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Published: 2010-03-26 03:29:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 1494; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 122
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The planet Artemis was once home to an intelligent aquatic species who lamented the fact that the thick dust cloud veiling their inner system prevented them from truly seeing the wonders of the universe. This drove them to develop space flight faster than any known intelligent species, as they desperately worked to see what was beyond the veil.During the very first successful rocket flight beyond the dust cloud, their ship was detected by scouts from an alien species known as the Berylan.
Unfortunately for the inhabitants of Artemis, the Berylan believe they are the only sentient species with the right to exist. As soon as they realized there was intelligent life behind the Artemis veil they descended on Artemis and killed every living, thinking being.
Archaeologists say that an examination of the underwater ruins of Artemis seem to indicate that the native species were amidst a worldwide celebration of their achievement when the Berylan fleet began to scour their cities with plasma fire.
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The planet and fractals are amazing and the dust/nebula/cloud thing came out beatifully
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you know what man, got so caught up with my comment to brent i forgot to tell you that this is your best planet yet.
i love how the veil kind of hugs the Atmo of Artemis. the landmasses look great aswell.
the only thing that looks off to me is the White Moon, does it have an Atmo?
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yes, it does. It's kind of an ice moon.
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ok cool cool. i thought it was a mess up in the texture lol
looks good now that i know its an ice moon
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nice shot ...wan 2 be there on moon ....
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good job man, the upper most right planet, looks a bit cut out though.
I don't think we have anything to fear from aliens,but they have to fear us.
They're not here, we're on the way to them.
We're the invaders from outer space.
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I put the upper moon on the top layer to make it appear to be on "this" side of the dust, to give it some three dimensionality. Maybe I should add another later of some light cloud over it?
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sounds like a good idea, also if that planet is closer to our point of view, i think it should have more shadow .
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I'm of a mind that the only intelligent life that visits Earth does so because we're like a freeway accident; they just can't help but slow down and stare at the travesty..
Keep coming up with reasons for me to envy you DLDC...
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The good old "baby bird" hypothesis of first contact... if you stay quietly in your nest you just might make it... spread your wings too early and leave the nest (or just plain make too much noise) and you are lunch.
Back in the 50's there was some serious debate focusing on this hypothesis, it was the core of the anti-SETI movement among those who believed that there really ARE aliens out there, but that we would not necessarily want to draw their attention.
You never know, we could end up like the Artemians at any moment.
Very cool pic, and now that I know how you do your backdrops, I can really appreciate the work you put into this!
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Stephen Hawkings isn't a big fan of SETI either. He thinks we should really try to actually encounter the "neighbors" when we are more advanced and on their own turf. He points out that the results of advanced cultures encountering primitive cultures on earth usually results in the destruction of the less advanced culture, even when the advanced culture was well-meaning, and hopes that isn't what happens to us on first contact.
Some, however, have suggested that it's very likely that our weapons technology outstrips that of more advanced cultures and we could be being left alone on purpose.
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I'm gonna reply to both of you at once, as you both made the same point.
We do have what *we* consider to be nice weapons... but any race that can cross interstellar distances in any reasonable time frame will necessarily have a bit more "reach" than a race that can't even destroy a small object in geo-synchronous orbit around their own world (we have trouble destroying objects in LOW earth orbit).
Now, if we could somehow get them to land, and hold still long enough to drop a nuke on them, that'd be a decent deterrent, presuming WE didn't ever want to use that land again, and they didn't just swat the incoming missile right out of the sky, which even we can do with our primitive tech.
And in any case, one or two Relativistic Kill Vehicles, or even a half dozen mid size asteroids incoming, and we couldn't do anything more than bend over and kiss our arse goodbye.
But I will admit we are TOPS at perforating unprotected bags of wet calcium/carbon supported protein at moderately close range.
In the final analysis, War of the Worlds really does present the most likely scenario for humans at our level of tech "winning" a war against aliens capable of interplanetary (let alone interstellar) travel... but the whole microbe thing works BOTH ways.
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i have to agree with most of your comment. this theory is pretty common around the people i talk to.
only thing i have to disagree with is that Humanity would end up like the Artmians.
as a race we have developed some pretty devastating weapon technologies, for example the directed energy weapon they are developing to take down nukes.
i mean im not trying to say we would "whoop" them or anything but we might beable to put up one hell of a fight and make them think twice.
if there's one thing about Humanity that could save us from such a fate, it's our knowledge of Killing power. though thats just my honest opinion
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See above for my thoughts on our knowledge of killing power on Earth VS in orbit.
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sweet man i sure will.
anything to do with that kinda pazza im in too
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Then again, consider that we have the power (via nuclear weapons) to completely sterilize our planet- and we don't have the power to leave it yet. If aliens wanted us dead, Earth would be a cloud of dust before we even knew they were there.
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haha indeed.
i actually have nothing to say against that.
because if they are advanced enough to travel the Stars then they can certainly wipe us out without breaking a sweat.
but... if they were to invade with ground forces then we could stand a chance.
i refuse to believe that it would be like what you see in movies were our Weapons have little to no effect on them. i believe our weapons of war would be just as deadly to them as they are us.
just because they are millions of years more advanced then us doesnt mean we can't make them bleed
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