Sentences with phrase «aliens were sending»

If aliens were sending a direct message, they'd probably put a bit of thought into how it might be read.

More commonly and subtly, a mental disorder may so distort an individual's beliefs that he may think he is doing right when in fact an act is terribly wrong - as, for example, when a person has the delusion that his wife has literally turned into a zombie and that shooting her is the only way to protect himself from being eaten alive, or an inpatient attacks the attendants on his ward when they come to take him to an appointment because he believes they are alien beings sent to kill him.

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«It's set during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and kicks off when an alien race decides to invade Earth after the Chinese government covertly sends a signal into space,» Business Insider explains.

For example I might believe full force that Xenu sent little aliens down here and if that's what I'm convinced is accurate, then I'm a Scientologist regardless of if I attend a church or participate in any established organization directly.

It's like sending the Lone Ranger to fight space aliens.

If aliens arrive today and were looking for a food source... all they need to do is step out and say «God sent us.»

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

And maybe Oprah is an alien from a superior world sent down to spy on us.

Not people from outside that will be working with the economic theories that are alien and not minding what they send to us, not even minding whether the weather in Nigeria and the weather in Europe and America are not the same.

«I like to say that if aliens sent a probe to Earth and it landed in the Sahara, they would conclude the Earth is all desert,» says planetary scientist Michael Wong of Caltech, who was not involved in the new study.

If that expedition is successful, Stone thinks it will be a crucial milestone in the quest to send spacecraft to swim in alien seas.

Despite decades of sending costly hardware to Mars, Boston believes that what is still missing is a sense of harmony between instruments, allowing them to work together to support a search for alien life.

So far, most of the hunt for alien signals has used radio waves, based on the theory that radio is a relatively easy and cheap way to send signals a long way through space.

Soon, he began pondering an enticing possibility: that «Oumuamua was actually an alien spacecraft sending signals back to its creators.

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton Send and receive messages absolutely for free.

2018-04-08 16:22 Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton Send and receive messages absolutely for free.

As a baby, bald blue alien Megamind was narrowly saved from his planet's destruction and sent to Earth.

I am not sure how to categorize this genre, but i'll be bold and call it Offense Tower (as opposed to defense tower, where a player protects his base by placing turrets, in Alien Hallway a player sends soldiers to attack the enemy's base).

Tensions between the human and alien population are running thin so the private company Multi-National United (MNU), who have a commercial interest in harnessing the alien technology for weaponry, are sent in to relocate the aliens.

Like other champions before him, Metro Man is an alien sent here from a dying planet.

[In Arthur Clarke's novel, the mysterious monolithic stone slab is a technological machine belonging to aliens in space, one of hundreds of such monoliths sent to Earth to test, teach and transform the apes into higher - order, intelligent beings.]

Sam «Serious» Stone, Earth?s stud warrior, is sent back to Egypt, 3000 B.C., to fight hordes of alien monsters in this acclaimed «Doom» - sytle, back - to - basics, first - person shooter out of Croatia which is listed, amazingly, at the bargain basement price of 20 bucks!

It's also a game that revolves around mechanised alien machines, a scientist sent to another world and a whole lot of shooting, but that's just a fast and loose summary of Axiom Verge's story, so here's a properly explanation.

In «I Am Number 4 ′ Timothy Olyphant stars as Henri, a the Warrior / Guardian who's job it is to protect and train John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), an alien from planet Lorien who was sent to Earth as a child alongside eight others to escape an invading race, the Mogadorians, which destroyed their home planet.

In this case, it's because aliens have misread a video feed of classic arcade games as an act of aggression, and send their own versions of Donkey Kong, Pac - Man, and others to destroy the puny Earthlings.

Not only that: He's an alien from Dog Star sent to investigate why canines strayed from their original mission and instead became man's best friend.

And while most of that film centered on the sexual tension between a publishing heiress and the photographer sent to fetch her from an alien - ridden «infected zone,» the world its characters inhabited and their ultimate goal were both defined by a looming alien threat.

Critics Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Critic Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Tries to usurp his half - brother's prized position within their family, sends a dangerous weapon to Earth, gets banished, comes back, attempts to invade Earth with an alien army, is smacked around a lot, stopped and imprisoned.

Who knows, maybe they're planning a pre-emptive strike on the Children of Thanos aka the Black Order, or apprehending previous alien scouts sent to Earth, or maybe they were tipped off about Thanos» invasion and are helping Rogers assemble the tools needed to properly defend the planet.

She's been sent to Earth by an alien corporation to prey on unwary hitchhikers.

In Alien, a company called Weyland - Yutani sent the Nostromo ship into space, and Pearce is playing Peter Weyland in Prometheus.

These aliens take us up on the offer, sending a scout to see what we're up to.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs The World) stars as Kate Lloyd, a scientist sent to Antarctica to study an alien life form that has been frozen underneath the surface.

Sending up movies as varied as «The Exorcist,» «Rosemary's Baby,» «Alien,» and anything relating to zombies and apocalyptic mayhem, «This is the End» provides the ensemble — all principal parts are taken by men — with more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

With the alien conqueror Thanos likely to play a major role in Infinity War, it's reasonable to speculate that any threats the Mad Titan might send to Earth would have a significantly easier time making landfall now that the mystic barrier has partially fallen.

Gifted teenager Ender (Asa Butterfield) is sent to a military academy to prepare for an upcoming alien invasion.

Michael Rennie as the alien visitor Klaatu has gone undercover in a Washington D.C. boarding house in order to learn more about the Earthlings he's been sent to contact.

In a nod to 1978's Superman, the movie begins as infant alien Megamind (Ferrell) is sent to Earth, but ends up landing in the confines of a prison where he is raised by the inmates and taught to hate good and practice evil.

Meanwhile, another alien named Metro Man (Pitt) is sent to Earth, is adopted by a loving suburban family, and grows up to be the superhero to Megamind's supervillain.

When he's sent by his boss Yondu (Michael Rooker) to steal a mysterious orb, only to double - cross him in order to keep the artifact for himself, Quill becomes the target of a power - hungry alien named Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), who's made a deal with the Mad Titan Thanos (the purple - skinned figure teased at the end of «The Avengers») to give him the orb in exchange for destroying his enemy's home planet.

The World's End is a hilarious send - up of alien invasion films.

There are other extremely specific — and extremely spoiler - y — details from the other books that make up the spine of film: for instance, that the psychologist Dr. Ventriss (Leigh) is dying of cancer; that she's actually the director of the Southern Reach; that this whole Area X business possibly started when a comet hit the lighthouse; and that there are aliens that can create human clones that they send out into the world.

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth where — after some initial problems fitting in — he becomes a superhero protecting the human race.

Although she is ignored at first, when contact with colonists on a planet thought safe is suddenly lost, Ripley and a military team are sent to confront the aliens.

Whereas that film focused more on the couple's budding sexual tension than any tangible extraterrestrial threat, Green and co-writer Jay Basu hew closer to the formula seen in pics like «Independence Day» and «Battle: Los Angeles,» in which U.S. troops are sent to deal with the aliens, albeit indirectly.

It's been reshaped by some kind of alien influence, and a team of explorers sent by the organization known as the Southern Reach go in to investigate.

The mission itself has little to do with the aliens, as Frater's team is being sent into hostile territory to extract four American soldiers — a setup that might have yielded a thrilling hybrid between «War of the Worlds» and «Saving Private Ryan,» if Green had anything approaching Spielberg's storytelling instincts.