Why do we suddenly assume the ayy lmaos are humanoid creatures?

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Because it's easier to imagine and portray on film (think costumes from the 1950s or even modern motion tracking suits).

That said, I wonder what biologists think about it. There's probably some convergent evolution argument for aliens having some familiar features (not necessarily all humanoid). Things like a big brain, opposable thumb analogues, etc... things you'd probably need to become an intelligent space-farer. Any ideas Veeky Forums?

My assumptions tend to be prolonged

Because so far, the only examples we have of intelligent species are humanoid.

human bodies evolved to be good at throwing
can you imagine any non-humanoid bodyshape that would allow effective throwing?

Yes

Like tenticles or something, but thats still terrestrial.

What nonterrestrial, non appendige would be good at interracting with the environment?

tentacles are appendages, not a bodyshape

Some sort of catapult-like creature. Or maybe a blow-dart kind of mechanism, something like an archerfish?

We're not drawing from scientific understanding so much as from cultural associations. Popular depictions and perceptions of aliens are basically the modern equivalent of angels in Christianity or pagan gods -- humanoids observing and occasionally interacting with humans for their own purposes. We only make them different enough to inspire fear/awe.

Plenty of people have created non-humanoid aliens in pop culture, but the humanoid ones seem to resonate with us the most, so they're more prevalent.

Continuing on the theme, something with a spinning sling-like appendage might also work.

>millions of people around the world have seen the exact same 4 feet tall grey humanoids
>they were all watching the same film

>making shit up
ok

Fine. Octopus body shape then. Like the aliens from the simpsons.

Might work in very low gravity where you don't need rigid load bearing limbs, but they'd probably suffer greatly when their spacecraft accelerated or they landed on a planet with higher gravity. Presuming of course that they underwent an analogue of earthly evolution they won't have become any stronger than they needed to be to survive.

Maybe because those ayy lmaos were interested in us because we are/look similar to them.

Couldn't octopus work is really high gravity too since their bodies would be more malleable and able to survive force of the stronger gravity? I'm kind of thinking of something like blobfish

It's impractical to think of any other form that makes use of tools, and it's also impractical to think of any macroscopic form at all that originates in a low enough gravity environment that tools would be an after-thought.

The only sapient creatures that would ever bother to go full ayy lmao would be ones that require tools to survive.

That doesn't explain the question OP has.

same reason angels and demons and most other mythical creatures are humanoids.

Lack of imagination

Possibility of consistency in the process of natural selection on different habitable planets

Yes, but wouldn't that be less versatile?

Because the lovecraftian way of thinking that alien entities exceed form wasn't cool until the 80s, before that 50s and 60s science fiction had a cool theme with greys.