tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post8736207628330349451..comments2024-03-25T09:31:36.926+01:00Comments on Furahan Biology and Allied Matters: Anatomy of an Alien V / Greenworld ISigmund Nastrazzurrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-40031630492076984602013-06-26T21:20:59.312+02:002013-06-26T21:20:59.312+02:00Daniel: as for the Cogan post, he states at the bo...Daniel: as for the Cogan post, he states at the bottom in small print: "Other images from various sources unknown (possibly models developed by Jack Cohen and/or Dougal Dixon)." <br /><br />I love the other one. You are probably right: there was probably a newspaper article. Nice models by the way; I wonder what happened to them...Sigmund Nastrazzurrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-60178529767478030562013-06-26T06:57:54.501+02:002013-06-26T06:57:54.501+02:00Hullo, judging from a quick look at the comments i...Hullo, judging from a quick look at the comments it looks like the search for the original home of these images is still on. So I did a quick google reverse image search and found this: stevyncolgan.blogspot.com/2008/03/life-as-we-dont-know-it.html Also ran into this: http://drxbkt1pbsu0u.cloudfront.net/D/C/C/A/0/28D89CDC058005AF1532245AB69.jpg Google seems to associate that image with a newspaper's site, tho the picture is now missing from that site; maybe this was a photo shoot for a newspaper?Daniel Demskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714941811085673416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-79848039277785191212011-07-30T01:54:09.849+02:002011-07-30T01:54:09.849+02:00Interesting ideas. It certainly is an interesting ...Interesting ideas. It certainly is an interesting alternative to the "bilateral only" ideas about alien life.<br /><br />Does anyone know what the giant creature that appears behind the kwank is? I've wondered this for almost 14 years now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-61670487086187749242010-09-21T22:24:21.365+02:002010-09-21T22:24:21.365+02:00I'd say a little more than just a bit bigger.....I'd say a little more than just a bit bigger... they are the original size, and appear to have been scanned from some article. One of them has some text partially visible on the right margin... something like "ALIEN PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS BELL" and something else...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-57508245174065251352010-09-21T18:47:55.120+02:002010-09-21T18:47:55.120+02:00Hi Anonymous,
What I get is the same image but a ...Hi Anonymous,<br /><br />What I get is the same image but a bit bigger; no text, nothing else...Sigmund Nastrazzurrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-70497313286968374692010-09-21T16:00:19.696+02:002010-09-21T16:00:19.696+02:00Hmmm... sorry for commenting after several months,...Hmmm... sorry for commenting after several months, but I was casually looking at those pictures Puyamaster found, and trying to find out where they were from, I started trimming the filename and... well, see for yourself what happens if you trim everything past "s400" from the filename:<br />http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vLbMuPkqGIw/R9AdS3fgpxI/AAAAAAAABgY/xnY6akyFqw8/s400<br /><br />http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vLbMuPkqGIw/R9AdkHfgpyI/AAAAAAAABgg/kxYIoHdepGE/s400<br /><br />Still wondering where they originally were from, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-31700513569364691152010-02-03T11:29:38.461+01:002010-02-03T11:29:38.461+01:00I bought and read ‘Greenworld’. Very wonderful!
Th...I bought and read ‘Greenworld’. Very wonderful!<br />There are many illustrations in this book, but no images of the models...<br /><br />The name of creatures in your pictures are Spitter, Kwank, Dufflepuds, and Curlywurl. (from top to bottom)...puyamasterhttp://www.geocities.co.jp/puyamaster/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-18220241816748025092010-02-01T00:02:49.870+01:002010-02-01T00:02:49.870+01:00Hi Evan,
about creatures of the deep: I agree tha...Hi Evan,<br /><br />about creatures of the deep: I agree that they seem to escape from the standard mold more easily than animals living in other surroundings. I wonder why...<br /><br />J.W.: I agree that there is a bit of a jump there. In my work I edit texts three or four times, but I simply do not have the time to polish blog texts to a similar degree. <br /> You are right that the greenworld beings look almost completely bilateral, but I think they are intended to llok that way. The further developed these creatures are, the less recognisable their original radial plan may become. Is a mammal's 'inner fish' still recognisable?Sigmund Nastrazzurrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16449461215427527447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-65568346057032803442010-01-31T22:12:11.133+01:002010-01-31T22:12:11.133+01:00"...A first and simple reason why there are n...<i>"...A first and simple reason why there are no big starfish walking around on Earth is evolutionary competition; their seat is already taken! <br /><br />Another, and possible more important reason may be sought in a respiratory system. Some arthropods have tubes entering the body supplying each cell of the body with air for gas exchange."</i><br /><br />I think your mind must have raced ahead of your fingers here. You start to explain why radial symmetry seems weird to us, and then suddenly you are explaining why arthropods don't get big on earth. Surely you intended to write some transition between those paragraphs?<br /><br /><br />As for the "alien-ness" of radial symmetry, i agree that bauplan does tend to seem pretty weird to our human sensibilities. But not much of that alien-ness applies to these greenworld creatures, (at least in the pictures, the video is currently not working). It's one thing to say that these creatures originated from radial ancestors, but as they are shown, i would categorize them squarely as "bilateral".<br /><br />I wonder is the domination of bilateral symmetry on earth is a fluke or if radial symmetry is only really efficient in a few niches. I certainly have trouble thinking up plausible radial creatures for a lot of eco/bio-logical niches, but perhaps that's the limitation of the human imagination, i don't see people inventing very many plausible radial creatures.j. w. bjerkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06800512284198234202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821098719340852065.post-33276577147475305092010-01-30T21:31:45.004+01:002010-01-30T21:31:45.004+01:00As far as 'alienness' goes, I particularly...As far as 'alienness' goes, I particularly like the idea of bilateral symmetry being a later evolutionary trait. It allows for some unusual directions for body shape to go (illustrated by the Greenworld creatures). It also seems that creatures seem to be more 'alien' if they exhibit features of aquatic life even though they're on land. I'm not sure just how cliche that may be at this point, but when we thing of the most 'alien' terrestrial life, the creatures of the deep are at the top of the list.Evan Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10493966209787828900noreply@blogger.com