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No, seriously. The story of the evolution of aliens representation in minds and movies is by itself already passionating. From Wells to ID4, from E.T. to X-files, representations varied a lot.

But you’re right. An alien is always humanoid, generally breathes more air thean anything else and don’t mind about our air pressure… (an excellent example being Star Wars). But, above all, he is concerned with the human problems and is equipped with a human mindset. I don’t think a true alien would know for sure we humans are the most evoluted species, for instance. If it measures evolution and intelligence to the numbers of chromosomes, it will decide lily of the valley, with its 91 chromosomes, is the most evoluted specy! Or maybe would he consider any material creature as mere animals, intelligence being only imaginable for it in a decorporated form.

An old article on a French review, Science & Vie, said there could be three kind of aliens:

• The ones who live on the same timescale as us (days to years);
• Other with an extremely short lifespan (neutron star life, billionths of seconds);
• And finally, aliens living on an unspeakably huge time scale : (Galaxia in Isaac Asimov’s Earth and Foundation would be an organic version, truly mineral ones being made of stars as organs/molecules). They would have a life expectancy counting in millions (if not billions) of years but our Universe is too young by now to allow their emergence.

One of my favorites to ponder where always those of a different dimensional quality than what we are. Something, which we might possibly catch a fleeting glimpse of but yet cannot see fully. Held captive within our own three dimensional form, we would lack the necessary equipment, to see, speak, or truly recognize what we saw. I did like one movie called Contact. Whereas most rely on some Hollywood makeup artist to try and recreate some oddity. The movie, based on a work by Carl Sagan focused more on society’s reaction. And the science behind such an event. When it finally came time for the “aliens” to appear, it was simply a reflection from Jodie Foster’s mind that met her. I found that absolutely fascinating. But then, I did watch Sagan’s show Cosmos when it was on. I imagine many here are far too young to even know what I am talking about. It was a television program that ran pre-cable. On PBS, I believe, and watching it was very much like a cerebral hallucination for me. Some of the concepts delivered were mind blowing.

Nearer from us. Bernard Weber, a famous French writer wrote a theory I saw somewhere else later. Weber is known in America for its Ants trilogy. In this trilogy, he told the story of an ant colony discovering humanity. It is really amusing to see how they represent the Infernal Machine, which just happen to be… a little boy’s finger. I suggest everybody read Ants. You can find it at Amazon or Barnes and Nobles. Bernard Weber call ants I.T., intra-terrestrials. To be ready for meeting ETs requires we first success in our dealing with ITs.

Finally, he develops a theory I thought fucking dumb until I saw it somewhere else (don’t remember where, though). He says cancer could be a form of alien travelers trying to communicate with us, but they don’t know how to do it, they don’t have the tiniest idea of how we really “work”. That’s why cancer is lethal ^[1]. I do not accept this theory, but it explains quite well how far alien life could depart from Third encounter. And it is more interesting, too.

I’m waiting for your reactions and comments.

For some reason that reminds me of the old concept of a universe existing within the dirt under one’s nail. I dunno, I find a lot more stirring revelations and things that jar my thinking in what is actually being discovered.

Dark matter, let’s call it a new subject. 90% of the universe is made of dark matter, but it cannot be seen. Light does not penetrate it, nor does it leave from it. Yet the object exists, and with great abundance. It has weight, they can measure by observing its effects on surrounding celestial bodies. And that weight, is far far greater than any known planet or groups of planets. But yet they are puzzled as to what it really is. Black holes, they have images of, and if these were the same, why are we still here? If these objects make up 90 percent of the known universe, would we not be shredded if they were also black holes? Eagle Nebula, the star factory called by some. One of the most beautiful images brought to us by the Hubble. It is an astounding site, to think this is how stars, like our own sun are formed. In what appears to be a birth chamber of some sort. Oort cloud, a gaseous dark cloudlike substance that floats thru our galaxy and can destroy life. This is not sci-fi, but real…

Implicate order, a term from quantum physics and other sciences that have arisen. This is a theoretical idea that concerns a point within the space/time continuum where all time and all place meet. I have head it theorized that if one could stand at this point, and look around them they could see everything that ever was. And go to everything, every time, every dimension that ever was or will be. Now if this place exists, would it not be vastly more interesting then how to lighten your skin? Or how to look more like what a book of fiction says you should look like?

Quantum singularity, that which powers a black hole, an event horizon. The combined mass of all the matter that the beast consumes to the point that it is crushed in upon itself. Mass that is so powerful, so compact, that the very action of it falling into itself creates this black hole. Where it continues to draw more and more matter, compressing and compressing until it is forced to release some of it in a brilliant burst. I saw one image one time that gave me chills, yet it fascinated me the same. It was of a black hole consuming a star. The entire perimeter of the event horizon glowed with fire of it’s victim, the star still burned even though it was being siphoned from it such a way. Oh my, I just nearly had an interesting comparison then LOL.

There is much more, but I shall send this portion of my thoughts to you, look forward to the reply.

Some says that when you’re listening at a discussion about computers, you just hear barbarisms. I would add: when you listening at a discussion about astronomy, you just hear poetry…

As you should know, I do not live in US. Do you know if I can find some archives about the Cosmos series? I actually am a fan of Sagan’s working (did you read his work about surviving the end of the universe? It is in Scientific American, 1999 or 2000). And I like to blur my mind ☻

I didn’t see Contact, and I regret it. Some said it wasn’t a great movie. For sure they’d preferred ID4 or V…

Your speech about the old concept of a universe existing within the dirt under one’s nail reminds me of Stephen King’s The Gunslinger (this book’s first short novel is awesome). When the pistolero finally meet the man he’s pursuing, he absorbs a drug that makes him discover the true nature of the universe. He sees his planet, then his solar system, the Galaxy, black holes, the whole universe then, finally… a purple daisy. Ever heard about “bubble-universes”?

We do not have pictures from black holes. Because their incredible gravity absorbs the very light (by the way, I wonder how gravity can affect a massless particle as the photon). We can just obtain pictures from their victims and extrapolate about consequences.

Implicate order theory makes me think once again about black holes. A black hole is not a hole, there is a singularity at the center. While mind-disturbing, matter appears to be so tortured there that it is able to condensate forever. No more there is time neither space at the singularity. Actually, according to astronomers, a black hole doesn’t belong anymore to our universe.

Now if this place exists, would it not be vastly more interesting then how to lighten your skin?

It is a good reply to Daemonox who think we are obsessed with wanapirism!

Did you heard about white holes (a.k.a. white fountains) and worm holes? This theory is really seducing. It says that a black hole is not a dead-end. It is a pathway into our universe ^[2] — and maybe beyond. Black holes would communicate via a worm hole to a white fountain (ah, poetry…) on another part of the universe… or maybe a brand different one, where matter spreads out all the time; maybe this is what really are quasars. Could one uses a black hole in the right way, one could accelerate fast enough to travel faster than light and so… go back in time.

I’m still looking for informations about edges of sciences, particularly parapsychology, astronomy and quantum physics. I will send you some links when my Internet agent will go back ^[3]. May I suggest you the last book from John Maddox (Nature’s ex-chief writer), What Remains to Be Discovered (1998)? It is a cheap one, like US$25.

I saw one image one time that gave me chills, yet it fascinated me the same. It was of a black hole consuming a star. The entire perimeter of the event horizon glowed with fire of it `s victim, the star still burned even though it was being siphoned from it such a way. Oh my, I just nearly had an interesting comparison then LOL.

A vampire and his victim ☻.