Thanks Red Badger. Neat. Of course, rotifers are common in natural waterways. :^)
Posted on 01/11/2024 11:14:54 PM PST by Red Badger
There has been no official sequel to “The Thing” for over 40 years. However, a non-official sequel called “The Thing Returns” was released in 2021, directed by Rui Constantino.
The film follows a team investigating the destruction of a McMurdo station and the discovery of two dead bodies in the ice.
John Carpenter has suggested that a sequel to “The Thing” could solve some of the biggest unresolved story beats from the original movie, including the possibility that the alien escaped from the Arctic base. However, some fans argue that there is no need for a sequel to “The Thing.”
I have not seen The Thing Returns (2021) so I can’t comment on it one way or another................
Of COURSE there needs to be (should have been) a sequel, Carpenter left it open at the end of his version of the story. Two guys left, neither sure if the other was human.. both left to freeze to death.. and both know, if it hasn’t been destroyed, it could wait another 1 or 10 million years to be rethawed to continue... (or even 1, or the other, was The Thing.. to do the same).
BTW, I don’t think I have ever looked into a movie as much as I did this one.
It will be tough for anyone to match, or at least be on the same page as, John Carpenter.
In ze bug family? Yum.
24,000 year-old animal? Helen Thomas?
Heh. I watched that movie a few nights ago. Perfect way to while away a winter night :-D
As for Sci-Fi, yes, quite so. A multicellular organism is one thing. A human being is quite another. It is akin to saying a Beretta M9 could lay waste to a city with the pull of the trigger.
I haven’t seen the 2011 film but in the 1982 film, the Norwegian helicopter didn’t crash. It was a dropped grenade that destroyed it.
“...age analysis data from the University of Arizona AMS Laboratory shows the material to be between 23,960 and 24,485 years old.”
NFN, but that figure creates a bit of a conflict with biblical accounts.
A thousand years is as a day to the Lord................
It blowed up real good!...................
A day means something pretty specific down here, bub!
We will not always be ‘down here’..............at least some of us won’t!....😉
Lol true
They make good pets for your sea monkeys.
Or 100 thousand or a million or 100 million. Some reconcile Genesis and the 'Big Bang' in such a fashion.
“For the past 24,000 years, the multicellular microorganism had been snoozing in Siberian permafrost”
Sounds made-up to me. Nobody could possibly know that.
They did carbon dating on the organic material it was in. Samples were sent to a US Lab, not a Russian Lab..........
Thanks Red Badger. Neat. Of course, rotifers are common in natural waterways. :^)
Makes you wonder... if asteroids are pieces of planets whose star went nova or supernova, could there be bits of microorganisms clinging to life inside them?...................
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