http://ponderingstuff.com/2010/02/06/blood-sucking-aliens/ Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ponderingstuff.com/2010/02/06/blood-sucking-aliens/#comment-281 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:33:01 +0000 http://ponderingstuff.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-281 Well to be somewhat factual, if there were a humanoid creature who drank blood, it would probably be similar to a vampire bat. Vamp bats drink blood full of infection all the time, but they rarely if ever get sick because of 2 factors. 1. high stomach acid content which breaks down and kills most infectious material before it can enter the body. 2. A built up immunity to many of the diseases inherent in blood. Now, that being said, vamp bats often pass on diseases, some vamp bites will feed from animals with diseases like rabies, then feed from a human or other animal, spreading the disease, but they themselves are quite often unaffected by it. Much like mosquitoes, how many mosquitoes have you seen with malaria? Yet they are one of the major spreaders of it. So with all that being said a blood sucking alien with a conscious would probably be the worst of 2 evil. “Ya, the alien only drank a little blood and spared my life, but the dick gave me AIDS and rabies!”

]]> http://ponderingstuff.com/2010/02/06/blood-sucking-aliens/#comment-52 Sun, 02 May 2010 10:19:27 +0000 http://ponderingstuff.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-52 This silly cliche is a mere following in the footsteps of Herbert Well’s with his evil blood-sucking Martians . But what is forgiveable for the vintage novel, is outright stupid nowadays.

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