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Published: 2009-03-04 00:31:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 8381; Favourites: 134; Downloads: 0
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Pigment liner pen drawings of some possible alien life forms. Extremophiles, "Silicone based Life" which is said to be the most possible form of life to perhaps exist on other planets in our solar system, or their moons. Europa for example.These would basically be like a crystal and or mechanically organic life form. Living machines if you will, which as far out as it seems is quite plausible to an extent.
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i love the biomech textures of the lifeforms, great work mike!.
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It's also been postulated that perhapse their can exist life-forms that are composed of both carbon and silicon. The presense of biometals (most utilized by insects and arachnids) supports this.
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I draw silicone life forms all the time!!!! I found the idea vary intriguing, but i'm not sure they would more any more like machines than creatures like us are. They wouldn't necessarily have a mechanical like structure, because silicone can be exist in gelatinous and flexible forms as well as more metallic like ones. I usually depict them as more metallic with a hard exoskeleton, just because I think it looks cooler.
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these need to be colored. NOW
i love the beautiful way that they look both organic and mechanical at the same time, and have a geometric construction feel about them
they actually look quite like crystals
what do you think good colors would be? i was thinking grey or white (or a light neutral) for the bodies and a vibrant green or orchid for the markings (i don't know what you would call them)
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Thanks,
That's something I'd have to see when I get around to painting. Playing around with color schemes and what would compliment each individual design, variations etc.
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Well, i for one am eagerly awaiting the finished product.
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Not sure when/If I'll get around to it. These were done some 1 and a half to two years ago. I haven't had much time for personal work these days, but I definitley wanted to produce some of the creatures and backgrounds to a final product.
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Really, that long ago? well, I'm glad you uploaded them anyway, because they have inspired me to start drawing robots again.
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Thanks, basically just took insect legs that contain multi-jointed limbs and gave them a bit more of a mechanical hard edge to them.
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Thats very cool! Keep up the work!
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yea,
I guess it does in some ways haha. I was pushing for a mechanical organism. Something like an invertebrate but made up of crystals/silicone, with a hard chitinous outer shell like metal. So a lot of these designs were rather hard edged, rigid and abstract.
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Wow, it'd be incredible to see an insect that's so complex
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Yea. I assume "if" they were ever to find a living organism or life form on another planet in our solar system, that most likely it would resemble something complex in structure or in its organic make up.
Things similar to insects, deep see crustaceans, shrimp, fish, urchins, jelly fish etc.. Thing that may not see with eyes, that may appear almost transluscent or not of organic flesh. It would only make sense, since anything living further away from or closer to the sun would be an extremophile. Something living in extreme cold, heat, gases, darkness etc..
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these were quite certainly my favorite category of sketches and artwork on your website but they were too small to see in detail and lacked background info on your website. so glad u added them to DA!
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Thanks,
I need to check/update my site because some glitches occured over time. Causing some uploaded images to show up like 3 times smaller than intended.
Obviously on a website I couldn't provide any background info unless I tagged it on the image or had a layout that would allow me to leave a comment about the ideas. I had this private forum set up for Sammy Hall and myself, to work out information, background ideas, history, evolution etc.. In the end, it was short lived, but it was fun.
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Very plausible but TOTALLY inorganic? How would they procreate? How did they start?
I think other life exists on a differnent light scectrum and that's why we can't see it with our technology. It's all calibrated based on OUR relationship to the Sun which would project light differently on a further away planet.
So basically there are color schemes that we would never see inless we were physically ON those planets. Just like you can't see microscopic organisms in the air.
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I did the research, watched videos, read articles etc. I forget a lot of it now since that was about 2 years ago, but Silicone based life as quoted from this website
"Advancement of Science, pointed out that the heat stability of silicon compounds might allow life to exist at very high temperatures"
We have organisms on earth that posses such abilities. They're known as Extremophiles, one such category of organisms are Thermopile's.
H.G. Wells wrote,
"One is startled towards fantastic imaginings by such a suggestion: visions of silicon-aluminum organisms – why not silicon-aluminum men at once? – wandering through an atmosphere of gaseous sulfur, let us say, by the shores of a sea of liquid iron some thousand degrees or so above the temperature of a blast furnace."
as quoted from said website again,
"Silicon life might look like animated crystals. Structural elements could well be in threads, like fiberglass, connected by tensor elements to create flexible, delicate, possibly even filmy structures"
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"The absence of silicon-based biology, or even silicon-based prebiotic chemicals, is also suggested by astronomical evidence. Wherever astronomers have looked – in meteorites, in comets, in the atmospheres of the giant planets, in the interstellar medium, and in the outer layers of cool stars – they have found molecules of oxidized silicon (silicon dioxide and silicates) but no substances such as silanes or silicones which might be the precursors of a silicon biochemistry."
This stuff becomes so complex, but at the same time. They're talking about sending a probe to Jupiter's moon Europa that will drill beneath the miles of thick ice, where they know "water" exist and would most likely contain living organism. A smaller probe would then be send into the water through this huge drilling tube, to search for extremophiles. If life does exist on other planets, they "would" have to be so extreme considering the atmospheric conditions that they would probably resemble crystallized, gaseous, or mechanical forms in appearance with an extremely different biological make-up on how they reproduce, eat, procreate, excrement, excreate etc.
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Makes sense. I never thought of it like that. That would mean something like that could survive even on Mercury.
Because it would be something that survives off of elements other than oxygen & water. I think there's even a whole other planet INSIDE Jupiter. It's big enough to be a mini solar system. Pluto most likely has aquatic life too. Because if it's being held together and has a core but it's made of pure ice, then somewhere close to the core where it's warmer, there's life. Our technology just dosen't pick it up because it's so far out and probably looking for the wrong things...
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