Taken at Boston Logan airport. Please tell me it's not just me.

bin161 · 2012-05-26T22:54:31.189018+00:00

It's actually a pretty widely known urban myth within the SF Bay area - Lucas has denied it many times, and I forget what he said exactly, but as an SF native who grew up believing it - I was disappointed when I heard he wasn't inspired by them.

Obolus · 2012-05-26T13:09:19.535225+00:00

It was pretty obviously cut because it looked like shit. That being said - I'm wondering if anyone else actually remembers having seen this cut footage.

Obolus · 2012-05-26T05:23:55.357388+00:00

Thanks. I did a bit of reading - and it's widely stated on the internet that several scenes at the end of the movie with the queen were stop motion - but the scene I saw in the promo was not used in the final cut (or the director's cut), and was really bad, funky stop motion. I'd like to know if anyone out there has ever seen this promo or not - I spent a while on youtube a couple years ago trying to find something, but to no avail.

Obolus · 2012-05-26T04:47:32.017266+00:00

OK movie persons, I've got a question for you. When I first saw "Alien" I was about 12 or so and my grandfather rented it on VHS for my brother and I (he was awesome, and always rented scary movies for us and didn't tell our parents about it).

The video must have come out some time right before 'Aliens' as they had a ~5-10 minute long promo at the beginning showing some scenes they had already filmed, but one of the weirdest things was a scene showing a very clearly stop motion alien queen descending to the floor - I have since not been able to find any reference to that scene, which was obviously cut out at some point in development in favor of better puppets (my guess). Any help?

b0red · 2012-05-26T04:35:31.121828+00:00

Strong on plough.

rekenzo · 1 day

Last winter I found one of these still working in a fucking Chinese laundromat of all places, which was next to a 7-11 I used to stop at every morning on my way to middle school. It was pretty awesome, except that I didn't have any change on me =(

riedmae · 2 days

One time, at boy scout camp, I watched from shore as a canoe with two of my friends in it capsized. One of my friends - everyone has that one awkward accident prone fat friend who hurts themselves and breaks expensive things all the time - thought he could get the canoe, which was drifting away slowly (and still upright) by biting the leader rope as it passed in front of his face. The second the line went taught, one of his upper front teeth popped out and sank to the bottom of the lake as he screamed and blood poured out of his mouth. It was beautiful.

TL;DR a friend tried the JFK "pull shit with my teeth" trick and lost a tooth.

camilstoenescu · 5 days

that's an excellent point, about people sitting on discoveries and getting scooped. From a scientific standpoint, however, if you make a discovery and you're too timid to publish it - and you don't, and someone scoops you - you more or less deserve it. Had Darwin waited any longer, and someone else beat it to him (which kind of happened) - I would only feel sorry for him to a point. The religious persecution involved in some discoveries (Copernicus, etc.) is perhaps an exception to my argument.

boesse · 5 days

Photographed at the San Diego Zoo.

dash101 · 5 days

Two books that blend field stories and science are Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs by Novacek and Digging Dinosaurs by Horner. Also, try the Dinosaur Heresies - fun, but Bakker is a bit crazy.

juancamdingo · 5 days

I'm not necessarily certain that oxygen levels were quite high enough in the Paleogene to wholly account for large body size. That being said - the Paleogene of South America was a weird time and place, with only marsupial and notoungulate mammals, few effective terrestrial mammalian carnivores, running crocodiles ("Panzer crocs"), gigantic predatory birds, etc. There were also gigantic crocodilians and gigantic boa constrictors (Titanoboa). Richer levels of oxygen have been argued as allowing giantism in Late Paleozoic insects and other terrestrial arthropods, but that's quite a difference from the Paleogene.

Furthermore, I would add that at a period of comparably less oxygen, there were all manners of Miocene-Pleistocene giant turtles, giant crocodiles, and giant varanid lizards. Many of these were hunted to extinction or displaced by humans during the Pleistocene, and no longer exist, however there are gigantic softshell turtles that approach the size of Carbonemys. So I doubt that atmospheric oxygen levels have much to do with it, as you would expect a decrease in turtle size through time.

sambatch4 · 5 days

Well... I ate there with my wife about a month ago, and that's about what it tasted like.

camilstoenescu · 5 days

I agree with what you're saying here - and yes, I take back the worthless part. I'm thinking about it from a scientist's viewpoint: you make some amazing discovery that could change the human race, and you don't really share it too much. One could argue that was prevented by certain aspects of Viking culture, oral histories etc. Both discoveries are obviously incredible and a testament to human ingenuity. And secondly, I agree that a discovery or invention's merit should not be judged by what others do with it. However, it is up to the discoverer to make it well known and 'publicize' it, which the Vikings didn't really do. A similar case could be made for "lost" Roman knowledge - except that the Romans were clearly sophisticated, widely utilized new technologies, and it was only due to various 'barbarian' civilizations moving in and destruction of the Western Roman Empire that resulted in the widespread loss and destruction of so many classical secrets and technologies. So with that as an example, I agree with you.

Here's a parallel: some doctor finds the cure for cancer, but doesn't publish it. That's clearly bad, and different from contemporaries knowing about it and not using it. An extreme example like this illustrates my point that a discovery has less importance and arguably negligible effect on humanity if you don't do anything with it.

camilstoenescu · 6 days

If Gutenberg had no idea about the existence of Asian printing inventions and techniques, and saying he did not invent the printing press or moveable type is like excluding him on a technicality. Simply, he independently invented it, which is just as important.

Same sorta thing pisses me off when people point out that the vikings discovered North America before Columbus - if the vikings didn't write it down and tell everyone in Europe about it, than it's a bit of a worthless discovery, no? It never really entered the collective knowledge of medieval Europe, and it took another 400ish years before someone could sail that far again and actually tell people about it. Columbus should still get credit, as he had no idea of the viking discovery/settlements in North America.

boesse · 6 days

Yeah... I had some fun trolling them. I got really pissed off at first, and then just decided to have fun with it. They're so much dumber and strangely more gullible than your garden variety young earth creationist.

miked12 · 7 days

I don't see a difference.

TrueWarrior · 7 days

Holy fucks. I like how many people - myself included - came here to say 'LOL next up on history channel!' and... fail.

retuw · 7 days

This reminds me of a tool music video.

WolfDemon · 7 days

Woohoo, MSU! FYI - this is on the mall at Montana State U.-Bozeman, between the library, Reid Hall, and Montana Hall. I graduated from there about a year ago, so I'm guessing this is pretty recent.

newsdaylaura18 · 7 days

what the actual fuck

tsherry · 8 days

The problem is that in order to get a device like that, you have to already know the natural gas is there - this is untreated natural gas, so it is odorless, and has already apparently resulted in a bunch of deaths.

tsherry · 8 days

Thanks, this was the sort of answer I was looking for... you know, some kind of facts one way or the other.

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