Quote (BovineDesi @ Wed, Dec 10 2008, 05:28pm)
No, you really are missing the point. The bounds you are putting on life are that it has to be like ours. Life is anything that is moving on its own, if our Earth was very far away from the sun, then we would evolve into very polar creatures -- perhaps not needing heat or sunlight. Life as we know it started from amino acids and into bacteria...bacteria is some of the most resiliant life in this universe, able to adapt and conform to almost any condition within minutes (just because it has a rapid mutation rate)...so the underlying point is that we may have walked on five legs and eaten stones or something if the earth was very far away.
Ahhh, so glad someone brought this up.
Main reason I hate most alien movies is because of how much they resemble humans or other earthly life forms.
If there is alien life out there, the chance that they evolved under the same conditions as us isn't even worth discussing.
Unless, of course, you believe in an infinite universe, in which case there would be an infinite number of planets containing life, also including an infinite number of planets containing life similar to our own.
But infinity is too abstract, so fuck that.