I'm so sick of alien species in science fiction looking vaguely humanoid. It makes little sense to me that any sort of sentient species would be a lizard-person or a insect-person. Star Trek is the worst at this suggesting that a completely separate race would look like a person with some bumps on their heads, or longer ears.
Alan Moore came up with brilliantly original ideas just for the background of one Green Lantern story. One alien was a super intelligent smallpox virus. (This made them difficult to socialize with.) Another sentient being was an "abstract mathematical progression." Now THAT is clever alien design, a mathematical theory so complex it becomes self aware. The main character in that story was a being named Mogo which was an intelligent planet sized ecosystem. Essentially a sentient planet.
With all the various environments for life to evolve in it just makes sense that alien races would look nothing like humans. For example, life that evolved on a gas giant planet like Jupiter might be shaped like long thin jellyfish types. The incredible gravity and lack of a solid crust would create much different lifeforms. Can you imagine what type of structures a civilization shaped this way would come up with? Or what their spaceships would look like? Can you?
4.10.2008
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so the ad to click for this page is 'controlling psoriasis'. if that's not a message to think about...is google telling me that psoriasis is sentient.
in any case, i'd rather not have psoriasis.
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