• Question: what do aliens look like?

    Asked by 492gdna29 to Tora, David, Daniel, Clare, Arthur on 10 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by nandos19, 329gdna29.
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      Tora Smulders-Srinivasan answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I don’t know if aliens exist, but I like to think that they do. I like the theory that I have heard that since the universe is endless, there must be other life out there somewhere!

      I hope someday we can see aliens, though I hope they don’t try to kill us! 🙂

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      Daniel Parsons answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      I am afraid that, if we find them, the first Aliens we discover will be little bugs and bacteria and won’t be like little green people! I still think we will find evidence for life within the ice on Mars – but this will “just” be bacteria.

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      Clare Harding answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      This is a great question and one that I think about a lot!

      When we think of aliens we always think of something that looks kind of like us, two legs, a head and a mouth at least. But even on earth there are incredibly alien things. I used to work on a slime mold, normally it lives as individual cells but if there’s not enough food the cells come together and form a slug which can travel much faster than the individual cells. If the slug still cant find food, many of the cells become a stalk while others become something like seeds that can be blown to new, hopefully better places. The cells that become the stalk die so that the species can survive. So maybe aliens would be more like that!

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