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Aliens are the creators of homosapiens and began our human race by mixing their DNA with apes.

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We get our shared intelligence from aliens. This is the reason why humans are able to create such advanced technology.

"But the strangest thing of all is how we generate, exploit, and propagate information that is not encoded in our heritable genetic material, yet travels with us through time and space. Not only is much of that information represented in purely symbolic forms—alphabets, languages, binary codes—it is also represented in each brick, alloy, machine, and structure we build from the materials around us. Even the symbolic stuff is instantiated in some material form or the other, whether as ink on pages or electrical charges in nanoscale pieces of silicon."~Caleb A. Scharf

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Humans are strange. For a global species, we're not particularly genetically diverse, thanks in part to how our ancient roaming explorations caused "founder effects" and "bottleneck events" that restricted our ancestral gene pool. We also have a truly outsize impact on the planetary environment without much in the way of natural attrition to trim our influence (at least not yet).

But the strangest thing of all is how we generate, exploit, and propagate information that is not encoded in our heritable genetic material, yet travels with us through time and space. Not only is much of that information represented in purely symbolic forms-alphabets, languages, binary codes-it is also represented in each brick, alloy, machine, and structure we build from the materials around us. Even the symbolic stuff is instantiated in some material form or the other, whether as ink on pages or electrical charges in nanoscale pieces of silicon.

Altogether, this " dataome" has become an integral part of our existence. In fact, it may have always been an integral, and essential, part of our existence since our species of hominins became more and more distinct some 200,000 years ago. This idea, which I also pursue in my upcoming book, The Ascent of Information, leads to a number of quite startling and provocative proposals.

For example, let's consider our planetary impact. Today we can look at our species' energy use and see that of the roughly six to seven terawatts of average global electricity production, about 3 percent to 4 percent is gobbled up by our digital electronics, in computing, storing and moving information. That might not sound too bad-except the growth trend of our digitized informational world is such that it requires approximately 40 percent more power every year. Even allowing for improvements in computational efficiency and power generation, this points to a world in some 20 years where all of the energy we currently generate in electricity will be consumed by digital electronics alone.

And that's just one facet of the energy demands of the human dataome. We still print onto paper, and the energy cost of a single page is the equivalent of burning five grams of high-quality coal. Digital devices, from microprocessors to hard drives, are also extraordinarily demanding in terms of their production, owing to the deep repurposing of matter that is required. We literally fight against the second law of thermodynamics to forge these exquisitely ordered, restricted, low-entropy structures out of raw materials that are decidedly high-entropy in their messy natural states. It is hard to see where this informational tsunami slows or ends.

All of which raises the question: Why exactly are we doing this?

An unexpected answer is that it's not just us doing this. Our dataome looks like a distinct, although entirely symbiotic (even endosymbiotic), phenomenon. Homo sapiens arguably only exists as a truly unique species because of our coevolution with a wealth of externalized information; starting from languages held only in neuronal structures through many generations, to our tools and abstractions on pottery and cave walls, all the way to today's online world.

But symbiosis implies that all parties have their own interests to consider as well. Seeing ourselves this way opens the door to asking whether we're calling all the shots. After all, in a gene-centered view of biology, all living things are simply temporary vehicles for the propagation and survival of information. In that sense the dataome is no different, and exactly how information survives is less important than the fact that it can do so. Once that information and its algorithmic underpinnings are in place in the world, it will keep going forever if it can.

A very simple example can be seen in any of the great works of human literature, from Lao Tzu to Shakespeare. These writings, these informational packages, have found a way to persist through time by attaching themselves to us. We eagerly read them, restructuring our brains to remember them, and we go to great lengths to copy and reproduce these works, again and again across the centuries and in many languages and forms. But these texts aren't just memes; they're more like parts of a budded-off extended human phenotype that has its own processes and its own capacity to pressure the world around it to try to ensure its survival.

In the course of life's three-to-four-billion-year history on Earth, it doesn't seem that anything exactly like this has actually happened before. On a geologic timescale, the emergence of the human dataome is like a sudden alien invasion, or an asteroid impact that precipitates a mass extinction-changing how energy flows and how the biosphere functions. It's not just flesh-and-blood life on this world anymore. By a quirk of evolution, our very existence as clever talkative apes has gone hand-in-hand with the unleashing of something else, a new trick for the restructuring of matter in service of a phenomenon with very deep roots in the statistical arrangement of atoms and molecules, in their order and disorder or dispersal: in entropy and its cousin, information.

Look around where you are right now, at the walls of your room, or the chair you're sitting on. Or the light you're reading by, and the screen or paper you're reading these words from. In the end, all of these things are here in support of data, of ideas and of the most potent quantity in the universe: information. Our very alien dataome may just be the harbinger of things to come.
This is an opinion and analysis article.

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On a geologic timescale, the emergence of the human “dataome” is like a sudden invasion by extraterrestrials or an asteroid impact that precipitates a mass extinction

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Aliens exist because over an infinitive amount of milky ways and solar systems, there's planets that sustain life like ours. Also, we, us humans are considered aliens to life beyond our Earth.

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We got our looks and intelligence from aliens.

“Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary biologist at Cambridge, thinks there’s a good chance intelligent extraterrestrial life will look a lot like us.”
“Different species independently evolve in similar patterns, Morris argued in The Runes of Evolution, and would likely do the same on other planets. "The things which we regard as most important," he said in an interview, "cognitive sophistication, large brains, intelligence, tool making, are also convergent."...”"then what applies on Earth will apply across the Milky Way, and beyond."”

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Here are 5 things serious scientists believe about extraterrestrial life

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Popular culture has given us lots of ideas of what extraterrestrials might look like, behave, and interact with us. (Mostly by killing us, though occasionally by phoning home.) But it turns out a…

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Many people feel this way about aliens only because the stereotype is based off of films, and most alien films are about killer aliens.

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Just like humans, there is an an amount of good and bad people.

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We haven't come into full contact with other extraterrestrials as far as we know it so you  never know, they might just want to help or just explore or etc.

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During the world war, many ufos were spotted and pictures were taken. They wouldn't have the technology to edit ufos in the pictures.

click here for sightings and more

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Aliens are the reason we exist, we are also part of the extraterrestrial race. There's others out there wondering about us as well. We are aliens to aliens.

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If we exist, then life outside of just our world exists.

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Stephen Hawking is famous in this area of debate.

“"a civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria." Other scientists have noted that extraterrestrials, like humans, will likely prize natural resources.”

“Cross-planetary contamination is a dangerous possibility that astrobiologists have begun to consider. Foreign microbes might be benign, said John Rummel, then NASA’s planetary protection officer, to Astrobiology Magazine. But they might not. It’s why so many safety protocols and have been established to protect Earth from unknown microbes from interstellar samples.”

“"Environmental ecology and biospheres on Earth are notoriously complex, so we don’t want to release a native Martian microbe on Earth, particularly in ‘Mars-like‘ regions of our planet."”

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Here are 5 things serious scientists believe about extraterrestrial life

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Popular culture has given us lots of ideas of what extraterrestrials might look like, behave, and interact with us. (Mostly by killing us, though occasionally by phoning home.) But it turns out a…

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“Stephen Hawking has made his opinions on extraterrestrial life very clear. "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans,"”

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Here are 5 things serious scientists believe about extraterrestrial life

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Popular culture has given us lots of ideas of what extraterrestrials might look like, behave, and interact with us. (Mostly by killing us, though occasionally by phoning home.) But it turns out a…

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“Do aliens exist? This is a really interesting question and one that NASA has been trying to understand, explore, and figure out for a long time. We have not yet discovered life on any other planet, and we have not seen any scientifically supported evidence for extraterrestrial life.”

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Episode 5 – We Asked a NASA Scientist: Do Aliens Exist?

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Do aliens exist? Extraterrestrial life has never been discovered, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.