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-->--'''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_14980_the-8-most-common-sci-fi-visions-future-and-why-theyll-never-happen_p2.html#ixzz0s7k2aH25 Cracked]]'''
->"Head thick and puffy, about two feet point to point, with three-inch flexible yellowish tubes projecting from each point. Slit in exact center of top probably breathing aperture. At end of each tube is spherical expansion where yellowish membrane rolls back on handling to reveal glassy, red-irised globe, evidently an eye. Five slightly longer reddish tubes start from inner angles of starfish-shaped head and end in saclike swellings of same color which, upon pressure, open to bell-shaped orifices two inches maximum diameter and lined with sharp, white tooth like projections - probably mouths. All these tubes, cilia, and points of starfish head, found folded tightly down; tubes and points clinging to bulbous neck and torso. Flexibility surprising despite vast toughness."
-->--''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', H.P. Lovecraft
->"How blithely you use the word alien; you have no idea how alien a thing can be."
-->-- ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'', Terry Pratchett
->'''Alien Brain Ball:''' ''The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. He bounced three meters in the air. Then he bounced one point eight meters in the air. Then he bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?''
->'''Henry Kissenger:''' ''Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story.''
-->-- ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', "War is the H-Word"
->"Head thick and puffy, about two feet point to point, with three-inch flexible yellowish tubes projecting from each point. Slit in exact center of top probably breathing aperture. At end of each tube is spherical expansion where yellowish membrane rolls back on handling to reveal glassy, red-irised globe, evidently an eye. Five slightly longer reddish tubes start from inner angles of starfish-shaped head and end in saclike swellings of same color which, upon pressure, open to bell-shaped orifices two inches maximum diameter and lined with sharp, white tooth like projections - probably mouths. All these tubes, cilia, and points of starfish head, found folded tightly down; tubes and points clinging to bulbous neck and torso. Flexibility surprising despite vast toughness."
-->--''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', H.P. Lovecraft
->"How blithely you use the word alien; you have no idea how alien a thing can be."
-->-- ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'', Terry Pratchett
->'''Alien Brain Ball:''' ''The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. He bounced three meters in the air. Then he bounced one point eight meters in the air. Then he bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?''
->'''Henry Kissenger:''' ''Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story.''
-->-- ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', "War is the H-Word"
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-->--''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'', H.P. Lovecraft
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-->-- ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness''
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->'''Avon''': This happens to be the most sophisticated lifeform that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. [[SurroundedByIdiots Present company]] ''[[SurroundedByIdiots not]]'' [[SurroundedByIdiots excepted]].
->'''Tarrant''': Life? But it looks like...
->'''Avon''': A rock. Yes. Well, when you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, nobody cares too much what you look like.
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "The Harvest Of Kairos"
->'''Tarrant''': Life? But it looks like...
->'''Avon''': A rock. Yes. Well, when you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, nobody cares too much what you look like.
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "The Harvest Of Kairos"
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-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'',
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-->--''Literature/{{Strata}}''
->''"They seem to walk on air, and they act pretty strange.''
->'' They live around us, but you can't recognize them.''
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->'' No matter how you try, you just can't understand them."''
-->-- ''Music/Eiffel65'' "Another Race"
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->'' They live around us, but you can't recognize them.''
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->'' No matter how you try, you just can't understand them."''
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->''The air conditioning in the dissection lab struggles against the smell of burnt fat and decay. The Gartino class sitting on raised benches about the slab, watches impassively as the large, furry lump is worked on by their xenobiology instructor, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp wielding his molecular scalpel]] with deceptive ease. Jelly layers are folded back, exposing the intricate traceries of the being's hydraulic system. "The limbs work by fluids pumped through a network of veins," says the instructor, pointing. "The legs can change in an instant from stumpy elephant feet to long stilts; the arms can be as thick and strong as girders, and in the next second thin and whip-like. Xenoids are things without bones."''
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->''The air conditioning in the [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissection lab lab]] struggles against the smell of burnt fat and decay. The Gartino class sitting on raised benches about the slab, watches impassively as the large, furry lump is worked on by their xenobiology instructor, [[TheyWouldCutYouUp wielding his molecular scalpel]] scalpel with deceptive ease. Jelly layers are folded back, exposing the intricate traceries of the being's hydraulic system. "The limbs work by fluids pumped through a network of veins," says the instructor, pointing. "The legs can change in an instant from stumpy elephant feet to long stilts; the arms can be as thick and strong as girders, and in the next second thin and whip-like. Xenoids are things without bones."''
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-->-- ''Music/Eiffel65'' "Another Race"
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-->-- ''Music/Eiffel65'' "Another Race"
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->In the interstellar gulf, a ship dropping out of Elsewhere for repairs had discovered a [[{{Precursor}} paleotech]] - dead, at least by human terms (though Kin Arad had pointed out that paleotechs probably [[TimeAbyss lived by a different time scale]] and that this apparently lifeless husk may have been very much alive if considered by slow, megagalactic Time). It was a thin-walled tube half a million miles long.
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->In the interstellar gulf, a ship dropping out of Elsewhere for repairs had discovered a [[{{Precursor}} paleotech]] paleotech - dead, at least by human terms (though Kin Arad had pointed out that paleotechs probably [[TimeAbyss lived by a different time scale]] scale and that this apparently lifeless husk may have been very much alive if considered by slow, megagalactic Time). It was a thin-walled tube half a million miles long.
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->In the interstellar gulf, a ship dropping out of Elsewhere for repairs had discovered a [[{{Precursor}} paleotech]] - dead, at last by human terms (though Kin Arad had pointed out that paleotechs probably [[TimeAbyss lived by a different time scale]] and that this apparently lifeless husk may have been very much alive if considered by slow, megagalactic Time). It was a thin-walled tube half a million miles long.
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->In the interstellar gulf, a ship dropping out of Elsewhere for repairs had discovered a [[{{Precursor}} paleotech]] - dead, at last least by human terms (though Kin Arad had pointed out that paleotechs probably [[TimeAbyss lived by a different time scale]] and that this apparently lifeless husk may have been very much alive if considered by slow, megagalactic Time). It was a thin-walled tube half a million miles long.
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->In the interstellar gulf, a ship dropping out of Elsewhere for repairs had discovered a [[{{Precursor}} paleotech]] - dead, at last by human terms (though Kin Arad had pointed out that paleotechs probably [[TimeAbyss lived by a different time scale]] and that this apparently lifeless husk may have been very much alive if considered by slow, megagalactic Time). It was a thin-walled tube half a million miles long.
-->--''Literature/{{Strata}}''
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->''"Don't let the chromatophores fool you. I exist in only three dimensions and I have a certificate saying so."''
-->-- '''Sam''', ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''
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->'''Avon''': This happens to be the most sophisticated lifeform that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. [[SurroundedByIdiots Present company]] ''[[[[SurroundedByIdiots not]]'' [[[[SurroundedByIdiots excepted]].
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->'''Avon''': This happens to be the most sophisticated lifeform that it has ever been my good fortune to come across. [[SurroundedByIdiots Present company]] ''[[[[SurroundedByIdiots not]]'' [[[[SurroundedByIdiots excepted]].
->'''Tarrant''': Life? But it looks like...
->'''Avon''': A rock. Yes. Well, when you live on the permanent dark side of a planet, nobody cares too much what you look like.
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "The Harvest Of Kairos"
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-->-- ''Presumed Dead'', by Rick Kennett
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->''Why except for their transparent heads, furry green eyeballs, seven legs and three lips, they looked just like you and me!''
-->-- '''Kremmen of the Star Corps'''
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->'''Brain Ball:''' ''The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. He bounced three meters in the air. Then he bounced one point eight meters in the air. Then he bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?''
->'''Ambassador Kissenger:''' ''Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story.''
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->'''Brain Ball:''' ''The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. He bounced three meters in the air. Then he bounced one point eight meters in the air. Then he bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?''
->'''Ambassador Kissenger:''' ''Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story.''
-->-- ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', "War is the H-Word"
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"How blithely you use the word alien; you have no idea how alien a thing can be."
--> ''Dark Side of the Sun'', Terry Pratchett
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-->--'''At the Mountains of Madness'''
-->--'''At the Mountains of Madness'''