What do Aliens eat?

**RoyWorm** · 01-20-2011, 04:43 AM

Brains, thoughts, our blood... All scary things has been proposed, but I was planning to give it a more scientific approach. I believe we can safely say, that an extra-terrestrial civilization couldn't be carnivore, at least. Of course this is all hypothetical, but I myself just can't see how a carnivore would become intelligent. I believe that the key to intelligence is to acquire regular form of food supply for the whole herd. Hunting is considered to be somewhat irregular, and thus it's required to "grow your own food" in order to be self-sufficient. Thus if a carnivore was to produce it's own food, it would be required to first invent agriculture in order to provide food for his food, thus making it much more likely for an alien civilization to be omnivore or herbivore.

Now someone might say, that what about dolphins, they are considered to be one of the most intelligent beings after humans, it's a fact. The only problem that the dolphins have, is that they are still in the water. It's a really difficult habitat to create tools, etc.. Also chemistry would become extremely difficult. Please some comments about this matter?

**bill.zen** · 01-20-2011, 04:52 AM

I think until ET comes down to earth, we'll never really know what they eat. But I always had the thought that maybe they would eat some sort of synthesized food stuff. Perhaps like in Star Trek, like the food synthesizer.

**Coroner** · 01-20-2011, 05:16 AM

They probably eat the same things as we do - but i would assume they are all vegetarians i cant see why and advanced species would need to kill animals to get the correct nutriments for survival

**bill.zen** · 01-20-2011, 05:24 AM

Maybe they eat KFC. The Chinese are importing it now.

**Coroner** · 01-20-2011, 06:43 AM

lol yeah - pre-empt the fear!!

**ragged** · 01-20-2011, 06:56 AM

I'm assuming fungus/mushrooms and vegitation, with the occasional mammal hormones.

**HyperUniverse** · 01-20-2011, 07:00 AM

No, the most advanced aliens don't eat...
....well at least nobody sees them eating.
As they perfected their being to communicate telepathically, and move things telepathically; they reached an advanced "eating" system.

They "eat" telepathically, too.
Continuous absorption of nutrients from surrounding.
And just a bit from everywhere, so they do not need to kill their food to eat it.

Of course I just made that up right now...
....but it sounds (and tastes) good!

**ragged** · 01-20-2011, 07:24 AM

I read somewhere that They dont eat very often, and make optimal use of nutrition so they have little to no bodywaste. Eating is sacred/personal and considered repulsive by human standards.

**bill.zen** · 01-20-2011, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by ragged

I read somewhere that They dont eat very often, and make optimal use of nutrition so they have little to no bodywaste. Eating is sacred/personal and considered repulsive by human standards.

That's true. You ever watch some people eat? Yikes!!

**Mika-El** · 01-20-2011, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by bill.zen

I think until ET comes down to earth, we'll never really know what they eat. But I always had the thought that maybe they would eat some sort of synthesized food stuff. Perhaps like in Star Trek, like the food synthesizer.

Oh man to think you could synthesize hot dogs, pizza, cheese burgers and never get fat, etc., not to mention all that beer with no belly or pickled liver. Too much. I never understood why on Star Trek no one ordered a hot dog, bagel, smoked meat sandwitch, cheeseburger, extra cheese pizza with the works. Bunch of dummies eating all that crap Klingon stuff.

I think life forms from outside the planet could be omnivores, carnivores, herbivores or other vores. There is literally no limit to the form life could take and therefore what it would be required to consume to subsist.

Who is to say a life form would not have a diet of mold and fungus or sulphur gas, etc. Heck roaches can eat all kinds of stuff. I read they can eat soap, dead skin, toe nails, hair, mucus, ear wax, eye crust, flesh, bone, blood. So why not speculate that aliens could eat just about anything?

Man think of that. We come across a species that eats toe nails. We could then make a fortune going to manicurists and packaging their clippings and exporting them to these aliens.

Probably Pepsi Cola which owns Fritos corn chips will beat me to it.