I'm afraid you're missing the point. I'm not saying that all of your logic is wrong. An alien species could very well be the way you describe it. However we lack sufficient data to claim we know what they would be like. Becuase of this, any number of theories about what they would be like or what they would do are plausible. What I have an issue with is not your belief that an alien species would not be hostile, I myself believe that, but rather the fact that you are dismissing other theories when you lack the data to do so. You claim to know what an alien species would be like even though nobody could possibly know that.
I never claimed to know what is, only what is and isn't likely. Everything in the universe is an odds game and if we live in an infinite universe then everything which can exist will exist, but the creatures which I have described will exist in a much larger proportion.
That is why in my very first post I wrote implausible. Thank you then for finally making your complaint clear.
Aliens that terrify me most? The bigger Flood forms and necromorphs are already pretty nasty, but what truly scares the pants off me are the little infector-type aliens - you know, the ones that are basically independent penises with 'brutal and fatal rape' as the standard pre-programmed setting. Xenomorph facehuggers, those little Flood buggers, that necromorph thing that looks like a flying vagina with a protruding spike, what have you...
what about head-crabs? if my understanding is correct, they basically replace your brain and mutate you a whole bunch!
i personally found IT to be a relatively unfrightening movie, but the one scene where everyone is tied up, and he is individually testing their blood, scared me a bunch. anybody could be the creature, you can't trust anyone.
We're in no danger of aliens coming to kill us off and colonize earth. We're too smart for them. We're destroying our own planet. There would be nothing for them to capitalize on. Take THAT "superior beings"!
Aliens that terrify me most? The bigger Flood forms and necromorphs are already pretty nasty, but what truly scares the pants off me are the little infector-type aliens - you know, the ones that are basically independent penises with 'brutal and fatal rape' as the standard pre-programmed setting. Xenomorph facehuggers, those little Flood buggers, that necromorph thing that looks like a flying vagina with a protruding spike, what have you...
what about head-crabs? if my understanding is correct, they basically replace your brain and mutate you a whole bunch!
i personally found IT to be a relatively unfrightening movie, but the one scene where everyone is tied up, and he is individually testing their blood, scared me a bunch. anybody could be the creature, you can't trust anyone.
Well, not really, but my imagination has really run wild lately with supposition.
See, I've very recently played through Dead Space and am currently playing through Dead Space 2. Now, these games aren't scary, like say, Amnesia: Dark Descent, but the situation your are playing in would be absolutely terrifying if you were not a resourceful engineer with a mineral cutter.
Along with the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise, the necromorphs are the last thing you want to encounter on the galactic frontier. Unlike here, on good old planet Earth, where we pretty much know what can kill us, space is full of the unknown, and the thought that all manner of nasty beasties could tear us to shreds on our first space colony isn't what I would have signed up for.
I mean, imagine waking up to this one morning (in spaaaaaace).
And this is before I even consider being enslaved by a master race of alien overlords.
But I love it, this sort of thing really fuels my imagination.
So, fellow eascapist, when you think of terrifying aliens, do you think of our good old friends the xenomorphs/necromorphs or something more intelligent, like say, the Predators?
what would terrify me the most in terms of exteraterrestirals is an alien species that is so alien that they don't even look biological and there is litteraly no way to communicate with them, and while they are benign they end up wreaking havok anyway due to said communication barrier
kind of like the ELS (extraterrestrial livingmetal shapeshifters)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTKKIgDCNPY
I love Necromorphs. Seriously they have to be the coolest space zombies ever.
Alarmingly scientists have found evidence to suggest that micro organism could resurrect dead skin cells so it is actually possible that somewhere out there exist necromorphs.
Oh and by the way, puny human, you have every reason to fear the depths of space. For that is the home of the MIGHTY SANGHEILI ARMADA!!
We are coming for you!!!
Anyway, to be honest I fear the idea of an advanced alien civilization more than I fear alien monsters or space virus's. Because an advanced civilization could do all manner of damage to Earth in only a short period of time.
Then again, so could an extraterrestrial pathogen.
Come to think of it, the thing I fear most is an advanced alien civilization that kill people with an alien pathogen.
I think the Necro's are awseome. Alien Space Zombies FTW. 2nd would be the Xeno's. Primitive yet Intelligent. I also agree with the concept of the alien virus. That would cause devastation. I really want Necro's to be real.....
Vrex360 said:
Alarmingly scientists have found evidence to suggest that micro organism could resurrect dead skin cells so it is actually possible that somewhere out there exist necromorphs.
What scares the hell out of me is the idea of the alien overlords rather than alien extinctionists.
Think about it, which is worse? Being slaughtered en masse by the xenomorphs, necromorphs, Flood etc.? Or being herded Combine-style into dystopian city-cages and slowly killed over miserable, hopeless decades?
I mean, the latter example probably isn't as potent given that the Combine are so hilariously incompetent that they were eluded, overthrown and driven to the brink by a physicist with a malformed metal rod, but still. To be a citizen in the 20 years after the seven hour war would have been indescribably horrific.
Vrex360 said:
Alarmingly scientists have found evidence to suggest that micro organism could resurrect dead skin cells
Y'know. It would be much more terrifying to know that, with the entire expanse of the universe, there was nothing out there. No great civilisation, no small alien baceria. Absolutely nothing. The isolation from that fact would be a lot more scary to me than finding something hostile out there. Highly unlikely, I know, due to all the room and variables, but it's something that's pretty disconcerting.
But if we do find life out there, it's either waaaaay more advanced than we are and it's likely they're not that hostile to us. It's be the equivalent of humans finding a colony of ants, so advanced they would be compared to us. If we find THEIR homeplanet however, we have nothing to fear. We'd be the humans and they'd be the colony.
If space really is infinite (like many people think it is) then everything that can exist will exist somewhere. It works on a similar principle to the monkeys with the typewriters theory. Simply put, if its biologically possible then those aliens ur scared of, will exist somewhere out there = P
If we finally develop faster than light travel and start exploring the galaxy only to run into Azathoth or something I'll be pissed off. Luckily it probably wouldn't care too much
Would be worse is if we start scanning it and it decides to crush our planet to stop all these annoying space bees from buzzing around.
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