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What would an alien planet really look like?
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I missed this special on Discovery, but I own Wayne Barlowe’s incredible book, Expedition, on which this special is based. Highly recommended. If you are developing a space-faring campaign, I can’t think of any better inspiration than Wayne Barlowe’s creature designs, and this Discovery special.
An excerpt from the Discovery website about this special:
“The drama takes place on Darwin IV, a fictional planet 6.5 light-years from Earth, with two suns and 60 percent gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world that could support life, Earth sends a pilot mission consisting of the mothership Von Braun and three probes: Balboa, Da Vinci and Newton. This unmanned fleet is responsible for finding and assessing any life-forms on Darwin IV. Initially, the expectation is to find microscopic life, but the probes soon find themselves in the middle of a developed ecosystem teeming with life of all sizes.”
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Mh. I am not a biologist, but some of those creatures do seem a little badly explained. Even so, the design of the mission seems dumb. If I have 2 probes, and one gets destroyed mysteriously, I wouldn’t send my last remaining into death’s maw. Anyway, thanks for the tipp, it did make for interesting watching.
I still haven’t seen it. I’ll have to remedy that, lest I start losing my street cred.