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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1544130)

http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/wp-...s_large_05.jpg

I love that movie.

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Originally Posted by Spike88 (Post 1545328)

I love that movie.

Me too. :up:

I...erm...really should watch it... :oops:

The drop looks cool from what I've seen on the tube though. :yeah:

That movie is a full broadside of biting sarcasm against soap operas and the gun-ho attitude of certain people in the West that it is not really surprising that it flopped in the movies in North America. They felt targetted by it, and right so they did. But it is a good movie, I liked it - if for no other reason than its vitriolic humour. :D

Many people in Europe also totally misunderstood it, and thought it to be a hailing of fascism and militarism. They completely missed that it is exactly the opposite, wrapped and hidden in sheer sarcasm and exaggeration . :haha:

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Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 1545454)

Many people in Europe also totally misunderstood it, and thought it to be a hailing of fascism and militarism. They completely missed that it is exactly the opposite, wrapped and hidden in sheer sarcasm and exaggeration . :haha:

This. :yep:

Take it for what it's worth:

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

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Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.

But not this one. This one is completely different. Discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California, this bacteria is made of arsenic, something that was thought to be completely impossible. While she and other scientists theorized that this could be possible, this is the first discovery. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don't have to be like planet Earth.

Mono Lake! I love that place :)

Still think there's a SAVE MONOLAKE bumper sticker on my trumpet case :DL

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1545445)

I...erm...really should watch it... :oops:

The drop looks cool from what I've seen on the tube though. :yeah:

Then read the book. Its lightyears superior to the movie.

In fact the "real" Starship troops movie is "Aliens" in my opinion. That film has far more in common with the book than that movie.

I'll say it before anyone else does.

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it."

It's a helluva jump and will definitely affect how NASA looks for life on planets, but it's something that many sci-fi writers and readers have considered likely for years. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if lifeforms existed in gas giants and the like, but it could be a while before we figure it all out.

Yup, Frau, that's what it's about. :yep:

Ok! Arsenic can replace Phosphorous. Another candidate is Silica replacing Carbon. Let me see ... The Alliens are semiconducting silicon chips!

:hmmm:

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Originally Posted by Diopos (Post 1545618)

Ok! Arsenic can replace Phosphorous. Another candidate is Silica replacing Carbon. Let me see ... The Alliens are semiconducting silicon chips!

:hmmm:

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Right on the money...

read about 2 pages down, the except from The Lost Worlds of 2001

Wait... there's a new life form on this very planet, one that is entirely counter to everything we thought we knew about biology, and it hasn't been weaponized or nuked yet? :hmmm:

I can say this, honestly: Carl Sagan would totally have LOVED this.

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Originally Posted by Growler (Post 1545721)

Wait... there's a new life form on this very planet, one that is entirely counter to everything we thought we knew about biology, and it hasn't been weaponized or nuked yet? :hmmm:

I heard this company is interested in them for their Bio-Weapons Division...
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