Would you be disappointed if aliens were humans?

[Lookingglassman]

Imagine we finally establish contact with an alien race and we discover they are humans just like us, except they are more technologically advanced and perhaps speak a different language, but physically they are equal to us. They have the same races as we do and when tested have the same blood types and organs.

Would you be disappointed or happy the first alien contact is with humans?

 

[Aragorn]

Not even bumpy foreheads?

 

[Gertch]

It'd be worse if they looked like gazelles. BTW, did I ever tell you about my trip through southern Africa when I came upon a gazelle...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'd be a little terrified at the prospect at first, but actually ultimately feel reassured that humans were not only not alone, but also not unique, in the Universe. (It's something I've felt would actually happen come First Contact with a new extraterrestrial race.)

 

[trekkerguy]

Some of them are Humans.

No I'm not disapointed.

 

[JuanBolio]

I'd be astounded if they looked even remotely similar to any species currently living on Earth.

 

[Gertch]

I'd be astounded if they looked even remotely similar to any species currently living on Earth.

Why? God has the deluxe version of Spore?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'd be more than disappointed I'd be shit scared. If they're anything like us we're screwed.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If they're anything like us we're screwed.

But we could still screw them, right? I mean, biological compatibility and all...

 

[T J]

Agreed. People suck. Alien people could suck more.

I'd be real disappointed, I'm hoping for something really mind blowing.

 

[JuanBolio]

I'd be astounded if they looked even remotely similar to any species currently living on Earth.

Why? God has the deluxe version of Spore?

Que?

 

[DanTheGrey]

This isn't as strange a thought as it might seem. Though I figure it's more likely that the 'aliens' would probably be humans from another dimension/parallel universe.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

No, I like the idea.

 

[JonathonWally]

I'd be astounded if they looked even remotely similar to any species currently living on Earth.

Why? God has the deluxe version of Spore?

If that were the case all Aliens would look like giant penises.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

What if these aliens being like us and all also had a world war 2 where they had their own version of Hitler and the Nazis but on their world the Nazis won?

Would you all be disappointed then?

 

[darkshadow0001]

Imagine we finally establish contact with an alien race and we discover they are humans just like us, except they are more technologically advanced and perhaps speak a different language, but physically they are equal to us. They have the same races as we do and when tested have the same blood types and organs.

Would you be disappointed or happy the first alien contact is with humans?

Funny you should mention this, I was watching a UFO show once (can't recall the name) but someone on it believed that aliens were actually humans from the future who have done nothing more then time-travel to our present time. (And I'm serious about this)

 

[Danoz]

Well, I'd be intrigued, because it would be likely that these humans either evolved on Earth-- or that Earth humans evolved elsewhere! My favorite representation of alien beings is generally Orson-Scott Card's "buggers." If intelligent beings evolved elsewhere I find it very unlikely that they look like us... unless we all share the genetic coding for a hologram that would explain our separate, yet similar traits as originating from a distant humanoid species that blew genetic sperm all over the galaxy...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

What if these aliens being like us and all also had a world war 2 where they had their own version of Hitler and the Nazis but on their world the Nazis won?

Would you all be disappointed then?

I'd consider ourselves lucky. Lucky that we went down a different path. And also lucky that at least they wouldn't be Alien Nazis™.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Funny you should mention this, I was watching a UFO show once (can't recall the name) but someone on it believed that aliens were actually humans from the future who have done nothing more then time-travel to our present time. (And I'm serious about this)

The 4400

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'd be a bit disappointed, but it's not going to happen. The only way "aliens" could be Human would be if some other advanced race seeded one or the other of our planets with people from the other (and we know it isn't this one) within a recent enough time for there to be little or no genetic drift.

Some intelligent aliens from another world may be bipedal, but there's no way they will even vaguely pass for Human. Well, possibly in a trenchcoat and slouch hat on a dark night.