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devotech2 on scored.co
1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
>whose to say it would be humanoid?
Some shapes just make sense in *all* cases. Being sentient and sapien is having the ability to manipulate objects (having complex hands with high motor function), the intelligence to do so, and the muscle and skeletal strength to do it.
Bipedalism gives you the ability to have your hands free at all times to manipulate objects. Intelligence gives you the cognizance to do so. All of these are most adequately accomplished by the human body structure. Dolphins are very intelligent, but they have no hands. Octopi are very intelligent and they can manipulate objects with their tentacles, but they have no bones.
Based off of simple physics, certain layouts are quite literally universal.
That's assuming that they're real, but a sentient, tool building, and advanced alien civilization would *most likely* be humanoid in morphology.
While the actual structure of a xenomorph makes no fucking sense, being that it seems to be a carbon based life form based off of its consumption of other carbon based life forms, and requirement for other carbon based life forms for reproduction, yet having other features that utterly contradict the basic concepts of carbon based life, a non-intelligent and parisitoid alien species *is* an interesting concept. A possible one, maybe.
It's also worth noting that the most intelligent xenomorphs as well as the "leaders" of them, in the alien franchise, are humanoid. The quadripedal and digitigrade ones spawned from dogs and such are notably more stupid.
Some shapes just make sense in *all* cases. Being sentient and sapien is having the ability to manipulate objects (having complex hands with high motor function), the intelligence to do so, and the muscle and skeletal strength to do it.
Bipedalism gives you the ability to have your hands free at all times to manipulate objects. Intelligence gives you the cognizance to do so. All of these are most adequately accomplished by the human body structure. Dolphins are very intelligent, but they have no hands. Octopi are very intelligent and they can manipulate objects with their tentacles, but they have no bones.
Based off of simple physics, certain layouts are quite literally universal.
That's assuming that they're real, but a sentient, tool building, and advanced alien civilization would *most likely* be humanoid in morphology.
It's also worth noting that the most intelligent xenomorphs as well as the "leaders" of them, in the alien franchise, are humanoid. The quadripedal and digitigrade ones spawned from dogs and such are notably more stupid.