The alien is leaving Hannity in January.
Posted on 12/15/2008 8:15:41 PM PST by LibWhacker
If aliens do exist, they're probably an apex predator like humans, and with apex predators, like Highlander, there can be only one. So yes, wiping us out would be the logical step. Makes you think about SETI a bit differently, huh?
Two words: Battlefield Earth. ;)
I thought the title said if aliens decided to destroy HANNITY, Could we blame them, on first glance.
“any civilization that is capable of traveling interstellar distances must have figured out how to live peacefully, right? “
Yeah, like Chris Columbus and those who followed him.
Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) reminded me Al Gore.... :o)
The same unemotional wooden character
In AI, the aliens who showed up to do archaeology after we were gone were sorry they missed us, they thought we were great and would have made great friends. They had pretty much melded machine, computer, and individual.
In the Tales of Known Space by Niven, the worst actors were herd vegetarians, the Puppeteers, who did things like sneaky breeding programs on us, and steering us to their enemies to fight wars. So top-of-the-food-chin hunters are not necessarily the worst threat.
In Clark’s Childhood’s End (1953) the aliens ruled us absolutely to prepare us for cosmic assimilation by “higher beings”, with lots of religious overtones. Imagine if interstellar evangelists showed up to lead us to the True Path! Frederic Pohl covered some of this in the Eschaton Trilogy (The Other End of Time (1996), The Siege of Eternity (1997), The Far Shore of Time (1999)) in which very powerful aliens and their enemies try to convert us to/save us from a galaxy-wide religion involving the end of everything when the universe collapses into a huge black hole.
Be careful when making your first contact!
Yet another Liberal Armageddon fantasy in overdrive. Usually spouted by our betters who can't understand why we won't just do what they say. The end result of having their ambitions frustrated (ie, us dumb Red Staters aren't buying a massive Socialist intervention in the economy to "cure" Global Warming and turn 99.9999% of the country back into a huge forest) is fantasies about the world being destroyed because no one listened to them.
I was mostly interested in the movie for the comparison to the original, and as I mentioned in a previous post, there are many corresponding points of detail.
A general observation I would make is that the remake illustrates the increased mystification of science in the popular arts. In the original, Klaatu is a projection of ourselves, as indicated by the popular concept of aliens as near human humanoids which was accepted at the time. Of course, Klaatu's technology was represented as "far beyond" our own, but it was still in the same mold as ours in outline. One might question what imaginable scientific basis there could be for the title ploy, but it did connect in a general way with such later developments as the E-M pulse, even if there remains a fantastical element to it.
In the remake, science as a discipline is just cast to the winds in favor extravagance and spectacle. Now Klaatu is essentially a god, as he demonstrates with his ability to "back channel" through wires and laser beams to produce arbitrary effects. Note also the "ship" which is not a craft as we would recognize it, but a mystical cauldron, coincidentally bearing a symbolical resemblance to the earth. There's no real difference between the supposed alien technology presented here and the mystical manifestations of movies like the new MUMMY series.
You dont need to worry until First Contact occurs on April 14, 2063.
Indiana Jones Temple of Doom: "We are going to D I E!"
No way this thing does anything but B O M B at the box office.
I think you hit it. Klaatu is supposed to be Alien Gore.
(When Jennifer Connelly’s exobiologist asks Klaatu, the alien who has assumed the shape of Keanu Reeves, what his true form is like, he quite believably replies “It would only frighten you.”)
No one seems willing to raise the really important question - what do the aliens taste like?
They’re out there meddling in the universe, we’re not ... we’re stuck in our own little world ....
“Battlefield Earth”
Bet he wishes he could get that back so he could destroy it. But then it was done for religion so that makes it okay.
I guess you all haven’t heard yet. The Vogons are going to blow up the Earth to make way for an Interstellar highway. Sorry about that.
Don’t Panic!!!
:-)
You mean you have instituted a program involving the state condoned mass slaughter of unborn humans!!?? Your OWN race??!! And you consider yourself sentient? We cannot allow such creatures to spread through the galaxy... die evil scum!! ZZZAAARRRRK
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The alien is leaving Hannity in January.
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