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    The scariest space-related movie you ever saw.

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    I am going to sound like an old guy, becaue I am kind of an old guy, but most movies now try to substitute violence for scariness. Body parts flying everywhere isn't scarey; it's just kind of gross, and gets downright boring if the whole movie is like that. But an article I was reading pointed out that Alien really isn't very violent. Early on in the movie there's the bloody scene where the chestburster bursts John Hurt's chest, but after that, almost all the violence takes place off camera, and you're creeped out because you remember that earlier scene and keep expecting more like it. Instead, the movie skips the parts where you really know what's going to happen anyway (biting and blood flying), and the other characters find, or sometimes don't find, the mess that's left. In fact, one of the more violent bits of the movie is when Ashe goes nuts and tries to strangle Ripley by jamming a rolled up magazine down her throat. That's more disturbing than the monster, because it's more realistic.

    Now, you can still have blood flying and all that violence, but that works better as an action movie like Aliens.

    Ziff, you should read Who Goes There?, the short story by John Campbell upon which The Thing was based. It's not violence and gore. Instead, the critter can imitate people perfectly, so the guys trapped at the antarctic station don't know which of them is the monster. It's quite a different kind of story, but it's interesting to see where the ideas for the movie came from. In the first movie, they didn't do the shapeshifting because of limitations on budget and the special effects tech of the time, and nobody since has tried to do much with the original imposter idea. (At least I don't think so. I haven't seen the latest version.)

    I agree with you on this post about scariness and Alien films. Too many directors use excessive violence to make things scary but most of the time it doesn't work. And I love the suggestive nature of what goes on with the alien in Alien it makes you use your imagination

    Hit by Fake Austrian Police Ukash Trojan! HELP!

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    By the way OP stuff like this is happening it is a way of getting you to pay up but it is cybercrime someone in the US was doing a similar thing making it out that people's anti-virus isn't working and making people pay.

    Also do not trust McAffee for anti-virus they let some harmful things through. My friends family used this program extensively and they ended up having to pay out a lot of money undoing the damage it caused. Think about something like AVG and Kaspersky. Also installing Spybot - search and destroy will increase security basically it detects things that your anti-virus cannot detect and remove it completely.

    "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence"

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    I was reading an article in the Guardian, a newspaper in the UK, and it was discussing how the missing property of your average Artificial Intelligence is the General Intelligence of it. In other words, the AI is unable to think about and view the world like a person would. This seemed interesting to me as isn't something you often think about, but when considered, you realise that a lot of fictional AIs did have this subtle property that really added to them.

    You can read the article here.

    What are your thoughts on it?

    I agree on this once you have something that's questioning its own existence then you've got intelligence and I firmly believe that the first man made thing that will get this intelligence will be the Internet just because its connected to everything and everything about everything is on it.

    But then again could happen through 'evolution' like thing where as time goes on it will start becoming self aware ( cough SKYNET )

    What has this world gone too...

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    I wasn't talking about just the visible universe I was talking about the universe everything.

    If I can find something to support my claim which I watched from a documentary then I will post it

    http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_matter.html

    Today the universe is 72% dark energy it's the stuff that's pushing the universe out wards

    23% dark matter and only 4.6% atoms

    And in my step brothers text book it just says the whole universe is made up of ordinary atoms and matter which was in my text book when I was in school aswell

    What has this world gone too...

    in The Lounge

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    " the whole universe is made up of atoms " <---- WRONG with the discovery of dark energy, dark matter and anti -matter amongst other things. Makes the science text book wrong in so many ways and they won't be updating it anytime soon so any current people wanting to major in science is going to go on believing that the universe is full of atoms.

    BobCat Ind. - Colonization, exploring and research vehicle

    in KSP1 Mod Development

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    Phase 1 - sending unmanned rovers and sats to explore planet and possible settlement site

    Phase 2 - unmanned rockets - in a series of missions sending up modules for sleeping in, oxygen unit ( if CO2 present in planet then this unit will draw in CO2 for plants to create O2 ) science unit, land based vehicle for astronauts and the last mission on it will be sending up a lander for returning back to home. ( electrical gens , water supply modules, communications dish and communications sat )

    Phase 2 - human cargo - sending up the first colonists as an experiment of no more than 3 people for a max duration of 2 years ( every 2 years another three is sent up with new return lander and module expansions. also in this phase scientists will search for things like metals, water under the surface and stuff like Kethane.

    Phase 3 - mining operations - within this phase modules that can contain and refine substances like Kethane for refuelling vehicles. So mission control doesn't need to fuel up a return vehicle. Also within this phase testing out off world metals in series of tests like strength density etc

    Phase 4 - large scale colonization of a few families

    Phase 4 - attempt to terraform planet

    Within these steps on a regular basis the colony is being expanded upon.

    Escape pods for interstellar spacecraft.

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    this is how i see future of space travel for when you know we are traveling throughout the galaxy.

    giant spaceships that's either doing tours of the solar system or traveling to other star systems wouldn't have a escape craft because well if you've got i don't know thousands of people on board then you would need a huge escape craft. a future huge spaceship would possibly have long range communications system which could be used for sending out a distress signal but if your stuck in deep space and not in a universe where spaceships can instantly move from one location to another its a pointless feature. Or possibly would have a small detachable craft that contains all information from the ship from the moment of launch to moment of incident and sent in the general direction of nearest place where people would be kind of like a black box of some sorts.

    But as you said its a alien creature then in fear of it being in contact with the rest of your species then you would effectively quarantine the ship no one leaves no one comes out.

    this person said that he would rather jump out of a plane with a parachute .... if its a passenger jet it wouldn't happen because your 30 thousand feet up and the plane is pressurized to sea level and anyone can guess what happens there.

    The Mark 4 base presents: All you will ever need pack!

    in KSP1 Mod Releases

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    Um, I was talking about the new mark 4 base pack, not the old landing leg. Even with the stock landing leg, When i pressed G during testing, no sound played. I even tryed engines with 0 thrust and 0 consumtion (so that it didnt effect anything) It still wouldnt work.

    However, I asked what you think of the new mark 4 base pack, with big wings, landing gear and stuff.

    I will try the mark 4 base pack later but it seems really interesting

    Do you think I could get an Arduino into orbit?

    in Science & Spaceflight

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    I want to have my own satellite camera one day. Maybe that is a ridiculous pie-in-the-sky sort of dream, but it might not be that hard.

    How much do you think it could cost to get a few grams in orbit? Just a camera, microcontroller, antenna, and collapsible foil sail?

    Is there some lower limit on $ per kilogram to LEO?

    could I do it with a baloon and a model rocket?

    I was thinking about this today and I wanted to do something like this but to get something to piggyback on someone's payload of a rocket is still highly expensive for the average joe.

    I was thinking about getting into model rocketry ( there's no laws on it here apart from if it lands on someone then you pay the price ) and sticking a special camera in it to record to see what it's like to go towards space.

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