Posted on 03/09/2013 4:22:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
OK. I’m sorry. I really had to go. I thought a little pee in a great big lake wouldn’t hurt anything.
Was the bottom of the last ice core 1.) ice /rock or 2.) ice /water/rock?
If it was 2.) ice/water/rock then is there evidence that the water between the ice and the rock was moving? (Delta injected dyes, isotopes, etc. versus Time; or current meter.)
It is entirely possible - - very possible - - that Lake Vostok has a wide variety of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures swimming around in there.
ALWAYS been one of my all-time favorite movies.
The good google search is ‘lake vostok’ and ‘magnetic anomaly’. Something at one corner of that thing pegs magnetometers; the thing which normally pegs a magnetometer is a city...
Russians never read “The Stand.”
I think that if they somewhat downplayed some of the f/x, it might have gotten an ‘X’ rating, for an odd reason.
The movie Angel Heart was initially given an ‘X’, because of a particular scene in which Mickey Rourke was having sex with Lisa Bonet in a derelict building, during a rainstorm where water was dripping through the ceiling into pans.
The scene cut back and forth between the couple and the pans, and was deemed “too intense”. But by cutting less often to the pans, it could get an ‘R’ rating. They actually got an ‘X’ rating not because of the sex, but because of old dinner pans with water dripping into them.
Much the same rule might apply to The Thing, because the scariest parts of the movie don’t actually show the monster as such, they just imply the monster is there. The f/x are so over the top that they’re almost comic relief.
Had they toned them down, it might have been “too intense”, as far as the MPAA was concerned.
I remember that the biggest criticism of the movie back then was specifically for the f/x. I could never understand the 1-star rating the movie got on my cable company’s TV guide even as they were showing it 20 times a month.
“New DNA” Found In Ice Not New After All
msn.NEWS | 10 March 2013
Posted on 03/10/2013 10:32:21 PM PDT by zeestephen
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