Sentences with phrase «thinking about aliens»

If they're busy thinking about aliens they're not looking at what's really going on and the truth is probably pretty mundane.

Also, since when is no one except for Elijah Wood capable of thinking about aliens?

My dad's a real science fiction freak, he's the one that kind of got me into that, thinking about aliens.

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«Having this realization didn't mean I needed to wallow in every unhelpful habit and self - destructive pattern; it meant that I could stop thinking about «bad» traits as if they were alien, loathsome flaws that I had to stamp out entirely,» she wisely writes.

Icould make huge comments about why you need you need to respect Aliens from Mars and how they have been here before and are coming back... but that does not make it true, nor would I expect anyone to be «converted to my way of thinking by something I wrote on news web site.

Next they will wonder if he believed in aliens living on other planets... or what he thought about space / time travel... etc. etc...

«We are forever getting confused into thinking that scripture is mainly about what we are supposed to do rather than a picture of who God is» (Resident Aliens, 85).

The concept of sacrifice and death so completely alien to me I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately.

That is about as statistically remote as finding alien life, albeit I still myself think it is out there.

As for the aliens and mating thing you're talking about... honestly i'm clueless and actually kindof bummed that you would think that.

Topher, I think Joey is talking about the relative probability of life also forming elsewhere in this vast universe, not necessarily saying that aliens seeded the earth — although it is possible that life formed elsewhere in the solar system and came to earth via meteors etc..

If and when we are ever visited by an alien civilization, I can imagine one of the creature staring incredulously at the Vatican or wailing wall and asking its human hosts, «so, you REALLY thought it was all about you?»

Or you have heard it presented like this: To be a Christian you must join the church — and then such insistence on sectarian peculiarities, or even such theories about the one true church, that finding the appeal utterly alien to your normal thinking, you have cried again, I can not.

One can imagine, if and when we are eventually visited by an alien civilization, one of the creatures staring incredulously at the Vatican and asking its human hosts, «so, you really thought it was all about you?»

Like Christians, the vast majority of Trek fans got their weekly dose of it and thought little about all - powerful beings / aliens for the rest of the week, but also like Christians there were the die hard fans who so completely immersed themselves in it that they let the real world slip by them.

The author, Vasko Kohlmayer, wrote about his thoughts about the big bang and atheist / agnostic views towards it and then, in the very next paragraph, wrotre «Richard Dawkins suggested that it [life] may have been seeded on this earth by aliens».

I swore that there would be a small alien tearing its way out of my stomach in about 8 to 12 hours, only after it had taken over my thoughts and found my human body was no longer needed.

I always feel like an alien when I describe our sleeping arrangements, because of the reactions I get, you'd think I was talking about a sixteen year old needing to sleep next to me to get quality sleep, instead of my four month old!

These things seem so normal now that they're barely noteworthy, but think about how alien they would have been just ten or twelve years ago.

Now, I'm not going to go into great detail about how I think you might just be missing the point, though I will suggest that perhaps you'd be more persuasive if you considered the question of whether anyone ASKED those «black folks» whether or not they wanted to be brought in chains to the New World, kept in servitude for centuries, stripped of their cultures and their very names and forcibly converted to an alien religion.

First, try not to think about what alien life might be like.

Some of the attendees, Davies among them, are now thinking about the practical challenges posed by detecting alternative or alien life on Earth.

Stories on hints of dark matter at the dawn of the cosmos, what giant family trees can tell us about human behavior, and how people think they would react to alien microbes

In 1983, astronomers discovered dust orbiting the star, suggesting it had a solar system, and Carl Sagan (pictured) chose to make Vega the source of a SETI signal in his 1985 novel Contact, though the responsible aliens weren't native to the star: At the time, Vega was thought to be only about a couple hundred million years old, probably too young for any planets to have spawned life.

Whether you're sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that feeling of knowing derives not from rational thought, he argues, but from the brain's primitive limbic system; the gut feeling is more likely to emerge from careful electric stimulation than from careful consideration.

(Yes, this means he's in charge of thinking about how to talk to aliens.)

Perhaps they offer a useful surrogate for thinking about one way that intelligent aliens, if and wherever they are out there, might one day present themselves to us.

NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan also said that she believed in alien life and with the advances in science and technology, she thinks that proof of alien life forms will finally be found in as early as about a decade.

Some of the major theories about the reason behind this cosmic silence say that life is either rarer than we thought, that alien life is trapped in deep oceans, or that we're just not scanning in the right radio frequencies.

Basically, the authors of the study — Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam — state that the millisecondlong FRBs may be the result of a sufficiently advanced alien civilization trying to power spacecraft equipped with light sails (something that scientists have also thought about doing).

Think about how alien that was.

The early part of the movie, when Wikus gets exposed to the fluid, you'd think that the MNU or gov» t officials would have some kind of quarantine system in place, in case alien bio-matter intermingles with human... and indeed later on you hear about there being other cases of mutation — possibly induced by the illegal experiments — so they knew this kind of thing could happen... it seemed to me very reckless to have Wikus stumble about, puking his guts, bleeding from his nose, and not have his co-workers immediately call the medvac people in.

The more I think about it, the more the whole aliens - as - apartheid theme bugs me.

I think when your writing a film about aliens from outer space, you have to remember not to alienate your audience.

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

District 9 is partly presented as a faux documentary (rather than a mockumentary, which is what Roger Ebert wrongly labels the film... there is nothing funny about this movie), detailing how 20 years earlier, a huge alien spaceship (think Independence Day) parked itself over Johannesburg and... sat there.

There are the usual jokes about «the town», «the industry» and stardom, but there's also an insistent underlay of thoughts about male friendship and aliens who try but just can't somehow fit in.

Meanwhile, if you think a movie about an ugly blue alien can't have a romantic subplot then you're wrong!

«Where I developed the idea of them and what I wanted them to look like was most alien movies are about takeovers, agendas, they're a thinking alien creature, and for me this idea of a predator, this idea of a parasite, this idea of something that is introduced into an ecosystem [was interesting].»

GQ — Every once in the rarest while, a young actor shows up in a movie like an alien — anonymous and yet in possession of such preternatural talent that audiences start thinking about the actor's future not in years but in decades.

Christopher Lloyd plays the befuddled Lectroid John Bigboote (pronounced «big bootay,» though most people just pronounce it «big booty») is about halfway to Doc Brown in this film (I've always thought ol' Doc Brown was at least half alien).

Think of it as the alien invasion version of Groundhog Day — every time he comes back, he learns a bit more about how to stay alive and fight.

That means we're getting James Franco and Danny McBride in an Alien movie, and that's just weird to think about.

There's a dog, an orphan, a drunk preacher (Clancy Brown, the best thing about this whole mess, so of course he dies fairly early on), and an exchange late in the belly of the stupidest alien spaceship since the one in Super 8 where Ella implores Jake — and the rest of us who were supposed to identify with this glowering cipher — to «stop thinking.»

Thinking back on the first film, we likely don't remember its plot, which was a relatively simple affair about a group of superheroes preparing for and fighting against an alien invasion.

I thought about this the other day as I watched a slew of Alien: Covenant reviews pour in.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Intergalactic Eddie Murphy Vehicle Arrives on DVD In 1984, John Sayles directed The Brother from Another Planet, a thought - provoking, sci - fi comedy about an alien who washes ashore at Ellis Island and makes his way to Manhattan where he does his best to blend in because he's being chased by a couple of bounty hunters who had followed him to Earth.

This could be used, for example, to mark the Alien you are thinking about.

Could a video game about aliens change the way U.S. schools think about testing?

Consider computer generated images (CGI), the use of cones and spheres in creating aliens in the popular TV series, Doctor Who, or perhaps think about the computer games that wouldn't be possible without maths — you can sense the pupil engagement already!