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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-02 03:45:46 +0000 UTC]

Long answer: I suppose it would be possible. Organisms generally evolve in response to their environment. Even animals on this planet can see more than just the visible light spectrum as humans do. Sharks can sense the electromagnetic field which all living things produce (which is the closest idea you're probably getting at), and snakes can detect heat visually.
And then we have echolocation... the list goes on.

We could even go into Synesthesia, a condition in which multiple centers of the brain are activated simultaneously by one stimuli, allowing one to "see sound" or "taste colors" per say... so it's possible we could reverse this system, and allow an organism to interpret taste or magnetism visually.

One also must understand that an MRI machine works not only with magnetism, but with energy waves on a molecular level. It detects energy in response to waves it sends out, and after tons of equations and interpretations, gives an image of what it "sees".

Short answer: Yes, it's possible. It even exists on this planet, it's called Magnetoception, (though it only involves detecting direction through magnetism)

Shorter answer Yes.

In the end, It's all up to your imagination. This shouldn't limit your ideas.

Sorry for the obsessively long list of irrelevant information, I tend to do that... but I hope it helps.

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spade771 In reply to rj3987 [2015-10-29 09:06:37 +0000 UTC]

Everything is "possible"

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Director1265 In reply to rj3987 [2011-04-06 15:08:21 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! See, I had the idea of MRI vision for I story I'm working on writing, still in its developmental stages, titled "Humans of Avalon." The alien creatures of Avalon, a planet populated by the decendents of marooned human space explorers, use MRI-vision instead of vision in the way humans understand it, and so are capable of seeing things humans can't but at the cost of being unable to see things that humans can and reacting to strong electromagnetic pulses the same way humans react to a really bright light. It's just an idea I came up with to make the creatures (and native intelligent lifeforms) seem as strange and alien as possible.

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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-06 22:11:49 +0000 UTC]

Very cool concept!
Are you working on it now?

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Director1265 In reply to rj3987 [2011-04-11 16:47:32 +0000 UTC]

Well, right now, it's actually rather on hold, because I have a shit-ton of stressful and confusing stuff going on in this horrible concept the human species refers to as "everyday life." You know what I mean?

I'm planning on moving out of my parents' house and into my own apartment within the next six months or so, so I plan to actually start "Humans of Avalon" and many other story concepts not long after that. I'm having trouble deciding whether it should be a graphic novel or just a regular written novel, though, as well as what approx. year it should be set in (I was originally making it set in 2049, now I'm leaning more towards 2210, but I'm still not sure).

One thing for sure that I'm going to do is this little plot-surprise: it's actually a futuristic adaptation of the First Thanksgiving when America was first colonized by Europeans in the 1620s.

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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-12 01:19:38 +0000 UTC]

It won't be too difficult, I hope.
Sounds fairly stressful.

I think you could give it a unique look if you made it into a graphic novel, especially with the idea of an alien species that can see in MRI-vision. I wonder what that could look like. Do have any images in mind?

Also, If there is a "Thanksgiving-type' interaction, are you saying there will be two separate lifeforms, interacting for the first time?

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Director1265 In reply to rj3987 [2011-04-13 17:01:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

Come to think of it, a graphic novel might be better, because planet Avalon is supposed to be so strange and bizarre that I don't think there are very many people out there with sophisticated-enough of an imagine to picture such a world. For one thing, I'm not smart enough to think of a way to describe it in such detail! The only way I could describe it is through pictures, which, judging how weird Avalon is compared to Earth, may disturb a few people.

What I mean by the "Thanksgiving" is that the plotline is based on that event: humans discover and explore planet Avalon, discover that it's populated by tribal inhabitants. Humans struggle to survive, a tribe of aliens help them out. Later, the event is remembered in a new holiday and, unfortunately, the aliens are exploited by the humans. It's like what happened in America in the 1620s. At least, that's what I have in mind.

If you want to hear about my other story concepts, just ask and I'll send you a note.

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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-16 02:20:16 +0000 UTC]

What does Avalon look like?


I like that idea a lot. You can challenge human values objectively, because you're using a separate species.

I'd love to hear some of your ideas, note me.

Also, did the humans name it Avalon?

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Director1265 In reply to rj3987 [2011-04-18 13:49:53 +0000 UTC]

Whoops, my bad...I thought you were the one who drew that picture for a moment...

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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-20 02:24:51 +0000 UTC]

I happens.

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Director1265 In reply to rj3987 [2011-04-18 12:01:51 +0000 UTC]

"Avalon," (or AV-9901B) as named by the humans who colonized it, is mostly dry and flat, with only 25% water cover, but its most amazing feature (besides life itself) is the humongous collective of life forms called "The Reef," (imagine the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, except on land and covering 85% of the planet!)

The intelligent inhabitants, the T'lallon, actually don't look all that different from the creature you drew here on "Strange Visual Spectrum".

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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-20 02:27:11 +0000 UTC]

I'm replying to this comment anyway.

It must look amazing from space, considering the reef.
So the T'lallon are land dwelling then?

Are they mainly predatory? What to they eat? Or have you gotten that far yet…

(I'm just trying to get an idea of what we're looking at)

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Director1265 In reply to rj3987 [2011-04-20 16:39:52 +0000 UTC]

Well, the T'lallon are like humans, mainly omnivorous. However, they have a different biochemistry, (they are actually calcium-based lifeforms) so they might get sick on many of the foods humans eat, as with humans getting sick on some of the Avalonian fauna and flora. A lactose-intolerant human can actually get diarreah from eating Avalonian meat. Feed a T'lallon too much sodium-rich food and you're risking a case of spontanious combustion! One popular Avalonian delicacy to avoid is the "bladder-fruit," a tasty treat for T'lallon, but to humans, the juices are the equivalent of urine!

A typical T'lallon male is about the size of a Labrador Retriever, and females can be as big as a horse. They have four double-jointed multipurpose limbs that serve as both arms and legs, each ending in four opposable digits. Instead of nails or claws, these digits have what humans refered to as "fingerteeth," hard ridges that work like the soles of a shoe. They walk on all fours, but they have three limbs in front and one slightly-stronger limb in back. They have grey, leathery skin and an opaque "faceplate," which is actually their MRI-emitting "eye." A jawless mouth is located on their chest, along with sets of gill-like airholes. The biggest surprise for humans was the T'lallon's reproductive methods: the females possess an egg-inserting oviposture which is inserted into the male and impregnates him, making humans think that the males were females and the females were males! The matriarch-run societies didn't help much either.

I appreciate you inquiring all this, but I think I'll leave the majority of what's left a surprise for you and other readers. I'm still going to send you a note about many of my story ideas, though.

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rj3987 In reply to Director1265 [2011-04-20 23:29:48 +0000 UTC]

Wow. You've thought about this a lot.

You have unique ideas, I like the part about the "fingerteeth."

I have more questions and comments, but I suppose I should save them for the note.

Thanks for all of that!
I'll be on stand by for the note.

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yty2000 In reply to Sakalyd [2007-07-15 05:56:16 +0000 UTC]

谢谢柳叶大哥！

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