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| Topic Started: Jan 26 2011, 03:28 PM (3,825 Views) | |
| Dark-Matter | Jan 26 2011, 03:28 PM Post #1 |
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Ok,I just rewatch a sound of thunder and I wonder what could make such a bizzard alternative world. |
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| Dark-Matter | Jan 29 2011, 03:06 PM Post #16 |
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Rick Raptor:That Baboon-lizard actually looks really cool, though I´m not sure a reptilian could evolve such a mammalian face. They could have evolved from an arboreal reptile like the tree creeper from primeval,at least the shape of it body. |
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| Canis Lupis | Jan 29 2011, 04:11 PM Post #17 |
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See, the reason I don't agree with Crichton's theory of changing the past is because stopping the change in the past is, in effect, changing the past. Say for instance that you go back in time to Obama's inauguration and try to assassinate him before he becomes president. Your gun jams, preventing you from shooting him. But security finds you and shoots you, causing a panic. Obama and his new administration duck. Everyone is safe, but Obama and his administration are so scarred by the assassination attempt that they privatize inaugurations. So by the time he is reelected (assuming he is), no one can witness his reinauguration and he gains even more distrust. Of course, that's a highly convoluted example. But it effectively proves my point. |
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| Rick Raptor | Jan 29 2011, 04:36 PM Post #18 |
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The arboreal raptor itself isn´t very likely because of its too ape-like body
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| Cephylus | Jan 29 2011, 07:48 PM Post #19 |
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Maybe the weird baboon reptile is a kind of derived therocephalan/gorgonopsid. Or a weird derived lineage of mammalian notosuchid. Or a weird endothermic varanid descendent with erect legs. The giant eel seems like a kind of giant hagfish relative, and the pterodactyloid bats are also possible, in a world where birds never claimed dominance. |
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| Dark-Matter | Jan 29 2011, 07:53 PM Post #20 |
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Cephylus:Maybe the weird baboon reptile is a kind of derived therocephalan/gorgonopsid. Or a weird derived lineage of mammalian notosuchid. Or a weird endothermic varanid descendent with erect legs. The giant eel seems like a kind of giant hagfish relative, and the pterodactyloid bats are also possible, in a world where birds never claimed dominance. So many of this creatures are from different alternative timelines?. P.S. The baboon-lyzard could have evolved from the Mer creatures from primeval .
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| Kamidio | Jan 29 2011, 10:38 PM Post #21 |
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Unless of course, you shoot him after you're born, but before you own a gun. Or you shoot a turkey which was poisoned at the time and he finds it dying, and takes it home to eat, thus killing him. Or there's the Schrodinger's Cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat ![]() GADDOMNIT. |
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| ULTIMATE THEROPOD | Jan 30 2011, 03:07 AM Post #22 |
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I loved the movie even though it wasn't realistic. I havent seen it in ages but Dark Matter I dont recall these creatures very well: Giants ant, other quadruped lizards, wolf-crocs, Arachnid like mammal, Legged snakes, .pterodactyl like dragon |
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| Kamidio | Jan 30 2011, 04:00 AM Post #23 |
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I like how there are two totally different converstaions. The older members (Canis, Parasky, and I) are talking about spacetime paradoxes, while the younger members (UT, Dark Matter, and Cephylus. You could also include Rick as he a had a long absence and returned rather recentlly.) talk about the life in the book. |
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| FallingWhale | Jan 30 2011, 04:04 AM Post #24 |
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The movie, the short story is subtle and ends in a shotgun blast and a less french touched english, closer to dutch.
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| Rick Raptor | Jan 30 2011, 07:47 AM Post #25 |
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I just think the creatures are more interesting, those space-time-paradox discussions just confuse me ![]()
I wouldn´t be surprised if Tim and Adrian actually got the idea for the Mer creatures from these baboon lizards. What do the "wolf-crocs" look like? Because that name makes me think of some sort of cursorial Notosuchian. |
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| Cephylus | Jan 30 2011, 08:23 AM Post #26 |
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I think the point in Crichton's book is that the place you travel to when you go back in time, well, it's not even the same universe as ours. It kind of relates back to the theory that the universes are constantly splitting. So the reason that the grandfather paradox doesn't work is that when they transported people back in time, they transported them into a completely different parallel universe, exactly same as ours but a bit... younger. So whatever you do in that alternate timeline, you end up altering that universe's future, not the universe that you come from. Anyway, back to my discussing the critters. What do the arachnid-mammals, the wolf-crocs and pterodactyloid dragons look like? Can you gimme a link or something? Or post their image? The only critters I think I saw in the actual movie were the baboon lizards, the man-eating plants, the pterodactyloid bats, the giant hagfish/moray eel, the killer ants and the humanoid catfish. |
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| ULTIMATE THEROPOD | Jan 30 2011, 03:43 PM Post #27 |
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Are the ants those creatures that kill that girl when they open that door. I thought they were massive stag beetles. |
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| Dark-Matter | Jan 30 2011, 07:10 PM Post #28 |
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UT those creatures were from the game base on the movie. |
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| ULTIMATE THEROPOD | Jan 31 2011, 04:04 PM Post #29 |
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Oh. I thought you were talking about the movie. |
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| Dark-Matter | Jan 31 2011, 04:50 PM Post #30 |
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I was talking about the movie,but I also put the creatures from the game.The game is exactly the same to the movie. P.S. UT did you check the alien primeval topic on jasonguppy forum. http://s4.zetaboards.com/jasonguppy/index/ Edited by Dark-Matter, Jan 31 2011, 04:53 PM.
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