Making you think

[taotrooper]

I was watching this documentary and it made me flip out a bit, seeing into perspective. Most of you don't know, but I had a silly phobia of alien abduction when I was a kid.

[ETA2: I sounded stupid, so I bahleeted the point of the post.]

[ETA3: I could find the stupid thing again by hitting the back button. Here it is, but don't take it seriously.]

Here's the story.

Imagine this individual. They have a rather average life for their kind, and do the obvious routine every day -except for some times of the year, I guess, like most of us. They're healthy and normal, probably even happy.

One day, a strange creature, tall and thin and wearing a weird suit, approaches them in daylight. The monster takes them by the back, and drags them to his ship. Then, he grabs the guy (or girl?) by the feet and pushes them up.

Now that the guy is in the alien ship, probably scared to death and wondering if they'll get killed. The monster and his colleages take their tools. They measure our friend and take samples with needles, practically by force (maybe they were nice and tried to comfort the guy, but it's hard when you look so menacing and speak in a weird tongue they don't understand).

Then they attach an ugly-looking machine, not exactly small, on the guy's back. The monsters just wanted to make experiments and then track the poor guy for some months. Then the creatures release them slowly, and our friend can get the fuck away from them. They're safe and unharmed, kinda. However, the trauma and the stupid device on its back will never leave them. They're now a freak.

Guys, this isn't a story about extraterrestrials. I'm talking about a sea turtle. Really, the tracker was HUGE and had a fucking antenna, and the shell looked like a tank now.

This kinda makes the UFO tabloid stories more real, seeing by this point of view. Yeah, I have a high school diplomma on Science, and I liked biology a lot. But now I'm kind of shaken and don't know what to think anymore. Can wild animals be traumatised by these kind of experiences? Even if they had sedated the turtle in the middle of the process, which probably happened, the guy must've had a fright anyway.

ETA: So that's why I liked The Killers' "Bones" video that much. It was directed by Tim Burton OMG! Of course, man. Skeletons.

Comments

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I know you didn't mean that. I was trying to explain what I know about it, and also that scientists do try to think from the turtle's POV. The harsh wording was a knee-jerk reaction. Sorry. :/

(And glad you found the post - I was trying to see if I still had it, too.)

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

More than animal polemics, I think it left me thinking because of my former phobia in a new light. If aliens do exist, and are studying us in any form, then they're doing exactly the same than a human biologist on Earth to other species. So we could be aliens to other animals, doing weird things that make no sense. Or maybe the alien abduction myth, if it's fictional, took elements from something as terrestrial as animal biology.

It all went wrong when trying to be inventive and tell the story like it was an abduction.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the alien abduction myth, if it's fictional, took elements from something as terrestrial as animal biology.
See, I think that's an interesting idea. That's why I said it's a good post. It *is* thought-provoking.

I wouldn't say it "went wrong", even. You got one disagreeing comment, and it was from a friend so we both could clarify what we meant. It didn't even cross my mind that you'd want to edit the post for one comment alone. Seriously, I wasn't trying to start trouble.

And now I'll stop over-explaining stuff and let you study. *flees*

[fujurpreux.livejournal.com]

This thread made me remember a short story by, IIRC, Isaac Asimov, where humanity was being studied by aliens just like (real? human?) scientists study bacteria, and whenever humanity were to achieve a certain degree of wisdom/technology/etc, they manipulated things to start a war or let lose a pandemic disease.
Of course, it's far better than I make it sound. ^^U If I ever find it again, I'll either transcribe it or post a link, promise. :P

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh, if you find it let me know. Sounds creepy and fucked up, I like that.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh, it wasn't about disagreeing. I thought I had seriously offended you, and could offend more people or they would think I was stupid.

I'm really sorry.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

It's OK. No worries. :)