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| Strangers in the Dark; a.k.a. Graes | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 18 2009, 09:58 PM (1,268 Views) | |
| Canis Lupis | Oct 18 2009, 09:58 PM Post #1 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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My latest short story:
And the movie trailer that started it all: Reason I'm posting this: What's your opinion of the Graes (the aliens)? And how can we make them more plausible while still keeping in mind the basic things people see? Basically this list:
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 21 2009, 10:18 AM Post #16 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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Nice sketch, Kain. And I've gotta hand it to the mimic octopus. It's a lot more convincing than some impersonators I've watched. I wonder what happens when it sees a human diver... I think it's physically possible for the aliens, but as for a reason why they'd go to such lengths... Edited by Ddraig Goch, Oct 21 2009, 10:19 AM.
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| Holben | Oct 21 2009, 03:36 PM Post #17 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Maybe they have different values. |
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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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| Empyreon | Oct 21 2009, 03:38 PM Post #18 |
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Are you plausible?
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Like? |
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Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus! COM Contributions food for thought
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| Holben | Oct 21 2009, 03:43 PM Post #19 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Wanting to be more like you? |
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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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| Empyreon | Oct 21 2009, 03:47 PM Post #20 |
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Are you plausible?
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Why? |
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Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus! COM Contributions food for thought
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| Holben | Oct 21 2009, 03:48 PM Post #21 |
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I don't know, maybe that's their religion. |
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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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| Empyreon | Oct 21 2009, 04:00 PM Post #22 |
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Are you plausible?
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Yes, but I'm trying to get some reasoning behind the practice beyond "just because". For example, a protocol of the Star Trek franchise is the prime directive, in place to prevent less advanced societies from running before they can crawl. Thus, Star Fleet operatives placed within these societies are often disguised in order to pass freely among natives and prevent them from learning the truth. Perhaps these 'octo-grays' have a similar sensibility. They think that we're far too delicate to comprehend that something looking like an octopus will be intelligent enough to fly a spaceship, or they're simply taking a more familiar shape to put us more at ease. Or there could be something religious involved, as you said, and they view humanity as having achieved some kind of ideal (in biology, morphology, etc) that they've yet to reach. How's that for ironic? While we're wanting to be like them and travel through space, they want to become like us and walk on the surface of a planet with two legs. |
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Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus! COM Contributions food for thought
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| Ànraich | Oct 21 2009, 04:04 PM Post #23 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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Well humanoid shape would imply some kind of bipedial, bisymmetrical ancestor. Probably, like us, some kind of chimp; the head grown to tremendous size to support a large brain capable of remembering complex systems of branches, though I don't see how we could accomplish that with such a small head and they couldn't. I'm surprised nobody has said yet that they could just be human time travelers from millions of years into the future when humans have evolved into something more suited for space-time travel. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 10:30 AM Post #24 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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Actually, Parasky, we have; Kain; Time travelling archeologists from the future. Abducting cows is how they study extinct animals Temporary; Or the idea they are from the future makes since too. Especially when considering the oh so common quote "We have the right to do this". |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 11:37 AM Post #25 |
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You make it sound like they're a certainty. |
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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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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 12:33 PM Post #26 |
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Ar hyd y nos
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Who, me or Temporary? |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 12:51 PM Post #27 |
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Tempy hasn't posted in ages. it'sssssssssssssssss You! |
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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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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 03:55 PM Post #28 |
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Hang on... When you said, "you make them sound like a certainty", what were you actually talking about? I think I am completely lost here. |
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| Holben | Oct 23 2009, 10:06 AM Post #29 |
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The existence of the Greys/. Don't worry if it's hard to keep up, i leave stuff out sometimes. |
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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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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 23 2009, 03:35 PM Post #30 |
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Ok. Well, if you're saying that because of post #24, those are quotes from Kain and Temporary, and not my personal opinion. |
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