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| Topic Started: Aug 17 2011, 03:32 PM (8,761 Views) | |
| lamna | Aug 17 2011, 03:32 PM Post #1 |
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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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| Russwallac | Oct 7 2011, 02:37 PM Post #121 |
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"Ta-da!"
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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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| colddigger | Oct 7 2011, 02:55 PM Post #122 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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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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| Kamidio | Oct 7 2011, 04:41 PM Post #123 |
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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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| Russwallac | Oct 7 2011, 07:41 PM Post #124 |
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"Ta-da!"
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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. Edited by Russwallac, Oct 7 2011, 07:41 PM.
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| Kamidio | Oct 7 2011, 07:46 PM Post #125 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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Still, different coding formats. |
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| colddigger | Oct 7 2011, 08:01 PM Post #126 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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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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| Kamidio | Oct 7 2011, 08:08 PM Post #127 |
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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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| Russwallac | Oct 8 2011, 11:51 AM Post #128 |
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"Ta-da!"
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Mebbe... But I want to avoid any sort of cover-up thing... |
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| colddigger | Oct 8 2011, 12:03 PM Post #129 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Have them think it was the Russians. |
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| Russwallac | Oct 8 2011, 10:36 PM Post #130 |
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| Zoroaster | Oct 9 2011, 08:24 PM Post #131 |
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Fecund Fundiment
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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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| Russwallac | Oct 10 2011, 07:46 AM Post #132 |
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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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| T.Neo | Oct 10 2011, 01:05 PM Post #133 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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No comment.
Not if the organism they're attached to starves to death because it can't survive. ![]()
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.
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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| Russwallac | Oct 10 2011, 01:13 PM Post #134 |
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"Ta-da!"
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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!"
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| colddigger | Oct 10 2011, 01:16 PM Post #135 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Define "in the wild". |
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