Aliens! Well, probably!
Aliens apparently don’t have to be carbon (or phosphorus) based, so the chance that they exist is really good.
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I thought this link was going to be about this: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html
Which is happening in just a few minutes. Everyone is speculating that they found evidence of this arsenic-eating life on Saturn’s moon Titan.
I’m sure many others feel this way, but I never liked that aliens in the movies were so humanoid.
I always expected the first sign of life to be unpredictably strange.
The first intelligent life, however, might be more humanoid.
I’ve said it before but the most exciting thing about alien life will be the creationist types trying to spin it and fit it into their world view.
@Paris: i actually saw a pretty interesting thing (or read an article? I don’t remember) about how our form actually makes evolutionary sense for most intelligent life. A minimum of two legs to free up limbs for tool-use (more than two legs wastes energy and would be bred out). A minimum of two eyes for depth perception (three eyes or more offer no significant benefit while demanding larger brain size for more processing power, so to speak). A head that is raised above the ground containing the brain where it is furthest from danger… all in all, a humanoid intelligent alien actually is somewhat likely.
