![]() The look of the aliens has been described as bio-mechanical, blending organic and mechanical elements. The life-cycle and social organisation of the aliens incorporates traits found in eusocial species such as wasps, and in endoparasites, that live in their hosts. ![]() Ridley Scott’s aliens are as much horror as sci-fi, and the franchise gets a lot of things right. In the Alien franchise “The Company” (the Weyland-Yutani Corporation) wanted to acquire an alien for their bioweapons division.Ĭlearly, like NASA, they should have been more cautious about this. The radio astronomers at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute have protocols on what to do if they detect a signal (verify it and then tell everyone), while NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection has the task of protecting Earth’s biosphere from contamination from any alien lifeforms that might be brought back after space missions. However, there are some real-life contingency plans for encountering aliens. If they did, I’d probably have been the person asked to draft it. There is no planĭespite what some people in the UFO and conspiracy theory community think, the government doesn’t have an alien invasion war plan. ![]() Sharks, by comparison, have been around for approximately 450 million years, so the jury’s out on whether being smart is going to be a truly successful survival strategy for us. Before we argue that our intelligence would see us through any real-life encounter with aliens like this, we should remember that anatomically, modern humans have existed for only around 200,000 years, while ‘civilisation’ is only a few thousand years old. ![]()
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