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(ReacTor) Five Works About Surviving Helpful or Indifferent Aliens
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James Nicoll
2024-11-15 15:19:53 UTC
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Five Works About Surviving Helpful or Indifferent Aliens

Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...

https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-surviving-helpful-or-indifferent-aliens/
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Lynn McGuire
2024-11-15 20:31:27 UTC
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Five Works About Surviving Helpful or Indifferent Aliens
Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...
https://reactormag.com/five-works-about-surviving-helpful-or-indifferent-aliens/
Zero for five here.

The old V tv show was a great example of this.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/

Lynn
Christian Weisgerber
2024-11-15 23:20:17 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...
The old V tv show was a great example of this.
What? No! The aliens in _V_ came in order to exploit humans,
although they pretended otherwise.
Post by Lynn McGuire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
That's a remake.

Here's the original 1983 miniseries:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/
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Dimensional Traveler
2024-11-16 01:55:32 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
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Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...
The old V tv show was a great example of this.
What? No! The aliens in _V_ came in order to exploit humans,
although they pretended otherwise.
For some values of "exploit" that include "eat".
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Post by Lynn McGuire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
That's a remake.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/
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Lynn McGuire
2024-11-16 03:05:34 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...
The old V tv show was a great example of this.
What? No! The aliens in _V_ came in order to exploit humans,
although they pretended otherwise.
Post by Lynn McGuire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
That's a remake.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/
But the lizards pretended to be humans and offered to help us out.
Supposedly non-hostiles.

Lynn
Bobbie Sellers
2024-11-16 06:00:45 UTC
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Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...
The old V tv show was a great example of this.
What?  No!  The aliens in _V_ came in order to exploit humans,
although they pretended otherwise.
Post by Lynn McGuire
     https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
That's a remake.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/
The Porciniods of "To Serve Man" came to mind.

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But the lizards pretended to be humans and offered to help us out.
Supposedly non-hostiles.
Lynn
The Horny Goat
2024-11-18 10:02:15 UTC
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:05:34 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by Christian Weisgerber
What? No! The aliens in _V_ came in order to exploit humans,
although they pretended otherwise.
Post by Lynn McGuire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
That's a remake.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/
But the lizards pretended to be humans and offered to help us out.
Supposedly non-hostiles.
And here I thought the show (the later one) was for me to work hard
(successfully) hiding from my wife how much I was becoming a fan
(which is a polite way of saying "ogling") Morena Baccarin.... and
Father Time has been very kind to her these last 15 years...
Lynn McGuire
2024-11-18 20:58:30 UTC
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:05:34 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by Christian Weisgerber
What? No! The aliens in _V_ came in order to exploit humans,
although they pretended otherwise.
Post by Lynn McGuire
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307824/
That's a remake.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/
But the lizards pretended to be humans and offered to help us out.
Supposedly non-hostiles.
And here I thought the show (the later one) was for me to work hard
(successfully) hiding from my wife how much I was becoming a fan
(which is a polite way of saying "ogling") Morena Baccarin.... and
Father Time has been very kind to her these last 15 years...
Just watched her in "Deadpool and Wolverine" last Saturday on Disney+.

Lynn
The Horny Goat
2024-11-23 22:33:56 UTC
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:58:30 -0600, Lynn McGuire
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Post by The Horny Goat
And here I thought the show (the later one) was for me to work hard
(successfully) hiding from my wife how much I was becoming a fan
(which is a polite way of saying "ogling") Morena Baccarin.... and
Father Time has been very kind to her these last 15 years...
Just watched her in "Deadpool and Wolverine" last Saturday on Disney+.
Is she aging well?
Lynn McGuire
2024-11-24 00:41:14 UTC
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:58:30 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by The Horny Goat
And here I thought the show (the later one) was for me to work hard
(successfully) hiding from my wife how much I was becoming a fan
(which is a polite way of saying "ogling") Morena Baccarin.... and
Father Time has been very kind to her these last 15 years...
Just watched her in "Deadpool and Wolverine" last Saturday on Disney+.
Is she aging well?
Yes. Of course, she could have been video shopped in the movie as she
was not in much of it.

Pick your parents wisely for good genes.

Lynn
Dimensional Traveler
2024-11-24 05:01:03 UTC
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:58:30 -0600, Lynn McGuire
Post by Lynn McGuire
Post by The Horny Goat
And here I thought the show (the later one) was for me to work hard
(successfully) hiding from my wife how much I was becoming a fan
(which is a polite way of saying "ogling") Morena Baccarin.... and
Father Time has been very kind to her these last 15 years...
Just watched her in "Deadpool and Wolverine" last Saturday on Disney+.
Is she aging well?
Yes.  Of course, she could have been video shopped in the movie as she
was not in much of it.
Pick your parents wisely for good genes.
And breed outside your ethnic grouping.
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Christian Weisgerber
2024-11-24 14:27:23 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
Pick your parents wisely for good genes.
Yep. Here are the three best tips for longevity:
* Be a woman.
* Have long-lived parents.
* Be born by a young mother (20..25, IIRC).

If you just follow these easy tips, you will have the statistically
best chances of a long life!
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