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DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#1: May 1st 2012 at 9:43:25 AM

This thread is about aliens of all kinds from all walks of life...or somesort.

I've always been fascinated by aliens, mostly from how bizarre they could be. Bizarre alien life is my most favorite aspect of space.

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Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#2: May 1st 2012 at 10:15:20 AM

I really like the concept of Atmospheric beasts (not the cryptozoological stuff, the idea of a hypothetical lighter-than-air creature living in a gas giant).

Also, do Artificial Life beings count as alien for the purpose of this thread? Many of them are pretty bizarre — for example, the ones of Tierra are programs, reproducing, evolving, predating and parasitizing each other in a simulated computer environment.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#3: May 1st 2012 at 11:53:35 AM

That sounds like something more along the lines of artificial intelligence, which has more to do with programming than alien life IMO.

I've seen some atmospheric beasts before, like the Beldons from Bespin and the Etherean races from Master of Orion 3.

Chryssalid is my all-time favorite alien. It's essentially a Xenomorph in crab form, and it's one of the scariest creatures I've ever met.

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#4: May 1st 2012 at 12:22:59 PM

I've always been fascinated with the idea of alien life, somewhere, out there. And while I know they're all bogus, I used to love searching for alien abduction stories.

Also: Holy crap. That Tierra thing is amazing.

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Talby Since: Jun, 2009
#5: May 1st 2012 at 8:33:09 PM

Aww, I thought this would be a thread about alien generals.sad

OdieEsty Why would I write that? Since: Mar, 2012
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#6: May 1st 2012 at 11:36:36 PM

So a while back Games Radar had funny people and a funny podcast. One of those funny people was Scott Butterworth, who knows a awful lot about aliens and talked about it on one of the podcasts. It's surprisingly creepy for a comedy podcast.

[up]I hear Radec is good at his job.

edited 1st May '12 11:36:42 PM by OdieEsty

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DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#7: May 2nd 2012 at 4:44:29 AM

[up][up]Yeah...I guess I could have done better with the title...

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#8: May 2nd 2012 at 8:33:45 AM

I kind of miss the days when aliens were all-human like people from Venus or Jupiter's moons. Shame that fell out of style. The Grays aren't as cool.

DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#9: May 2nd 2012 at 9:00:48 AM

I haven't seen much of The Grays outside of X-Com. IMO, their roles in X-Com as the Sectoids and Aquatoids were their best.

Not to mention their role as the Reticulans in UFO: After-Blank, where they managed to conquer the Earth in a manner resembling War of the Worlds minus the giant mechs.

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DemoralizedAnt Book Fort is Best Fort from Chairman Cheng's broom closet Since: Jun, 2011
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#10: May 2nd 2012 at 10:48:57 AM

>Rape

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Steventheman Cmdr. of His Supremacy's Armed Forces from Wales Since: Feb, 2011
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#11: May 2nd 2012 at 11:04:21 AM

Alien Generals eh?

What of General Tor?

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