alien world

who here has heard of descriptions of an alien world? I am curious about the nature of an alien wilderness. Do they have trees or something like trees? Do they have a plant and animal kingdom? Do they have an ecosystem that can't be compared to ours in any meaningful way? What color is the sun? How many moons do they have? What does their sunset look like? What color is the sky? etc

Well, here is most the info we currently have on other worlds.

www.obspm.fr...

Most are gas giants, so probably don't have much in the way of wilderness since they have no solid ground.

hmm...it is curious though, if aliens had some sort of habitat somewhere, I wonder what it would be like. Who knows what they'd be doing though.

I think the very best thing you can do here to research this is.... use yoru imagination. I dont mean to sound patronising with you here, I just think that anything at all is possible, so let your mind do a bit of pondering and see what you can design.

Dont forget, anything you read about teh habitat and worlds of alien races is almost definately made up.

Maybe some of the more artistic people on here could put their ideas down on paper, Simon may want to host them here if he appreciates them. I suppose they dont neccasserily (what disgusting spelling!) have to be drawn artwork, written pieces would get great, also.

ANyone fancy showing us what weird and wonderful things you have floating around your skull?

You cannot be sure, unless you yourself are abducted.

Or you can decide to actually trust people when they tell you that they have been abducted (which I never do for some reason, but that's just me)

Originally posted by TheMachine
(which I never do for some reason, but that's just me)

I really dont think it is "just you" mate. I think anyone in their right mind is entirely sceptical about such revelations.

Well due to the science of fractals, I would think most planets would have plants similar to ours in appearance and most alien lifeforms would have some form of vascular and nervous system. Gravity would determine how they would be structured, yet variety would occur. We are one of the few bipedal creatures on our planet (unless you want to count birds), so other planets may as an exception have bipedal creatures also. And since most stars are binary stars, we may see creatures that depend on both suns for nourishment, so maybe photosynthesis is a cheap source of energy on a planet that doesn't have much of a "night".

I think predators would be a common sight as well since another creature is usually an important high-energy source. And as a subsciber to Howard Bloom's Lucifer Principle, I think conflict and territorial battles would be common...so I doubt any planet is a serene picture of peace unless the more complex life forms have not evolved yet or a complex group of life forms dominate the planet and loose their antagonistic ways (a path us humans need to start taking or we will be extinct).

I think Europa (and maybe Mars) is the answer as to what we should expect to see as a pattern of life's variety/similarity on other planets.

I think it would also be important to look at the "Aliens" themselves.
If you take the classic grey, for instance.

The huge eyes, perhaps a darker world or enviornment? Thin bodies, perhaps a sign of weak gravity?

I'm sure you could make all sorts of inferences about an Alien world from the appearance the alien from that world, certainly beyond what I just said.

The huge eyes, perhaps a darker world or enviornment? Thin bodies, perhaps a sign of weak gravity?

I'm sure you could make all sorts of inferences about an Alien world from the appearance the alien from that world, certainly beyond what I just said.

I'd hate to see the world of the Alien's that I think I have come across, I say think as when I attempt to recall any specific memories I start to come over very nervous and start to shake.

The only one that remains very clear is�� well that�s for another time.

I say think I've come across either that or I have a very active imageation

[Edited on 8-1-2004 by dragoonrider1999]