<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span>Am being extreme in rejecting conceivable quasi-anthropic ETs, but want to think on the possibilities. </span></div><div><span>If you've read the following sort of speculation too often, an apology is due to you in advance:</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Symmetry wouldn't necessarily be present. </span></div><div><span>Perhaps locomotion wouldn't be with our familiar modes of locomotion but </span></div><div><span>rather with gas thrust and say flagellan motion. </span></div><div><span></span><span>ETs might be unappetising (merely to touch on this) to us, </span></div><div><span>they could perhaps internally </span><span>recycle their own wastes;</span></div><div><span>ETs may be hideous </span><span>albeit intelligent. </span></div><div><span>Plus, wonder if a type of ET could be colonial
rather than individual </span><span>some may</span><span> imagine </span></div><div><span></span><span>(an intelligent version of Portuguese Man o' War comes to mind immediately). </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>T</span><span>he majority of those I talk to on this appear to think-- if they think </span><span>about it-- </span><span>that if they were to land on a planet somewhere v. distant, they'd meet Jean Luc Picard or Luke Skywalker.. s</span><span>uch is what I react to.</span></div><div><br> </div> </div></body></html>