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Old 08-02-2014, 12:22 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area (recent MN transplant...go gophers)
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I have notice a few things in common between the recent events and the regarding movie alien.

Both take place in a place in which is far way from where the people involved should be.

Both take place in a place in which the people involved should not be.

Both take place in a place in which the people invoked should never go.

Both take place with a horror that has long since be forgotten or lost.

Both take place with people who feel instead of think and jeopardy the security of the people involved by breaking a quarantine.

Both involve flight and transport of a person with a insidious cargo within them.

Both end really badly for said carrier and all parties involved.

Both set the stage for far more horrific events.
So, if I'm getting this metaphor correct, this outbreak is going to end with Sigourney Weaver saving us all while wearing no pants.

Sweet!
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:24 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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Uh- not so many.
Remember that the movie takes place 200 centuries in the future, and that the alien is a parasite from another galaxy far, far, away.

Fiction is fiction. Any speculation can be drawn from fiction and can be spun out in any way a person wants.

Ebola is not from outer space. It is another creature from mother earth, just like we are, and it's here, right now, causing real people to suffer, not fictional characters.

It's not like our disease specialists know nothing at all about viruses. Ebola is like any other virus- it has it's weak spot. We know how to search for that weak spot, and know how to exploit the weak spot once it is discovered. We have the entire sources of humanity to bear on our side of the battle, not just us.

And- humans are getting better and better in this fight. The fight will be scientific, for sure, but no fiction will be involved in it. Your comparison is fanciful and childish.
about 120 years in the future..

I never said that it was from other space.

I never meant this to be anything more the a "You ever notice" kind of thread.
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:29 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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Actually countries like Honduras are more dangerous places than Africa to travel too (but since people in those countries don't look like B. Obama, something tells me republicans would not mind traveling there.)

20 World's Most Dangerous Vacation Destinations
Why anyone would ever travel to Honduras for any reason, let alone a vacation is beyond me...

PS I am not a republican I am Libertarian..
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:34 AM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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Gunlover I have a feeling your mom was/is the overprotective type with a flair for the dramatic?

You didn't just have a simple cold, you had better wrap up or else that'll turn into pneumonia.
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:34 AM
 
Location: Earth
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Why anyone would ever travel to Honduras for any reason, let alone a vacation is beyond me...

PS I am not a republican I am Libertarian..
Yet you're calling for more state power
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:34 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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You want me to get an autograph from Tom Skerrit?
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:39 AM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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Why anyone would ever travel to Honduras for any reason, let alone a vacation is beyond me...

PS I am not a republican I am Libertarian..
They are the same. When republicans have "republican only" political debates, libertarians are on the same stage.
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:40 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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Gunlover I have a feeling your mom the overprotective type with a flair for the dramatic?

You didn't just have a simple cold, you had better wrap up or else that'll turn into pneumonia.
No just figured I would make a post to try and compare classic movies to modern events..
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:42 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas,Nevada
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Yet you're calling for more state power
How so?

Wanting secure borders?
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:52 AM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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But they're fictitious films.

Real life is always stranger than fiction, when something bizarre happens that seems unbelievable, then out come the film references in order to make sense of something that flies in the face of what we know.


Hey... remember all those videos about the fema coffins?

Maybe that's what they were stockpiling them for?
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