Get ready for crappy science: Why grey aliens cannot be evil
Get ready for crappy science: Why grey aliens cannot be evil.
(Disclaimer, lots of this may not be very scientifically factual at all. I don't care.)
Last night was one of those random nights when I get myself (or someone else gets me) all scared about aliens. Everyone has something they're afraid if and for me it's hostile or scary-looking aliens visiting me unexpectedly at night, teleporting inside my apartment or catching me outside somewhere remote and dark.
I had a conversation with a friend who told me he thought I might be in fit a visitation sometime in the near future. I don't know where he got that idea but hearing it just before going to bed definitely messed me up.
So here is how I pseudo-scientifically rationalized that the most scary humanoid aliens that may barge into my dwelling to get me, are not evil nor would they barge into my house, especially at night.
#1 Greys are always portrayed with large black eyes. Disregarding the chance that they may be wearing some kind of black lenses, it appears as though their pupils are fully dilated, even in daylight. This means that their eyes are straining to get as much light as possible, even in what is a well-lit area to our eyes. This can only mean that they would be nearly blind in dim or dark light and night would be a very vulnerable time for them. They wouldn't possibly dare to attack me at night. Too risky even if they have special lights with them.
#2 Since their eyes are apparently then adapted for very bright light, their planet of origin must be orbiting a very bright star. Considering the fact that they've had enough time as a civilization to develop the technology to traverse the universe without spending hundreds of years, I've guessed that their star could only possibly be a white dwarf. This connects to the third observation I've made but I want to explain why I think their sun is a white dwarf first.
When a star burns out its fuel sources it loses the ability to contain the combustion in the atmosphere and it balloons to an enormous size, becoming what we call a red giant. After that, there are a variety of things that can happen depending on the size and age of the star. Basically, when gravity ultimately takes over, it could implode and burn off most of the remnant energy and become a brown dwarf, which is dim and relatively cold. It could implode and still give off large amounts of radiation and light, even though it is very small, becoming a white dwarf. It could implode to a tiny fraction of its former self and become a black hole which we all know is void of light, and it could also become a spinning ball of crazy which we call a pulsar, so on and so on. The only option above would be a white star, intensely bright but very long lasting.
Their planet would have had to nearly been incinerated during the red giant phase and over millions if years life regenerated under hostile levels of radiation coming from the white dwarf.
THIS leads to
#3 which is why they have grey skin. Humans have varying levels if melanin, orange-brown pigmentation in our skin cells to protect us from ultra-violate radiation from the sun. But Greys are obviously grey skinned, and if their long-lasting, intensely bright sun is beaming out high levels of radiation constantly, melanin would not be enough to protect them. What materials do we know that can act as mild natural shields to radiation? Lead! I rationalized that they must have some kind of biologically available lead or some similar grayish metal in their skin like we have melanin to protect them from their white dwarf sun.
Last but not least!!
Having such a long-living advanced society could only mean that they have gone beyond petty quarrels among their own people and know better than to use violence and force, especially over galactic distances. There's no way a hostile savage group of people could possibly last long enough to become that advanced. They'd have killed each other off long before.
That's why Greys MUST be ok.
Right?
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