Could it be possible that there is an unknown gender...for aliens?

Well, I always wanted to know this for a long time. Do you think that aliens may have another gender besides male/female? I mean, I don't know what the extra gender would be used for, if there is one (Do I really want to know?). But, do you think it is possible?

Originally posted by OkamiZaku
Well, I always wanted to know this for a long time. Do you think that aliens may have another gender besides male/female? I mean, I don't know what the extra gender would be used for, if there is one (Do I really want to know?). But, do you think it is possible?

Well, scientifically there is: Male - Female reproduction, and then you have asexual reproduction.
Asexual reproduction:
Relating to, produced by, or involving reproduction that occurs without the union of male and female gametes, as in binary fission or budding.

Then you have 'plant' reproduction through germination, and seedlings....

Perhaps an alien race could just clone new children - and populate through scientific methods...

If I am forgetting another class of reproduction... forgive me.

Scientifically - I think that covers it... unless there is something 'unknown' that we discover further down the road

There is ample variations on display in nature as to how species can reproduce (and thus showcasing possibilies of how a ficticious ET race could possibly reproduce) and if you want to dig a little these in some cases are as stark and fantastic as any sci-fi writer could come up with.

So I think it would probably a reasonable assumption (considering the lack of any credible evidence) to guess that using this planet's vast array of life forms as a yardstick that the chances of a standard 2 sex reproductive methodology are high but that wild variations would probably exist in a minority of cases.....

Of course it could be possible. Anything could be possible.


What we think scientifically could be completley the opposite of what the aliens think.

Maybe instead of Male and Female they have....Tyyhults and Tiihults and Boyytoh...offs

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Yes because I read a story in Playboy a long time ago about a planet that had 6 sexes and it took a combination of any 3 to actually have sex. I'm fairly sure it was playboy and they wouldn't lie about such things. the whole bar scene was quite complex as I recall.


mikell

Originally posted by mikellmikell
Yes because I read a story in Playboy a long time ago about a planet that had 6 sexes and it took a combination of any 3 to actually have sex. I'm fairly sure it was playboy and they wouldn't lie about such things. the whole bar scene was quite complex as I recall.
mikell

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They are not aliens, but us from the future. After millions of years of cloning ourselves we lost the ability to reproduce, and have ran out of a viable healthy gene pool. So we come back in time and abduct our own ancestors for fresh usable DNA. MMMMmmmm.. Fresh DNA ...mMMMMmm.

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hahahahha

Well, as a female, I prefer to think they are strong, hot, manly aliens




But seriously....anything is possible.

[edit on 27-11-2007 by greeneyedleo]

Not sure if the answer to your question will have anything but a historical alien relevance, our wildlife and enviroment needs protection against human overpopulation, its time for a ufo move, they should get get ready and park behind jupitor. !st contact witness...radadapa

Ok, I'll bite:

I can't seem to shake the Playboy bar scene with six sex types out of my head - but that's another thread...

In my opinion, I think many of the advanced aliens are hermaphrodites - self-fertilizing beings reproducing through autogamy. As evolution proceeds through millions of years (and your species is lucky enough to thrive), there is a decreasing need for sexual reproduction as the organs in your body gradually lose their distinctions and differences.

This is why all the "grays" look so similar. Skinny, palid skin, no nose/ears, small mouth, no genitalia, almond eyes, large head, long appendages, etc. And they all look alike.

I also think it's possible that they have reached some sort of perpetuation obstacle that may be affecting their biology and that they have resorted to harvesting organs, DNA, and other reproductive tissue from humans (and farm animals, etc.) in a desperate, perhaps futile, effort to survive beyond the upcoming few generations.

As smart and evolved as they are, they don't quite understand what's wrong with them, and so they are feverishly studying and 'experimenting' with terrestrial reproductive biology to find a solution to their own mortality. The answer may be in some form of bio-engineered human/alien hybrid, a modification of human females to gestate aliens, an adaption of alien organ tissue to cultivate monoploid offspring, or some sort of "test-tube" alien culture used to cook up new aliens cell-by-cell. Fun, eh?

Heading back to the Playboy bar - drinks are on me...

This may seem wild, but I assure you it's right on topic:

are there gay aliens? Can an abductee shed light on this?

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That would mean that aliens would have to have the perspective on gay and strait like us.

Well... if gay aliens exist... that explains the....anal probes.... ohhhh man I'm sorry but I went there.

I'm not a homophobe or hater at all, so if you are gay, I'm sorry if I offended you.

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Thinking outside the square you live in may expose you to answers.
I guess it could be very possible, although hard to imagine. I truely believe there is a lot of unknown out there.

gender is relevant only to species who retain their natural form and methods of reproduction.

its is unlikely advanced species would retain these aspects,it is more likely they would manifest themselves to us in a humanoid,gender specific form only for our comfort.

advanced ETS would have complete control of their version d.n.a,they have no need for ours.

i suspect anal probes are linked to the cow mutilations,ie secret pollution/testing procedures,in this case of the digestion tract.

or maybe its suppressed homosexual dream fantasies!

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Originally posted by kroms33

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Scientifically - I think that covers it... unless there is something 'unknown' that we discover further down the road

Symbiotic Reproduction. Where one species depends on another species to reproduce. Most plants are a good example of this in it's most basic form.

Most likely, they have a completely artificial method of reproduction where they can control all the variables/gene sequences. After all we are just biological machines physically so with billions of years of scientific work they must have the way to produce artificial life and have probably designed out their own reproductive organs.

According to Whitley Streibers 'Communion' , a firsthand account of the Greys and Roswell,

the Greys cannot reproduce sexually. They are clones. They, like other malicious species of E.T.'s , were not granted the privelege of reproduction like Humans were. This goes all the way back to the fallen angel theory.

In any case, they are supposedly cross-breeding with us through scientific means and without our consent, in an attempt to save the species. This topic has been 'fictionalized' in many books and movies in an attempt to ease us into the idea.

This topic of yours about Grey sexuality is important.

The Project Camelot interviews with Bob Dean blew me away, particularly when he mentioned that a 20+ mile craft of the Greys had been caught leaving the Ocean and attempting to escape the planet,

this craft was full of hundreds of cross-bred children. Children who were half-human and half-grey.

Consider that for a second. If a species of E.T. really were using us to reproduce themselves, just imagine the sheer impact on humanity that would have. We could not possibly handle the psychological impact of seeing half-human half-greys. The whole subject... it's just huge. It makes the E.T. phenomena seem so much greater and scarier than we can imagine.