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Can Hollywood ever get aliens right?
From ‘Avatar’ to ‘Star Trek’, we love to anthropomorphise extraterrestrials. Scientist Adam Rutherford considers other paths to picturing life on other worlds
TL;DR
- Popular culture often anthropomorphises aliens, giving them human-like forms and traits.
- Examples include aliens from ‘Avatar’ and ‘Star Trek’.
- Scientist Adam Rutherford advocates for considering other ways to imagine life on other worlds.
- This encourages a departure from human-centric views of extraterrestrial life.