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Topic Started: Apr 3 2010, 06:53 PM (1,163 Views)
Pando
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I found this video on Youtube when searching for Snaiad.


How plausible do you think this is?
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sam999
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It has flying creatures that stay up with flapping wings. In. Vacume. Does anyone else see the problem with this?
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naaah, that's totally cool.
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The asteroid volcanism could be if the asteroid orbits VERY close to the star, what with tidal heating. However, it would have to be a few hundred kilometres across. Oxygen would have to be generated, AND RETAINED. This is the hard part. The jets look like they come from carbon combustion, so catbon and oxygen are reacting in the asteroid. Temperatures of around 450 degrees C, i think. Oxygen is constantly being lost, so the ecosystem could only last a few million years- not long enough for multicellulars.
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.

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what person ?
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The New Humans
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I agree with colddigger. This seems highly reminiscent of the Zerg out of Starcraft, and I wouldn't be surprised if some sort of combat story comes up around it. "Terran explorers ravaged by insectocytes. Retaliatory mission planned."

As far as plausibility goes, the gaia theory is explicitly referenced, and such a super-organism may be likely within such a context, so I'm not going to throw out the idea immediately. The idea of life on an asteroid, however, strains plausibility. If there were life on an asteroid, it would probably not be able to develop beyond unicellular life, and would be scraping for survival as it is.
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My point exactly.
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.

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But only those worm-like creatures were actually part of the asteroid, I think.
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The fact it needs appendages defeats me. Surely it could absorb through the cracks?
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.

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If the planet or asteroid itself was alive there would be no reason to forage materials since it's all a part of it already. It would just be eating itself...
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Maybe the organic parts need inorganic parts to survive? Or the organic parts are 1 sex organ and the inorganic parts the other sex organ (making the asteroid a hermaphrodite) and it's just pollinating itself. Or maybe the video was not though through enough.
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what person added its on you tube
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3108148/1/ 2 creatures presented!

alien-like earth
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3223527/1/

The New Humans
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3253024/1/

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The video is from a Playstation 3 game called "Savage Moon".

Playstion 3 - Savage Moon
 
Savage Moon sees you protecting a remote off-world mining facility from waves of ravenous space bugs, looking to consume everything in their path. Armed with a fearsome array of defensive weapons, your mission is to take your choice of the finest armaments known to humankind and keep the facility safe by strategically placing these guns which then automatically fire at their targets.

Will you select the dependable rapid-fire machine gun? The intimidating Chaos Tower? Or opt for another item taken from the range of destructive weaponry at your disposal? Choose carefully, as each one has to be manually positioned for the greatest effectiveness in destroying the increasing waves of monstrous insects.

You are the only hope left on this Savage Moon.

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Bugging outA remote off-world mining facility has come under threat from ravenous space bugs - and you're its only hope for survival. Think you can outwit an onslaught of monstrous insects? It's harder than it looks...

For once, Earth isn't under attack by alien creatures. The planet every malevolent creature seemingly wants to take over and enslave isn't the subject of Savage Moon - instead, a remote off-world mining facility is the victim. Set upon by a swarm of deadly space insects, called Insectocytes, you're in charge of commanding the defence against this terrible threat. Better put your best strategy hat on...



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So why did they say it was the ESA? Why not the UKSA? (Woohoo! We have a space agency!)

Can you tell us why it is an asteroid?
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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