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6. Same reason people create gods in the image of humans.

Wed Feb 19, 2020, 08:47 PM

Feb 2020

They're just projections of ourselves; it's making symmetry out of chaos in a way that's understandable.

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Why do people imagine aliens from outer space as having human-like features?? [View all] kentuck Feb 2020 OP

Because sci-fi movies from the 1950s had small SFX budgets? catbyte Feb 2020 #1

Spot On! Beakybird Feb 2020 #2

"take me to your leader" rampartc Feb 2020 #3

Makes the aliens hotter. Dagstead Bumwood Feb 2020 #4

I think a lot of it is the fact... ret5hd Feb 2020 #5

Same reason people create gods in the image of humans. defacto7 Feb 2020 #6

And why are they all proctologists? Kaleva Feb 2020 #7

LOL! fleur-de-lisa Feb 2020 #11

Supernatural Ilsa Feb 2020 #12

Alien probes keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #13

Because god created the perfect human form Midnightwalk Feb 2020 #9

One theory why is derived from what the Sumerians wrote on clay Enoki33 Feb 2020 #10

Anthropomorphism is an innate human characteristic. lastlib Feb 2020 #14

Some aliens are simply disguised as humans.... hunter Feb 2020 #16