British Space Scientist and Gov. Adviser Shares Just What Aliens Would Really Look Like (It’s Not Green Men)
- Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:00pm by
Liz Klimas
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Picture an alien. Is what you’re imagining a green man with a bulbous head and large, slanty eyes? If not that, is it like “Predator” complete with frightening mouthparts and dreadlocks?
A space scientist and British government adviser is saying to forget both of these notions. In fact, what you may need to start picturing when you think of an alien may actually not seem that foreign to you, according to Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Photo via The Independent)
The U.K.’s Independent reports Aderin-Pocock saying they would look like giant jellyfish — we’re talking football field-size jellyfish. Sharing her thoughts on alien morphology on a recent episode of the U.K.’s Eden Channel as part of science month, Aderin-Pocock said:
“Our imaginations are naturally constrained by what we see around us and the conventional wisdom has been that life needs water and is carbon-based.
“But some researchers are doing exciting work, playing with ideas such as silicon-based life forms evolving on other planets in environments very different to our own.
“My vision of aliens is an inhuman, silicon-based life form that looks much more like a jellyfish than sci-fi’s little green men.”
“Silicon is just below carbon in the periodic table, has some chemical similarities, and is widely available in the universe.
“So perhaps we could imagine similar instructions to DNA but with silicon.
“Maybe life doesn’t have to resemble anything like DNA at all.”
Instead of being green, Aderin-Pocock speculates they would have orange underbellies.
(Photo via The Independent)
(Image via The Independent)
Does she actually believe in aliens? According to the Independent, Aderin-Pocock said there could be as many as four intelligent civilizations, based on recent discoveries within the universe, including new, distant stars. Would we ever encounter them though? Given that their body composition — based on her description — would not be able to exist in our environment and the fact that it would take 76,000 years to get to the nearest star, probably not.
(H/T: Daily Mail)
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Comments (124)
BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:57pmThe aliens heard we taste like chicken. The first thing they will do is get a hold of the Colonel’s famous recipe.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:05pmGood post, Chicken anyone???
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:49pmTheir government is broke and they are spending money on this? WOW!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:54pmNeoFan
That‘s why they’re broke….
Report Post »yubba
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:02pmSo many aliens and so few recpies.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:11pm@yubba
Do you remember The Twilight Zone piece called, “To Serve Man”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5eP0OAsTs
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:26pmI once heard that Hillary stole one of Obama’s and now she has three.
These are drawings of the real Hillary. : )
Report Post »Todd P
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:26pmAliens taste great with a little butter and salt. Get ‘em before Obama puts a tax on them, and Bloomberg regulates how much we can have!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:20amX ray… Obama’s Brain!
Report Post »deadend
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:50pmremember the twilight zone “ To serve man”
Report Post »MSGray
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:29pmWe are really in trouble if this counts as the best “science” on this issue that the U.K. has to offer.
Report Post »I know we are not all scientists (I’m a Health Physicist, so this is a little out of my swim lane), but let’s apply a little thought and known science to this subject.
Hmmm. On earth, top level predators have:
1) more developed brains than plant eaters (it takes strategy to kill prey and do so without getting hurt)
2) at least two eyes facing forward (for depth perception)
3) two ears (to determine direction to prey)
4) a mouth (of course to eat your prey), and;
5) a form(s) of communication to coordinate an attack after determining distance, direction and strategy to take out the easiest prey (usually old, young, sick, hurt, or already dead).
And this scientist’s group comes up with a jellyfish? Add to that the number of stars in our galaxy alone and she gives “4” for the number of intelligent life forms…hello probability!
I’m not sure which is more scary: that this is the U.K.’s “best” or that my middle school children do not have labs in their “science” classes (i.e. chemistry) so that they can learn enough to analyze and debunk this type of “science”.
izukiddin
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:18pmWe taste like lamb. Older people taste like mutton or goat. All aliens know that.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 3:10amJellyfish in space! Sounds like a Muppets spoof.
Report Post »Anyway, glad it’s not our government this time.
Did you know that someone actually did a “scientific” research project to determine if there was a correlation between greater human population growth near natural STORK habitats? STORKS!!!
If you can find some lame-brain working in the government, it seems you can call ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING a “scientific research project” and they‘ll gladly take someone else’s money to waste on, what is honestly, completely useless. Such as thousands and thousands of dollars to move a common $15 bush to a secret location… as if anyone actually cared about a $15 bush. Plow over it and buy a new one. Plant as many as you want with your own damned money.
You know, it seems to me that if you chose some random person (could even be a high school kid), that random person would probably make wiser choices than any number of government scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians because the random person can see the obvious waste of money while government (in general) sees only the opportunity to use someone else’s money and is oblivious to the consequences of waste. Only the Tea Party and Libertarians stop to think, “Is this really a good idea? Is this Constitutional and lawful? …or is this just more corruption and waste?”
Tyson
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 7:59amNo, David Icke says they are Reptilian and live on the dark side of the moon. It is a known fact that Reptiles taste like chicken . I have a great BBQ sauce for them!
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:44pmI thought the picture of Maggie Aderin-Pocock was the alien. Gee, I guessed I missed the story.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:57pmMe too…Not buying into the flying jelly fish.
Report Post »subic
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:32pmHahahaha, jellyfish, these brit are out of their minds.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:56pmWith steel skin…?
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 11:07pmHumaniform is ubiquitous in this verse. The silicon jellyfish, not so, bare these suitable for enhancements.
Report Post »Tidbit
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:17amHow do you cook these things? Can a body roll them in corn meal and quick fry them like cat fish or can they be rolled in bread crumbs and baked with a little lemon?
Report Post »The Brits cook things a little differently than we do here in Texas.
How about a cook book for these things, boys?
Meyvn
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:03pmPretty damned close for sure.
Report Post »felix
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:35pmHeck , its in the white house already .
Report Post »kindling
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:46pmLol
Report Post »observer48
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:31pmPretty certain Pelosi is an alien……
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:48pmBut she has no brain.
Report Post »gyro
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:29pmso no yummy aliens to eat this week !
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:45pmLike I said in an earlier post….
The Carrot People from that old Lost in Space series.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23808
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:14pmRingo Star is an Extraterrestrial and today is his 72nd Earth Birthday. LOL
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:10pmJust curious.
How many people here believe that Extraterrestrial Life exist?
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:15pmThere’s BILLIONS of Galaxys. BILLIONS. We would be quite arrogant to think we’re the “only” ones “out there” IMO.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:25pmSure. Even more sure if you throw in the time factor. Numerous life forms coud have come AND gone given billions of years. Questionable if we will ever know for certain.
Report Post »OutOnTheTiles
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:27pmUnless of course, we are the only ones !!!
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:35pmJust look at whats in the eyelash that we never see. Fleas even get Nat bit
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:45pmWell, if you believe you can get something from nothing, and you have a WHOLE LOT of nothing, you are bound to VASTLY MULTIPLY the chances of having more of something! Right??
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:45pmI say yes.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:48pmIt has three nuts, it’s an extratestical.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:58pmOutstanding GPS.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 10:05pm@GPS-Tech
RJJinGadsden posted that earlier but used a different terminology and The Blaze moderators deleted his post (or some idiot complained about it).
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:34amNope we are the only deal going…… Check out a video called “ The Privileged Planet ”.
Report Post »MRMANN
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:50amDelta D-5-3
Report Post »Yes we‘d have to be pretty ignorant to believe that in this enormous universe there’s no one else at home.
One of the most closed-minded groups are scientists who, with their beliefs (or more accurately, their religiion of science), fanatically insist that we are the only form of intelligent life. And yet, they have no proof of this.
garylee123
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:21pmHopefully intelligent life is out there somewhere because it sure as heck ain’t on this planet.
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:02pmThis is very interesting. I always wondered how life will look like on another planet. I highly doubt that life will evolve very similar on a different planet. However, it will be an adventure to understand how life can work on different planets other than out own.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:10pmActually if anyone wants to see a true ‘alien’ being; just go to the Congress or the White House and look upon the politicians. Strange and alien in their mindsets.
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:18pmThey’re totally aliens everywhere man! I might be an alien! Or you might be an alien! Just kidding.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:02pmSince I’m a health nut I always liked the Carrot People on one of the Lost in Space shows.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:49pmOK, here’s the link:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/23808
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:02pm“Lost In Space” was one of my favorite shows as a kid. I remember the carrot people.Irwin Allen must have had a very limited budget.Loved the B-9 robot and the Jupiter 2, Chariot, and the space pod.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:59pmIf Obama had an alien child, it would look like that.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:03pmMoochelle would eat it!
Report Post »Tidbit
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:22amGood one pal!!! I had to laugh… Thanks!!!
Report Post »Tidbit
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:02pmGood One…. He’d probably drink iced tea, eat Skiddles, and attack armed men expecting to win the fight…
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:57pmSo, it’s Encounter at Farpoint, 2012 style.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:35pmYep, but with Beet (or Turnip) feet.
I prefer Beet Feet… can it dance? : )
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:01pmOr maybe those are just huge, hairy space testicles.
Report Post »grickm
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:50pmI wonder if she’s read “Leviathans of Jupiter” by Ben Bova.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:50pmAlan Colmes and James Carville look like aliens to me. They sort of look like they travelled for 76000 years. Maybe they found the secret of quantum entanglement to cut travel time.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 8:18pmAnd here I always thought they were vampires, thanks for clearing that up.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 11:28pmJames Carville is a nosferatu.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:58am…hey, now…
Report Post »OutOnTheTiles
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:43pmGod must be amused by us silly humans………
John 1:1
Report Post »1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
right-wing-waco
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:50pmOutOnTheTiles
“God must be amused by us silly humans………”
You got that correct, good post.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:39pmComrades, jellyfish, really? I pictured Dear Leader in the role of a dog eating alien communist.
Report Post »How much of our money did our alien jellyfish leader throw away on this tripe?
cemerius
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:53pm“UK scientist” the socialist Brits threw money on it…of course we probably subsidized it in some fashion too…..
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:37pmThis obsession / distraction with alien life forms is less science than philosophy based conjecture.
The planets we are discovering may or not have life . . .and may or not have intelligent life.
What level of intelligence would we accept ? Whales, Chimps and Pigs have all been identified as
intelligent. But none could build a cell phone or space ship. So what is it we hope to gain from some other species from a distant world ? Answers to our own problems ? Utopia comes in many dreams.
But even if a planet is found and signals received from a seemingly intelligent race, some 25 light years out ? First their signals are at least 25 years old. If they are anything like us, and do not lie in
an alien Utopia, their interests and ‘political’ agendas may have radically changed . . .or they
might have elected and re-elected an Obama type leader and wandered aimlessly into self destruction.
And with present and even wishful thinking technologies, it would take us 100′s of thousands of years to travel to their home. And if they had the capability to travel light years, like us, they would be ‘discovering’ a brand new world (Earth) to be harvested in what ever way they (we) would.
So if they were too much like us . ..we probably wouldn’t like them, .. . . or them, . . . us . . .
and if they were far ‘superior’ to us . . .
I hope we pass the ‘intelligence test.
vote . . .Vote . .VOTE . . .V O T E ! !
Report Post »TX .338 L Mag
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:35pmPulses of light? FAA regulations? Get real. What morons. Do you thing these aliens would be as close to guessing how we look? Would we not be the aliens to them?
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:33pmPeople get paid for doing this? No one could prove them wrong (or right).
Report Post »KeithOlberdink
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:29pmWe have aliens already here, ours is an illegal kenyan in the oval office.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:28pmWassillko-Serecki.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:42pmHer version of a communication organ is also borrowed from the 1950′s sci-fi book, VOR, by James Blish. The whole pile of nonsense is so outdated and cartoonish as to seem fantastically atom ageish.
Report Post »Maximus_Delta
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:23pmoh sheesh please
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:19pmWhat would we ever do without these “scientists” telling us of their fanciful ideas?
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 9:07pmAnd we are supposed to believe in man-made climate change too.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 11:55amI used to think that a “scientist” was one who could prove what they taught. But now all they can do is theorise about something and then publish it, the only reason is to get noticed.
If they do not publish, they do not get noticed, so they invent their stories and conclusions for stupid people to digest.
I am not stupid.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:15pmOh for cryin’ out loud. How stoooopid.
Report Post »cyclops
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:07pmThe new “War of the worlds?” with Tom Cruise? ……LOL!!!!!!
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:06pmLizards
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