Alien 1979 - Initial Sequence
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If only they had listened to Parker. Damn the man who threatened him with a pay cut.
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@CountZero78 DOS rules!
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anyone know what the alarm is after the self destruct sequence?that the freakiest
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hahah! great excuse for a lie in.
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@SuperOxideDimutase Yep, it would have been good had they all gone back to bed.
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...my kind of Sci-Fi...nice and slooooooow!...
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If I had to justify this in a sci-fi novel I'd do it like this. Given the extreme long periods of interstellar voyages you cannot use the ultra fine circuits we use in advanced computers. So you use macroscopic 1970's battleship computers to last the decades long cruise times. Think about it. The Voyagers were made in 1974, they're still operational. We made quality goods back then.
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@oneinsixcom thank you, yay :)
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would have been better if they just shut off the alarm clock and go back to bed.....
SuperOxideDimutase 1 year ago 7
I love this scene (in fact I love the whole first 30 minutes although "nothing happens")
I wonder how Ridley Scott will bridge the two technologies in Prometheus. Although computer technology has advanced in ways that they could not have known in 1979 - this scene still looks as realistic as ever.
I shudder at the idea of spaceships being piloted by touch screens and a Microsoft based navigation system...
CountZero78 2 months ago 4