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Could this be? Signs of intelligent life?

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by Wisty, Feb 1, 2014.

  1. Wisty

    Wisty Subatomic Cosmonaut

    It may just be my imagination, but I have noticed countless of these strange curved pillars of dirt on many planets.

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    The gaps in them are the perfect size for a player to fit through, so it leads me to believe that these pillars are not natural.
    It also seems that there is typically some kind of house or facility not far from them. Could it be...some kind of marker? An alien monolith erected to show that no, we are not alone? If they are then the aliens must have been in a hurry because they are always made of cheap dirt.
    Or could it just be a quirk in the terrain gen when it has to put it's dirt building on hold to spawn in a building?
     
  2. Fogbot3

    Fogbot3 Subatomic Cosmonaut

    It's one of the randomly spawning natural structures, like caves and hills. I've always thought they were weird and stuff spawned near them too, perhaps they are a tease.
     
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  3. BobFenner

    BobFenner Star Wrangler

    Loving the Avatar Fogbot3, thats a Marder right? One of my fave tanks to play for lolz in World of Tanks. :)
     
  4. F-ranko

    F-ranko Heliosphere

    A strange marker found on a strange planet?

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  5. Serenity

    Serenity The Waste of Time

    Not saying planet generation. but planet generation.
     
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  6. Tleno

    Tleno Spaceman Spiff

    Intelligent life in singleplayer, you say?
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  7. Spike

    Spike Supernova

    Er... considering there are indeed other intellignet life (six of them, in fact), I dare say one of them could have done that.

    #Mushroompeoplearenotintelligent
     
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  8. Elate

    Elate Spaceman Spiff

    Intelligent enough to lock florans in their basement. Take that as you will.
     
  9. Spike

    Spike Supernova

    I stand corrected. There are FIVE races of intelligent beings in the big. big galaxy.

    #Floranshaditcoming
     
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  10. Serenity

    Serenity The Waste of Time

    put the salad dressing in the basket or floran gets the hose again
     
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  11. Tamorr

    Tamorr Supernova

    Reminds me of the Red desert or is it the banded desert. the one with weird rock formations. Same concept, but with dirt. o_O

    So for me it at least makes sense... As it is fully supported, even if winds back n forth between foreground and background; called erosion from winds I would guess...
     
  12. Jerln

    Jerln Oxygen Tank

    What about the Rainbow Bunny people, or the Oculemon Eyeball People? (Although the latter is possibly just a cult.)
     
  13. Yzzey

    Yzzey Heliosphere

    They're dread lords, or serve the dread lords. No idea what dread lords are though, but they mention them.
     
  14. Spike

    Spike Supernova

    The rainbow bunnies are beyond all of us. They are beauty personaified.

    But the eyeballs... the eyeballs sees beauty, but never gives them. What a selfish bunch.

    #hylotylforlife
     
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  15. Wilum

    Wilum Astral Cartographer

    And don't forget the Frog people... You can find a Frog merchant...
     
  16. Nalak

    Nalak Astral Cartographer

    Aliens. Oh wait.
     
  17. Fiben Bolger

    Fiben Bolger Pangalactic Porcupine

    People seem to forget that the viewpoint is a cutaway and that there's an unseen foreground. That formation could very well be 2 (not concentric; maybe eccentric?) smaller arches stacked on on something like this:

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  18. Professor Nibblekins

    Professor Nibblekins Void-Bound Voyager

    Oh my god, you're right! It all ties in with ufos and the illuminati!
     
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  19. Zuvaii

    Zuvaii Heliosphere

    That is actually a Hetzer. I'd know since I recently got one and it's mostly stock and oh my god does it have a horrible grind. Still far better than the M3 Lee though.

    As for the OP, I tend to slap a couple torches in the gaps to act as markers for how far I am from the spawn point/close to a village.
     
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