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All About Aliens (September 2010)
Dear Muse-lings,
I want to hear your thoughts on outer space. Do you believe in aliens? If extraterrestrial life is out there, what do you think it will be like? Green, big-headed, and bug-eyed? Small, pipe-playing, and pie-throwing? Talk to me.
Your favorite Muse of astronomy (and alien afficionado),
Urania
no, i dont believe in aliens, but um, what was i gonna type?................................................................................................ oh yeah!
the movie Alien is really cool and freakish, but still awesome yet scary.
uh, bye!
(September 6, 2010 - 7:08 pm)
My friend an I both believe in aliens, and we are hoping that someday we will have pet aliens, but we don`t know how to keep them secret, you may change your mind about aliens once I`m eleven an can prove it,we are positive we will get one in at least when we are aliens. PLEASE PUBLISH MY LETTER! I would be most obliged if you did. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,please, please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE!
(October 22, 2010 - 4:48 pm)
What if the aliens don't want to be pets?
(November 13, 2010 - 4:21 pm)
well.............. i guess aliens would look however they should look in order to survive their planet-right???????????? so....... i really don't know how they would look.
(September 8, 2010 - 7:34 am)
i bet green. but they could look like humans. would it be cool, if there was entire world out there that functioned exactly like us, looked like us, functioned like us, and think the same way as us, that we dont know about? but back to the reply, do you like Mac N' Cheese?
(September 8, 2010 - 3:32 pm)
yes. i do like mac n cheese, thank you very much. and why green???? i bet......a whole colony of blue people!!! and they would have silver eyes that could see right into your soul, and their hair would be either pink or purple or a mix of the 2.
wow, i'm liken' this idea!
(September 8, 2010 - 5:32 pm)
and, btw, they would live on the moons of pluto
(September 9, 2010 - 2:23 pm)
I think there is life somewhere in space. I mean, just look at how big space is! There has to be life somewhere else besides Earth. I bet there may even be life forms out in space wondering the same thing as us... Is there life on any planet besides ours? Maybe there's some planet whose residents are far more technologically advanced than us are are wondering, Um, hello! We're right here! Why can't you find us? Oh, yeah, because you're still using computers. I forgot. Sorry! Who really knows? I don't like how scientists sometimes say, "There couldn't be life on this planet because its too hot." or anything like that. Just because there couldn't be human life doesn't mean there can't be any intelligible life forms. I could go on and on, but this is web post, not an essay, so I'll stop typing now...
(September 9, 2010 - 3:54 pm)
I invented an alien that can live on Jupiter. I call it the PolargatorPetrel.
(September 13, 2010 - 7:43 pm)
You're right. We don't have anything much to base on when we decide if a planet can support life. Even if 300 degrees can't support humans, it might be perfect for another intelligent life form. We only make the judgments based on our knowledge of earth survival. I think it's interesting that we seem to only be looking for planets similar to our own when we think of looking for life in outer space.
(November 30, 2010 - 10:35 pm)
yeah!
(September 10, 2010 - 5:49 pm)
Heyhi, Muse peeeps!!!!! I most certainly think there is life because of how big the universe is. I think that aliens would live on the moon Europa. That's one of Saturn's moons. But, I think that they are still tiny bacteria, and haven't evolved into whatever they will look like yet, so that's why the scientists can't find them. Because a tiny little bacterium couldn't care less!
(September 11, 2010 - 1:14 pm)
I totally agree that if there is life somewhere else in our solar system, it would be on Europa. I'm pretty sure that there is water there, like ice. Water usually means life. And yes, it probably is bacteria.
Also, why does everyone always stereotype aliens with having much more advanced technology than we do? Every book you read, there's always some sort of vaporiser, silent hovercraft, something we have yet to invent here. But why does everyone think that? Yes, there could be some, but how do we know that there is not intelligent life fairly new to a planet that is still in the Stone Age?
(October 22, 2011 - 8:00 pm)
Yes, I believe in aliens. They can look like anything. Under Europa, there could be animals resembling squid, octopi, tube worms! Anything! But since the universe is so vast, how could there not be any life more advanced than we are? Maybe they have already contacted us many many years ago. How long could they keep up with contacting us over and over again? And, do they have to be solid? They can be gases, or liquids. Urania, as the muse of space, couldn't you just spare the trouble and tell us!
Oh well. Pwt PWNs, Feather the fantastic, admirable Aeiou, Kookin' Koko, calibrating Chad, cawin' Crraw, something Urania, Meek Mimi, and bhgfdhf Bo.
Ps: Urania and I share the same first letter!
(September 12, 2010 - 11:46 pm)
ahem.
duh! of course I believe in extraterrestrial life! The question is, do the little bacteria thingies that live on mars believe that we, (the extramartian life) exist? BUT I do believe in the giant aliens whose gym locker we live in and in the tiny aliens who live in my gym locker.
I am only a novice Man In Black (or in my case: Attention Deficit and Paranoia ridden preteen believer in conspiracy theories and scary cool sci fi horror movies(Just try making a movie about that!(and I also do not like math but looooove science)))
Of course, it is a good thing that I am not really taken that seriously, otherwise I'd have to erase all of your memories and wear my sooper cool sunglasses(the latter was not really a bad thing for me).
uh....
you didn't hear any of this from me, ok?????
(September 13, 2010 - 5:34 pm)
åliens do not exist. i would know. i am one
(September 13, 2010 - 6:40 pm)
so,
you are basically saying that you don't exist. Ooooh, do you live in my diseased imagination too???
what's with the weird "a" huh?
(September 14, 2010 - 8:25 am)
Why do people think there is no life on Venus, I mean, look at me! I`m an alien and I`m from Venus! My name is pronounced CLUNK-AIE-YEE-AHOO. And, as you can tell, my name is spelled Klunkayeeyahoo. I live in Honnliany, and let me tell you! Ever looked at the people in Avatar? We look like that, except we have green skin. I have a baby dragon, she is a firey red with green stripes, but the stripes are only on her tail and head and legs. Her name is Mayonaisse, named after that magic stuff on your thingamabobbers that I think are commonly known as burgers. Is your planet called Merth or Earth? We are invading soon, you better tell your mala! We have our own language on Pandora, and me mala saye Im not sposseid do use youree languagee. Me just used me own language,so let I translate. Oh, sorry about the errors. Me donte noe your language very well. On second thought, Im not translating,our language is close to yours.
KLUNKAYEEYAHOO
(October 22, 2010 - 7:29 pm)
What nonexistent alien planet are you not from??
(October 2, 2010 - 3:44 pm)
What I have always thought is that there is alien life and they are searching for us, too.
(September 18, 2010 - 5:26 pm)
I am an alien. This has been transtlated. REALLY PLEASE BELIEVE ME I AM AN ALIEN.
Anyway, I do look like you Earthlings. Except that I have turquiose skin. We live in the
Tiboov Galaxy. We speak the dialect IMPALX432GDH. Sorry, but I live 67272727676765
billion trillion light years away. WE KNOW ABOUT YOU EARTHLINGS, AND WE'RE COMING.
(September 18, 2010 - 5:38 pm)
When are you coming??????? Are you going to land in Roswell? That would not be cool because Roswell is like a zillion miles away from where I am landing when I come back to Earth! Please tell me soon so I can put it on my calendar!
(November 13, 2010 - 4:14 pm)
Are you friendly?
(November 22, 2010 - 7:53 pm)
I'm not sure what an alien would look like but it might look like my sister. You know the scary hair, big head, scary feet. That sort of thing. I am sure you don't want anymore details.
(September 19, 2010 - 11:21 pm)
Well, minus the big head you pretty much just described me.
THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT!!!
I am the aliens' contact here on Earth. When they come, they will make peace in all the countries, clean up the oil spill, and use their alien technology to solve the global warming-DON'T DENY IT IS A PROBLEM. THEN the aliens will take over the world. Because if you're the leader of a place and it has problems, they'll blame you, but if you solve their problems and THEN take control, they'll love you already and you'll have instant popularity. They are giving me New Zealand to rule over.
(October 15, 2010 - 6:47 pm)
OH EM GEE!!!!!!!
I got printed, I got printed.....
Anyway, I think aliens are awesome...
I got printed, I got printed.....
If you dont know what I'm talking about, look at the fan mail page of the latest muse mag! Crraw rocks!
(September 21, 2010 - 10:34 am)
you wrote that? i love that poem.
(September 22, 2010 - 7:28 pm)
Of course I believe in ailens! I mean, gosh, we were made out of STARDUST so where did the rest of it go? JUST to planets? Noooooooooooo............... to other life forms too! I think that (got this out of a book) if they live on high gravity planets (I hope they'd be almost like me except for the colors) they'd be tall, spindly, and PINK or PURPLE. If they lived on Low Gravity planets, they'd be short, sorta fat, and I just can't remember what color. So don't ask. Make it up. ANYWAY, they'd be nice and one could live in our house. (It'd be awesome, huh?) My friend dosen't believe and won't no matter how much convincing. I read in a NON FICTION space book that if there was a solar system from the second nearest star, Proxima Centuri, they'd take 11 years to reach the Earth. But we don't think they'll be coming in 2011... sad. BELIEVE PLEASE! -Lili
(September 23, 2010 - 9:22 pm)
I am sorry, Lilli. I don't agree with you on the point that "we were made out of STARDUST," I KNOW that God created the universe, including neptune, my own home sweet home.
(November 22, 2010 - 7:58 pm)
Urania, you are my absolute fav! you didn't answer my letters. Aliens would be purple and like nuclear wars. they would have laser guns
Your biggest fan,
Sienna aeiou is cool too!
(September 24, 2010 - 9:19 pm)
Hmmm.... I think that there's definetly SOMETHING out there, because it would be waaaaaaaay too depressing if we were the only intelligent life in the entire universe. There's a huge possibility that there's intelligent life somewhere other that earth, and it actually seems more ridiculous (to me) that there's not any intelligent life than there is. I don't have any idea where it could be, though.
I do have a question - why does it have to be so that the aliens are more tecchnologically advanced that us? Why can't there be a planet with intelligent life that is still discovering the telephone (or their alien equivalent) and THAT'S why they haven't contacted us?
In the meantime, I really like scifi shows like Doctor Who and Star Trek with aliens in them. They're awesome. XD
MUSE ROCKS!
(September 25, 2010 - 10:44 am)
Maybe they're less than a century behind us, and at this very moment while I type this, they're launching a moon mission to their moon!!
I know how you feel... Once in second or third grade, there was this kid at school named Ben. And he was talking about aliens, and I said,"Why do they have to be all high-tech and lasery? Just because they come from another planet doesn't necessarily mean that they are more technologically advanced than us. Maybe they're just cave-aliens right now, and they're just discovering fire and bashing rocks together and drawing on cave walls and hunting prehistoric alien deer."Or I said something along those lines, and he said, "No. Aliens ALWAYS have laser guns and spaceships." And I thought, that doesn't seem right. And now I realize I was right.
HEY!! MAYBE SOMEDAY THOSE BACTERIA ON MARS WILL EVOLVE INTO INTELLIGENT BEINGS!! AND THEN WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THEM!!! IN LIKE A ZILLION YEARS!!
(October 2, 2010 - 3:28 pm)
STAR WARS IS BETTER THAN STAR TREK!!!! For one thing, it's got John Williams music in it, and secondly: IT JUST IS, OK!!!
(October 16, 2010 - 10:26 am)
Hey, chill! XD
I like both, star trek just came to mind first. I also like Eureka and Warehouse 13, but those don't have aliens in them. There are probably others, but I can't think of them.
STAR WARS/STAR TREK ROCKS!!
(November 3, 2010 - 7:08 pm)
*sorry* I LOVE THE DARTH VADER THEME!!!
(November 13, 2010 - 4:19 pm)
Oops... thinking back i realized i confused the "age" and "city, state" slots in my last post..... I AM NOT PLUTO YEARS OLD, I AM TWELVE.
Sorry, just wanted to clear that up.... XP XD
Randomly, i also wanted to point out that when you post something and you haven't posted in a while, the note about the spam thing says "This is to test weather you are a human visitor" I know they're talking about spam things and not aliens, but it sounds like they mean aliens. Is Kokopelli actually from some pie-loving, distant planet, and that's why he throws pies? (and looks two dimensional.... This i never got - it Kokopelli supposed to be two dimensional or three dimensional!?)
Are there any aliens who read muse? XD
(September 25, 2010 - 10:54 am)
Of course.... me, for one.
(December 4, 2010 - 9:13 pm)
Aliens!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Are you CRAZY, Urania? Aliens? I don't Think there is ANY life of any kind on any planet whatsoever.
(September 26, 2010 - 11:03 am)
If there isn't ANY life on ANY planets ANYWHERE, then what the cheese are we doing here?!? <-------- look, interrobangs!
(September 29, 2010 - 5:58 pm)
Urania,
I think aliens would be exactly the opposite of how they are portrayed in E.T, Spock, and Mork from Mork and Mindy. I think they would look something like a yellow-greenish Mimi actuallly!?!
(September 30, 2010 - 9:11 pm)
Aliens would look like Plo Koon. *is obsessed*
(October 9, 2010 - 5:27 pm)
I think aliens might exist, but in another solar system, not ours. They'd have to be suited to the conditions they live in, so, what they look like depends on what their planet is like. What kinda bothers me is that everyone thinks of aliens as small, brightly colored beings that are bald and have weird eyes. What if they're not? What if they're tall and gray and hairy? (just an example).
(October 11, 2010 - 2:46 pm)
Hi, I'm an alien. My name is pronounced Kay-FYO-nah and góßa is pronounced RO-fi. In your language I would probably spell my name Kaefiona and I would spell góßa like this: roefy which is an awesome-looking word.
I put THE AWESOME PLANET DEMETER in the City/State box 'cuz that's where I live and I don't want to get too specific cuz if I wrote exactly where I live it would take up a lot of space. This is about where I live:
Dÿmånr
Section 321, code 22.33ß, 444øppølœ
Basically that means I live in Section 321 of Demeter and my rank code is 22.33 and I live in the 'city' thingy of Oppoli which is how it's pronounced and I am person number 444 of the 'city' of Oppoli and I don't expect you humans to understand any of this.
Anyway, yes I am an alien. Demeter is actually IN you guys' solar system. I don't know why you haven't noticed. We are a bit smaller than humans and we have much bigger hands and feet and eyes. We have SHARP teeth and fingernails. We're like cuttlefish! We can change color! We all have really poofy hair. I speak English and I have a computer cuz I was part of a research trip that went from Demeter to 'Earth'. I stayed there for 5 whole years, and then we got the whole 'internet' thing set up, and it's so cool! Earthlings, you helped us BECOME AWARE OF MUSE.
P.S. A roefy is about 6 earth years.
P.P.S. There are other aliens out there, too, but you'll have to take my word for it 'cuz they're really well hidden.
(October 12, 2010 - 4:00 pm)
Does your planet have anything to do with the Greek goddess Demeter?
(October 16, 2010 - 10:31 am)
Aliens probaly exist,but we have not looked at the right spot...
Yet.
(November 11, 2010 - 11:55 pm)
Nope, aliens do not exist.
(November 21, 2010 - 8:22 pm)
i don't know but aliens are always plsable. why dould we be here and not somthing else. what mackews us so spetiel. its not lick this panet was spontaneusly shosen fr life. infacket to some microbes/ high iintelegne alions out there ower climet might be apsultly hostile. some were out there theres probably some alian life. probably intelegnt two. who noes; humens have a verry limeted reerch intot he fast foid of embtynes.
(December 20, 2010 - 4:34 pm)
the first aliens we discover will be microscopic
(February 12, 2011 - 12:13 pm)
Aliens must exist, because the chances of us being the only living things in the Universe in next to none. Like absolutely none. The Universe is so absolutely huge that NOBODY (not even me) can ever imagine just how huge it is. Think Earth from the perspective of bacteria. Then think that to the googleplex-th power. You can't, by the way, so that was just an example. Anyway, how can there not be aliens? And why do we all think of them as green people with laser guns? Maybe their planets have some other power source that we haven't even imagined yet, and the thought of laser technology hasn't even crossed their mind yet. Or perhaps they aren't as war-minded as Earthlings, and would have no need for such things. Why are they short, when their gravity is a mystery to everyone on Earth? Why are they green, when they might have evolved skin that refracts light? I know this sounds wild (We can't figure out how to do that yet!) but think, we are all comparing this to life on our own planet. There are probably green, short, skinny aliens with bulbous heads and giant eyes out there, but chances are we won't find them anytime soon.
(February 18, 2011 - 3:39 pm)
maybe
(February 21, 2011 - 7:59 pm)
Maybe what? *is suspicious*
(February 22, 2011 - 3:14 pm)