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I really enjoyed annihilation
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buglord posted:There’s several books with this title, I’m assuming it’s the one by Watts. I’ll put it on hold at my library. Yeah it’s the one by Watts and a phenomenal read. It’s very dense though so you kind of need to be in that sort of “ok I’m shutting everything off for a few hours to read without distractions” headspace to really get into it. And yeah Arrival is a great movie.
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you can read Watts' Blindsight for free here: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
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In Animorphs Ax finds it weird that humans only have two legs. So I guess aliens pretty universally have at least 3 legs.
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Sep 13, 2022 01:52
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1000 Sweaty Rikers posted:you can read Watts' Blindsight for free here: this is supremely good science fiction and I'm always glad to stumble across this, thank you
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The only thing I remember from Blindsite were the vampires, which were maybe the lamest, dumbest wank I've ever read.
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Sep 13, 2022 02:25
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Peter watts is weird, but also, he owns.
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i tried reading blindsight but i remember it having a cynical tone to everything that came off as affected to me. there are a lot of sci-fi books by men that have this kind of tone and it destroys my confidence that something is worth reading, so i never finish books like that. never even got to the aliens.
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Sep 13, 2022 02:31
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It turns out the most accurate sci-fi movie w/r/t aliens is Mac & Me, with over 97% accuracy. The aliens look like Ronald McDonald.
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Sep 13, 2022 02:38
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If not a robutt and they are corporeal they are probably some sort of land critter and probably from someplace low gravity or similar gravity to Earth if they actually bothered to come. After that who knows.  Maybe it would be wild and be like a walking fungus or whatever.
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Sep 13, 2022 02:41
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Lawman 0 posted:If not a robutt and they are corporeal they are probably some sort of land critter and probably from someplace low gravity or similar gravity to Earth if they actually bothered to come. After that who knows. Lol people breakdancing around a big daddy longlegs, not letting it captivate them, it is giant but it only weighs a pound. 
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Sep 13, 2022 02:58
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I think the children of time book has super intelligent spiders.
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I've seen em.
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Basically you got two options, they either look like they are dead and gay, or just like Simpsons (r) characters. That's how it would go too.
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buglord posted:There’s several books with this title, I’m assuming it’s the one by Watts. I’ll put it on hold at my library. I liked arrival except for the end where the screen starts flashing the text: BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
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Lawman 0 posted:I think the children of time book has super intelligent spiders. Oh this one wasn’t very intelligent, it just looks at people and pokes at them, and that’s about it. But some people are always like “wow what’s that thing” and they make up all sorts of dumb poo poo about it, endless pointless stories and allegories that make no sense. All it does is look and poke. Frail as a hot air balloon.
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Lawman 0 posted:I think the children of time book has super intelligent spiders. Using ant colonies as computing equipment.
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Those were technically Earth species though, just heavily gene-hosed.
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goatface posted:Using ant colonies as computing equipment. drat I need to read that book then.
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They never did seem to settle on a common forehead ridge pattern. I wonder if that would be their race divide, v against ^.
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I love books that explore weird alien races. One of my favorite recently was Species Imperative, which had a race that kept growing new brains and thus personality, sharing control of the same body. every brain center got a new pair of pupils/irises and so you'd have an alien with like 6 eyes in 2 eyesockets and they could be a doctor and an engineer and a politician all sharing a body.
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A black puddle that kills robosexuals
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I love books that explore weird alien races. One of my favorite recently was Species Imperative, which had a race that kept growing new brains and thus personality, sharing control of the same body. every brain center got a new pair of pupils/irises and so you'd have an alien with like 6 eyes in 2 eyesockets and they could be a doctor and an engineer and a politician all sharing a body. Sounds awesome
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Is that an indirect Tasha Yar reference?
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Yes and no
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Devils Affricate posted:Chances are they're out there, but chances are also we'll never contact them, so maybe it doesn't really matter. Those makeup effects were already a huge pain in the rear end and they need to express drama in a way that’s easy for the audience to follow. Since we’re probably talking about Star Trek I believe they’ve offered reasons why there are so many humanoid aliens but I don’t really know them. They did similar with the Aliens universe. The people making this stuff know it’s dumb but they have contend with budgets and audience expectations.
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TNG did have a storyline which concluded with them discovering that the galaxy had been seeded by a humanoid shaped progenitor species inserting genetic information to drive development of aliens who could communicate/coexist and, more importantly, gently caress.
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Stoic Pixie Dream Girl.
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Devils Affricate posted:I generally agree with you though, OP. Depicting aliens as humans with different colored skin or weirdly shaped foreheads has always struck me as being incredibly small minded. Most life in the universe is probably completely different from what we define life to be here on earth.
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buglord posted:what do you all think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPf-pn6QFs "This film documents an event that has never taken place – man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space and explores a first contact scenario, beginning with the simplest of questions: Why are you here?"
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:So I guess aliens pretty universally have at least 3 legs. Heh, no wonder the ladies say I'm out of this world. 
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zenintrude posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPf-pn6QFs I watched all of this just now. Pretty good, although I wish I watched it prior to subscribing to the YouTubers I mentioned in the OP. Would have been a good intro to this genre of speculative science(?).
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Things would get really awkward if we encounter aliens and they really do act like horrible cultural stereotypes from Earth.
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buglord posted:I watched all of this just now. Pretty good, although I wish I watched it prior to subscribing to the YouTubers I mentioned in the OP. Would have been a good intro to this genre of speculative science(?). So before?
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