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There were different theories
about the origin of Grabiods some people have there own this is the place
where you can have your opinion published.
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Valentine McKee
set up two ideas. The first one was that they were mutations caused by
radiation, now this theory is the most difficult to contemplate but I'll
try. In the desert the only life that closely resembles Grabiods are not
worms, but snakes (like Burt said). Now if you look into any studies that
show effects of radiation on life forms it either kills them or only causes
a small amount of change in the creatures' genetic make-up. This does not
mean they are not mutations caused by radiation though, if we are to take
this theory into consideration we must remember this is a movie and in
the movies chance is always greatly multiplied, so it is possible that
they are mutants. Val's second idea was that the government built them
and they were a big surprise for the Russians. Now I know not all
of Russia is cold but most of it is so why would you want to build a creature
obviously adapt to the hot dessert to a chilling place like Russia? It
just doesn't make sense, besides how would the gov't "build" a creature
like this? Genetic engineering has been around for quite some time and
the gov't wouldn't release info about something like this to the press,
but a creature this advanced is probably out of reach. (For those of you
who have only watched the first Tremors, see the sequel and you'll see
just how advanced they are.)
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I like Earl
Bassett's theory best, creatures from outer space. This sounds a little
far fetched (OK Very far fetched!) but I like the way he says "...no way
these are local boys." Unfortunately this is probably not the best of ideas
about the Grabiods' origin. You've got to consider just how they could
have gotten here from outer space, they could obviously not survive the
vacuum of space because Burt's bombs easily explode them. Ok so what about
a space craft? There too dumb, they maybe kind of smart but definitely
not that type of intelligence! Now we could consider that they were brought
here by extraterrestrial as pets, or let them loose in the desert as a
test to see if they could be of help in a planetary conquest of Earth :)
but I don't think so.
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Rhonda LeBeck
never really made up her mind but she did mention that they could be from
earth and being so old that they predate the fossil record and we have
just never seen one until now. The failure to leave a fossil record is
usually due to the lack of solid skeletons that are capable of withstanding
the normal processes of disintegration and decay. Of course they could
be so old that they formed before animals had solid skeletons but then
they would be from the sea and would have to have moved to dry land (really
dry land!). So in a far out way it could happen, not any more then space
aliens.
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Kate Reilly
had a similar theory in Tremors 2 when she found a fossil that resembled
the spines on the Graboids back. Although the fossil was destroyed the
idea was unsettling because it came from Precambrian rock. Which would
make it the oldest living life form on the face of the planet but if this
is true it means one of two things. Either Grabiods evolved from one celled
organisms or are from outer space. Looking at this from a scientific point
of view it is improbable and almost insane to believe that a one celled
organism can evolve into such a complex creature in one step and even if
it did there would be no food for it to eat and it would die. Though if
it came from outer space (brought by extraterrestrials) that would explain
it's sudden appearance and reappearance on this planet.
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"Suppose
an asteroid with a silicon based life form crashed to earth early in the
Precambrian era and thus either mutated with the bacteria that was already
here or flourished ?"
*Author's name
lost
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"See I think
that the Graboids have been here since the Precambrian era. Everyone has
been thinking in terms of organic lifeforms when they consider the fossil
record and how there seems to me no fossil evidence of them. But if the
graboids were a silicon based life form instead of organic, they wouldn't
decompose as we would possibly leaving no fossil evidence at all."
*Author's name
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"Well, I
think that the grabiodsare from earth, maybe even from the Precambrian
period. But, like a giant squid or a coelacanth fish, maybe they have just
recently been discovered. But wait, what about their taste for human flesh
that has just arisen? well, maybe new human technology and drilling has
caused them to arise to the surface. If not, well, its just a movie, and
in movies, anything is possible..."
*KillrKen
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"Since through
out the Tremors series the creatures change from graboids to shriekers
to A.B.s , that these creatures had gained the trait to be able to change
their offspring's genetic make-up as a regular bodily function over a short
period of time to master limitations that they could not. Take as an example
the scenes on top of the boulders in Tremors. Remember how Earl said "thank
God they can't climb"? In Tremors 2 the shriekers could climb excellently,
but there were situations when they were unable to reach people on vertical
surfaces. Finally in Tremors 3 the A.B.s could fly eliminating the problem
of humans that are out of their reach. In conclusion I believe that the
graboids were left dormant for billions of years by their ancestors evolving
to a form that could do that. Possibly to protect themselves from some
natural disaster unknown to humans. Then billions of years later they evolved
to a form that could dig themselves out. They dug themselves out in perfection.
Once whatever traits they used were useless in the loose soil they adapted
to their new environment."
*CARTMAN618890
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"I don't
think the Graboids are from outer space, but they may be from Earth from
BEFORE the entire fossil record. Here is my theory- The Graboids evolved
incredibly deep in the ground, so deep in fact that no one has ever actually
got that deep. So for thousands of years the Graboids have worked their
way to the surface, and when they do viola! The fossil Kate was studying
in Tremors 2 is one of a very few that date from when they got close to
the surface. So for the Precambrian era they tunnel through the Earth and
soon mutate into Shriekers and eventually into Ass Blasters. Now mass extinction
of entire species happens every so often so that's what happened to the
Graboids/Shriekers/Ass Blasters. How the Graboids got to Perfection is
simple the atmosphere in Nevada is close to the atmosphere in Precambrian
times so eggs from that era hatched as they were supposed to, let me explain.
One Graboid makes three Shriekers, the Shriekers reproduce like crazy until
they get to a stage where they need to evolve into Ass Blasters, then the
Ass Blasters reproduce until they go sterile. Then they die and mutate
into Graboids and just die pregnant. The eggs then keep for millions of
years and then hatch once again, and infinitum."
*Daniel Johnson
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Here is my
theory on Graboid evolution. The ancestors of the graboids were creatures
that lived before the Precambrian but later went extinct. These creatures
were similar to the hermaphroditic shriekers. To increase their chances
of survival, the pre-shriekers developed a second means of reproduction(
the first being puke birth). After producing a certain number of offspring,
the animal would change it to another which laid an egg( this form would
later become the AB's). This egg hatched into a larvae( graboid) which
would eat and become new shriekers. The eggs could remain dormant for long
periods of time and avoid disasters and mass extinctions. Something awoke
the eggs buried in Nevada and they went toward the closest food source;
Welcome to Perfection!
*Drew Hawkins
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I think
they're from outerspace. A egg was in a asteroid and it hit perfection
about 300 years ago and so when it got hotter over that 300 years they
hatched and started eating people.
*Joel Oakes
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I believe
that the graboids are from earth and that they evolved from the sigle celled
orinisms during the precambrian era. They probably flourished until the
great dinosaur extinction and were almost wiped out which would explain
why their isn't many around. They might have stayed deep underground until
the present. When life started forming on the surface of the desert they
came up and started to feed on the inhabitants mainly people. When they
turn into shriekers they try to multiply as much as they can to further
expand the species. finally when they turn into ass blasters they earn
the ability to fly so that they can transport the eggs far away from the
area.
*Mark Long
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In the movie,
they say that the garboids could be snakes. But they could be worms too.
In the series, it says that the government developed a chemical called
MixMaster. It was used to combine different lifeforms to make one powerful
being. The government could have taken a worm and a snake and mixed the
genes with MixMaster. Then, it would make something like a Swake or whatever
you want to call it. It also says that the town is near a radiation test
site. It could have mutated the Swake (or whatever) to the Graboid.
*David B.
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Well if you
think about mythology over the years(MANY years) some of them match the
graboid shriekers and A.B. 's. In South America, there are tales of an
unknown creature called the "minhacao," sightings of which date to the
1840s. The minhacao is described as gigantic, up to 25 meters long. One
report specifies that the creature has two horns (which might be a description
of a Graboid's jaw parts or tentacles). According to the descriptions,
the underground passage of the minhacao overturns trees, destroys orchards
and diverts rivers. The creature is said to be a voracious predator that
swallows cattle whole.The Greeks also feared another three-headed monster,
the Chimera, believed to be a combination of dragon, goat and serpent.
Were the horns of the Graboid's tentacles the inspiration for the goat
portion of the creature, and the sinuous movements of Graboid tentacles
mistaken for the twisting of serpents? Who Knows?
*Nick
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My theory
is tha a graboids went extnct millions of years ago but there were hundreds
of eggs left over. At the begining of the Industrial revolution as the
earth grew warmer the eggs began to develop until they finally began to
hatch or the government found several eggs and put them in an incubator,
and when the eggs hatched they took the graboids and genetically engineered
them so that they could have eggs that could hatch in this temperature
and in the early 1990's dropped some of them into Perfection Valley and
watched them develop. Remember at the end of the origanal Tremors, the
egg like
things in the intesines? My
theory for that is that the grabids were getting close to changing into
Shriekers. And what about there strange appearances in Tremors 3? I believe
that in the time of the origanal Tremors at least one graboid changed into
shriekers an hey didn't multiply then they turned into AssBlasters they
layed there eggs and then they died. But what about the inccident at the
oil field? My theory for that is that there were many graboid eggsin that
area and what if there was an
explosion in that area over
the eggs? The eggs would hatch and that woud start what I call, "The Great
Graboid Hunt".
But then how did Graboids spread
through-out the world? Well, just before the bomb Earl through into Burts
truck went off several shreikers morphed into AssBlasters and barly escaped
the explosion spreading through out the world. But what about the other
eggs? I'm not quite sure, yet. I'll let you watch Tremors the Series and
piece it together while I try.
*MICBILL
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Now, considering
all life on earth is carbon based, that we know of, I have an interesting
idea... Let's say that these animals are made of silicon, then they would
have evolved with carbon based animals. Now, silicon grows very slowly,
a tree made of silicon would have to take 10'000 years to reach maturity.
now, also assuming that these animals are made of silicone, then they would
grow and reproduce slowly. A carbon based animal grows allot faster. so,
if a graboid is killed, it's eggs take many years to hatch. So I think
that carbon based animal slowly started to kill off the graboids (as we
are doing with sharks, who only have about 2 pups in their lives). The
graboids then tunneled under the ground and existed and evolved like that.
then they very quickly started to mutate, the natural way to evolve. But
only slightly. They then started to attack animals in quick lightning fast
attack. Dinosaurs were probably their preferred meals. then, when the meteor
hit in central America, they went dormant, and being silicon, survived
for many years. Then they woke up, and became active. Finding that their
preferred prey is gone, then they start to feed on humans. And that is
where we are today.
*Angie Pitts
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They are
most likely precambrian-maybe a race of extraterrestial beings dumped them
here on earth during it's early stages while they were still evolving.
What I'm trying to say is , they could've started off as a genetic expierement
from some race not too dissimilar from our own. Realizing that the genetic
expierement wasn't worth time nor effort , they launched them into space.
Assuming that the origin of the flawed samples came from a galaxy like
our neighbor Andromeda , then it would've taken billions of years for it
to have reached earth. Keep in mind that this is still approxiamtely two
billion years before earth has formed-the ETA of these samples would then
be two billion years after it was launched. So then it lands on this hot
vat of boiling rock and alloy , a forming planet, the third from a yellow
dwarf star. This is still before the earth has soldified and cooled down.
The samples begin to intermix with the basic proteins in a genetic soup.
These samples are a few billion years more evolved than the single-celled
lifeforms that are beginning to form on this third rock from the sun ,
so they adapt to be ground dwellers-by the time the earth has cooled ,
they have become advance organisms , maturing and maturing until they reach
the AB stage-the eggs are spread all over this evolving earth , and organisms
formed by the natural process of evolution are devoured by these graboids
, whom are mutating into shriekers and so on. It's just a case of mismatched
genetic material and an orangisms adaptability to certain conditions in
order for it to survive.
*Matthew
Gibson
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I guess that,
after reading all of these posts and such and gathering all sorts of information
from over the web, along with my own personal observations, I think that
I have a pretty good theory for you. Graboids are discovered to be
the oldest living creature on the planet in Tremors 2. The fossil
is found in Precambrian rock. Precambrian rock is rock that formed
around three hundred million years ago. Also this was a time long
before there would have been anything for the graboids to survive on. I
have looked at fossil records for 15 years (being an amateur paleontologist
I do this allot) and I know for a fact that the only animals around at
the time where only fish that where starting to come onto land. Seeing
how graboids are a desert animal, they would have most likely drowned trying
to get the little fish. I have to go with the theory introduced by
Earl, that they are from outer space, and are not the oldest living animals
on the planet. Besides, I know several geologists, and I know that
they can be confused from time to time, and they make mistakes. I
think that this is what might have happened in tremors 2, she made a mistake,
and that the rock was not Precambrian. The Idea that the graboids
come from outer space would make it a much more interesting film, and story
for that matter. Now graboids are unlike anything that has ever lived
on the planet. They are massive worms that reach at least thirty
feet in length. The also have a hard beak and lower jaws, which is
completely unheard of in invertebrates such as worms, slugs, snails, and
so on. Also, and most importantly, the tentacles that come out of
the mouth. No other worm in the world has this, and if you look closely
enough at them, you can see that the smaller tentacles also have mouths,
with teeth. They also make their own sounds and screeches, which
then suggests that they have their own throats as well. Nothing on
this planet that formed naturally has this adaptation. To me everything
about the graboid screams Alien. The most likely could have been
placed on the planet by another race as an experiment, to see if they would
survive on this planet, could be that they where placed here as a sort
of protection program. I doubt that we will learn this secret to
why they are here, and how they got here, but I am sure of one thing, that
they are definitely not from the planet earth.
*Slammin
Sammy from Indiany
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If you ask
me I think that Graboids were way down in the ground near the core. Then
when people came they came up and ate people, that’s why people got lost
and stuff in the dessert. Then after a while they turned into shriekers,
so they could protect them selves even easier. Then they turned into ass
blasters to protect its self and egg by being able to fly. And then the
next evolution will be what ever.
*Ryan Tracey
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