• Question: If you meet a ALIEN what do you think it would look like? and why?

    Asked by anon-243417 to Mick on 13 Mar 2020.
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      Michael Schubert answered on 13 Mar 2020:


      Probably, if we find alien life, it will be tiny and we’ll have to look through a microscope to see if at all. But you never know, there may be bigger aliens out there – and, if so, how they look will depend on where they live.

      We can take clues from life on Earth to guess what aliens might look like. For instance, an alien that lives on an ice planet might have a thick layer of fat under its skin to keep it warm, or it might have a lot of thick fur. It would probably be quite a round shape, because that’s the best shape for keeping heat in. An alien that lives on a hot planet would probably have little or no fur, very thin skin, and be very flat, so that it could cool off easily.

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