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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 4, 2009 0:12:42 GMT -5
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Sept 5, 2009 11:36:30 GMT -5
This movie looks very interesting and I like Milla Jovovich. I will definitely see this.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 5, 2009 17:18:58 GMT -5
I just hope its not another "Fire from the Sky" kind of thing
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Sept 5, 2009 18:14:02 GMT -5
Same here.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 5, 2009 18:51:15 GMT -5
Just saw some of THE MIST and of course the crazy Christians wanted to sacrifice a kid to mollify the beats... now where does that come from? Oh right, leftist Hollywood.... at the end a guy kills the kid and a few others. The mist lifts and the military comes in the mop up the aliens. He just committed 4 murders. Have a nice life dude.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Sept 5, 2009 23:43:47 GMT -5
I am not Christian, but even I know that it is not a religion known for demanding people be sacrificed against their will to appease enemies. Of course it is not surprising. Hollywood does not exactly do much in the way of research for their movies and we see all kinds of stupid sh*t as a result.
Speaking of research, the thing I do not get about all these UFO movies is why alien ships are not detected while still in the Oort cloud? In doing my research for Vigilance, a ship's 200-300 Kelvin habitat module will stick out like an illumination flare against the 3 Kelvin background temperature of space. Unless the alien crew is in cryogenic suspension or the UFO has some kind of advanced refraction to bend the background radiation around it (metamaterials, which can only produce a cloak within the microwave region of the spectrum with current technology) it will be seen several months before it arrives to Earth and even if that did not happen, the ship's deorbit burn will be seen, along with the heat from its reentry.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 6, 2009 0:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by cambrian on Sept 8, 2009 15:44:25 GMT -5
NORAD might get near-space and re-entry heat. They would not be likely to get anything else. Chances are it might be some amateur astronomer out in Podunkville who happens to be looking in the right place at the right time. Most of the big observatories are looking at specific things, not doing the sort of idle piddling around that might chance on some unusual activity.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 8, 2009 16:27:43 GMT -5
Right. Thats why with shows and movies like V and Independence Day the fact we don't see them coming is one of the more realitic parts.
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Post by cambrian on Sept 10, 2009 21:07:12 GMT -5
Though Larry Niven handled the early-warning idea quite convincingly in Footfall. That is one of the best "alien invasion" reads ever.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 10, 2009 23:03:45 GMT -5
Larry Niven is one of the best ever.
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Sept 10, 2009 23:49:24 GMT -5
I got done with Footfall recently. The first one hundred pages were a bit of a drag but it was really good. The atomic bomb powered Micheal inspired the fusion pulse driven ships in the very short In Plain Sight. I suppose I should write more of that but I am pre-occupied with Vigilance.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Sept 11, 2009 0:47:09 GMT -5
I need to find time to write some. I haven't done much of anything this week
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