My "thesis" availabe (sole content) at http://hometown.aol.com//gotuten/alien.htm
is based on the iconic 'alien' actually being our distant descendant as a chrononaut seeking healthier genes for their offspring due to their prolonged lack of natural selection, much like animal breeders do to strengthen overly domesticated bloodlines (in short). I believe ET's are out there, but
the chances of our first and only ET contacts looking even more like humans than say a bat looks like a bird or a dolphin looks like a shark seem staggeringly improbable. Lifeforms have got to be more anatomically diverse (and are on Earth) than StarTrek, which began with a budget allowing them only to portrey ET's as having an uncanny tendency to covergently evolve toward the humanoid. I'd be stoked to get a few of you to read it (URL above)
is based on the iconic 'alien' actually being our distant descendant as a chrononaut seeking healthier genes for their offspring due to their prolonged lack of natural selection, much like animal breeders do to strengthen overly domesticated bloodlines (in short). I believe ET's are out there, but
the chances of our first and only ET contacts looking even more like humans than say a bat looks like a bird or a dolphin looks like a shark seem staggeringly improbable. Lifeforms have got to be more anatomically diverse (and are on Earth) than StarTrek, which began with a budget allowing them only to portrey ET's as having an uncanny tendency to covergently evolve toward the humanoid. I'd be stoked to get a few of you to read it (URL above)