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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on May 9, 2008 21:27:47 GMT -5
Seeing a comment about alien life forms elsewhere on this forum got me thinking. Why does everyone perceive aliens as having stable forms? Is it because our own experiences with life, as based on one planet, one atmosphere have been shaped? It just seems so rare to find an alien that's different.
Why would something from another planet be constrained to our sensory perceptions? I'm thinking of Lovecraft's "The Colour from Space". The alien life form was actually a color, and the human eye couldn't perceive it. Douglas Adams paid homage to him in his Hitchhikers' series, with the Hooloovoo.
With that said, Winter is pretty cool. I'm anxious to learn more about him. But I thought it would be interesting if we shared ideas on aliens here. Anyone else come across some interesting alien life forms?
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Post by madsniper on May 10, 2008 16:24:03 GMT -5
I can't think of any I've encountered in fiction that has left any sort of impression on me (aside from Jim Henson critters ^^) (well, there's Yoda, Yoda rawks) (hey, wait, Yoda IS a Jim Henson critter, isn't he?) but there is one "true" creature known as "rods" that have a following with some ufo fans. They appear in photos occasionally, and look like long, well, rods, with thin undulating membranes running down either side which supposedly give them flight. They flash in and out of existence, so there's been some speculation that they travel through the forth dimension. The existent of this creature has been basically disproved on Discovery (*lol* they're pretty much the result of cameras attempting to capture moths in dim lighting), but I thought it was a neat idea.
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