Write a science fiction story : do you think life exists on other planets? if there is life on other planets , how would the aliens look like?
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Some aliens in science fiction are truly the stuff of nightmares. The torso-bursting monsters of "Alien" are one example of things we hope don't exist. Other aliens of science fiction to avoid include the insect beings of "Ender's Game," the blob in "The Blob," the alien life-form in "The Thing," and even the "mog" (half man, half dog) in the comedy "Spaceballs."
While we can't forget the many beneficent aliens of fiction, monsters are what truly fascinate us because these beings best represent the fears of exploring the unknown. Monsters can also serve as a proxy for why you may not want to land somewhere, such as the beings that kept attacking the poor crew in "Europa Report" who dared to visit an icy moon of Jupiter. Indeed — fictional monsters are the focus of Episode 3 of "AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction," airing tonight (May 14).
But does science fiction match up to science fact? Are there alien monsters lying out there in the darkness somewhere, ready to attack Earth with fast UFO aircraft (like in "Independence Day") or by hiding underground for the right moment (like in the 2005 movie version of "War of the Worlds")? [The Scariest Aliens of Science Fiction Movies]
"Monsters are fascinating because they terrify us. Alien monsters are especially fascinating because they terrify us, and we know they could be real," Samuel Levin, a doctoral candidate in zoology at the University of Oxford, who recently co-authored a study on what aliens could look like, told Space.com in an email.
"Some people find swimming in the deep ocean terror-inducing, and when you ask them why, they say 'because anything could be dow