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Alien life rules
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I mean, star trek has lots of intelligent life that isn't human at all. The default is human like, becuase it's easier to relate to that and becuase it's easier to make shows like that.
Yeah, using humanoid aliens makes it easier to relate to them for obvious reasons (and is a lot cheaper for the costume and effects departments), but it's pretty likely that alien life would be vastly different from humans. Just look at the huge variety of animal life on Earth alone.
I'm not well versed in alien evolutionary theory at all, but wouldn't differences in gravity, water, temperature, air makeup etc cause a significantly different evolutionary path? Earth is a Goldilocks planet for human life, have we considered that other planets may be a Goldilocks for something else?
I am leaps and bounds from an expert, but as I understand it, it's something that's been thought of, certainly. But it's very very difficult to search for something when the paramaters for it are very broad.
On the flip side, we have a decent idea of what it takes to sustain life as we know it. It's far, far easier for us to search for that.