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Re: Alien and gravity
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:13:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Simpson writes:
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> > If I may stray into the topic of Alien IV, I've always found it ironically
> > amusing that the crew remarked how beautiful Earth is as they entered the
> > atmosphere shortly after the mothership took out all of southern Africa. The
> > crew seemed to be pretty unconcerned about the several hundred million people
> > that no doubt lay in smoldering heaps in their ruined cities. Not all that
> > beautiful. Anyway, just a nitpick...it's just always struck me as somehow
> > incongruous and disturbing that the movie ended with the ship flying through a
> > beautiful sunset (on the suprise! not so shabby-after-all Earth) while probably
> > the worst human tragedy in history just occured. I realize the crew didn't
> > cause the disaster... but the ending of the movie has just really stuck in my
> > mind.
> >
> > james
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> Can't say that I disagree. "Oh, geez, we just laid waste to half the planet
> - kinda, pretty, though, ain't it?" StOOpid.
Yep. Makes me wonder what kind of welcome they received upon landing. What
kind of welcome would you get?
"Hi! Errr...the out-of-control capital-class starship you ditched somewhere this
side of Mars just slammed into Africa, thereby obliterating all trace of life
within a 700-mile radius, puncturing the mantle and causing violent crustal
displacements along both existing and newly-created fault zones, leading to
violent tidal waves that decimated 65% of our coastal cities...but welcome to
Earth!, home of 16, no wait, make that 12 billion people!"
james
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