The alleged bodies of two “non-human” beings were presented during a congressional hearing in Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media on Wednesday.
The alleged bodies of two “non-human” beings were presented during a congressional hearing in Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media on Wednesday.
It is pretty arrogant to assume every possible intelligent lifeform is a) carbon based, and b) looks like a mutated human, meaning appendages, face, head, all in the same relative positions. Sorry, I still believe that the reason we haven’t ‘discovered’ alien life, is because we don’t know what we’re looking for!
Absolutely on your last point, life elsewhere will have many environmental pressures that force things into a different direction. There will also be some things that work the same (convergent evolution). I used to think similarly about carbon with the idea that silicon or others could work as a base (and it may still happen) but I’ve seen a few good debunkings that knocked down the probability of it. Carbon is just so good chemically at what’s needed for complexity.