I think a lot of people will be terrified when they find out another planet with humans.

  • dragnucs
    4·
    3 years ago

    While it is very unlikely, this would be a hard to explain. Maybe humanoids would be acceptable, but humains like us, very hard to grasp.

    It would give me a literal headache trying to explain it.

    It would be a bit hard to interact with them at first because of language but this kind of issuebisnjust temporary. BUT what if the atmosphere where both species meet kills one before we can understand each other?

  • xarvos
    4·
    3 years ago

    Yes, it’d be scary to learn that they could be among us without us knowing. Scientifically speaking, this would be extremely unlikely (I’m assuming by being human you mean not only sharing with us appearance, but also genome and reproducible with us), so it would certainly raise big questions in the science community.

    Funnily, this is how I usually imagine aliens, as portrayed in some sci-fi movies and comics.

  • incider
    4·
    3 years ago

    Yeah, if that happened, that would be new data that would need explaining, in the context of evolution.

    • pinknoise
      1·
      3 years ago

      I mean if humans were a (local) optimum in the space of possible species on earth-like planets¹, evolution would evolve them most of the time.

      ¹ Which I’d highly doubt

      • Lightbritelite
        2·
        3 years ago

        I feel like there’d be more crab like creatures than bipedal humanoids out there, just given how many crab-alikes there are on earth

      • sibachian
        1·
        3 years ago

        intelligence isn’t even selected for as an evolutionary trait due to the costs. we just got lucky. right time, right place.

  • sibachian
    3·
    3 years ago

    Convergent evolution causing creatures to look near identical to humans? Probable. The universe repeats. You got the same boring suns, planets, planetary properties, and material/building blocks. DNA can only be configured in so many ways as it is bound by the constrains of physics so ecological niches should remain somewhat the same assuming the planet share most of our settings (size, gravity, moon, sun distance, oxygen events, water, etc).

    Literal humans? Highly unlikely. The evolutionary trajectory of a planet would need to be near identical to ours, with historic events coinciding with our own. One random meteor out of match and everything would change.