Ja posrnuo na (Nije na Stumbleuponu) ove boje SEM slike na Telegraph web stranica danas. Posebno volim ovu sliku Calliphoridae larva (Protophormia sp.) koji čini više od jednog C-ocijenjeno SF film od prirode. To me podsjeća kako je otkačen Star Wars lik i Muppet u isto vrijeme. Nagli odlazak iz standardnog tijela sisavca arhitekture čini kukce Glavni kandidati za drugo-svjetovnim stranaca. Insekti moraju biti korišteni kao vodič za filmove kao što su District 9, Starship Troopers, Stranac, Galaxy Quest… Samo da spomenemo nekoliko novijih. Siguran sam da je drugi, više dobro akreditiranih, sci-fi geeks tamo može sjetiti još bolje primjera. Uz iste linije sjećam ove slike sam popucali od Cerambycidae buba ispod – Moneilema gigas. This was in the earliest days of my new camera so I can’t look back on them as perfect shots.
But if aliens landed here in spite of Stephen Hawking, and looked anything like this, I’d be amazed at the convergence and would dream instantly of little human-like pests dashing under their feet. It would be incredible to actually find an alien of any order, and even more incredible to see what evolution has done with it. Perhaps we share a common ancestry, or are thoroughly novel molecule by molecule. The likelihood of this happening in my lifetime is very near zero and this may even remain a question that future generations of scientists shall forever be left dreaming about.
