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Every time I watch a scifi movie about aliens taking over the planet by inhabiting the body of a human and integrating into society, it always makes me wonder, why humans? (Yes, I understand that it's because humans are the audience and us being the target creates more audience appeal, but that's not the point of my question.)
In most movies, the aliens are supposedly of higher intelligence than us humans so if they can take over the body of any living organism, why would they choose the human body. They are already smarter than us so wouldn't it make more sense to choose a more powerful creature such as a lion or an alligator. That way they have both the brain and the brawn.
Humans are actually one of the weakest life forms when you take away their weapons (ie their intellectual capability that allows them to be superior to other animals). If you were to put a human in a cage with a lion and tell them to fight mele with the lion, there is less than a 1% chance that the human would come out on top. Now take a lion that had intelligence on par, rathet, superior to that of a human and take a regular human and tell them to battle the lion with nothing but their bare hands, the human has no chance. Give a human a weapon, the lion still has superior intelligence, which is what allows us to make weapons in the first place so...
The only reason humans are "on top of the food chain" is because we have higher intelligence which allows us to create weapons and traps to overpower and trick other animals. So why would the alien, having already achieved superior intelligence, choose to take over the body of one of the physically weakest lifeforms when they could simply choose one of the most powerful species on the planet and be both physically stronger and mentally sharper than humans and any other living organism on the planet?
Ngl I feel kinda dumb rn cause I've actually put some seriour thought into this on multiple occasions
i mean, other animals are ugly and stuff
Lol that's a fair point, but if they're aliens, they probably don't look like us, so wouldn't that mean we'd look ugly to them as well?
LMFAO this made me laugh so hard
nah, they know they're ugly. das why they wanna take over our bodies in the first place.
Lmao
Cuz we r on top of the chain :3
STOPPPP
Thank you for the normal answer
The aliens would want to use equipment and stuff. So they either use their stuff or human stuff. Let's say there are certain circumstances where they need to use our equipment. Do u think a lion can use it's paws to use a gun? Hence, to use the most valuable things on earth (created by the intelligence of humans), they need to use a compatible body.
I had a similar thought at one point, cause most animals don't have thumbs or long, nimble fingers that would allow them to create weapons. Thank you for your perspective even though this was a totally random (and kinda weird) question
No one can judge my man's here for going out with no clothes on IRL. That's just the humans natural state. So in actuality, he's being more normal than the humans walking around while wearing the pelts and materials of other living organisms ┑(￣Д ￣)┍