Spore to ET, Come In !

I don’t play computer games at all but I used to be an avid fan of EA Games “Spore” – especially the Creator aspect. Spore was a game that came with the potential to create a diverse range of creatures, vehicles and buildings; which you then integrated into the game. I found the game boring but I loved Creator and saw enormous potential in this particular model of “form development”. Like Bryce, Daz and Terragen before it, Spore has the potential to bring life to the imagination but it’s one great limitation is that it is based on cartoonish style of form, which is wonderful for gaming but holds back the full realization of our imaginations. What I would truly love is to see a realistic Spore like WYSIWYG approach to form design – particularly body design. I would love to be able to show the ETs that I have encountered by playing with a designer that could do that. Please tell me if you know of such a tool ! No doubt such a program is only around the corner, if it doesn’t already exist.

Here’s a video I threw together of a few of the many creatures I made in Spore about a decade ago and some videos of other people’s more recent creations. Some of things that people have created with Spore are truly amazing !

 

All Systems Go…And Some ET Speculations

Hey folks, ET and I is now back on line. Thanks for your patience these past few months, while I have had time off the internet/blog and carried out my little experiment (investigating surveillance). The blog will remain up for the remainder of 2018 but I won’t be posting as often as previously.

I’ve recently been exploring some of our celestial neighbours as part of a much wider project under the guidance of my ET friend Dude. I’m trying to accurately identify where some of the ETs I have had contact with come from and I’m trying to become familiar with what our scientists know about the local celestial neighbourhood – both in terms of stars and planets.

You might be interested to know that 56 stellar systems have been identified within 16.3 light years of our solar system and that only 6 planetary systems have been confirmed within 20 light years of our solar system. That doesn’t sound like much but scientists have only been looking properly since 1996. As of January 1st 2018, some 3,276 exoplanets have been identified (some confirmed, some unconfirmed), orbiting 2,792 stars. Of these stars, 1,400 are located within 50 light years of us.

Within the stars and planets that have been catalogued, there appears to be a great deal of diversity. There are giant suns and small suns, brown dwarfs, red dwarfs and white dwarfs. There are planets that are gas giants, rocky Earth like planets, super Earths, Neptune size planets, planets much bigger than Jupiter and planets smaller than Mercury. There are planets with regular orbits and planets with eccentric orbits, planets that orbit each other and clusters of planets that orbit each other. There are many silicate based planets like our own and its even thought that there are Carbon and Iron based planets. There are planets that orbit far from their sun and others that are almost kissing. There are even planets that are thought to be rogues, that exist beyond a solar system. It is possible that some of these exoplanets are terrestrial planets like Earth, some are water planets, some have no atmosphere, some have thick atmospheres, some are gaseous planets, some are  lava planets, some are desert planets, some are ice planets and some are newly emerging protoplanets (planetary embryos). There are also likely to be vast numbers of moons and planetoids (dwarf planets, asteroids, centaurs, trojans etc.) – as evidenced by the 746,412 planetoids in our own solar system.

After 22 years of close examination of exoplanets, our scientists are just beginning to scratch the surface of our local galactic neighbourhood and what they’re discovering is astonishing, to say the least ! As technology improves and our ideas and conceptions change, we are likely to discover so much more ! Soon the development of AI will accelerate our ability to make new discoveries and assess and catalogue them and I dare say that by the time we reach the end of our lives, our local galactic neighbourhood (and the cosmos at large) will look infinitely spectacular !

What fascinates me the most, is the diversity of life forms that are likely to exist on the many different worlds that we have discovered and those we have yet to discover. If we have found 8 planets and 746,412 planetoids in our own solar system, imagine how many actually exist and how many harbour life in some form or another ! Then imagine how many planets and planetoids and possible life forms might exist in our local galactic neighbourhood ! And of these, imagine how many are space faring ETs.

From my own experiences, I have learned that ETs are visiting Earth from neighbouring solar systems, other regions of the galaxy, neighbouring galaxies and like Dude, from distant, as yet unobserved galaxies. Can you imagine the diversity of life that must exist on the 365 worlds where our visitors are coming from, let alone the diversity of life that must exist on all the worlds between here and the furthest of our visitors worlds ! I can tell you that the universe is teeming with life and it’s only a matter of time, technology and changing conceptions, before we discover that this is true.

Every part of our world is covered in life, on every possible scale ! Can you imagine what our space faring descendants will learn about life in the cosmos and how our view of the cosmos will be viewed as a kind of belonging to the dark ages compared to their own !

What an exciting time to be alive ! Here on the cusp of so much mind boggling and incredible discovery ! From the oceans and subterranean layers of Earth, to space and the space within ! Blessed are we who breathe !

You can read more here :

• https://etandi.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/how-many-et-races-are-visiting-earth/
• https://etandi.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/ets-are-everywhere-and-laniakea/
• https://etandi.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/how-do-we-know-about-ets/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_brown_dwarfs
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_exoplanets
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planet_types
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planet.

All figures about stars, planets and planetoids are quoted from the wiki links above.