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After a few moments of silence my companion reached out a rubbery, nailed hand and stroked my 'cone's glass canopy. My heart raced in the uncertainty of the moment. yet I stood fast, recording everything, more and more aware that I was the alien on their planet.Because there isn't enough expedition fan art out there, let alone that of the Eosapiens.
Also, because in my new place we haven't got the internet sorted (yet) I haven't really had much to do, so I read through expedition again.
How I love that book.
For anyone doubting the size, here's the page from Expedition where I got the scale [link]
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Hmmm....these seem....A LOT bigger then the documentary. But then again most of the Darwin 4 aliens seem to be.
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Did not realize the alien is larger than the humans
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Well yeah, in the documentary they mentioned the probe robots are about the size of dump trucks.Β Β
That being said, this seems exaggeratedΒ
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Documentary ? You mean the Discovery Channel one ? So that means all those alien are larger compare to the human ??!Β
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Yeah.Β The Arrowtongue (first animal the probes encounter) is the size of a T-rex
For some reason the documentary downsized the Emperor Sea Strider to about 70 feet tall, when it's several hundred feet tall in the book
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So does this mean that in the documentary Alien Planet, Darwin 4 is home to Kaiju Aliens ? A literal monster planet ?Β
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From our perspective.Β On Darwin IV, they're just animals.
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OH HI MARK
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srry, i had to do it
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Great art, btw
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Anyone think it's ironic that Darwin's Eosapiens are way more alien than nearly any other intelligent alien in fictional media like the Na'vi or E.T? As memorable as they may be, neither of them fit the bill of what an intelligent alien species would be, whereas the Eosapien DOES. It looks literally nothing like a human, yet ironically still fits what an intelligent species such as a human would have, such as limbs to work with the environment, use of complex tools and ways of using them (spears and traps), and the ability to work in groups.
Even more, they even seem to share a common fear with mankind: The unknown. They, as weird as they are to us, seem just as terrified of which they don't understand as we are. Case in point, their rather disastrous encounter with the probes, Ike and Leo, in the Alien Planet film based off Expedition. It's almost scary how they react to Ike and Leo's foreign designs and mannerisms; Not because they go out of their way to stalk, keep track of and eventually destroy the probes, but because that seems like something humans in the modern day would do if an alien probe touched down on our world. Who remembers the "Black Knight satellite" fiasco that some fearfully claimed was an alien ship/probe? Or pretty much any movie in which something alien (I.e. "Arrival", "Earth to Echo", "E.T") arrives on Earth and the subsequent reaction of the government(s)?
Fear of the unknown, eclipsing even the great intelligence we've used to dominate our home planets. As different though we may look, and as far away our home worlds are from one another, that's something humans and Eosapiens will always have in common.
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The only movies that have weird, otherwordy aliens are starship troopers and, excluding the na'vi themselves, Pandora.
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A real ALIEN alien. Too many aliens look like humans or earth animals.
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Niiiice! I remember this book, and was really hoping Barlow would produce enough art for another, but I guess the best things are limited in scope.
I would really love it if there was another, even if it was a fan art collection of the critters of Darwin IV.
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"Sapient giant balloons become the dominant race."
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I think I found a better picture for scale for you.
vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/aβ¦
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Jesus Christ! If that's how big the Eosapien is, the Ebony Blisterwing must be the size of a small starship!
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Something like that.
vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/aβ¦
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Aww how sweet! WAIT, are the Eosapiens really that big?
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Uh oh looks like curiosity is going to kill them
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Now I understand why the Eosapiens are 9 meters tall in the Alien Planet movie: 20 meters is just too big for a sentient life form (at least to me and the guys who produced it).
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When you know that there is on Darwin IV animals like the Emperor Sea Strider that are 190 meters tall, 20 meters don't look so big for a sentient life.
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Incredible art, it's wonderful to see an artist who knows the metric system draw these sapiens to real scale. Been loving and enjoying this book so much. I thought what happened to Leo and Ike was sad, what they do to the actual animals on Darwin IV is horrible. I understood they rip off heads for the vertebrae to extend their tails as some kind of status symbol trophy, but what on Earth...err....."Darwin", do they want the animals legs for? I also read on the alien wikia that Skewers sometimes hunt them. Anyone know where in the book it talks about this? I'd hate to see what they do to eachother. Some Eosapien gets his methane sac busted by a rival tribesman and falls 100 feet to the Β ground. These guys damn near need their own book they were so intriguing and disturbing.
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I may hate these creatures for destroying ike and leo in alien planet, but dang they're amazing , adding to favorites
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They are so beautiful and elusive. Love it
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I saw and loved that documentary. Although too be perfectly honest I'd be terrified of meeting this thing if i wasnt' 100% sure it was friendly!
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Yeah the sizes of the aliens in the documentary are pretty messed up.
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I forgot just how huge those things would have been. But their were no human sized references so...
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The book shows the sizes between a human, and most of Darwin IV's inhabitants.
For God's sake people, READ THE BOOK!
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From what I remember the book is hard to find or absurdly expensive.
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I heard their was a book but the scorce I saw was a TV Show. XD
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Huh, I would have never guessed their size from watching the program since we tend to build our mars probes on a much smaller scale. The ones one the show were comprobable in size to the eosapiens and that was our only reference. Its cool to learn the our first contact might be with a kaiju sized race. I cant get enough of Wayne Barlow's designs.
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Actually, in the show these creatures are about half of the size here. Still pretty big.
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To them, we are the tiny aliens where they consider everything around them to be normal size in their point of view
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What I want scientists and artists to do, is team up, do some brainstorming, and come up with how the Eosapien Society would evolve. What language would they develop? What would they call their planet? What would they name the creatures? What would they call themselves?
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Wayne Barlowe drew realistic amazing aliens here! Imagine in the universe where Darwin IV exist if the Eosapiens became an advanced race, like we are close to becoming! Hopefully they become allies with humans!
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