Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2024 3:51 pm Post subject: The Thing from Another World ~ A very different sequel! |
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| Krel wrote: | Even as a kid, I thought they should have kept some of the alien buds, and seeds for study. Know thy enemy.
The question is, did the Aliens know about Earth's climate, or was it just a shot in the dark? Was it a one Carrot colonizing mission, or the first of a wave? Or even not the first, but they just haven't found out about the others? It was only by chance that they discovered this one. |
Those are great observations! Bravo, David! 
Imagine a sequel in which a government laboratory grows aliens from the seed pods that were somehow not destroyed. The beings are created for the specific purpose of learning all about these dangerous aliens before another ship lands on Earth.
Remember, the "unborn" aliens that Carrington cultivated were said to be growing unusually fast, so we can assume the ones in the laboratory would do the same. Presumably these aliens would be totally ignorant about their species' culture or technology.
However, perhaps these "young" aliens would have instincts which governed their behavior and made them hostile towards lifeforms other than their own. This would thwart the efforts of the scientists to persuade these creatures to be cooperative with the humans.
As for their language, perhaps it's instinctive as well, rather than "learned", the way our languages are. That would mean the aliens could communicate with each other as soon as they were mature enough — but they would have neither the interest nor the ability to learn our languages.
This suggests an obvious plot element; a group of aliens secretly conspire to escape captivity . . . without us ever knowing they were doing so!
What a sequel this would make! An "invasion" by aliens who were deliberately raised from infancy so we could learn more about an enemy who might attack us from space!
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