Alien at RFL Roos Saturday

 

In our "better late than never" category, on Saturday March 7, one of the Relay events was "Roos Saturday." It was a BYOK (Bring Your Own Kiosk) event, and if someone from another team showed up, a kiosk for their team would be rezzed. 

 

Roos Saturday BYOK

Come join the Roos and friends at our NEW Saturday BYOK.

We're hanging out at Electric Avenue listening to DJ Vic Mornington and having fun from 12-2pm.

We'll put out a kiosk for every team that brings their wild spirit to help make cancer a thing of the past

King County (177,91,22) 

 

There was the usual funnery and puns, this being a Roos event some funny Aussie songs included. And one resident was running around in an obviously inflatable "alien abjuction" costume. 

 

[13:29] Ealwen Tenwe (Ealwen Resident): I think Melina likes being an alien
[13:29] Ealwen Tenwe (Ealwen Resident): Martian even
[13:29] Liandra Aries: Melina is being abducted by the worst alien abducter ever :D LMAO
[13:29] Bixyl Shuftan: *chuckles*
[13:29] Ealwen Tenwe (Ealwen Resident): `*•✿ ĢϊɠɠԼƐՏ ✿•*`
[13:30] Ninja Chef Lady Ren Flow (Ren Float): Hey - Kayla's not here...
[13:30] Vic Mornington: I think i hjavew that alein abducter attachment buried in this inventory somewhere lol 

 

No word if there was a probing or not.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Cartoon of The Day: Space Litter

 

 Taken at the Moon Dance. Once a space probe runs out of power or breaks, unless it's fixed, which is out of the question unless it's in Earth orbit (and even that's usually a cost prohibitive option), it's basically a big hunk of metal and plastic. While we humans would see those on other planets and moons as being historical worthiness, aliens might have a different idea.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: Alien Music Concert

 

 

 Taken at Burn2. This exhibit had aliens rocking away at a stage  as if getting ready for a concert, with a few men in black suits observing. So why would aliens stage a concert? I could think of two reasons.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of The Day: What Would Alien Cats Abduct?

 

 
Taken at the RFL Sunbeamer Moon Dance. Feline aliens are in a number of science-fiction stories from "Star Trek" to the "Man-Kzin Wars" books, and many others. But we never see them in alien abduction claims people make in real life. Maybe any kitty from outer space would have different priorities. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

It Came From Bellisseria Chat: Raccoon Abduction

 

 

From Traci Quandry-Marabana (Traci Quandry), who posted this in the Bellisseria group chat, "Things that happen when ya fish in Belli." One looked at the image, saying "Poor raccoon."

 

Cartoon of The Day: Abduction Gone Wrong

 

 

 Taken at the SL20B grounds. Looks like this flying saucer decided to beam up a bovine, but also by accident tractored up one of the aliens on the ground.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Nova

 

Gemma Cleanslate was recently at the latest location created by rαvєn вαnríσn (RavenStarr Resident) and her Spark group, "Nova." Wanting to create a science-fiction area that was different from numbers of dark ones she'd known, she came up with something that "definitely pushed my skills." So what did Gemma find?

 

Read Gemma's article in Places. 

Cartoon of the Day: Alien-Made Milkshake

 

 

 From Sunweaver Bay. It seems the aliens made a few mistakes about trying to understand Earth again.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of The Day: Alien Attack, or Not

 

 

 Taken at the Moon Dance. It looks like this redshirt is running from attacking aliens. But it seems their assault was more a case of bad driving.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: "No, I'm Not Marvin."

 

From the Sunbeamer Moon Dance. Someone showed up as a "Mars Attacks" alien. In the dark sci-fi comedy, the skull-faced Martians seemed practically unbeatable, until someone happened to come across one as it heard a certain Slim Wittman song. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Inspiration Island

By Bixyl Shuftan

Discussion At Inspiration Island On Talking To Aliens

On Sunday August 9, Inspiration Island held an event, "Creating a Galaxy Language," as part of it's "Inspiration Island Appreciation Week." The subject was if we ever made contact with intelligent life outside the planet, how would we talk to them?

Join us to discover the kind of language we will need to communicate with Extraterrestrials if/when we receive a message from outer space or they visit us!                  

Learning about The Galaxy Language involves exploring the kinds of problem-solving abilities that will help us hold onto the value of life and what we love even in the worst of times. 

This is a period in our human history when people on Planet Earth are facing new kinds of life-threatening challenges. This science fiction adventure in a virtual world can give us ideas to try out in real life....besides preparing for a possible ET visit!.

The event was hosted by Wisdomseeker (Lissena Resident), whom came to the event as a blue human-like being. Much of the conversation was in voice, but some was in text. Some of the people wondered if contact already had been established. It was brought up that it might not go like science-fiction as writers may put aside realism in favor of making a story more interesting, plus the more different a character is from human, the more difficult it is to make it relatable and sympathetic to an audience, "Hence all the Star Trek aliens ... are basically humans with bad nose jobs."

On the other hand, science-fiction had some interesting possibilities, such as one episode of "Star Trek," in which the humans had to struggle to communicate with a race whose language was made up of metaphors. Even people on Earth have trouble with metaphors, someone once commenting that in the Bible, "forty" was metaphorical for "a lot," and that today religious fundamentalists not knowing of the metaphor often take the phrase literally. ETs might also have different ways of counting. Humans have a base-ten. Aliens might have base eight, six, or some other number. Other movies mentioned were "Arrival," in which a human translator has to learn how to communicate with a very alien race, and "Contact."

The events for "Appreciation Week" go on to Sunday August 16. To check the schedule, Click Here.

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day: A Painful Test

Taken at the SL17B. Anyone out there interesting contacting Earth would probably ask themselves first would we see them as people, or would we see them as monsters or things? They'd probably have ways of finding out. This guy, whom presumably has medical technology to heal him quickly, went ahead with a direct approach.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Montecito Bay UFO: The Military Responds

Montecito Bay has seen no shortage of weirdness. But it was about six months ago since it's weirdest time, when one of the town's buildings was hit by what looked like a UFO. Following when the strange craft was removed from the building but before it was taken away, the Newser managed to get a closer look. It's being taken away and the weird building that appeared in the wrecked structure's place overnight might have been the last word on the story. But this week, the Newser finally got an explanation from the US Military about the incident. So did they give a reason other than "swamp gas?"

Read the story in Extra.

Update on Montecito Bay: The Holographic Tower

When I took a close look at the site of the UFO crash in Montecito Bay late last month, I expected the flying saucer and what appeared to be either a mannequin or a body that had somehow avoided decay to be taken away soon. And checking the place last weekend, as expected they were gone. But what I didn't expect was finding the site completely repaired and with a new tower that looked like it might have been made by someone not of this Earth.

The top of the structure was surrounded by what looked like a red holographic globe. Besides the structure was some bizarre-looking sculpture and unearthly-looking plants that had glowing leaves. Just beneath the top was a circular band that went around the tower, full of the same kind of symbols that were in club schedule updates prior to the Groundhog Day incident.

There didn't seem to be an obvious way up. I did see a pad that looked a little like those transporter pads in science-fiction shows. A way to the top of the tower? I hesitated to find out.

Another thing I noticed, or rather didn't notice, were the "street circles" in the pattern of crop circles that had been on town intersections for months. They were now all gone.

So what does this all mean? I had a few words with town mayor Lem Aiko (LemonPledge Resident), who told me that "Official statement, it was swamp gas," and wasn't in a position to say more. But he did get me in touch with someone who was willing to speak under a condition of anonymity, saying that they had been told to say nothing by the Feds, "I know what I know, and you saw what you saw. It was indeed E.T. but this time they waged war on our city. I was there when they shot the city up in their UFO's. why would they do that if it wasn't an act of war? We still don't know why the UFO went down, or even why they were here in the first place." Someone with him thought the saucer probably went down due to pilot error, though it was a guess. A second person joked, "I think they were going for the irresistible hot dog cart and totally missed, but that's just me."

Of the strange tower that suddenly went up, "The crazy guy who I made mention of before says the building was a peace offering. He was right last time, I would believe him about that. I just hope they don't do it again. It cost the city millions. That is also why we are redeveloping the area that was bombed. the UFO attack so severely damaged the infrastructure in that part of the city, it's cheaper to completely scrap the design and move on to something new."

So is this the last we'll hear about flying saucers around here? With that strange tower, I hesitate to say. Even so, Montecito Bay never seems to be quiet for very long. Something strange usually happens just after things begin to settle in a routine. There's already reports of strange small creatures that speak with a lisp and have a craving for clams and other shellfish. And of course, there's what will be going up in place of the torn town buildings, whatever it is.

Montecity Bay, signing off, for now.

Note: There was no actual alien attack, just people having some fun.

Bixyl Shuftan

Update on Montecito Bay Cleanup

Montecito Bay experiences no shortage of weirdness. But lately things have been getting weird and destructive. A few weeks ago, the southwest corner of the city was wrecked. Thankfully no one was hurt, and cleanup soon started. A few weeks later, the city is just about ready to rebuild. But the cleanup has also exposed some possible evidence of a previous incident, the crash of a strange craft in December.

Read the story in Places.

Announcement: "Alien Exosociology"

"Alien Exosociology: Our Transgalactic Commonalities"

Saturday, February 2, 10 AM - 11 AM SL time

 by Dr. Steven Van Hook

Some astronomers predict that we will have made contact with advanced civilizations on other worlds within 25 years. What might they be like, and — more importantly – how might they act? Dr. Steven R. Van Hook, a researcher in transcultural relations, will consider what universal traits we could share in common with our galactic alien neighbors.

The Science Circle (79,199,23)

Cartoon of the Day

Taken during the Madpea Egg Hunt

By Bixyl Shuftan

Barney Helps Alien Invasion at Zeta Valley

Remember when the Zeta Valley Club had to deal with an alien invasion? It seems the aliens came back and they had an ally: Barney the Dinosaur.

 "Bix, you missed the epic Barney battle," Geerkil told me. "Yes what a war," LS Raccoon added. "Happens when you are not here to cover it. the aliens came back." Apparently Clockwork Jackal and his friend Biohazard were dealing with a second force of aliens, smaller than the first one that hit a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, more trouble showed up. "Then all hell broke loose," Geerkil told me. What was the form of the hell? It was Barney.

Yep, the purple dinosaur who sings songs that brainwash little kids into loving him and sends adults running away screaming came to the club as the fighting with the aliens started up. The purple horror would be a nightmare in itself. The good news, no one had to deal with the accused music that works on the brains of adults like sandpaper and has proved an effective interrogation method at Guantanamo Bay. The bad news, he was sporting a weapon, and joined the fight by firing at the club's defenders.

"Barney armed with a grenade launcher took on two foes," Geerkil told me, "Barney was defending the aliens." "Yeah, he was battling Biohazard and Clockwork," JB Raccoon added.

Clockwork and Biohazard might have been able to repulse the aliens with firearms alone. But with the dreaded purple monstrosity added to the assault force, it was decided there was no choice but to use their weapon of last resort: a mini-nuke. So like the first battle with the aliens a few weeks ago, this battle ended with a mushroom cloud over the club. When it cleared, the aliens, and the purple nightmare were gone. By morning, the radiation levels were back down, and all damage was repaired.

While these particular aliens may have been disposed of, Barney is assumed to have survived the nuke. Such abominable evil has a way of surviving to strike again.

Image Credit: Tech Adams

Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day: ET Not Phoning Home

Taken at "The Pen" in Bay City

By Bixyl Shuftan