Message from @Scale_e
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Walt was able to get Verner Von Braun to talk on his show.
So far we haven't seen shit.
The guy was connected.
@robert from kinoplex earth-like just means earth-sized
We're in the realm where absolutes are absolutely useless.
They're probably either Venusian, martian or mercurian
I'll be honest, I'm willing life will look more like us than not.
Very ded jej
I for one am hoping for Futanari aliens looking for pets
It would make everything easier if they're more like us than not, though.
Convergent evolution is a thing.
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True, as we've see on our own world.
If we managed to evolve and become an intelligent species with our format, then it's hard to think a similar convergence would occur. The background would be drastically different, but they would still look similar to us.
2 arms, 2 legs seems the most efficient choice
4 legs would require bigger brain
I can see something like an octopus gaining sentience
I can absolutely say “We are not going to discover a race of sexually compatible, attractive blue alien women who are waiting for strong earth men to teach them our strange customs of M-F-F group sex.”
Eh, our brain:body mass as I get it is fething huge.
For example, let's say, instead of an ape-like template, these aliens developed from something similar to equine species.
@Scale_e that's where you're wrong, kiddo
Citation needed.
@Little Boots go away brony
They might have fewer digits and a drastically different face, but they'd definitely need some way to actually manipulate their environment, meaning that thumbs would still develop in-part.
And also herbivores won't have the time to be smart
(Unironically there are no citations. That's my point.)
@ebinmemes22 again, that can be changed.
Plants don't have the nutrient density necessary
After all, I said equine-like, not equine entirely.
Eh, thing is that horses *are* pretty damned intelligent.
To make a horse into an omnivore you'd need to change lots of things about it
They might look like typical equine species, but they may have different diets/behaviors/whatever from equine species.
They just never got around to being bothered to do tool things.
Humanity *had* to.
Your inner hopeful furry is shining through here tbh
That and their lack of opposable thumbs doesn't help.
No reason.
Dolphins might be close