The aliens in Starcraft.

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When it comes to how creative and bright people are at imagining aliens in the universe, some people would think of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Alien: Covenant. In these creative movies, some aliens are portrayed as gross, primitive monsters that kill and eat humans while others are portrayed as friendly, intelligent creatures.

About 20 years ago, a game called, Starcraft was released and had a huge impact in the gaming industry. The main theme of the game was very similar to that of Star Wars in that humans are fighting against 2 distinct alien species to gain control over the entire universe.

One extraterrestrial life type in the game, Zerg is a group of primitive species that evolved under various environments. These creatures are somewhat similar to the aliens from  Alien: Covenant. They are reptile just like dinosaurs and very instinct driven. I guess they are still in the stage of forming intelligence.

Other extraterrestrial life type is Protoss. Protoss is a specie that evolved far beyond humans in many aspects such as intelligence, and science. Interestingly, this specie uses a different element to fuel its spaceships, reminding that it’s possible to have some forms of life even in drastic environments such as Jupiter, and Io.

Just like the movies above, Starcraft is a great game to enjoy another hypothetical scenario of what it would be in the future when we confront the extraterrestrial lives.

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Interesting facts about Fermi Paradox

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In respect to one of the most controversial question, “whether extraterrestrial lives exist in the universe,” we often assume there is high probability that such alien lives exist somewhere. Because there are 70 sextillion stars and numerous earth-like planets along with the stars in the observable universe, we often think that some intelligent forms of life should have emerged due to the large scale of the universe.

One Scientist named, Erico Fermi suggested the idea of paradox that even though we assume such high probability for the existence of extraterrestrial lives, there hasn’t been one single evidence to support our thought. Accordingly, Fermi suggests why we humans can’t find any evidence of alien lives anywhere in the universe.

In efforts to explain Fermi Paradox, there are many hypothetical explanations that might be the reason why we still haven’t found the evidence. One explanation is that our assumption of the existence of intelligent lives is false in that there isn’t any intelligent life or it is very rare to be detected. Another explanation for Fermi Paradox is that they are too distant from the Earth and we lack technology to communicate with the intelligent life. These two explanations try to adjust our assumptions that the probability of the intelligent life is extremely low. On the other hand, there is one explanation, which suggests that these lives are here on the Earth, but we can’t recognize them due to many different reasons.

Even with many hypothetical explanations, we currently lack technology to verify whether they are true or not. However, as we develop more technology to eventually travel through the universe to seek for any evidence, we will be able to explain Fermi Paradox in the future.

 

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