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I dunno what they'll look like but let's hope they don't have universal translators.

Cows: "There they are, the ones I told you about."

Humans:

I want to believe that Rodenberry knew something and the Vulcans 🖖 are exactly as portrayed.

But I could see them being feathered lizard like bipedal creatures, or perhaps crab like. I think bipedal because dexterity of appendages would be necessary to develop a written language and build precision tools. It seems to be a fluke of historical events that furless mammals were the species to emerge as the highest intelligence.

Goo creatures like Yafet on the Orville would be pretty cool tho.

Based on what we understand about the universe I honestly genuinely think that Aliens who could accomplish intergalactic travel would basically have to be some kind of eldritch horror to our eyes. Their biology or perception of time would be have to be so far removed from what we think of as sentient life I think we'd find them beyond comprehension.

They would be four foot tall desert crabs. They would have at least one hand with extra pinchers so that it gives them complex grasping ability. They would live in colonies. They basically would evolve intelligence to work together cooperatively to gather resources during the wet season and then unfortunately to steal resources better during the dry season. Their complex manipulators would allow them to make tools to improve their lot and eventually create enough surplus calories to develop large brains

Alien planet of corvids. Highly capitalist like ferengi. They just love how shiny gold pressed latinum is.

Energy beings are the only aliens that could possibly live long enough to make interstellar travel a possibility. Either Robots or some kind of extradimensional being.

they would look like you and me. undetected, they would walk among us in bodies resistant to fire and magic.

they are the Dutch and we must resist them at all costs.

Waiting for the Posadists to come out

they look like us , but more slender , because of gravity , and they look for Art Music and Entertaiment , as they allready have everything else under space communism.

thats also why they would not make first contact.. it would spoil the unique arts and the entertaiment they get.. , since they did first contact with Zobrob 4, they only produce shit...

I really recommend watching Scavengers Reign for anyone who finds this type of thing interesting! I guess it's probably not scientifically accurate from a speculative evolution point of view, but wow the level of thought and detail put into the alien ecosystem is mind blowing. Really beautiful show.

Big humanoid bugs who are dtf

Find the Dragon Balls (look out for them all!)

I'd imagine them to look like some random weird animal. People overemphasize weird sea critters when going down this route; there's plenty of convergent evolution to go around and they might only look as weird as star nosed moles (on a casual glance from the outside; their interior anatomy and bone structure would be weird as fuck).

I don't know why you'd ship actual live beings across interstellar distances. Either implies there's a way around the speed of light, or somebody is really fucking bored. The later is of course more likely.

Honestly I'd expect von Neumann probes. Self-replicating machine intelligences. Given the time scales and energy requirements to send big spacecraft capable of sending organic life as we know it safely between stars at high relativistic speeds while still working within the known laws of physics, I just don't see alien spaceships as sci-fi depicts being a thing.

I genuinely think they'd look more or less like humans with latex prosthetics. Same kinda basic layout with similar advantages and drawbacks, with miscellaneous differences based on their home world conditions. Maybe their butts are in their nipples or they smell through their hair or something, but I think the evolutionary pressures that lead species to the development of technology would end up being remarkably similar to the ones that lead us to develop it.

I think they'd have weird foreheads but otherwise be like us

They'll try to give us a vaccine against all disease but people will drive them off out of fear it will give them autism.

Weird.

I think they'd be weird. Like there's no real need for them to have bilateral symmetry, a distinct head that contains respiratory, alimentary, olfactory, auditory and visual organs.

They might rely heavily on senses other than sight and sound, or see and hear totally different ranges from us.

They could lack individuality, or be some kind of hive mind.

I think they'd be really weird, but also I think that due to the size of space, even though I assume one intelligent species at least must be out there, that we'll never meet one.

i would guess pretty close to earth.

phospholipids naturally occur and form "cells"

amino acids naturally occur and form "proteins"

Solar energy is abundant so life forms will need to make us of it, photosynthesis will probably be used to move electrons first

glucose is so easy to make things from

I, for one, bling gnarpofff gbimb doftzerp pygn-pygn-pygn

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I wasn't sure how to spell all that. It is my most humble desire that "pygn-pygn-pygn" be seen as polite not sarcastic. The pleading case as a triplet is very confusing for us homo sapiens. Please don't hurt me.

they're from here, scientific materialism has fundamental limits that cannot readily describe all phenomena, and i bet they look like little grey assholes.

Alf

On Kepler-22B, a telescope pointing back at me.