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Traenador
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Posted - 2006.04.18 03:11:00 -
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Excuse my ignorance, fellow capsuleers. I am a simple trader, and for the most part ignorant about the history of the EVE universe. But lately some of my trade missions have taken me to the very edges of known space, and ive found myself wondering if there may be other things in the far reaches. To your knowledge, has there ever been any sort of evidence of extra-terestrial life in EVE space? Any sort of small sign of biological life besides ourselves? Satisfy this simple traders curiosity
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Vendrin
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Posted - 2006.04.18 05:22:00 -
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Plenty of microbes and bacteria. Nothing anywhere near sentience as we understand it.
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Traenador
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Posted - 2006.04.18 05:27:00 -
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Are these microbes similar to biological creatures on earth? do they share similar DNA? In the least, have there been any attempts to re-create ecological systems on other planets using plants or animals from earth?
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Dust Angel
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Posted - 2006.04.18 06:17:00 -
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 Originally by: Traenador
Are these microbes similar to biological creatures on earth? do they share similar DNA? In the least, have there been any attempts to re-create ecological systems on other planets using plants or animals from earth?
Dont tell me you believe in that myth too.
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Darina Rea
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Posted - 2006.04.18 07:53:00 -
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Edited by: Darina Rea on 18/04/2006 07:53:55
Edited by: Darina Rea on 18/04/2006 07:53:26
Originally by: Dust Angel
Dont tell me you believe in that myth too.
I love myth. One of things about myths is that they have a core of truth. The interesting part of unraveling myth is which part can be true, and which part is, excuse the word, balony. If there was a planet of we all decend I doubt they would call it 'earth'. But I disgress.
Found an old and interesting article on your subject I think. Have fun reading.
((EDIT spelling and linkie))
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2006.04.18 10:15:00 -
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LOL @ little green men.
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James Duar
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Posted - 2006.04.18 10:32:00 -
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Originally by: Darina Rea
Edited by: Darina Rea on 18/04/2006 07:53:55
Edited by: Darina Rea on 18/04/2006 07:53:26
Originally by: Dust Angel
Dont tell me you believe in that myth too.
I love myth. One of things about myths is that they have a core of truth. The interesting part of unraveling myth is which part can be true, and which part is, excuse the word, balony. If there was a planet of we all decend I doubt they would call it 'earth'. But I disgress.
Found an old and interesting article on your subject I think. Have fun reading.
((EDIT spelling and linkie))
Bio-speck indeed. It's just some old nanotechnology left lying around from ancient history.
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Electric Cucumber
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Posted - 2006.04.18 11:53:00 -
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I heard a saucer crashed, on Nonni IV, but the state covered it up.
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IzzyChan
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Posted - 2006.04.18 11:58:00 -
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Originally by: Electric Cucumber
I heard a saucer crashed, on Nonni IV, but the state covered it up.
A saucer? You sure it wasn't a drunk pod pilot? 
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Beletre
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Posted - 2006.04.18 13:14:00 -
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It depends on your matter of definition. But assumeing an 'earth' of orgin, we are all 'extra-terresral'. I certainly was not born on earth; or any planet, though that is mere detail.
If you mean DNA strains which are not directly related to those which would have come from 'earth', certainly. May I point you toward the section on the Jove?
However, if you mean if the various biological strains found on assorted uninhabitied planets eveloved utterly seprately from human interferance, it's almost impossible to say. How far colonization extended before the collapse of the EVE gate has yet to be determined with any level of accuracy.
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Discorporation
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Posted - 2006.04.18 16:02:00 -
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Plenty of fauna and flora on planets. Hanging Long-limbs, Fedoes, Slavers and Furriers to name a few.
Why, I was fond of keeping a small furry arthropod as a pet until it was ready to eat.
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Stitcher
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Posted - 2006.04.18 17:15:00 -
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Had to get all pedantic on you, but "extra-terrestrial" means "not born on Earth"
Now, given that Earth is the mythical homeworld for the entire human race, fabled to be locked away on the far side of the EVE gate, doesn't that mean we all technically qualify as extra-terrestrial life?
As for non-human life... well, there are long-legs, slavers, furriers, and fedos - just nothing sentient. Though if you go looking for them, you'll sometimes find archaeological artefacts from the species that lived in this region of the universe long before us humans came along and made it our own... I've seen some of them in museums and stuff. Sometimes, it's hard to identify it as something not made by mankind, other times its completely inhuman.
Perhaps some day, I'll try my hand at archaeology. I'm told a few good finds will net you a hell of a lot of ISK...
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Praxelos
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Posted - 2006.04.18 23:00:00 -
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One could discuss if Jovians are still homo sapiens or something...else, but since they kicked off as H.S. I guess you can't count them as aliens really.
Weird folks they are, tho.
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Davion Vrynn
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Posted - 2006.04.19 01:10:00 -
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Originally by: Electric Cucumber
I heard a saucer crashed, on Nonni IV, but the state covered it up.
Yes, I believe the rumor goes that they took the wreckage to some secret base on the 1st moon of the 5th planet of some secluded system known only as "Arreya."
Yep, Arreya 5, 1.
... Nonsense 
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James Duar
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Posted - 2006.04.20 13:57:00 -
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A saucer crashing isn't anything to write home about in a society where any idiot with some technical knowledge could throw together a serviceable saucer shaped craft.
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Nyphur
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Posted - 2006.04.20 18:16:00 -
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Originally by: Vendrin
Plenty of microbes and bacteria. Nothing anywhere near sentience as we understand it.
What's not sentient about a furrier or a long limbed roe? Did you mean intelligent?
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Davion Vrynn
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Posted - 2006.04.20 19:19:00 -
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Edited by: Davion Vrynn on 20/04/2006 19:19:27
Originally by: Nyphur
Originally by: Vendrin
Plenty of microbes and bacteria. Nothing anywhere near sentience as we understand it.
What's not sentient about a furrier or a long limbed roe? Did you mean intelligent?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe most people use the term sentient to refer to a being that is self-aware and intelligent (even if the word's definition can be a little vague). While I'll grant that we have no way of proving that a furrier is not sentient, the form that sentience would take would be different from that with which we are familiar - hence Vendrin's use of the phrase "sentience as we understand it."
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Raajib Malhatak
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Posted - 2006.04.20 19:59:00 -
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The one thing that seperates us from Animals is technology. We have used Science to change our environment to suit our needs. We even went as far as to make Space somewhat habbitable for Human kind.
When someone speaks of sentient beings they are probably referring to a life form with a spoken language, manufacture tools and has a complex social structure.
Thus there is no non-human sentient life forms in the cluster that we have found. Perhaps in time we will encounter some new being and then this Cluster and its Galaxy wont seem so small in comparison to the possibilities that civilizations exist in countless numbers and then we won't have to fight amongst ourselves.
Untill then why bother looking. As space expands in the great unknown, we will eventually find them or alternatively they will find us.
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Darina Rea
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Posted - 2006.04.20 21:57:00 -
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What about those annoying rogue drones?
Although you could say they aren't intelligent, as human beings, or sentient, as humans beings, comapring an 'alien' intelligence with a human standard is hard to do, because something not human would have a different evolution path and odds are that the beehaviour would be in such a way that to us it would seem to be stupid and random.
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Znurf
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Posted - 2006.04.20 22:05:00 -
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Edited by: Znurf on 20/04/2006 22:06:18
Edited by: Znurf on 20/04/2006 22:05:39
Edited by: Znurf on 20/04/2006 22:05:25
It has happened to me on more than one occation that i have spotted infested rocks out in space, on these rocks there seems to be living creatures, perhaps they are not very advanced or have any clue to where and what they are, however, these creatures should be "aliens" since, as far as i know atleast, no creature known to man can survive in the "vacuum" of space. Ofcourse i had just been in combat only minutes earlier, so it might just have been my imagination, if however these creatures did actually exist, i wonder how and where they came from...
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Traenador
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Posted - 2006.04.21 03:26:00 -
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Im curious. What exactly are these "furriers" I keep hearing about? are they some sort of primate-like animal?
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Hilion Narath
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Posted - 2006.04.21 04:28:00 -
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Its a little furry creature eh? Not real big, kinda fluffy. Makes a certain Amarr royal house very nervous.
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Jon Engel
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Posted - 2006.04.21 05:47:00 -
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Theyre little fluffballs with an armored head.
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Vendrin
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Posted - 2006.04.21 09:33:00 -
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Originally by: Znurf
It has happened to me on more than one occation that i have spotted infested rocks out in space, on these rocks there seems to be living creatures, perhaps they are not very advanced or have any clue to where and what they are, however, these creatures should be "aliens" since, as far as i know atleast, no creature known to man can survive in the "vacuum" of space. Ofcourse i had just been in combat only minutes earlier, so it might just have been my imagination, if however these creatures did actually exist, i wonder how and where they came from...
Most likely just rogue drones. The shapes the rouge drones come up with are quite alien to the human eye.
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Fat Willy
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Posted - 2006.04.21 12:14:00 -
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Edited by: Fat Willy on 21/04/2006 12:16:04
oops sorry, duplicate post due to laaaag
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Fat Willy
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Posted - 2006.04.21 12:14:00 -
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In the eary days of capsuleer activity there were parasitic beasties that used to attach to your ship occasionally, even in empire space. I haven't seen them for a while now, maybe they became extinct?
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Fat Willy
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Posted - 2006.04.21 12:15:00 -
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In the eary days of capsuleer activity there were parasitic beasties that used to attach to your ship occasionally, even in empire space. I haven't seen them for a while now, maybe they became extinct?
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Denis Jacquard
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Posted - 2006.04.22 04:13:00 -
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Edited by: Denis Jacquard on 22/04/2006 04:13:09
Originally by: Traenador
Im curious. What exactly are these "furriers" I keep hearing about? are they some sort of primate-like animal?
They look more like some kind of rodent. Here's a picture of one.
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Traenador
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Posted - 2006.04.22 05:46:00 -
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Originally by: Denis Jacquard
Edited by: Denis Jacquard on 22/04/2006 04:13:09
Originally by: Traenador
Im curious. What exactly are these "furriers" I keep hearing about? are they some sort of primate-like animal?
They look more like some kind of rodent. Here's a picture of one.
I must say, that is one unattractive little creature. Although it does maintain a certain regal quality. Maybe its because of that strange bony crown it has. Arent there any other well known alien creatures like furriers? There has to be some other animals which populate furrier's native planets. Maybe some of them are used in food processing? It seems logical. Ive always wondered what exactly those "protein delicacies" are made of.
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Talon SilverHawk
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Posted - 2006.04.22 10:28:00 -
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Originally by: Dust Angel
Originally by: Traenador
Are these microbes similar to biological creatures on earth? do they share similar DNA? In the least, have there been any attempts to re-create ecological systems on other planets using plants or animals from earth?
Dont tell me you believe in that myth too.
"There are stranger things in heaven and earth than ever did you dream of Horatio"
Tal
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