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| Topic Started: May 17 2009, 06:07 PM (9,995 Views) | |
| rufus | May 17 2009, 06:07 PM Post #1 |
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I rememebr that once in Peter Ward's book he mentions the differnt things that could possibly thin the human population. He mentioned, then dismissed at once the possibility of a new sort of predator. As he correctly observes, any such predator would be quickly elininated or contained if it started preying on our species. Humans would simply not allow ourselves or our children to become food. But that got me to thinking. Suppose some future genetic scientist, engineered some sort of future predator to prey upon humans, perhaps as a way of cleansing the population of :defectives" or undesirables". The species could be genetically programed to hunt only humans as a food source. And it might be programed to eliminate only those humans who carried certain traits such as genetic maladies. This would have to be done in such a way that the human population would not know what was happening, and could not take the action needed to eliminate the predators. This creature would be engineered from humans themselves.The creature could have engineered traits from other animal species, such as camaflauge abilites, and perhaps sonar from bats to stun their prey. BTW, I thought of this idea long before that "future predator" thing from Primeval, and I thought of posting this today, even before I read that other thread. I also thought of making this idea into a story, in which the heor has to find who is releasing and controlling these predators and how to stop them. I usually try not to bash genetic science in my stories, like some authors do, but in this case the plot would demand that I do have a rogue geneticist. |
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| sam999 | Sep 12 2009, 06:45 AM Post #76 |
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I think something like the monsters of fragment might work. |
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| Holben | Sep 18 2009, 02:42 PM Post #77 |
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Maybe a kind of communal organism, like a bacterial colony. Bullets and shells could hurt it, but not the entire organsim. But watch out for nukes... Single celled organisms are always more resilient than large, multicellular ones. An exception is the Tardigrades, however. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| sam999 | Sep 18 2009, 07:18 PM Post #78 |
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Pople would make a single celled organism that would hunt IT. |
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| The Dodo | Sep 18 2009, 07:22 PM Post #79 |
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If it's going to be a single celled organism you might as well make it a disease. |
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| sam999 | Sep 18 2009, 07:26 PM Post #80 |
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Good idea but this foma is for predators. |
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| Holben | Sep 19 2009, 07:36 AM Post #81 |
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Hmm. But a disease is different, i think. I'm think it takes apart prey molecule by molecule... |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Sep 19 2009, 07:51 AM Post #82 |
 
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That's what every single animal does when it eats. |
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| sam999 | Sep 19 2009, 08:11 AM Post #83 |
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Predators that would be able to hunt hamans. |
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| Holben | Sep 23 2009, 12:59 PM Post #84 |
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I'm talking about a big slime mould-thing which squelches around and as it touches the unlucky victim, the flesh dissolves into nothing within seconds and is absorbed throughthe LIVING SLIME! HA HA HA HA HA!!! |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| lamna | Sep 23 2009, 01:13 PM Post #85 |
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As cool as that sounds, it would not really work. Rather than being a huge blob, it would be more like a lumpy puddle of doom. |
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| Holben | Sep 23 2009, 01:22 PM Post #86 |
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Um... help? Plants have mechanisms to help them stay up, maybe my doom slime would have a kind of piping or cell walls. I love my doom slime. Anyway, a puddle is even better disguised, and it can creep up on people better. But it doesn't have intelligence. Help? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| ExoTarcin | Sep 23 2009, 01:49 PM Post #87 |
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Maybe a that is intelligent, so it can learn the patterns of its victims, and has great camouflage, so it can hide in metropolitan areas. Then it would need a way to silently kill the victim, human. I was thinking maybe it comes up behind the human, when its alone, or in vulnerable, and have a certain anesthetic, that immediately disables the human, so he can't fight back, or warn others. Then it would need to eat all of the human, so that no traces are found. Perhaps this anesthetic also dissolves the human into a gelatinous form, then consumes it. It would have to be a very highly advanced creature indeed. 
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| sam999 | Sep 23 2009, 02:02 PM Post #88 |
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Also if one was to shoot one of your puddles the bulet would spray bits of it everywhere helping it breed. Do not get me started on what a bomb would do. 
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| lamna | Sep 23 2009, 02:05 PM Post #89 |
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Quickly breaking killing would probably be enougth. Many people would assume any sound was just kids messing about.
The heat and shock wave would kill most of the cells? Edited by lamna, Sep 23 2009, 02:11 PM.
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| Holben | Sep 23 2009, 02:08 PM Post #90 |
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This is ending up just like a horror film. I think ours would be a box-office sell-out. |
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