Baby the stars shine bright...

Sandie33 said:
Perhaps, but I'm thinking non-humanoid if at all. And, if human, perhaps escapees from pyramid era? I'm thinking we try and analyze aliens based on what history & experience dictate ... sort of like ascribing human feelings to a cat. I'm sure the cat emotes, but do they feel under the same conditions as a human?
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Oh certainly, if anything the bipedal structure of our bodies are an abnormality towards evolutionary patterns.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...an-the-evolution-of-walking-upright-13837658/

Especially towards interplanetary travel our bipedalism(?) is a disadvantage to us.
Aliens would look very differently from us and interact differently, dependable on their own environments. Think of, for example, the sensing abilities of a snake in
comparison to our senses. Pretty different.

In regards to cats, they are clever enough to have evolved towards forming certain communication patterns towards us humans. But their native emotions or expressions which they express towards each-other differs to that what they emote to us. (eg. cats express specific sounds and emotions towards their owners so their owners recognise their needs). They are clever fuckers :D.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151015-your-cat-can-pick-up-on-how-you-are-feeling

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...nd their human,in order to communicate better.
 
dragulagu said:
Especially towards interplanetary travel our bipedalism(?) is a disadvantage to us.
Aliens would look very differently from us and interact differently, dependable on their own environments. Think of, for example, the sensing abilities of a snake in
comparison to our senses. Pretty different.
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Yet, what about a hybrid humannoid as some of the theorists think may be closer to the alien life form?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...ave-mated-more-once-mysterious-ancient-humans

And, to keep wit the OP's Star theme,
https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com...-and-why-star-wars-isnt-entirely-fiction/amp/
 
Sandie33 said:
Yet, what about a hybrid humanoid as some of the theorists think may be closer to the alien life form?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...ave-mated-more-once-mysterious-ancient-humans
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Fascinating, I have not yet heard of the Denisovan sub-species of humans. Most you read on the history of humans is either based on Homo Sapiens or the Neanderthal. Adds up
to our genetic diversity.

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/denisovan/

According to one theory, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans are all descended from the ancient human Homo heidelbergensis. Between 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, an ancestral group of H. heidelbergensis left Africa and then split shortly after. One branch ventured northwestward into West Asia and Europe and became the Neanderthals. The other branch moved east, becoming Denisovans. By 130,000 years ago, H. heidelbergensis in Africa had become Homo sapiens—our ancestors—who did not begin their own exodus from Africa until about 60,000 years ago.
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Hyperspace, while it would be great to have it under our fingertips, is currently practically impossible to achieve, I'm afraid. We don't have the resources to create hyperspace travel.
 
I watched a documentary on TV today about the New Horizons mission to Pluto. I'd forgotten what an amazing sight this was and how strange such a beautiful object should be hidden away in the darkest, coldest part of the Solar System. The heart-shaped nitrogen ice field in this picture is just one of the treats

pluto-false-color-1405x1200.jpg
 
John K said:
I watched a documentary on TV today about the New Horizons mission to Pluto. I'd forgotten what an amazing sight this was and how strange such a beautiful object should be hidden away in the darkest, coldest part of the Solar System. The heart-shaped nitrogen ice field in this picture is just one of the treats

pluto-false-color-1405x1200.jpg
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Awesome!


Did you get to see the Lunar eclipse this weekend John?
 
Sandie33 said:
Awesome!


Did you get to see the Lunar eclipse this weekend John?
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It really is amazing!

No the eclipse wasn't visible from the UK sadly. I'd love to get some shots with my long focus lens - I didn't have that the last time I photographed one.
 
Sandie33 said:
Here either, it's been overcast all weekend.
Do take some :)
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Best is a cold frosty night in winter with the sky absolutely clear. I'd like to get a complete sequence through every stage. Murphy's law will have it that there won't be another one of those for years ....
 
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If the sky is clear the next few nights go out in the evening and look to your East / South East - Mars is at its brightest for about 2 years at the moment, but it will fade as we move on through October because it's moving away from us now. It should be in the South by the middle of the night, and it sets in the West early in the morning.

You can't miss it, it's the brightest thing in that part of the sky and is obviously a reddish colour.

https://mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/night-sky/close-approach/
 
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