I haven't seen it in a while, but I think Gareth Edwards' Monsters might be a good double-feature with Arrival.I thought Arrival did a great job of portraying how alien some aliens could be. It was nothing like us and was only vaguely reminiscent of Earth life.
Contact is one of my favorite movies about aliens, even though the aliens themselves are barely a part of it. Still, I think an advanced species that very gingerly and carefully makes contact with Earth is probably realistic.
I don't remember the movie, but from the trailer it is obvious the aliens use math. Imo this is entirely unrealistic, cause (imo) math is simply not cosmic.
Math may be gaian (gaian dna-tied), though, to some extent. I just doubt it is a system tied to beings not of this planet. For us (and apparently all other creatures here -?), the basis of sensory input are integers. This is unlikely to be so for actual aliens.
Well, the transmission the aliens sent was intended to allow humans to construct a device. They'd have to send us the instructions in a form we could understand and use, even if it's not the way they'd do it themselves. And, in fact, the aliens didn't send their message in a perfectly understandable form.I don't remember the movie, but from the trailer it is obvious the aliens use math. Imo this is entirely unrealistic, cause (imo) math is simply not cosmic.
Math may be gaian (gaian dna-tied), though, to some extent. I just doubt it is a system tied to beings not of this planet. For us (and apparently all other creatures here -?), the basis of sensory input are integers. This is unlikely to be so for actual aliens.
Ok Ok I missed it. Sorry.Ahem...
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You won't get to space if you can't count.
Not my favourite movie adaptation, although I am a great fan of Lem's works.US movies suck.
I kept meaning to post about Farscape but kept forgetting to!Nobody's mentioned Farscape. For an early 2000s show without huge production value it had some decent concepts especially the living ship with a symbiote pilot.
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