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(...) I almost died laughing when I saw the skeleton. Is it a standard feature of any SF movie that uses cryosleep that one chamber *must* fail? :) best Lindsay (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) But of course! You can't do without it! :-) When I think of it, you're right... the movies I can think of that used cyrosleep all had one that failed... (Planet Ape (1) had the female die right off the bat, Lost in Space had the big sister (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Frn255.J63@lugnet.com... (...) right (...) More recently, Supernova (it sucked, don't bother seeing it) had a gruesome malfunction (though they technically weren't cryo units, but some sort of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I don't remember any cryo-chamber failures in the movie _Alien_, do you? -- John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D. Department of Structural Biology Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305 Secretary, Californians for Renewable Energy (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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John, (...) Alien, no, Alien 3, yes. Poor Newt! :( Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) And when they work fine, some other circumstance removes extraneous characters. For example: 2001: HAL sabotaged them. Pitch Dark: The cryo unit didn't fail, but the person in it caught a micrometeorite. Babylon 5: The cryo unit didn't fail, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Red Dwarf: Didn't malfunction. Period. No problem. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) You gotta be kidding me! How can they do that?! A cyro chamber that WORKS?!?!?! <grin> -Shiri (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) That's the thing, it was a stasis chamber. And it worked flawlessly. For three million years, I believe it was. Long enough that the ship was 3 million years away from human settled-space, assuming humans even exist-- long enough that the cats (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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(...) it's a great show... For a while, Israel's channel 2 had it on midnight on friday's - but they took it off... I think it didn't do too well. I first saw it here, in DC, when I was visiting :P *grin* "It's cold outside there's no kind of (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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