hagbard_celine
27-10-2007, 06:19 PM
Did the author Roald Dahl know about the "space critters"? I read his book Charlie and the Great Glass Elelevator long before I heard about space serpents, but then I remembered that the book featues som nasty aliens called "Vermicious Knids" read this descroption of them:
Vermicious knids are a fictional species of amorphous, shape-shifting monsters that invade the Space Hotel USA in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They are also mentioned in the 1971 feature film adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, except on this occasion they are referred to as being one of the species that inhabits Loompaland... In their natural form, vermicious knids are huge, dark, egg-shaped beings that are quite at home in the vacuum of space. They attack space vessels by ramming them, pointy-end first. According to Willy Wonka, numerous sentient alien species that formerly existed have been wiped out by the knids' predations. Wonka claims that the only reason humans have escaped this fate is because the Knids cannot enter Earth's atmosphere without being burned up by friction—despite the fact that among the worlds that have been depopulated by the knids are Venus (which has a substantial atmosphere) and Jupiter (which is a gas giant)...
Sounds very much like eye-witness descriptions of real critters.
Vermicious knids are a fictional species of amorphous, shape-shifting monsters that invade the Space Hotel USA in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They are also mentioned in the 1971 feature film adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, except on this occasion they are referred to as being one of the species that inhabits Loompaland... In their natural form, vermicious knids are huge, dark, egg-shaped beings that are quite at home in the vacuum of space. They attack space vessels by ramming them, pointy-end first. According to Willy Wonka, numerous sentient alien species that formerly existed have been wiped out by the knids' predations. Wonka claims that the only reason humans have escaped this fate is because the Knids cannot enter Earth's atmosphere without being burned up by friction—despite the fact that among the worlds that have been depopulated by the knids are Venus (which has a substantial atmosphere) and Jupiter (which is a gas giant)...
Sounds very much like eye-witness descriptions of real critters.