Talk:Atmospheric beast
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[edit] "Moblimps of Tark"?
Does anyone else know of the picture-book (published years ago) that included balloon-like animals in the atmosphere of Jupiter called Moblimps of Tark? I've been scouring the Web for it but I can't find a reference. Alki (talk) 23:05, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me the order should be reversed; beyond coming first, the science fiction thing is far more popular than the cryptid one. Titanium Dragon 02:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Novel I remember a sci-fi novel about such organisms in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter-- (2 headed) siamese-twin gliders to keep them awake so they didn't fall from the upper atmosphere. Is that enough of a description to identify it? DGG 06:49, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
I have read the Heinlein story and it bears no resemblance to the claimed "paranormal/cryptid" atmosphere beasts. Also, the other science fiction in which the concept of lighter-than-air lifeforms appears is never linked to any earthly lifeforms. Perhaps a better distinction could be made, that the sci-fi gas giant lifeforms is a similar but separate concept? The heinlein link was much more philosophical and never described the lifeforms themselves as living in the air, so should be removed altogether. Khyron42 14:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Out of the Slient Planet by C.S. Lewis makes mention of these types of creatures in the Appendix. And he has a quote from Chaucer about his "airey beasts." So this concept goes back for several centuries. If any body wants to add it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.165.35.32 (talk) 20:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Atmospheric beasts in the Bermuda triangle?
When Bruce Gernon flew his plane through the Bermuda triangle and barely escaped he saw a tunnel of cloud open in front of him; and then he saw what seemed to be animals made of clouds coming out at him. Do you think that it might be possible that these are the same thing as the Atmospheric beasts? (Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor then wrote the book The Fog: Bermuda triangle.org\the fog[1])
