• Question: Do you believe in aliens? If so, what would you expect them to look like?

    Asked by winchester to Andrew, Emma, Marianne on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by wozjaztim, elmo97.
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      Andrew Maynard answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hi winchester, elmo97 and wozjaztim,

      I suspect that “aliens” do exist somewhere, and that they look sort of oblong and squidgy and very, very small – just like a bacteria in fact!

      There’s reasonable chance that life has evolved elsewhere in the universe, and that it has evolved to the stage of single celled organisms like bacteria. But whether it has evolved beyond that elsewhere – that’s anyone’s guess!

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      anon answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      As I said before I think there might be life somewhere out in the Universe. Who knows what it will look like? I think science fiction writers have done some amazing things trying to answer this question. Who’s your favourite sci-fi writer?

      Thinking again. I had a physics teacher who i was always expecting to take off his ‘human-suit’ and reveal himself as a fire-breathing mutant from the planet zog.

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      Marianne Baker answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Again with “believe in”!

      I expect there are other life forms in the universe.

      I’ve no idea what they would look like, though there was some slightly science-based speculation on that sort of thing on TV, in a programme called Alien Worlds (that was on channel 4).

      It would depend entirely on the conditions of the planet as to what the life forms came out like!
      We’ve got some pretty weird stuff here on Earth; elephants, giant squid, duck-billed platypus, human beings… very strange indeed.

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