Aliens In The Media

Intro- Everyone has their own opinions on the topic of aliens, some people are strong believers and even claim that they have been abducted in some cases more than once. On the other side of the spectrum are the sceptics that 100% believe that there is no life outside of earth and think that the believers are absolute nutters. In this essay i am comparing the science side and what they think or know about aliens and how the media portrays aliens in the movies, tv shows and books.

In the media aliens are portrayed as incredibly intellectual but most of the time evil beings from another planet from another galaxy. Normally in movies or books or even tv shows the aliens are coming to us, ever wondered why that is? Well in 1898 H.G Wells wrote the book “War of the worlds” which
Scientists believe that in order to successfully look for extraterrestrial life we must first look for water because based on what we know about life and biochemistry, it's likely that the alien biochemistry will need a solvent (like water) and one or more elemental (like carbon) to be able to function successfully. We also Believe that if we are looking for any type of life on other planets we should first be looking for microbes because like professor Davies says “If we’re talking about intelligent aliens, I suspect we’re a very long way away from that, but if we’re talking about microbes on Mars, it could be any time in the near future”. why are we looking for aliens and not waiting for them to come to us? Well this is because Searching for extraterrestrial life in other parts of the universe is also a good way of answering questions about ourselves, such as where did we come from? Why are we here? Where will we be going? The question of whether we are alone in this universe still remains unsolved, with no scientific evidence yet to confirm one possible outcome or the