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Davesrightmind — Comet Rider
Published: 2009-03-10 22:13:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 8434; Favourites: 151; Downloads: 241
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A lone comet rider speeding through space.Related content
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Of course that's cool, I love all the icky-wicky bugs that crawl through space, but I also like this because it makes some cool sense; Riding a comet that fast you couldn't possibly hope to survive landing on whatever planet you run into. However, if you were a giant mite-like bug creature you'd have powerful legs to propel you off the rock and hopefully float down to the hopefully non-hazardous planet, just like running and jumping off the back of a moving train; You could even use the shock wave from the meteor (I'm sorry, comet) impact to break your fall, if you jump close to the surface. I mean insects are usually tough enough to withstand stuff like this anyway (I'm talking about earth-bugs to scale and not just your typical bug, they couldn't survive something as crazy as riding a meteor into the ground [okay again, sorry, COMET]), but why put extra energy into making some special adaptation when you can let physics do all the work?
And another thing about bugs: they're cheap. Specifically, for each species eggs are about a dime a dozen... thousand. So while this guy might not necessarily make it, just remember that space is big, and who knows how many of these rock-riders are travelling around the cosmos?
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You don't see that every day. O_O It'd be a funny sight though. XD
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PLEASE come to Earth. I'd love to see this thing in person. Before it would eat me, of course.
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woah, killer creature design and amazing rendition of space! I love all the particles you've got going on. Did you have to run a layer through a filter to get that look?
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Thanks again. I think I added a layer with some noise.
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Ha, that makes a lot of sense
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