Talk:Extraterrestrial life (popular culture)

This doesn't make sense
"However, if real extraterrestrial life exists, few people expect to find humanoid characteristics, believing that this would be too great a coincidence given an entirely different evolutionary scale. Therefore, it is possible that alien life similar to humankind exists."
 * Huh? Few people? are we talking about scientists or average people? Is there any basis for this statement? It seems like whoever wrote it is merely speculating. If it was more specific and had a reference it would help. Also, the second sentence makes no sense in this context. Why is it possible, because anything's possible? Foday 05:02, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I am familiar with several arguments on the subject (sorry, but I don't remember where I read them). The most prevalent of the ideas states that alien life would probably not resemble life on Earth, due to the whole "random chance" thing.  However, the idea that aliens would have a humanoid form has remained popular, as it has been considered an "ideal" form - as certain steps which are commonly considered to be "essential" to the development of a spacefaring race (fire, writing, etc.) would require an agility that (on Earth) only exists in the Human form.  And it's easier for actors to portray humanoid aliens.  :P  --Tim4christ17 09:11, 18 July 2006 (UTC)