"The Thing"

[40BelowJoe]

The movie "The Thing" came out in 1982, I was just a boy back then. but it was the first thing that got interested in Antarctica.

I thought to myself.........Gee thows guys got really cool jobs. who cares if they are getting eaten by aliens.........

But Thats what first got me interested in going there........ And now it seems like it may almost happen.

Does any 1 remember that movie.......... it was ssssoo cool!

[Paul Ward]

We had that film on base. The details and many facts were all as wrong as you'd expect, but as well as having a scary monster, it got across the fear of isolation and lack of chance of getting help from the outside world well.

Twice as scary in fact when you see it in Antarctica.

[Alan]

I haven't seen this movie yet, but if I winter over in 2009 at South Pole I will. I understand that after the last flight leaves, the winterovers all watch "The Thing".

I'm reminded, though, that in the 1976 Doctor Who episode "Seeds of Doom" there is a scene near the beginning set in Antarctica.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/class...m/detail.shtml

Kind of going far afield here. . . .

[40BelowJoe]

There's not enough movies about antarctica..........

What if war broke out over a propiable issue that had to do with the atmo, and the salvation of mankind?

And every 1 was racing to antarctica looking for trying to find and in some cases the answer? Oh my goodness?

I could see the bombs flying now?

But on the ice it would still be mano area mano de hand to hand combat!

let the czechs and the poles come? I'm gonna ssssssssooooooo blast them, off them ice sheet like they were nothing !----> can you say Khablammmm?

Hol7y smokes bat man..... that would be a good movie!

[drummy]

Hi Joe,
Go easy on your imagination, mate! Also, what have the Czechs and Poles done to offend you?!! The last thing we want is another X-Files/Ice Station Zebra scenario down south.

Speaking of which, Ice Station Zebra was another movie which had me in stitches as a youngster. I've spent time in both the Arctic and Antarctic and my family now refuse to watch any movie remotely associated with Polar regions when I'm in the room due to my insisting on being an unpaid, critical and voluble 'advisor'.

Regards.

Drummy

[40BelowJoe]

I didn't mean anything by it......... Gut thanx 4 shuddering me down. I was just simplifying an issue...........

But thats cool I'm going to Download "Ics station Zebra" and watych it!>?

But if war does brek out...... can you imagine what it would be like down there?

It would be like ---> Hey? Am I supposed to kill you. I don't even know you... and besides I like you.......I'm "NOT"going to kill you.... I'm going to tell my gov to "F" off!


"RIGHT" a billion worlds away... ...and they're going to tell me who to shoot!?

I think not!