Stardust! Have they not watched "The Andromeda Strain"?

Stardust! Have they not watched "The Andromeda Strain"?

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anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Ebola, schmebola, here's the real OMGwe'reallllllgoingtodieeeeeeeeeeee deal.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/14/dus...

Cool! Who gets to climb up the shaft with the deadly auto-lasers in it?

Brabus Jord

1,589 posts

206 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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yesterday i started to read Andromeda Strain for the first time and im loving it - is the film any good?

anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Yes, it's a minor classic of 70s paranoia sci fi. Pleasantly understated.

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Brabus Jord said:
yesterday i started to read Andromeda Strain for the first time and im loving it - is the film any good?
The origonal 70s film is a classic. Absolutely fabulous.

They don't make films like that any more. The remake tv two parter was rubish.

bstb3

3,990 posts

157 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Yeah the film is excellent, well worth a watch when you are done with the book. It's into the category of must watch when it's on TV, not that it seems to be very often.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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The film is certainly worth watching.

It's got a really creepy feel about it!

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Very good film.
Its been re-released on bluray in full hd lovelyness too.

EskimoArapaho

5,135 posts

134 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
Have they not watched "The Andromeda Strain"?
So it'll be space plague or an indestructible Arnie...

Having built a thousand little robots, crazy scienticians in Murica have taught them to co-operate work as a hive mind: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2873...

Cute today, sure, but just wait until the work out how to go online and buy some upgrade hardware while those scienticians are busy surfing www.boffindating.com.

And "kilobots" - really?

bstb3

3,990 posts

157 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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EskimoArapaho said:
So it'll be space plague or an indestructible Arnie...

Having built a thousand little robots, crazy scienticians in Murica have taught them to co-operate work as a hive mind: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-2873...

Cute today, sure, but just wait until the work out how to go online and buy some upgrade hardware while those scienticians are busy surfing www.boffindating.com.

And "kilobots" - really?
Kilobots? laugh. I suppose the manufacturing contract will be given to Cyberdyne systems too. They could build some kind of, I don't know, Skynet, to keep the space plague out. What could go wrong?

anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Yes, and we could commission their sister company Weyland-Yutani to build some great big fuggoff spaceships and be sure to bring back any alien eggs that they find dotted about the Galaxy, just to be on the safe side.

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
Yes, and we could commission their sister company Weyland-Yutani to build some great big fuggoff spaceships and be sure to bring back any alien eggs that they find dotted about the Galaxy, just to be on the safe side.
No need to go THAT far,just look under any big pyramids,especially if you happen to find one under the Antarctic ice...just watch out for anything thats invisible!

anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Always good advice.

anonymous-user

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53 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Also, if you do discover anything odd, be sure to send a very small team of mismatched oddball individuals to check it out, with no back up.

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up drinking sterno.

TTwiggy

11,500 posts

203 months

Friday 15th August 2014
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I now have a mental image of Paul Whitehouse's Russian Oligarch character saying 'how much for space dust? I buy space dust.'

ivanhoew

974 posts

240 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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de riguer oddballs to include ,

one priest (in gay/straight internal conflict)
one pregnant woman (latino)
one super muscley black bloke(with a soft sensitive side)
one speccy geek ,(white 7 stone,a.d.d(virgin))
one bossy testosteroniccle ex special forces bloke(also gay/straight conflict ,maybe fancies priest)
one father figure prob male , but maybe female if of north American matriarchal )
two super hot busty scientist (Christmas jones etc)(two because its my list.)
one guru figure ,(looks like freud ,smokes weed.)
one male teen irritant figure( to attract the under 30 demographic )
one female teen (to cause hormonal confusion for everyone.)
one alcoholic.
one ph obsessive.

and last but not least

a golden Labrador .


edit to put the ahr in ''freud''








Edited by ivanhoew on Monday 1st September 15:04

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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ivanhoew said:
de riguer oddballs to include ,

one priest (in gay/straight internal conflict)
one pregnant woman (latino)
one super muscley black bloke(with a soft sensitive side)
one speccy geek ,(white 7 stone,a.d.d(virgin))
one bossy testosteroniccle ex special forces bloke(also gay/straight conflict ,maybe fancies priest)
one father figure prob male , but maybe female if of north American matriarchal )
two super hot busty scientist (Christmas jones etc)(two because its my list.)
one guru figure ,(looks like feud ,smokes weed.)
one male teen irritant figure( to attract the under 30 demographic )
one female teen (to cause hormonal confusion for everyone.)
one alcoholic.
one ph obsessive.

and last but not least

a golden Labrador .
also:

cute kid
slimy corporate/government type with hidden agenda
chap with red shirt

ivanhoew

974 posts

240 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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damn forgot the red shirt expendable ,and the smoking gun , nice job !

V8 Fettler

7,019 posts

131 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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Flame throwers? Will flame throwers be needed?

Beati Dogu

8,862 posts

138 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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Of course! Because reasons.