This graphic from Grant Snider is such an adorable representation about the way that we question things about our world. I felt like I could relate to it a lot; when we wonder about something, we often sit on it and spend time just trying to understand exactly what we are curious about. Once we get to asking the question, there is a certain thrill in learning the answer to our question. Then, once we obtain the answer, we ask new questions that repeat the cycle again. I love the way the graphic showcases this process using a question mark; it makes me see the symbol in a new and more meaningful way!
This is a really cool new perspective that I had never thought of before: why do we tend to imagine aliens as exaggerated versions of ourselves? Popular media tends to imagine extraterrestrial life in driving giant alien spaceships and invading other planets to take over new populations. In reality, this is what we humans would do, given that we had the power to travel to other planets! It seems kind of weird that we imagine aliens like this, when there are so many other possibilities that we could think up. Perhaps we only think this way because we are human, and it is difficult for us to think in a non-human way. If we expand our minds, perhaps we can dream up or even better understand new forms of extraterrestrial life.
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