Are Sci Fi monsters and aliens too hard to kill?

[shin_getter]

And yet neither Disney nor netflix have snapped up the IP and made a crappy point-missing "adaptation."

If disney have made an adaptation, you know it actually must be low science fidelity

Its not like anyone ever remembers, say, thermodynamics and likes ever~

 

[Dilandu]

And yet neither Disney nor netflix have snapped up the IP and made a crappy point-missing "adaptation."

The main problem with "Perry Rhodan" adaptation was - until recently - their sheer size, which made the whole series utterly impossible for conventional translation. There are literally thousands of books just in main series, and new one coming each several weeks. What publishing company would dare to translate something THAT big from German (which is not a common language in the world) to, say, English?

Fortunately, we have automatic translators now, and that's how I read "Perry Rhodan". The german-to-english is good enough.

 

[Michel Van]

And yet neither Disney nor netflix have snapped up the IP and made a crappy point-missing "adaptation."

To make a Perry Rhoda TV series would be very expensive do SFX and Makeup
also would Producer have problems to make 45 seasons, that cover the entire series.

There were several attempts for TV series and Movies but they failed
and now back to Topic

 

[publiusr]

Genetically modified goldfish that feast solely on the Shoggoids?

Getting there:

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-scientists-publish-how-to-mouse-human-chimeric.html

 

[shin_getter]

On some meta level I do wonder if aliens are just kinda boring now. I mean its motivation, if biological, likely won't breach what exists in earth's biosphere. (and if it does, readers are unlikely to comprehend it, not like most people comprehends living things on earth to begin with)

This is in contrast to being able to generate new alien intelligences by writing a small paragraph into chatgpt with motivations far from what is constrained by biology. (and such a bot's intelligence is already incomprehensible and dangerous)

And the idea that aliens are so stupid as to be outwitted by humans and other tropes feels like wish fulfillment no less absurd than "hit by truck and transported to alternate universe afterlife" genre.

Having read some post-machine intelligence fiction, conflict may very well be philosophical and processing axioms over anything else. After all, compute substrate is a matter of tech and resources and not a serious issue, it is the software that really needs control.

 

[Dilandu]

also would Producer have problems to make 45 seasons, that cover the entire series.

On the other hand, it could produce some lucky company with decades-long income)

On some meta level I do wonder if aliens are just kinda boring now. I mean its motivation, if biological, likely won't breach what exists in earth's biosphere. (and if it does, readers are unlikely to comprehend it, not like most people comprehends living things on earth to begin with)

Frankly, my IMHO - any contact with aliens would be slow and boring. It would took decades and great scienficic efforts just to reach the basic understanding.

 

[shin_getter]

Frankly, my IMHO - any contact with aliens would be slow and boring. It would took decades and great scienficic efforts just to reach the basic understanding.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LceY7nhi6j4

I wonder if anyone have seriously attempted writing a first contact situation by "civilizations" spanning 1000+ galaxies.

And slow would it be if slower than light is the law while processing is orders of magnitudes faster.

One can seriously wonder how bored a matrioshka brain would be if it is tuned to human levels of stimulus requirements.

 

[1635yankee]

Meh. The real problem with "ancient humans as aliens" is that an industrial civilization recent enough for *humans* to have been involved would have left detectable traces. Maybe all the buildings and roads would have eroded away... but all the oil would have been pumped out, all the readily accessible coal scraped off, long-lasting chemicals (plastics, radioisotopes, etc.) scattered all over everywhere.

A somewhat more realistic way to get human aliens: 5,000 years ago aliens swung by, scooped up a village or three of humans and transported them elsewhere. Said humans either became part of the alien civilization or, being humans, learned their tech and rebelled.

Humans sucessfully rebelling and then taking over the alien empire would be mandatory to sell the story to John W Cambell.

 

[Hanse]

There's Weber's Dahak trilogy, where the advanced Humans are our own ancestors, marooned here for 50,000 years, in which time they/we've multiplied across the globe.

 

[Justo Miranda]

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Leonardo... again

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I'm afraid aliens have evolved into a subset of hominid.

Lawyers.
Accountants.
Tax officials.
Conspiracy theorists.

I know, we should have been told yonks ago.........

Weren't they on like the second colony ship behind the baristas, hairdressers, doormen, and such on the first one but were destroyed before they reached Earth?

 

[Foo Fighter]

Weren't they on like the second colony ship behind the baristas, hairdressers, doormen, and such on the first one but were destroyed before they reached Earth?

Some will have received the 'frozen cucumber' treatment which will have extended the cryoogenic cycle long enough for the ink on the settlers rights charter to evaporate.

Second only to the barbed wire wrapped banana version with extra added li-ion battery terminals.

Shocking............

Not at all, the intra cranial route, ear to ear..........

Sorry folks on a roll, not ham and cheese either.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Some will have received the 'frozen cucumber' treatment which will have extended the cryoogenic cycle long enough for the ink on the settlers rights charter to evaporate.

Second only to the barbed wire wrapped banana version with extra added li-ion battery terminals.

Shocking............

Not at all, the intra cranial route, ear to ear..........

Sorry folks on a roll, not ham and cheese either.

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I was being obtuse--or is it acute-- with my angle on this.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B

The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet Golgafrincham. The ship was led by the Captain, with Number One and Number Two next in charge. The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing...

hitchhikers.fandom.com

I was being obtuse--or is it acute-- with my angle on this.

I know, I was trying for humour.

 

[1635yankee]

Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B

The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet Golgafrincham. The ship was led by the Captain, with Number One and Number Two next in charge. The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing...

hitchhikers.fandom.com

I was being obtuse--or is it acute-- with my angle on this.

Of course, the Golfafrinchans then all died off because of a plague transmitted via unsanitized phone handsets.