Creatures: "Extraterrestrial Aurelia"

Due to requests, I decided to make a video showing "Aurelia".

NGC made a special called "Extraterrestrial" analogue to Discovery´s "Alien planet". The program shows two extraterrestrial planets and its inhabitants: "Aurelia" and "Blue Moon". In this videoclip, I focus on "Aurelia".

The sun of Aurelia is a red dwarf star. Due to the slow rate at which they burn hydrogen, red dwarfs have an enormous estimated lifespan, this would allow a plenty of time for life to evolve on surrounding planets. However, the dwarf's smaller nature and feeble heat/light output would mean that such a planet would need to be particularly close to the star's surface. The cost of such an orbit would be that an Earth-sized body would become tidally locked. When this happens, the object presents the same face to its sun at all times as it orbits, just as the Moon does with the Earth. This has curious effects on surface planet: according on your position, the sun simply never comes down, staying in the same position in the sky all year. Half of Aurelia would be in perpetual darkness and in a permanent ice age. The other half would contain a giant, unending hurricane with permanent torrential rain. In between these two zones would be a place suitable for life.

Life still face here a major challenge: red dwarf stars are unstable and eject frequent solar flares. Such intense ultraviolet radiation is deadly to all carbon-based life forms as it breaks down the atomic bonds formed by organic compounds. So the planet's ecosystem suffers from a number of particular peculiarities, most notably evolutionary quirks to allow all living organisms to detect and avoid solar flares (Gulphogs have eyes atop their heads to detect them).

Creatures shown are:

Stinger Fan - This plant-like creature has five hearts and limited mobility. Its fan-like leaves trap the red dwarf star's energy to produce sugars. Its hearts pump them around its body.

Mudpods are six-legged semi-amphibious creatures that feed upon the Stinger Fans.

Gulphog is a large emu-like carnivore living being. With around 3 meters tall, they live together in herds and prey the Mudpods.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_and_Blue_Moon

Music: Yanni - "Within Attraction"

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[daizua123]

This is a great video about Aurelia. But you forgot one creature: the Hysteria (yes, they were in the show). I loved those tiny guys. Other than that, it was great.

[lemaro1977]

@daizua123 thanks!

[knuffiepe]

Is this documantary available on DVD?

[lemaro1977]

@knuffiepe Make a search on Amazon dot com or other selling store... The original videos I used where captured from TV.

[ApproachWithCaution]

Life is awesome. It always finds a way. There is no doubt at all in my mind, that the Universe is teeming with it,

[tigers333]

splendor....thanx

[lemaro1977]

@xXxDOMINICIxXx A program to share all kind of files on line.

see "e-mule" on the internet.

[CalelCain]

Aurelia was my sister I was the firstborn male child of her parents...that's where I crawled out of the box into the hand of God

[EmperorJoeify]

I love the idea of having a planet being tidally locked and having large solar flares but they could have made the creatures a little more exciting. An emu and a frog beaver aren't as exciting as large flying insects and flying whales.

[lemaro1977]

@xXxDOMINICIxXx search here on youtube. I found these I used in emule!

[shoshanish]

@lifeform106 have you watched the show this was made from?

[Quierotooo]

WOOOOO INCREDIBLE IMAGINATION OF ALIEN PLANET, VERY GOOD =D I LOVE THE NATURE

[BaileysBeads]

@lifeform106 Evolution is not just random chance, it also needs to adhere to universal laws of nature so there will be universal sweetspots for all life in the universe to shape in to.

[lifeform106]

I don't really like Aurelia cause the aliens look to much like earth animals cause the Gulphogs looks like a flightless bird but with teeth instead of a beak and it has a third i on it's head. And the mudpod looks a salamander but extra legs and eyes coming out of it's head. Don't you think at all these lifeforms look to earth life?

[SpaceMidget6]

@Laurelindo I think was being semi-sarcastic at the time. Now as I listen to it 1 year after I posted the comment, It's not all that terrible. It reminds me of the 90s... Oh the good ol' 90s...

[daizua123]

@lemaro1977 No problem. The Hysteria just happen to be my favorite creatures from this series. ;)