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Ideas and Concepts.
Topic Started: Aug 17 2011, 03:32 PM (8,761 Views)
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We all have cool ideas for things we'd love to do or make, art, novels, films and so on. But unless you actually have something to show us such as concept art or a first draft I think you should discuss it here so we don't have dozens of topics of people talking about their cool ideas.
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Well, the Permian extinction was the greatest mass extinction on Earth, and no one's exactly sure what caused it. I want the race's appearance and motives to be a mystery, so it doesn't really affect the story all that much.
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Ah, would there be AI involved? I don't see how the thing on the moon could so easily hack into our foreign computers without some nice thoughtfulness... I suppose heavy calculating might do it but then there'd be nothing to make heads or tails of what was gathered...
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How the fuck would it even hook up to human satellites in the first place? This sounds as bullshit as Independance Day and the Mac hooking up to the alien ships.
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The device can detect all kinds of communications frequencies and both send and receive them. It shouldn't really have said "hijack", it really more "spies" on the signals they're communicating with.
And yes, this thing was SMART.
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Still, different coding formats.
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Since it's a xenodefense system I would think they took into account different coding, I suggest giving it AI and a month or three to decipher our codes.
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How about half a century and making it first encounder on the first moon mission? Thus, this would take place in an alternate 2011-2012.
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Mebbe... But I want to avoid any sort of cover-up thing...
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Have them think it was the Russians.
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I think that idea of sapients from earth's previous geological epochs has been done in Doctor Who, twice... The Sea Devils and the Silurians.
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Yeah, but it's never been done PLAUSIBLY. And the Sea Devils and the Silurians are the same species, just different sub-species.
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Sexual organs however DO propagate the species. :T


Not if the organism they're attached to starves to death because it can't survive. ;)

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Imagine a species of butterflies with caterpillars that form groups for protection. The butterflies however don't live in a group and are loners. Now if the intelligence of both stages would increase the caterpillars would have a greater gain from the new intelligence as they can put it to a use to interact with each other. Since the adult butterfly rarely interacts with others of its own species except for mating which doesn't require a high level of intelligence, then the energy put into its brain is wasted. Evolution will favour those individuals (or populations) that have a high degree of teamwork in their larval stage but at the same time require less energy in their adult stage, especially since the larva now has to gather food for BOTH metamorphosis and a brain. Of course, if you were to design the creature, you'd probably choose the adult form for the intelligent stage (though that might be because we're just used to it), but evolution has to work with what it got. It certainly won't change or even reverse the behaviour of both stages to create a more "pleasing" sophont. As long as the energy budget is balanced I don't see any reason for this to be impossible.


I really don't know about the "highly active adult" breeding strategy, it sounds too specialist to me... maybe.

The evolutionary history you've described here makes sense, but I don't see a particular reason why organisms would be forced down this particular route.

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You could use the very same reasoning to say that humans shouldn't die.


And we don't, at least not after we outlive our reproductive usefulness (then again, depends on how long humans live in the wild).
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All I know is that aging is your body's way of saying "Hey! You've outlived your usefulness! Time to get outta the gene pool!" XD
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(then again, depends on how long humans live in the wild).



Define "in the wild".
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