How would aliens change your views

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Sorry about such an odd question. Basically, if we were to make contact with an advanced race, with their own unique cultures and civilizations, equivalents to much of what we have here, and we were to be equal to them but there were some notable differences, what would you think. How would your view of the universe change.

Sometimes I feel lonely because I know that we're all just copies of each other genetically, with slight differences. Assuming aliens are a whole new set of genetic information, or not even genetic, then I would finally feel like, after billions of years of isolation on this small sphere we've finally found another being.

Last edited by wrongcitizen on 08 Jan 2017, 5:53 am, edited 1 time in total.

universe is estimated to be no more than 14 billion years old. not "trillions", though we are not able to truly comprehend either.

i hope that my belief silica based life cannot exist (too big of an atom) is proven right.

given that i spend a lot of time in self created fictional words involving alienlike, nonhuman/eukaryotic creatures (that interact with humans), seeing one in the flesh will either be a huge reality check, an endless pool of inspiration, or source of curiosity.

or all of them. probably all of them.

I think the only world views that would seriously be disrupted would be ones that preclude the existence of aliens.

Hehe thanks for catching that. I knew that somewhere but for some reason I put trillions while not thinking.
Also though I have very limited knowledge I've always thought about some sort of fictional world as well. One where humans are simply just simple cosmic merchants surrounded by action, and not the forefront of all known reality (my reality at least).

I would certainly be fascinated by comparing and contrasting these aliens to us. It would certainly be instructive. But since we havent encountered said aliens (if they exist)yet it is hard to say in what way specifically they shift our paradigms.

All I will be thinking is I can't wait to watch some alien porn on AlienHub. That'll be my new fetish.

Aliens may not resemble us anatomically ( much less behavioraly).

If aliens have "porn" it would probably resemble the nature documentaries we already have showing the mating behavior of insects or crustaceans.

But...maybe that's what floats your boat!

You don't think there could be any humanoid aliens? I imagine some would not resemble us at all but there is nothing to say none would.

That, or maybe they'll be more like bacteria. Alien bacteria would still be aliens. Then again, to each their own, and all that...

"Whoa, check out the flagellum on that one!"

To posit the existence of infinite dimensions, with infinite possibilities. and interdimensional beings, is a blackbox, mental process and inherently religious.

It was couched in materialistic language, for people who consider the name of Jesus to be a personal attack, no different from the other words, we're not supposed to use, here.

Cosmic humanism is accommodating a universal, religious drive, inherent to all mankind, but without making anyone morally accountable, like a Tomorrowland Festival, with pixie dust and all sorts of symbols, none of which represent any responsibility or purpose.

It wouldn't cause you to change, because any "alien" message outside of sjw-isms would be regarded as enmity.

Well...what I am saying is that you can't assume that they would be humanoid. Vertabrates are not the only body plan even here on earth. The saucer jockeys might have evolved from arthropods, or from octopi.

Have thought about the subject a long time- if evolution were to produce creatures equivalent to us on exoplanets- would they be like us, or extremely different from us, or in between?

There are arguments for both extremes (that evolution would go a different way, or that it would end up similar). And both might be right- on some exoplanets they might be radically different, and on others it would the "uncanny valley" where they would be distrurbingly similar to us.

Dont know if WP allows this, but here is some hard core microbe porn.

https://youtu.be/Yr7_vFijABY

Some more hot footage of parameciums getting it on!

https://youtu.be/DjiZjqw7MDY

I would find it harder to believe that Earth is the only planet with sentient life than to believe aliens exist.

Steady. Steady.

While this is all very educational, these carefully lit scenes with their artful combination of sharp and soft focus and relentless focus on "the action" runs the risk of lapsing into blatant exploitation.

Good stuff, though. Thanks for the link.

I suspect the discovery of aliens would change my views if the aliens provided us with new data or perspectives on some aspect of life about which we previously knew little or about which we had formed erroneous or incomplete conclusions.

In general, there is nothing in the evidence available to us now to make it seem unlikely that life would evolve on the many, many other worlds in our galaxy, let alone the countless other galaxies in the universe. In general I don't see any huge change in my view of things stemming from the mere fact of their discovery.

I would have no problem with aliens, so long as they wouldn't eat us.