What would alien life actually look like? | BBC Ideas

Spock? Predator? The classic humanoid body shape with big eyes? We don't think so. Biologist Adam Hart and illustrator Memo Kosemen combine their skills to predict how natural selection could see alien life evolve on a variety of alien worlds.

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[Dcain]

I think the concept of life from outer space is too abstract for us. We are confined in an arm arm leg leg body head type. They have to breath like us. In such a large universe, life can come in almost an infinite amount of forms and shapes

[ocaracujonomecomecacomsaas]

Kosemen came with an extreme interesting and creative perspective of intelligence and the other guy came with "yEAh, bUT noT JusT ColONiaL-LikE IntELliGEncE", man, human-like intelligence is interesting, but DID YOU SEE THOSE LITTLE THINGS ASSUMING FORMS ATTEMPTING TO COMMUNICATE???? THAT WAS

[bunnybunnyhophophop]

This is absolutely beautiful! Thank you Adam and Memo! Loving your chemistry, bouncing ideas off each other, finishing each other's sentences. Perhaps there is an alien version of Adam and Memo out there somewhere right now, speculatively drawing what life forms would look like on planet Earth. :)

[rahulyaji]

Great ideas. I was bored of the typical grey alien stereotype.

[eviljoker]

How they would look like depends on many things like what is the temperature and atmospheric conditions on their home world as well as the gravity and size, temperature and color of their home star

[georgiagreenfield]

that was absolutely brilliant. one of my favourite videos maybe ever.

[BeanDar]

I’ve been looking for a video like this for years. Wonderful. Thank you. Very talented artists and intellectuals

[skysetblue]

No way I was thinking of a tadpole creature on Europa

[jamespowell]

I can answer this question for everybody. Life throughout the Universe is the same as here on earth and that is the blueprint that the creator used to create intelligent lifeforms throughout the universe. I am not talking about microbial life or vegetation life or marine life, I am only talking about intelligent lifeforms like humans or other mammal forms of life.

[wayward]

I try to make my aliens look as "Alien" as possible,

[ocaracujonomecomecacomsaas]

I was not expecting to find Memo in this video lol, what a great surprise

[timweapon]

3ft tall, Dino body (tail), bipedal, humanoid head, whole face eyes (nocturnal).

I was within 6 foot of this creature.

[donovandelaney]

They could have completely unique DNA and some might have RNA, TNA or XNA.

[maciejkukla]

There was a book called "Hospital Station" about a galactic hospital exactly :)

[alfiesolomons]

This is not the best thing to watch while you’re high😂

[NothingMaster]

There could be trillions upon trillions of primitive life forms spread out across the Universe. So what? What humanity is primarily interested in is the possibility of encountering highly intelligent ET’s. What might they look like? How similar or different might they be as compared to us? Some might have even inevitably moved beyond the biological state and are now only represented by machines and the highly advanced AI beings and shapeshifters, roaming around the Universe.

[jimferry]

If you look at our own future they will most likely look like microchips and not biological. That’s if your talking about intelligent life

[alicechew]

Maybe, you have seen these beings and that is why you could draw it. I do believe it that these beings actually exists in our earth.

[Nightlife_Offical]

I’m here from the future, I know these people are right.

[SJR_Media_Group]

ET looks nothing like humans.... we are the sum total of all previous events in Earth's history. No other planet will have same events in same sequence, that resulted in bi-pedal mammals with opposing thumb, and large brain.