Hollywierd they do call it, need not be logically. Or why they call it soft
sci-fi and not hard.
But yes, possible what would not kill us, or only make us sick, might not
effect an alien race.
Or see Pandora, the atmosphere density but also what else is in the atmosphere
that might cause issues, and not kist viruses and bacteria? Allergic to what
else?
Would make for a wierd movie of an alien race that falls cause its allergic to
something we take for granted?
Hot stuff today seem to be Transformers and Vampires, so what about
transforming aliens who are vampires or what? Need not be organic vampires,
just the romantic/brutal nature of vampirism? Hope for eternal life but also
the beastual nature of the whole act of becoming and being one?
Hum (Writer's guide to creating a science fiction universe by George Ochoa and
Jeffrey Osier.).. Idea for sure?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Mic
To: Abrigon Gusiq
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: World Ships Re: Colony ship lost
Any species high enough to develop ID4 ships was high enough to
develope anti-disease protocols and how alien would a source code be? Plot
devices beside the point.
Mike
I kinda disagree ( respectfully of course), Look at War of the
worlds, they had impressive tech ( almost on the same level as ID4 aliens,
force fields, anti gravity, disintegration rays ) that laid waste to us and
they where taken down by the smallest thing on the planet. And they where from
our solar system and had almost the same kinda elemental make up.
just because you mastered interstellar travel don't mean you have
the tech to protect your self from disease. You could filter the water and
air, and could possible have a pill that could counter the effects of native
bacteria, but it could have side effects that would be worse if that bacteria
mutated with the help of said pill. Becoming something more deadly.
Plus if your a super advance race with tech to travel through the
galaxy taking anything you want, armed with force fields, machines that can
pull massive G's with no harm to the occupants, anti gravity drive to keep your
massive ships hovering over targets. then it would be very improbable to have
your computer systems hack by the knuckle dragging apes of a backwater planet.
given the time frame of the attack, and the complexity of the alien
language, there was no way that we could have decoded and figure out there
operating systems and write a virus to take them out before they blasted us.
( and it's just not my hatred of ID4 plot holes ,that are as big as
the inside of a Tardis, in my op, plus the ending, you can imaging how much one
of the mother ships weighed, when the gravity control failed you know that they
would hang in space just as a brick does (hehehe i finally get to use Addams
line hehehehe), with that much mass slamming down, and it would cause( if the
control where destroyed ( the chances of hard wired safties cutting in to float
the ships down, would never have a chance with no power to help)) it would
cause massive earth quake in some places. after all they where just a few miles
up, close enough to build up speed and to short a time for safty equipment to
kick in) but I have ranted enough on ID4 hehehe on to others.
The main motive behind V was that they wanted us for food and they
wanted the earths water ( the same as ID4 I know), I believe it would have made
a great plot hook that the V had been here in our pre history and had tinkered
with our DNA to make a better feeding stock, especcially now that almost half
the world population are plumping up rapidly. And it would also explain alot of
Lizard man type myths and legends.
Know why do I like one and not the other, with the V plot hook they
would have been here almost since the world cooled down and life evolved, while
the other one just got here around the time of roswell ( it was there scout
that crashed like the film states). given both time frames the longer the time
you have contact with the target planet and the more visits you have you could
over come all bugs on the planet that where harmfull to you.
if you havent seen MegaZone 23 find it, it was another series that
was stolen to creaet robotech ( I say stolen cause they ditched the original
story, hacked it up to fit in like they did with Mospeada and southern cross.
To this day Carl Macek is a hated man.)
Boy meets girl, boy finds top secret transformable motorcycle, boy
finds out his world is really a lie and living on a ship in space and that the
Pop idol singer was really a computer simulation of the ships computer being
manipulated by those in charge to keep folks happy and distracted while they
carried out there own plans. And that the other ship computer is trying to
destroy them.
I got to see it like a few months after it was released because I
had a cousin in Japan sending me anime. This was in the late 80's when anime
could only be gotten by pen pals and friends in japan. it was in japanese with
no subtitles and it inspired us to try and learn japanese in order to figure it
out.
like Ben Bova said, theres a big difference between a Sci-fi flick
and a science fiction movie. ( sci-fi= big oohs and ahhs very little science
Science fiction=less oohs and ahhs and more realistic science)
if you havent had the chance to read Ben Bova's serries on writting (
Space travel, alien and alien societies ) he covers alot of great points. I
also recomend Writer's guide to creating a science fiction universe by George
Ochoa and Jeffrey Osier. I found these books very very helpful.
Intresting side note Bova was a science consultant on The starlost
but left after the first episode ( Wiki Ben Bova )
Okay I 've ranted long enough.
Mic
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