Nawww, the real question is "Why are the Chinese disguising their lanterns as alien vehicles?"

;-)

And how the hell do you pronounce "Suibhne"?

"If life does exist on other planets, then it's a supreme anthropomorphic conceit that it will be in any way, shape or form like us..."

And who says that it is or that it has to be in a shape or form similar to us?

If it did in some cases turn out to be similar to us, though, that could raise some very interesting questions about the evolution of life not only on this planet, but throughout the wider Universe. It could also raise interesting questions about the possible migration or controlled "seeding" of life from one planetary system to another over the last 100 million or more years...such seeding could have been done a very long time ago, and it could well be the true origin of homo sapiens on planet Earth as well as numerous other lifeforms.

To merely reject that and all other possibilities which you haven't thought of yourself yet just because you haven't thought of them yourself would indicate a supreme form of conceit too, I think. Personal conceit, however, not anthropomorphic conceit.