• Question: What do you think other life forms from across the galaxy will look like?

    Asked by 383radg37 to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 7 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by ammu.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      That’s a good question – I think it would depend entirely on what their environment is like. For example, life forms on a planet that has very strong gravity are likely to be shorter and stockier, like an elephant (but not necessarily looking like an elephant!), because they need to be able to support their own weight.
      Any environmental condition you can think of, there would probably be some type of adaptation that would make living on that planet more favourable!

    • Photo: Pip Millington

      Pip Millington answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      If there’s life out there (and there probably is somewhere) I have no idea what it looks like but I’d bet it looks absolutely nothing like a human!

      I always thought it weird that all these sci-fi programmes and films have loads of aliens which are basically human-shaped. I think it’s because those stories have human creators (and they get played by human actors!)

      I reckon they’d be big blobs with various parts of the outer surface adapted to do special functions. Who knows? They might even be microscopic! What do you think?

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