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I was curious, so I did some searching and ran into this: ... parasitic wasp embryos inspired the infamous "birth" scene in the 1979 horror flick Alien. Injected into a caterpillar by their mother, the once egg-encased wasp embryos develop for about 14 days. Then things get ugly.
In a biological attack unique in the animal world, the unassuming embryos use a virus in their DNA to paralyze their host. They bite their way out of the caterpillar and begin spinning cocoons.
As a final insult to the injured host, the caterpillar--apparently brain-addled by the virus--builds a silky blanket over its attackers and defends them against predators until the wasps emerge, fully formed, and take to the skies.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/in-the-womb-animal-pictures/photo3.htmlNasty. The video at the link that made me squirm. As far as The Thing goes, if the remake is as good as the Zombie Zombie video from a couple years back, I'll be happy with it. Was kinda hoping for something more along the lines of the video game, but I guess it's more about the Norwegian camp. |
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Musashi
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So I was driving around today, and I saw this dude in a pretty nice late model black Porsche. He was like stylin', with a backwards beret, and those stupid pilot mirrored sunglasses that retards think are popular. In the back of the Porsche, what did my eyes spy? Nothing but a box of Chuck Shaw. Not a box of bottles, mind you. On no. That one might use for cooking wine. No, this was Charles Shaw in a refrigerator box. I think you have to turn in your Porsche for that.
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Selby
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Guy spent all his money on the Porsche and can't afford wine that doesn't come in a box?
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schild
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Ain't nothing wrong with Two-Buck Chuck. Comeon now. It's pretty much the only drinkable box wine.
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IainC
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That's pretty much the faintest praise I can think of for wine.
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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Lianka (f13 handle) and I had a baby boy this past Sat. What did everyone else do this weekend?
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Signe
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Wow! It's amazing what you can accomplish over a long holiday weekend. Congrats, you mom and dad you!
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Yegolev
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I had a yard sale.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ironwood
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I had an orgasm.
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Murgos, I take it you mean the original 'The Thing' from 1951 rather than the Carpenter version. The Carpenter version was made in 82, while Alien was made in 79.
I forgot that it was originally called "The Thing from Another World", but yes, of course the original. Yegolev, both movies incorporate strong themes of being in a small group away from possible rescue, trapped in small dark corridors with an alien being that you don't understand and seems unstoppable. Maybe it's not a 'remake' but they have very similar themes. |
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Ironwood
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Yeah, but that's only window dressing. They were both just Haunted House movies with Sci-fi trappings.
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Yegolev
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I like where this is going.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Regarding The Thing, a coworker sent me this link and I thought it was both well thought-out and written. |
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stu
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Good read. It made me think of Green Patches, by Asimov, but better.
What's sad is that Peter Watts is in jail for disobeying U.S. Customs agents at the border.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Green Fields? Where everything had little patches of green for eyes?
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stu
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That's the one. It was in the Nightfall anthology.
Just to clarify- it was because I remember the green patch bacteria looking at us as being flawed and were making an effort to improve life the way it saw fit.
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Dear Diary,
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RhyssaFireheart
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I'm not sure if it counts as irony that I found a job posting for a project manager at HP on the Dice.com website. Maybe it counts because I applied anyways?
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Ironwood
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Regarding The Thing, a coworker sent me this link and I thought it was both well thought-out and written. Interesting. Thanks. |
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Signe
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My baby nephew just had a baby. That makes me a...  |
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Musashi
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untie the great?
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Samwise
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My baby nephew just had a baby. That makes me a... Seriously, though, congrats! Within my family I'm older than the rest of my generation by 10-20 years, so I'll have to wait a long time to be a great-anything. |
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untie the great?
We're on an MMOG site. It's untie the ub3r. |
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Those from Cleveland/ Northern Ohio will appreciate this.
We got a nutmallow egg from Malley's Chocolate for Easter. Yum.
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House goes on the market today and I find out my wife changed the watering schedule to every day, thus flooding a small portion of our back yard.  |
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But at least it's green, right?
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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New feature: wading pool. Cha-ching.
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I'm not sure if it counts as irony that I found a job posting for a project manager at HP on the Dice.com website. Maybe it counts because I applied anyways?
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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RhyssaFireheart
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I'm not sure if it counts as irony that I found a job posting for a project manager at HP on the Dice.com website. Maybe it counts because I applied anyways?
I hope it's for my account. Your account have an open req for a PM out there? It's probably not though, had a (PL) behind it which is for pipeline stuff. Either way, I'm wondering how long it takes them to actually do something about my app, considering I got an email last week about a job I posted for back before I was laid off 6 months ago. |
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No, I don't think we are going to get a PM but we fucking need one.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Yegolev
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Oh, I am in Chattanooga right now, wishing I could see the cursor in this editing window and that I could zoom out a bit with the Droid. The zoom works when I am not typing.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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No, I don't think we are going to get a PM but we fucking need one.
Careful what you wish for. I think I can count the number of PM's I've worked with that weren't complete fuckwits on one hand. The vast majority I could have done without. |
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Alan Wake and Red Dead Redemption on the same day? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I've seen enough video on Red Dead to realize it's GTA in the West, but Alan Wake has been a title I haven't seen anything more than a promise and a trust in the developer to deliver.
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Yegolev
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No, I don't think we are going to get a PM but we fucking need one.
Careful what you wish for. I think I can count the number of PM's I've worked with that weren't complete fuckwits on one hand. The vast majority I could have done without. Things are that bad. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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As I was Googleing around to find out if the Tom Selleck movie Xilren posted was the one with the killer spider bots (it was.) I came across This. Robot spiders in development. Perhaps it belongs in the Spiders are Awesome thread instead. |
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