Alien Lifeforms

[Anonymous No.1160910]

Got done watching Stephan Hawking's Universe and realized that the concept of alien lifeforms can vary about as much as our imaginations can (in the confines of scientific reasoning of course). So I thought, why the hell not, let's see what /sci/ has to say about it.

Well, what type of lifeforms do you imagine? Describe the planet/environment they would have had to evolve on to become the organism they are. Are they water-based lifeforms that we would recognize? Are there any other ways you can imagine intelligence to develop? What biological strategies could they be accustomed to? Let's runaway with this and have some fun.

[Anonymous No.1160992]

Why not an interstellar organism made out of all the same stuff as life as we know it but drifting among nebular gas and photosynthesizing from multiple stars in an emission nebula full of new born stars. I'm not exactly sure how close stars are to each in an a stellar nursery but if they're anything like the distance between our Sun and the next star, then that may be an impossibility. Who knows, maybe life originates in nebulas and hitches rides on passing asteroids.

[Anonymous No.1161050]

How about sporelike creatures that reproduce to get food from producers high up in the atmosphere who photosynthesize in cloud clusters. The spores would release from their "trees" and capture what they can when they are still light and full of gas but gently fall down to take root and make use of their captured prey to make new spores to release into the atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.1161113]

Btw, if it's not obvious yet, I'm been samefagging and bumping because I really think this could be interesting...I really don't mind if someone crushes my ideas and explains why that would be impossible either. Please, I hope to learn from my mistakes.

[Anonymous No.1161129]

[Anonymous No.1161136]

Shut up, nobody cares.

[Anonymous No.1161149]

>>1161129
>think's

[Anonymous No.1161151]

[Anonymous No.1161164]

>>1160910
>>1160992
>>1161050
>>1161113

[Anonymous No.1161165]

I can see there being a space faring virus.

after all until about 50 years ago we said nothing could live in hydrothermal vents but now we've found bacteria that could survive a nuclear blast.

[Anonymous No.1161179]

>>1161165

Virus? I suppose the simpler structure = the better for long distances.

[Anonymous No.1161203]

>>1161179
Nah more the idea that a virus can survive in its dormant state pretty much permanently as long as it's capable of withstanding the issue of space, it manages to get to a planet, may or may not survive, may find a planet with life and proceed to infect it take over and do its thing.

[Anonymous No.1161206]

If you look back at early Earth life, it was more diverse then now in terms of designs and the shape of life. They were built of exotic shapes they we can only imagine. imagine of some of these life forms and species had made it to land and evolved... land animals might be looking very different today.

of course 99.99% of all these lines died out, but it still boggles the mind at what could have been.

[Anonymous No.1161224]

>>1160910
>>1160992
>>1161050
>>1161113

A facepalm for each one.

[Anonymous No.1161242]

>>1161206

if we want to even start to imagine what aliens might look like, we should look back at all the strange and exotic designs that Earth Life used to have.

[Anonymous No.1161237]

>>1161224

[Anonymous No.1161265]

>>1161242
Stop

Stop right there.

[Anonymous No.1161292]

>>1161242
is dat some burgess shale?

[Anonymous No.1161293]

You know I've been having this thought for some time, that there's a planet out there, with vibrant life, strange forests teeming with pulsating life, six-legged beasts grazing on alien grasses, and a race of noble humanoids with more connection to nature then we can even dream of, roaming their forests with a cat-like grace

[Anonymous No.1161306]

>>1161206
>>1161242

THESE. Very true, in fact it's crazy to sometimes think that we have actually had 5 mass extinctions on our planet. That's 5 times when life was nearly completely wiped out. The last one is the one most people know about and without it dinosaurs may still be roaming as the dominant species but the ones preceding it were even more devastating and killed off the greatest biodiversity of them all. Forget scales versus fur, these fucking organism didn't even have eyeballs, something a staple with most animals. Even insects have them. The would would be unrecognizable without all five of those mass extinctions.

I more or less wonder what the world would evolve into after humans and our massive influence on the world suddenly and spontaneously disappears for famine, disease, or pollution. Fast forward a few million years and we might have something of a worldwide insect dominating planet.

[Anonymous No.1161329]

You now realize that humans are themselves the cause of the latest mass extinction on Earth.

not even an eco-fag or anything

[Anonymous No.1161332]

>>1161293

[Anonymous No.1161342]

for OP

http://rapidshare.com/files/397906053/All_Tomorrows_-_Nemo_Ramjet.pdf.html
MD5: DC3499EAC686A0FCB764175368377988

[Anonymous No.1161356]

>>1161342

What is it?

[Anonymous No.1161361]

>>1161306

Maybe giant swimming cockroaches(after our once epic cities get flooded). huge expanses of forests, made up of 60 foot tall weeds and dandelions.

[Anonymous No.1161369]

>>1161356

it's probably snaiad, judging by the link's name.

check it out, here's his site;

http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html

[Anonymous No.1161372]

I'm watching it right now OP.

Is it good?

[Anonymous No.1161375]

>>1161361

future bat that evolves as a pack hunter on land.

[Anonymous No.1161396]

>>1161306

Watch the Future is Wild, it's a fantastic insight into what the Earth's future could hold without man.

[Anonymous No.1161415]

>>1161372

It was better than that Through the Wormhole shit with Morgan Freeman I made time to watch. That show was something I expecting to be epic but turned out to be a let down on the way it was produced and the topics they covered. Then Stephan Hawking's Universe: Aliens was on next and was full of so much more win. Nothing remarkable but it gets you thinking about the possibilities.

[Anonymous No.1161434]

>>1161415
I'm not big into biology or aliens, but this documentary seems to be alright so far. lol at morgan freeman having anything to do with science

Screencap of stephen looking awesome

[Anonymous No.1161469]

>>1161434

Stephan Hawkings, what are you doing in a 3d representation of super cluster galaxy formations? Get out of there, you're handicapped and you can't be that big.

[Anonymous No.1161475]

EUROPA!!

[Anonymous No.1161480]

Well, OP is going to work now. See you guys, maybe this thread will still be around tonight. I'm going to go watch Karate Kid for lulz with my girlfriend so I may be a while. Either way, take care and thank you for all your insight and facepalms everyone.

[Anonymous No.1161483]

>>1161480
>girlfriend

[Anonymous No.1161489]

They're covered in scilia to better enable pollen to cling to them. To the touch quarians are extremely soft, however the scilia can sometimes cause other beings (namely asari, humans, or batarians) to itch. They also pose a danger to a non quarian's eyes should they contaminate them.

Their compound eyes are a deep red or pink, and glow faintly due to occular implants all quarians have implanted when they reach maturity.

They are excellent jumpers and bounders, but tire easily. They are poor marathon runners as a result. The thigh muscles on males and females are extremely well developed, allowing for a powerful kick capable of doing serious damage to a human. In addition, females have dewclaws on the outer edge of each foot which can inflict deep cuts on unprotected tissue.

[Anonymous No.1161491]

[Anonymous No.1161495]

possible future evolution of a genetically engineered human millions of years from now.

[Anonymous No.1161610]

[Anonymous No.1161619]

[Mr.Red !!DYWybieIoPu No.1161636]

Bacteria.

[Anonymous No.1161900]

>>1161495
That's silly

[Anonymous No.1161901]

>>1161619
Motherfucking grovebacks!!!

[Anonymous No.1161973]

Turians, bro.

They're evolved from pretty much ptaerodactyls.

[Anonymous No.1162028]

What if crabs evolved to be smart and took over the world.

[Anonymous No.1162034]

>>1162028
they'd live in the crab nebula

pic unrelated

[Anonymous No.1162040]

>>1162034
On a serious side. Crab like intelligent like would be awesome

[Anonymous No.1162048]

>>1162040
LIFE****

[Anonymous No.1162052]

I IMAGINE GOO

OH GOD THE GOO

I WISH THEY NEVER TOUCH DOWN ON THAT PLANET

WE ARE FUCKED

[Anonymous No.1162055]

>got done

[Anonymous No.1162059]

>>1162028
there is a good arthur c. clarke with an interesting story about semi-sentient crabs; it is called "songs of a distant earth"

[Anonymous No.1162190]

Does anyone know of any good documentaries about life on earth before the dinosaurs?

[Anonymous No.1162258]

>>1162028