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I dont get it

posted 17 years ago by citizenr
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So they found US made probe, some green canister with lava lamp inside. They got sick.
Now whose canister was that? Who put it there? Nasa? Aliens? Did it make them sick, or something glued to the probe did?

[–] cmflash 16 years ago

Nasa sent the probe. It seemed like some kind of chemical warfare equipment. It was sent back into space contaminated by the beings that received it, as a way to get back at earth for sending it in the first place.

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat". ~Henry Emerson Fosdick

[–] Deannie308-2 15 years ago

How cruel.

[–] cmflash 15 years ago

Yes indeed. :-( especially since it resulted in yet another movie where Jason's character has to die. But at least WE dont have to witness it this time. But I really love this movie!!! It is my favorite thing Jason has done!!! He is sooooo amazing in it!! I just wish it would come out on DVD already!!

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat". ~Henry Emerson Fosdick

[–] omega2064 11 years ago

Apparently it was a deep space probe that picked up the disease and then encountered some alien civilization, possibly infecting them. It was guessed that the unknown race thought it an attack, or were just really ticked off, and sent the probe back with enhancement to "return the favour" as it were.

An episode of Space 1999 played with a simmilar idea. A probe from Earth with a new ion drive is launched disasterously as it generated a huge radiation plume. Alpha encountered it in space, still broadcasting its peace message. and following it were aliens whom it had visited and devastated their world. They intended to follow it back to earth and mete out vengance.

[–] Promontorium 11 years ago

There's no evidence of that. It was just an off handed comment made by an unreliable character. Everything he said in the film was wrong, yet everyone here seems to take this one comment as absolute fact. He said they couldn't save them, they did. He said they couldn't get the people on-board, they did. He said it couldn't be alien, it was. His final guess was that it was still human's fault. It wasn't.