Posted on 12/26/2014 5:44:35 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
That New Year’s Eve an interview with expedition leader Chris Turney was beamed live to Times Square in New York. Two days later, the rescue effort entered a new phase. With no icebreaker able to smash way through, a Chinese helicopter, Xue Ying, or “Snow Eagle”, rose into the air for the first of five flights to ferry passengers from the stricken ship to the Aurora Australis. A core crew remained behind to sail vessel home once conditions allowed.
Media interest in the expedition faded after the rescue, but in the year since Turney and his team have been busy. Scientific samples and measurements from the voyage are being turned into research papers that reveal striking changes at the southern ice cap. And rather than feeling discouraged about expeditions that are funded by paying passengers, Turney is more enthusiastic than ever.
“Once we got back home and made sure everyone was all right, we got on with working up the data and getting a whole load of papers ready for submission,” Turney said. Like the rescue mission, this involved plenty of waiting. “It took nearly six months to get all the samples through quarantine.”
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“Bonus points if you can condense their findings to ten words or less.”
Global warming is REAL and WORSE than we thought.
“Where were you, Childs?”
The third time I brought a shipmate of mine who fancied himself a tough guy and pooh-poohed my enthusiasm for the film. I took him down to the fifth row from the screen, with all the kids. When that scene came up he shrunk/cringed in the seat and put his hands to his face. I bugged him for weeks after that. Life was good.
Bingo. Plus “We’re all gonna die unless government takes away our liberty.”
Wow! I was stationed there over 20 years later at an Army anti-aircraft battery.
Love the sci-fi, always have. Why good sci-fi isn’t being cranked out now that special effects are cheap is beyond me. Well, I know why (demographics and PC) but it doesn’t answer.
Gotta have a PhD to know that.
They seek the yellow snow for research purposes.
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Agreed. The few I have seen recently had WAY too much CGI and not much of a story.
I’ll stick with the old black and whites from the 50s - great nostalgia trips.
So one penguin says to the other: Pssst...did you hear the story about the silly humans who came down here to prove that global warming was real, and got themselves stuck in the ice?
Alex!
I’ll take ‘What comes out a cow’s butt” for 8 years.
Pat!
I’ll take an H, L, T, B, S, L and I’d like to buy a U and an I.
Gort, Klaapto Barada Nikto
The one that I remember that scared the feces out of me was from 1957.
20 Million Miles to Earth
Two minute trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igpP7IVww_g
88 minutes (whole movie): https://archive.org/details/20MillionMilesToEarth1957
...and also here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlrqcd_20-million-miles-to-earth_shortfilms
Missed that somehow.
Along with “The Thing”, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
and Invaders from Mars were the movies that ‘got’ me.
The last two were prescient as I see what has become of my fellow citizens.
there was another one ... but I cannot remember the name of it
a spaceship was returning to earth from mars and an alien had gotten aboard
it started out in the bottom of the ship and began its way to the top
punching through one hatch after another and killin’ folks along the way
until it got to the top level and the men put their spacesuits on
and opened the outer hatch to space which strangled the alien
Winter is coming!???
In the 50’s, every Saturday my daddy would give me and my brother
35 cents each and we would take the short walk into town...
25 cents for the movie; 5 cents for a popcorn; and 5 cents for a coke.
Of course, the ambiguity allows you to believe that one, both, or neither is a Thing.
Personally, I believe Mac's "let's see what happens" means he's going to watch Childs, and hen blast him with a hidden flamethrower or something after the credits roll. Just my take.
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