Look who I found!

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:49 pm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~donovan/newbie/crystals.htm

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:23 am

Eeeek!

Redwolf

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:32 am

Yikes!!

(... fumbles around for my trusty can of Raid...)

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:06 am

Everyone get your tinfoil hats!

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:24 am

Will Deep Woods Deet work?

MarkB

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:35 am

MarkB wrote:Will Deep Woods Deet work?

MarkB

Nope. Only makes 'em more ticked off.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:48 am

Anyone remember the Twilight Zone episode in which hillbilly music caused the hostile aliens to die? Perhaps these Crystals are sensitive to something...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:20 am

emmline wrote:Anyone remember the Twilight Zone episode in which hillbilly music caused the hostile aliens to die? Perhaps these Crystals are sensitive to something...

... perhaps, the pipes? I got it! RECOR..................(signal lost)

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:30 am

emmline wrote:Anyone remember the Twilight Zone episode in which hillbilly music caused the hostile aliens to die?

Perhaps you are thinking of the movie "Mars Attacks" where hillbilly yodelling caused the aliens' oversized brains to explode? That won't work with Crystalline People, as they are not organically based. More likely a high pitched sine wave of an exact frequency might cause them to vibrate at a critical rate until they fracture. No-one to date has been able to discover this frequency before having their energy sucked completely out. Darn those Crystalline People!

djm

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:59 am

Call me a nerd, but that "crystal people" space ship looks a lot like a Babylon 5 Shadow ship

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:58 am

djm wrote:
emmline wrote:Anyone remember the Twilight Zone episode in which hillbilly music caused the hostile aliens to die?
Perhaps you are thinking of the movie "Mars Attacks" where hillbilly yodelling caused the aliens' oversized brains to explode? That won't work with Crystalline People, as they are not organically based. More likely a high pitched sine wave of an exact frequency might cause them to vibrate at a critical rate until they fracture. No-one to date has been able to discover this frequency before having their energy sucked completely out. Darn those Crystalline People!

djm

You're right about Mars Attacks, but there was something similar on the Twilight Zone...I just can't quite remember what the killer noise was.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:11 am

emmline wrote:You're right about Mars Attacks, but there was something similar on the Twilight Zone...I just can't quite remember what the killer noise was.

It was a harmonica. Perhaps Steve Shaw can save us from the Crystal People...

From the Twilight Zone Episode Guide:

Hocus Pocus and Frisby

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST AS EPISODE 096
STARRING CAST: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Larry Breitman, Clem Bevans, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer
WRITER: Rod Serling
DIRECTOR: Lamont Johnson
SUMMARY: Frisby, a general store owner who spins the biggest yarns west of the Rockies, gets a couple of odd customers one afternoon...who later summon him to their spaceship, prepared to take him back to their planet.
REVIEW: III

"Hocus Pocus and Frisby" is one of the more polished comedy episodes (perhaps second to "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up"?). Few of us will escape this life without meeting someone like Somerset Frisby, a crack-voiced marshmellow of a man who claims to have done everything there is to do upon this Earth, and knows everything there is to know. The martian rubber masks prepared by William Tuttle are a little demonic looking, considering that the race of aliens seems somewhat placid. Whether or not they are really necessary is debatable, since they have already established themselves as human-like entities and don't reveal their true complexions until Frisby punches the leader in the chops, very late in the storyline.

The chubby Devine (who twenty-five years earlier co-starred in "Stagecoach" with John Wayne) running around the spaceship blowing his harmonica at the aliens who die at the sound of it, is a hoot to behold.

This episode also features a guesting by character actor Howard McNear, who usually played Floyd the Barber on "The Andy Griffith Show". Cayuga Productions secured the actor on one of his weeks off of the classic sitcom.

I actually saw this episode just a couple of months ago. (Which is, in itself, rather like the "twilight zone", since it's the only episode I've watched in many years and now it shows up in a discussion here.)

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:19 pm

That's it Slude, it was the one with Frisby the yarn-spinner, and the harmonica.

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:55 pm

Wanderer wrote:Call me a nerd, but that "crystal people" space ship looks a lot like a Babylon 5 Shadow ship

I looked at the rest of the web site. The Crystal People seem to be based on the Tholians of Star Trek. Someone apparently co-opted Star Trek and other story lines when they came up with a game. I guess I’m a nerd, myself.

Captain Verp Tlethl #371845332, your friendly neighborhood anthropomorphic Grodean sehlat

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:22 am

Wanderer wrote:Call me a nerd, but that "crystal people" space ship looks a lot like a Babylon 5 Shadow ship

Nerddom has it's advantages....

I always thought that the Crystal people might really be Tholians...