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2 unusual facts about Extraterrestrial


Extrasolar

Extraterrestrial, referring to objects or phenomena existing within the Solar System, but not on Earth

Extraterrestrial

Extraterrestrial life, in scientific context, hypothetical life that exists outside Earth


Acanti

The Acanti are a race of fictional whale-like, extraterrestrial beings that have appeared in Uncanny X-Men within the Marvel Comics universe.

Anticyclonic storm

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a well-known extraterrestrial example of an anticyclonic system.

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

It contains his visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or range, biology, and behaviors, in the style of a real field guide for animals, such as Roger Tory Peterson's guide to birds of North America.

Building printing

It is also a potential way of building extraterrestrial structures on the Moon or other planets where environmental conditions are less conducive to human labor-intensive building practices.

Dewilde

Marius Dewilde, French railway worker who claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrial life-forms

Disco Beaver from Outer Space

The short film is a collection of comedy sketches, contained within the main story which is centered on two characters: the protagonist, an extraterrestrial in the form of a human sized (and bi-pedal) beaver; and the antagonist, a gay vampire called "Dragula" instead of "Dracula," the famous vampire from Bram Stroker's novel Dracula.

Down in the Dumps

The story of the game is about the Blubs, an extraterrestrial family (father and mother Blub, their son and daughter, the grandparents and the pet Stinkie), who crash with their spaceship on a landfill on Earth after being pursued by the villainous Khan and his criminal associates.

Eltanin Antenna

Due to its regular antenna-like structure and upright position on the seafloor at a depth of 3,904 metres, some proponents of fringe and UFO-related theories including Bruce Cathie have suggested that it might be an extraterrestrial artifact.

God Told Me To

The 'alien abduction' sequence, where a naked woman is drawn up into the cavernous interior of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, features (manipulated) generic stock model footage from Gerry Anderson's science fiction TV series Space: 1999.

Green Bank, West Virginia

It was at the NRAO, in 1960, that Frank Drake presented the Drake Equation, which was developed to provide an estimate of the total number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

Heroes, Inc. Presents Cannon

"The Misfits", a 10-page story written and penciled by Wood, inked by Ralph Reese and credited "W. Wood and R. Reese" and "Copyright Wally Wood 1969", follows Mystra, a nubile young artificial human with telepathic abilities; Shag, a boyish blue extraterrestrial stranded on Earth; and Glomb, a human infant mutated by American scientists into a gray, simpleminded giant created to explore the planet Jupiter.

Homochirality

One supposition is that the discovery of an enantiomeric imbalance in molecules in the Murchison meteorite supports an extraterrestrial origin of homochirality: there is evidence for the existence of circularly polarized light originating from Mie scattering on aligned interstellar dust particles which may trigger the formation of an enantiomeric excess within chiral material in space.

Isamot Kol

Isamot Kol is a fictional comic book superhero, an extraterrestrial from the planet Thanagar, and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps.

Jason Colavito

In the book, Colavito explores the influences of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos on the popular works of Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods?) and Graham Hancock, as well as its overall influence on "extraterrestrial pop culture".

Jenaro Gajardo Vera

One of its purposes was to "create a committee to welcome the first extraterrestrial visitors who arrive on the Earth".

Kroton

The Krotons is a serial in the science fiction television series Doctor Who and the name of the extraterrestrial race featured therein

Levelland, Texas

The UFO Book: Encyclopedia Of The Extraterrestrial; Jerome Clark, author.

Liz Shaw

According to the 1997 Virgin New Adventures novel Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore, Liz dies in 2003, the victim of an extraterrestrial terraforming virus contracted while she was part of a UNIT team investigating an alien artefact on the Moon, despite the efforts of the Seventh Doctor and his current companion Chris Cwej to save her.

Make Politicians History

The group originated in the 1980s as the Rainbow Alliance of several small groups, founded and led by Rainbow George Weiss, which Weiss says was after he was contacted by "an extraterrestrial soulmate called Sterling Silver".

Marcel Vogel

Vogel examined a metal sample which was allegedly given to Billy Meier by extraterrestrials and marveled at its unusual properties (Vogel stated it contained the element thulium).

Murchison, Victoria

The rocks were analysed at the NASA Ames Research Center where they were discovered to contain the first convincing evidence of amino acids of extraterrestrial origin, confirming the Miller-Urey experiment.

Nunhead Cemetery

The Woman Between the Worlds, a 1994 science fiction novel by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre set in Victorian England, depicts the burial at Nunhead Cemetery in 1898 (in a closed coffin) of a female extraterrestrial.

Object–verb–subject

This sequence was chosen for the artificial language Klingon, a language spoken by the extraterrestrial Klingon race in the fictional universe of the Star Trek series, in order to make the language sound deliberately alien and counterintuitive.

Peter Wollen

Wollen's only solo feature, Friendship's Death (1987), starring Bill Paterson and Tilda Swinton, is the story of the relationship between a British war correspondent and a female extraterrestrial robot on a peace mission to Earth, who, missing her intended destination of MIT, inadvertently lands in Amman, Jordan during the events of Black September 1970.

Piri Reis

Piri Reis' maps are referenced in the novel The Space Vampires, in which it states that Reis used extraterrestrial information to increase the accuracy of his maps.

Planetary Duality

It is a concept album with the lyrics following a science fiction theme of an extraterrestrial race controlling the world and is inspired by the book The Children of the Matrix by David Icke.

Portals in fiction

Authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince also write of The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt.

Ruth Montgomery

Alleged extraterrestrial candidates include far-reaching public figures such as technology visionary Steve Jobs, psychic medium Danielle Egnew and the Dalai Lama.

Sarah Jane's Alien Files

It features Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer, and Rani Chandra entering data on aliens they have encountered during their adventures into Mr Smith, Sarah Jane's extraterrestrial computer, to benefit humanity in the event that Sarah Jane is no longer capable of defending the Earth against alien threats.

Sebastian Star Bear: First Mission

Sebastian – An extraterrestrial Star Bear from the Ursa Major constellation who flies to Earth in his CRYOG after hearing Griselda's plea for help.

Serious Sam

In ancient times, Earth was involved in a massive conflict between Mental, an evil extraterrestrial being who wants to rule the universe, and the Sirians, a technologically-advanced sentient alien race that left many of its artifacts to be discovered by humanity.

Sidri

The Sidri, also known as Sidrian Hunters, are a fictional race of extraterrestrial beings in the Marvel Comics universe.

Space colony

:* Space habitat, a free-floating extraterrestrial colony specifically

Stel

Stel is a fictional American comic book superhero, an extraterrestrial robot from the planet Grenda and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps for space sector 3009.

Sterno

In Michael Crichton's 1969 novel "The Andromeda Strain" and the 1971 movie based on it, one of the survivors of the deadly extraterrestrial virus is an old man who utilizes "Squeeze" along with aspirin to alleviate the pain caused by a bleeding ulcer diagnosed two years prior to the "Piedmont Incident".

Sulfonyl halide

In the episode "Encyclopedia Galactica" of his TV series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Carl Sagan speculates that some intelligent extraterrestrial beings might have a genetic code based on polyaromatic sulfonyl halides instead of DNA.

Technarchy

The Technarchy, or Technarchs, are a cybernetic, shapeshifting, fictional species of extraterrestrial origin in the Marvel Comics' universe, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz.

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture is a 2005 book by Jason Colavito, a contributor to Skeptic magazine, and published by Prometheus Books.

The Hybrid Front

Asteroids tend to interfere with both combat and movement during extraterrestrial missions.

The Vermicious Knid

The band's name is taken from extraterrestrial creatures in Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

Universe People

In 2007, the Slovak private television channel TV JOJ informed, that the Universe People sent instructions how to defend against the attacks of evil extraterrestrial entities to the Slovak Ministry of Defense.

Void Indigo

Void Indigo focuses on an alien named Jaghur from a peaceful extraterrestrial race (he is known on earth as "Mick Jagger").

Zn'rx

The Zn'rx are a fictional extraterrestrial race who have appeared in many Marvel Comics.


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