Inspired by a discussion in this morning's e-mail

[hummingwolf]

A few pictures swiped from some Google image searches put together to illustrate a point.



Can you guess what the discussion was about?

Comments

[cowboybud.livejournal.com]

Whether or not the "alien autopsy" was real?

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. It was more a question of whether aliens and fetuses at about 14 weeks or so looked anything alike. My opinion is that they do.

[jeweldevil.livejournal.com]

Something that occured to me when looking at the pics, beyond the obvious similarity between fetuses and aliens is the progression of life. We seem to look both younger and older nowadays. Older when we're younger because we develop faster (thanks to growth hormones in foods) and younger when we're older thanks to health and medical technologies and probably because we mature sooner than we used to. If we get to the point that we look infantile when we're fully grown, that is probably a bad thing because it would have to mean that we are forced to mature even quicker and in a sense our progression is stunted, rather than the evolutionary leap people assumed we'd take because our brains appear bigger--it's just that the head grows first and the body has to catch up. If that's our future I think it'd mean that something went terribly wrong.

[hraith.livejournal.com]

So, what do baby Grays look like? Are they all head, like South Park characters?

D-:

[jeweldevil.livejournal.com]

At least they wouldn't look like Canadian South Park characters.

And actually the thing they'd probably look much like what they look like at maturity. The point I was trying to make is that they would stop changing at an earlier and earlier age to the point that at adults they'd look infantile. It's not that the earlier stages would change.

[hraith.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know. I thought I was being funny.