If Aliens Landed In My Backyard
…I’d scream like a girl of course! Either due to the excitement of finally proving every non-believer of extraterrestrials wrong OR from fear of being zapped *poof* into nothingness. Most probably the latter i suppose. Oh, not forgetting I’d run as fast and as far as my legs can carry me.
Imagine this was my backyard and that crashed Martian cylinder was much bigger
After reading War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (which is so different from the movie), the thought of aliens actually landing here on earth in search of a new home (the same thing we’re trying to do on other planets) is just scary. Of course, the book having been written the year i was born, the human race at that time had not the destructive weapons we do now that could possibly, drive the invaders back to where they came. Thank goodness.
Of course, the movie ones looked cooler
Even so (and i thought it was settled), if we advanced technologically over the years, surely the aliens have done the same but to an even greater extent. They are after all, assumed to be way past us in most aspects (well, according to the book at least). Except in the looks department that is.
Anatomically, they had systematically evolved into grotesquely horrid looking things without noses or ears which they did not use and neither do they have digestive systems as they sucked the blood and all required nutrients right out of living things (preferably humans). Ewww.. I know some people who’d turn out like that if they don’t start moving away from the computer.
Tentacles, beak, glossy eyes.. we might end up like that
Not to mention their weird looking tentacles which would gross me out at first glance. Haha, it sounds like I’m more disgusted by them than being afraid. Uhh, and the movie didn’t mention that these aliens could shoot out canisters of black smoke that killed people once they breathed it in. It doesn’t always have the be Bang Bang BOOM, you know?
They did mention flying machines in the book but not super-chunted tripod transformed ones
One theme of the story got me thinking alot, if the aliens treated us the way we treated creatures of lower-intelligence (rabbits, cows etc.); destroying our habitats, driving us out of our homes and slaughtering us for food, would they use us as livestock or even as pets? I mean, they’re not just planning to stop by on Earth and move on to another planet once everyone is killed, right?
They would milk us, feed us kitty kibbles, make us do tricks and maybe neuter some of the more horny ones. The worst part is, some of us might enjoy it the same way out pets do! No need for work, school or stress - look cute & cuddly and the food’s on the table/floor/wherever.
Modernized stylized War of the Worlds aliens
Oh crap, i just removed the ‘if’ from ‘IF Aliens Landed In My Backyard’. Anyhow, let’s just hope I’m like one of those main characters in the story who survive to see the aliens get killed by microorganisms IF they do land. Better yet, let the aliens be like the ones from ‘My Favourite Martian’ or ‘CJ7′ who don’t go around sucking everyone’s innards out of them.
THE END
p.s. Supposedly, the CJ7 competition by Advertlets ends in February. So here’s my entry…
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Michelle said,
January 26, 2008 @ 1:13 pm .
Having aliens at my backyard is the last thing I need!
aimee said,
January 27, 2008 @ 4:46 pm .
i know pinkpau. she’s my friend su ann the one you wanted to stalk on my facebook -.-
that day i was having a conversation with my other friend hwali about the idea of aliens.
she thinks that aliens are all humans from the future coming back to visit us. T.T
usws said,
January 28, 2008 @ 1:10 am .
Oh darn, i want to know pinkpau too… besides the whole stalker-stalkee relationship. Funnya, how did you meet her? Oh wait, she’s just a ‘more famous than me’ normal person who i don’t know. Darn! Again!!
Well, humans or not.. it’s okay as long as they don’t suck anything out of me. I’d rather they don’t even put their long suction thingies any where near me.
BYE!
p.s. Intro, intro! To soon-to-be more famous than me normal people.
Ayie said,
February 6, 2008 @ 8:36 am .
Hey congratulation to you Shaun.
Even it is last minutes, you won the special prizes.
usws said,
February 7, 2008 @ 12:23 pm .
Thank you! And yea, i didn’t join at first cause i thought the dateline was over. Then i saw on your site or someone else’s that the date had changed. I’m glad i wasn’t too lazy to participate, it was definitely worth it!
BYE!