefore, I don't like the idea of FTL travelling. So it basically does not matter for me whether they like to eat meat or
carrots. It makes no sense to think that if we cannot ever come into contact with them in any practical way.
Anyway, evolution as we know it supports survival of the fittest. Do we have any reason whatsoever to believe that humans are fittest? We already know
that humans are a dying race, as far as long term evolution is concerned. We either evolve into something or we die away, forgotten.
If anyone thinks we remain the same for the next million years, he must come up with an idea that humans can at some point manipulate DNA perfectly
enough to *keep* us from changing with a pace of rest of nature. That, however, gives rest of the nature an advantage that lasts for an entire
eternity. Advantage here being that rest of nature learns to beat us.
This basically means that even so called aliens who have mastered technology, cannot live without change in their looks, immune systems and so on. In
space, they could have habitants that are actually microecosystems, much like in those little glass balls that you can buy for your children as
present. Those include next to perfect mix of chemicals, bacteria and algae inside of them that grow and die and lasts for a lifetime. Only in such an
environment stopping of evolution is not a problem.
..Just my ramblings.
[edit on 8/12/08 by rawsom]
(Oh and by the way. Try putting such a glass ball in your microwareoven for a very short perioid of time. In weeks, amusing results will
happen. Do NOT do this at home, the ball will explode because of pressure by gasses if you do this for too long. It'll show you evolution.)
[edit on 8/12/08 by rawsom]