jajajajaja, I’m pretty sure there are species in this world (especially at the bottom of the sea) that look like they’re straight out of a Lovecraft story rather than a biology book, but I don’t know to what extent it would be discrimination for being ugly or just weird, xd.
Have you ever thought about mushrooms? Like what do you mean it’s not a plant nor an animal?? That dudes a freaky alien and no one can convince me otherwise
We know you’re talking about Octopusses (it’s correct, shut up). There’s a theory out RNA originated on Mars and was carried to earth pre-life. Maybe there could be some for of alien life here
If ever there were a type of animal that I would say are as close to alien as animals on this planet can be, it would be comb jellies. Technically they have a clear evolutionary lineage but they appeared so early that their anatomy may as well be completely unique to them.
Siphonophores are also pretty weird, masses of animals that cannot survive alone working together to survive as one superorganism. They seem like something I would totally expect to find on another ocean planet.
As long as every organism on the planet shares DNA with every other organism, we know this isn’t true for all species we know of. I think if anything the most likely candidate for this would be species of single-cell organisms that we haven’t classified and unknown species that we haven’t discovered.
Seahorses! Their planet was dying. They sent their seed pods out into the universe to find new homes. Give them time. Their rule will be beautiful, and devastating.
It’s a possibility that life on earth itself is extraterrestrial in origin. There’s the whole primordial soup theory but observing complex proteins being generated by basic elements has not been observed. So it’s a possibility that our basic building blocks of life was spawned else where in space and hitched a ride on a meteorite to earth where the conditions were such that it could thrive.
Well if you apply the logic of the posted statement, you should take into consideration that humans could be a transplanted alien race which evolved adapted to the plantet.
I’d just assume that if extraterrestrial species were able to get to us, that there’s a likelihood we never see them because they exist on, or are able to move into higher dimensions at will, where they can observe us without us knowing.
Life with complex high intelligence and communication may have evolved right here on earth any number of times in the past but without hands of some kind to manipulate the world around them we could never know their story because all we’d find are fossils wherever they fell.
And that’s only if we’re extremely lucky because scientists think that only something like less than one tenth of one percent of all species that ever existed were lucky enough to end up in just the right conditions to fossilize at all much less actually be found and identified, leaving monsterous gaps in our understanding of life on earth.
Speaking of “aliens” if they exist they’re a normal animal too, not so long ago the earth was really good at making upright tool making humanoids and I can’t think of any reason to invent interstellar space brothers to explain the existence of just one more. There were a bunch of different species of human* living simultaneously and interbreeding, creating all kinds of other goofy hybrids on the periphery that we will likely never know existed. If the “gray aliens” really do exist, they’re clearly a highly intelligent, timid, squirrelly little hominin that evolved to be nocturnal, perhaps to avoid competition with bigger hominins. This could explain the humanoid form, pale skin, large light gathering eyes, complete disinterest in the surface during the day, and their distrust of us. Perhaps the most disquieting of all though, if the others are our closest living relatives it would make all that cringe abductee lore about the collection of genetic materials and hybridization much more plausible than if we were talking about literal space aliens that aren’t even made of DNA.
Check out the books The Cryptoterrestrials: a meditation on indigenous humanoids and the aliens among us, by Mac Tonnies. As well as, Invisible Residents: a disquisition on certain matters maritime and the possibility of intelligent life under the waters of the earth, by Ivan T Sanderson.
(*All hominins of the genus homo are human, neanderthals, neledi, floresiensis ect were all human.)
Anyone ever think about this concept from Dr Who Perfect camouflage. If a species developed the ability to hide itself perfectly. How could we ever be sure something like that doesn’t exist already
Honestly? I believe it. Some of those deep sea creatures look like they were never meant to be part of Earth’s aesthetic. Like, why does that fish have headlights and 200 teeth? Why is it glowing? Why does it look like it knows secrets about the universe?
If aliens did crash land here millions of years ago, the ocean would’ve been the perfect place to hide. We’ve only explored like 5% of it — they could be down there just vibing.
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We’d find out pretty quickly if we did genetic testing on it though
jajajajaja, I’m pretty sure there are species in this world (especially at the bottom of the sea) that look like they’re straight out of a Lovecraft story rather than a biology book, but I don’t know to what extent it would be discrimination for being ugly or just weird, xd.
Octopus are for sure aliens
Have you ever thought about mushrooms? Like what do you mean it’s not a plant nor an animal?? That dudes a freaky alien and no one can convince me otherwise
We know you’re talking about Octopusses (it’s correct, shut up). There’s a theory out RNA originated on Mars and was carried to earth pre-life. Maybe there could be some for of alien life here
If ever there were a type of animal that I would say are as close to alien as animals on this planet can be, it would be comb jellies. Technically they have a clear evolutionary lineage but they appeared so early that their anatomy may as well be completely unique to them.
Siphonophores are also pretty weird, masses of animals that cannot survive alone working together to survive as one superorganism. They seem like something I would totally expect to find on another ocean planet.
Spiders, I’ve been saying it for years. Insects are suspect.
Octopus I’m pretty sure
Mushrooms fall really hard into the maybe side of that question.
I’ve had the same thought. Also that we are probably part alien as well.
As long as every organism on the planet shares DNA with every other organism, we know this isn’t true for all species we know of. I think if anything the most likely candidate for this would be species of single-cell organisms that we haven’t classified and unknown species that we haven’t discovered.
Didn’t we all originate off-world if you go back far enough?
What do you mean OP? From my point of view, even simple unicellular organism are extremely unlikely to evolve, even less somehow travel through space.
Seahorses! Their planet was dying. They sent their seed pods out into the universe to find new homes. Give them time. Their rule will be beautiful, and devastating.
It’s a possibility that life on earth itself is extraterrestrial in origin. There’s the whole primordial soup theory but observing complex proteins being generated by basic elements has not been observed. So it’s a possibility that our basic building blocks of life was spawned else where in space and hitched a ride on a meteorite to earth where the conditions were such that it could thrive.
There’s so much misinformation in these comments from people who think any weird species must be an alien.
Well if you apply the logic of the posted statement, you should take into consideration that humans could be a transplanted alien race which evolved adapted to the plantet.
Yes, Hungarians.
Ehm… How exactly would this species cross the atmosphere?
A few years back there was some speculation that Tardigrades might have been non-Terrestrial.
Cephalopods are definitely from outer space.
Maybe other creatures could think of them as weird or undesirable
How can it be extra terrestrial if its aquatic?
I’d just assume that if extraterrestrial species were able to get to us, that there’s a likelihood we never see them because they exist on, or are able to move into higher dimensions at will, where they can observe us without us knowing.
Here’s a fun little cascade of thought,
Life with complex high intelligence and communication may have evolved right here on earth any number of times in the past but without hands of some kind to manipulate the world around them we could never know their story because all we’d find are fossils wherever they fell.
And that’s only if we’re extremely lucky because scientists think that only something like less than one tenth of one percent of all species that ever existed were lucky enough to end up in just the right conditions to fossilize at all much less actually be found and identified, leaving monsterous gaps in our understanding of life on earth.
Speaking of “aliens” if they exist they’re a normal animal too, not so long ago the earth was really good at making upright tool making humanoids and I can’t think of any reason to invent interstellar space brothers to explain the existence of just one more. There were a bunch of different species of human* living simultaneously and interbreeding, creating all kinds of other goofy hybrids on the periphery that we will likely never know existed. If the “gray aliens” really do exist, they’re clearly a highly intelligent, timid, squirrelly little hominin that evolved to be nocturnal, perhaps to avoid competition with bigger hominins. This could explain the humanoid form, pale skin, large light gathering eyes, complete disinterest in the surface during the day, and their distrust of us. Perhaps the most disquieting of all though, if the others are our closest living relatives it would make all that cringe abductee lore about the collection of genetic materials and hybridization much more plausible than if we were talking about literal space aliens that aren’t even made of DNA.
Check out the books The Cryptoterrestrials: a meditation on indigenous humanoids and the aliens among us, by Mac Tonnies. As well as, Invisible Residents: a disquisition on certain matters maritime and the possibility of intelligent life under the waters of the earth, by Ivan T Sanderson.
(*All hominins of the genus homo are human, neanderthals, neledi, floresiensis ect were all human.)
Roughly translated.. “So long and thanks for all the fish.”
Anyone ever think about this concept from Dr Who Perfect camouflage. If a species developed the ability to hide itself perfectly. How could we ever be sure something like that doesn’t exist already
Honestly? I believe it. Some of those deep sea creatures look like they were never meant to be part of Earth’s aesthetic. Like, why does that fish have headlights and 200 teeth? Why is it glowing? Why does it look like it knows secrets about the universe?
If aliens did crash land here millions of years ago, the ocean would’ve been the perfect place to hide. We’ve only explored like 5% of it — they could be down there just vibing.
We’re the aliens. Nothing on this planet matches us in terms of intelligence. And since our beginnings we have lived to dominate this earthy planet.