Describing Human Life to an Alien

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ALIEN INVATION! Okay, so imagine for one second that an alien sparked out from space and landed at the back of this classroom, and is completely clueless onto our planet and species, this is what I’d say to give a kind of ‘primer’ and what were like, to save some research time if you will.  

While standing our height is roughly 3.777 x 1010 times the average radius of a hydrogen atom.

We as humans move around on 2 lower appendages called legs. We have 2 upper appendages called arms, which have 5 smaller appendages, which we use manipulate objects.

Our final appendage is on the top of out body and contains the majority of our sensory organs. Using these we can detect chemicals in the air, we can detect chemicals via physical constant, we can perceive a range of wavelengths of light, and can sense vibrations carried through the air. This final sense, is most important way in which humans communicate.

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We also communicate the sounds we make into symbols which we can perceive visually and understand. 

Our auditory forms of this communication are called languages, and many spoken, however if 2 different people, speak 2 different languages they will struggle to communicate.

We get the energy to live our lives by consuming other organisms, some get their energy directly from our star, and some are much more like us. While our bodies are fueled by the consumption of other organisms, our society is currently fueled by hydrocarbon compounds that we find inside our planet, they are burnt to produce light, ...

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