What if there is an alien sitting next to you, peeping into your phone and apparently smiling and waving at you? What would be your reaction? Well, some people might feel it horrifying but, I don’t. Jumping into the actual meaning of the term ‘ALIENS’ you would feel the same. ‘Any extraterrestrial living organism existing in the universe except Earth are called aliens’ as per the humans.
Well, what we see in the films and video games, picturing ALIENS having 3 heads or 1 eye or exceptionally dwarf or gigantic or without skin and we can see veins going through it or some with superpowers, whatever, they are just fictional pieces of work, by HUMANS.
We still don’t know how would they look like. But I would try to explain some terms that would help us to be prepared for this instance.
When we define LIFE, we can say that ‘life is an ordered system that keeps itself going in spite of surviving challenges and can reproduce itself’. A living being like you and me and my cactus beside me usually has two elements:
a) A set of instructions that tell the systems how to keep going and reproduce themselves.
b) A mechanism to carry out instructions.
In biology, these two elements are called ‘GENES’ and ‘METABOLISM’.
Now slightly moving forward, the “COMPUTER VIRUSES” is a program that will make copies of itself in the memory of the computer, and will transfer itself to other computers.
Thus it fits the definition I have mentioned above. This opens the door for artificial intelligence to exist as a dominant creature too, just like humans.
Here on earth, living beings(life) have ’CARBON’ as their basic element. Like humans, plants, and animals, your cell phone or laptop on which you are reading my blog, is all made up of carbon stuff. But we can also speculate that one might have a life with other ‘elements’ or with some other ‘chemical basis’. Because there was no carbon when the universe began in the BIG BANG, about 13.8 billion years ago. It was so hot that matter would have existed in protons and neutrons. And after a colossal period of time hydrogen and helium were formed.
Hence, there might be intelligent life made up of ‘X-rays’, ‘Gamma-rays’, or other radioactive waves and not carbon-based like us, while in such cases they are not visible to human eyes. And so an ‘ALIEN’ sitting next to you is just invisible to you. They may don’t communicate like us. They might be good at technological stuff than us.
While conclusion, ‘ALIENS’ is a vast topic to debate about and to keep researching about it. But believing that ALIENS do not exist at all, would be like believing that French fries can only be a snack made out of a ‘potato’ while we can make potato wedges too.
Now, coming back to the question, WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU FIND ALIEN SITTING JUST NEXT TO YOU?
Answer in the comments below, it is always great to hear from you.
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