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Posted on 08/21/2020 11:37:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
We are losing our moon, so stars losing their planets should not be much of a surprize at all.
The universe is incomprehensibly old, to we mere mortals. There are things we can never know, or even dream of.
I never saw the latest remake, but Carpenter’s Thing was great.
It and the original are both great, though very different.
The 2011 ‘prequel’ was supposed to be an account of the alleged events that took place just prior to the Carpenter movie, when the Norwegian team discovers the Thing. Without giving away the plot or any other details, the final scene cuts over to the sled dog/creature from the beginning of the Carpenter film running through the snow, towards the American base. That part of it was pretty nicely done and really dovetailed it to Carpenter’s opening scenes. I admit I was pleasantly impressed in how they worked that in, I didn’t see that one coming. I just found the plot and characters a bit on the watery side, but your mileage may vary. I didn’t get the Hawks/Carpenter suspense goosebumps out of it; it seemed a little too contrived and drawn from trying to rehash plot points from the other two (especially Carpenter’s) to try to knit it all together. It’s a decent, rainy Saturday night watch if you can find it, but I found it to be like the annoying, tagalong younger cousin to the other two. There’s supposedly a remake of The Thing curently in the works that incorporates elements of both previous films and the novella they were based on. Now we’re getting into uncharted ‘don’t mess with a classic’ territory here. That could easily lay a gigantic egg.
Thanks for the warning!
I’ve read the original “Who goes there” and it was very good. Tough to beat Carpenter’s film version, especially these days, but I’d love to be surprised.
Even with the method described in the article, I think we will only detect a small fraction of the rogue planets which exist.
Yeah, the most likely way we'll discover the nearest one is when it careens through our Solar System. It'll be fun.
Jupiter used up all the rouge.
OOOO that Jupiter!
Rogue planets. Danged old middle age eyesight!
Rogue! Danged old middle aged eyesight!
We need a new PC name for these things.
Size-challenged non-suns?
Call me a dwarf and I'll crush you with my gravity. You've been warned. ;-)
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left over by THAT world’s former occupants.............
What was the name of that book?
When World’s Collide....1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide
Very good early sci-fi story.
Thank you
It was the prototype for Flash Gordon................
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