Freeze People is a usual technology in the film. A lot of scientists thinking this is absolutly possible. The experiments show great promise for the future.

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,422696,00.html

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Nowadays it is possible to travel into the space even without being a astronaut. Virgin Galactic is the world’s first spaceline for ereyone, who can afford a ticket. Space tourism becomes real!

http://www.virgingalactic.com/htmlsite/index.php?language=english

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Giger’s third and most famous book, Necronomicon, published in 1977, served as the visual inspiration for director Ridley Scott’s film Alien, Giger’s first film assignment, which earned him the 1980 Oscar for the Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his designs of the film’s title character and the stages of its lifecycle, plus the film’s the otherworldly environments.

http://www.hrgiger.com

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Outside of science fiction, the technique has almost never been applied to humans for more than a few hours. The case of Laina Beasley is a debatable exception; she was kept in suspended animation as a two-celled embryo for 13 years

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article540837.ece

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Parasieten: Entwicklung von Flusswürmern im menschlichen Körper, die zum Tode oder zur Blindheit führen können.

http://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2009-09/wuermer-afrika-parasiten

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Ulrike Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 10:01 am

Es gibt ja angeblich auch schon Parasiten im Hirn, die das Verhalten mitbestimmen. Nachgewiesen wurden die zwar erst bei Tieren, aber wer weiß … vllt sind wir ja auch schon befallen

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/515/326379/text/

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Ginger Reply:
October 18th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

Unteranderem habe ich gelesen, dass es einen Parasiten gibt, der von Katzen übertragen wird. Der das Reaktionsvermögen verlangsamt.

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Ginger Reply:
October 18th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Hier ist ein Beitrag von der BBC über Mitbringsel aus fernen Ländern.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX9oWWexdAM&feature=related

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I am interested to talk about the reason for using industrial or hazardous space ships. I think we should not go so for away in interpeting why most of the science-fiction horror movies are using that dark and cold industrial look for the movies. In my opinion the main reason is because it supports the scary dark horror mood to create more fear and mystery. One example for that is the new Sci-Fi Thriller “Pandorum”.
http://www.moviemaze.de/media/trailer/view/40061/5531119f648788f821fd1d5ed8e6c1ee/4712_trailer01-de_720.mov

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In “Alien” people travel space with suspended animation. Back in the 70’s it still was a revolutenary thought but nowadays it actually is not that far away as we might think. The link is already four years old so who knows how much further scientists got with their research…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4469793.stm

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I WONDER HOW MUCH MONEY IT COSTS?

http://www.suspendedinc.com

Suspended Animation’s stabilization procedures are applied only to patients who have made arrangements for subsequent cryopreservation at cryonics facilities. Suspended Animation itself does not provide cryogenic storage of any kind.

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SETI, ist ein Institut über Forschungswissenschaft, die den Beweis über eventuelles Lebens im Universum suchen.
2005 hatte die NASA eine Bewilligung für Arbeit über Signalabfragung für die Allen-Teleskop-Reihe zugesprochen.
Dieses Institut existiert noch heute.

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/shostak_intelligent_020530.html

http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/article4520313/Wie-Astronomen-nach-Aliens-fahnden.html

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Modern robots are able to run complex operations. They could replace humans in dangerous work surroundings. But cyborgs/robots are very expensive to produce AND to loose. Its much cheaper to let humans risk there lives than to replace them with expencive robots.

that could be an answer why in ‘alien’ the crew is mostly human. They could all be replaced by androids but that wouldn’t fit in a budget of a mining mission.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DIyUWR-YY

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The alien-creature is a parasitic organism that needs a hosts body to develop further. On earth there are some insects that have the same behaviour, call Hyper-Parasitism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

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WELL, THIS IS HOW MUCH IT COSTS!

Current Life Membership Fees are:

1. First family member – $20,000.00 lump sum or payments over 20 years of $100.00 monthly, $285.00 quarterly, or $1100.00 annually
Minimum Cryopreservation Funding:

* $150,000.00 Whole Body Cryopreservation ($65,000 to the Patient Care Trust, $70,000 for cryopreservation, $15,000.00 to the CMS Fund).

* $ 80,000.00 Neurocryopreservation ($25,000 to the Patient Care Trust, $40,000 for cryopreservation, $15,000.00 to the CMS Fund).

Surcharges:

* $ 15,000.00 Surcharge for Members residing in the United Kingdom.

* $ 25,000.00 Surcharge for Members outside the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom.

* $ 25,000.00 Surcharge for last minute, non-member cryopreservations.

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The esthetic and feeling of the H.R. Giger of Alien can be experienced by people in real life at the HR GIGER BAR
in Château St. Germain, Gruyères in Switzerland

http://www.hrgiger.com/barmuseum.htm

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http://www.alcor.org/

this organisation, want to freeze us.

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Article in Pdf by Christopher Partridge – Department of Theology (Chester University, UK) – investigates the demonology of aliens as a technological evil, taking as object the blind malevolence spread by christianity.

http://www.michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/Alien%20demonology%20the%20Christian%20roots%20of%20the%20malevolent%20extraterrestrial%20in%20UFO%20religions%20and%20abduction%20spiritualities.pdf

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There are Species on Earth which we dont know. For instance in Caves or very deep under the Surface on Seebottom. They’re living in unbeliveable cold or hot climates and having completely diferent metabolics/way of living…just like aliens.

http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/wissen/forschung/article469606/6348-Meter-unter-dem-Meer.html
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/07/unknown-species.html

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There is a board-computer in “Alien” called “Mother”. Mother controls all the systems on the space shuttle. It automatically switches the lights on, wakes up the crew from their suspended animation, navigates the ship and so on.

Today there is also technique which can control our surroundings like for example our house. This process is called Home Automation.
So thats why I think that computers will participate more and more in our lifes in the future and maybe once we’ll have a “Mother” in our home, on which we depend on.

http://www.home-automation.org/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebäudeautomatisierung

One example for a future house is the T-Com House in Berlin.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/T-Com-Haus-RFID-und-WLAN-fuers-Mood-Management-139363.html

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Imagine there is somithing growing in your body! It seems to be a tumor, but it is nothing like that.

“As the doctor cut deeper into the stomach he watched something unnatural. “To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside,” he said. “It was a bit shocking for me.”
“Inside Bhagat’s stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands…”
His twin was living inside him.
To my mind this twin looks like an alien. The twin inside is like a parasit, he can’t live without his host.

if you like to read:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2346476&page=1&page=1

if you like to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OD87pp5Ok0&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzwDyEmpC5Q

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The first space tourist was Dennis Anthony Tito.
But he pay 20 million dollars for 7 days, 22 hours and 4 minutes in space. I think that space traveling in the future must be very cheaper, so that evry one can travel and not only the richest people.

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,241054,00.html

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Though I’m not a feminist, it’s interesting that Ridley Scott tries to establish a female hero in a science fiction/horror movie, which was not common at that time (and still isn’t, I guess).
There’s a whole sub-genre of science fiction, the “feminist science fiction” which deals with role models, social issues and gender roles in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_science_fiction

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It will be scary if some people around us were not real human beings!Just Androids.But if they could imtate feelings and real behavior it could be a begining for a new segement of the sex-industry.I hope not.
Check the link

http://www.rhombos.de/shop/a/show/story/?809

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