Asian giant for HC

[quote user="bandwgn86"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjErC2JLQc the original "the thing" scared the bejesus out of me when i was young.. great idea remaking it, cant wait to see it.[/quote]</P>


Bandy, you're talking about the 1982 version with Kurt Russell??</P>


How about the realoriginal, when I was 5, 1951, with James Arness (Gunsmoke). That is the Original... Black and White.</P>


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[quote user="bandwgn86"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKjErC2JLQc the original "the thing" scared the bejesus out of me when i was young.. great idea remaking it, cant wait to see it.[/quote]</P>


Bandy, you're talking about the 1982 version with Kurt Russell??</P>


How about the real*original, when I was 6, 1951, with James Arness (Gunsmoke).* That is the Original... Black and White.</P>


*</P>[/quote]yah i had no idea it was a remake.. was the one in 51 good too.. the one with Russel gave me nightmares for a year..

has there been a new idea out of Hollywood in the last decade?

green lantern lol

[quote user="bansaw"]has there been a new idea out of Hollywood in the last decade?

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It's incredible, Ban. Last night I read a list of movies in production, or recently announced.http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinp...nced_Films.htm The number of films coming out based on TV shows is staggering. There are remakes of movies going back to Chaplin's silent film, "The Dictator" (that's from memory, but I think it's right!. I'll check sources and post the link.</P>

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[quote user="bansaw"]has there been a new idea out of Hollywood in the last decade?

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It's incredible, Ban. Last night I read a list of movies in production, or recently announced.http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinp...nced_Films.htm The number of films coming out based on TV shows is staggering. There are remakes of movies going back to Chaplin's silent film, "The Dictator" (that's from memory, but I think it's right!. I'll check sources and post the link.</P>


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I was wrong. It was Chaplin's, "The Great Dictator," and it was 1940 (IMdB). </P>

[quote user="bandwgn86"]green lantern lol[/quote]

anybody see that movie? I heard it sucked

never bothered. (Green Lantern) I am a Marvel Comics guy, BUT I am also a Batman and Green Lantern fan. (plus the Green Arrow is waaaaaay cooler than Hawkeye); but Marvel's my main dish.

I saw cool looking CGI for GL but I just wasn't impressed enough to go see it.

I watched both the "Thing From Outer Space" original "Thing"

and John Carpenter's (?) "Thing" with kurt russel.

that version was twisted. I liked it more but damn did it freak me out.

you guys have heard about that Large Hadron Collider over in Europe? they thought they had stuff go faster than light a couple weeks ago. Anyone thought about having all those magnets in one place for a long time...
I googled it and got their public statement on the project ... scared me even more. I have no clue but my instincts say lots of magnets aren't a good thing, anyways picked these lines out

27kms of magnets, they say theres a big hole in our magnetosphere...wonder if this did it


They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic
field, achieved using superconducting electromagnets. These are built
from coils of special electric cable that operates in a superconducting
state, efficiently conducting electricity without resistance or loss of
energy. This requires chilling the magnets to about -271°C – a temperature colder than outer space!

Thousands of magnets of different varieties and sizes are used
to direct the beams around the accelerator. These include 1232 dipole
magnets of 15 m length which are used to bend the beams, and 392
quadrupole magnets, each 5–7 m long, to focus the beams. Just prior to
collision, another type of magnet is used to 'squeeze' the particles
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weird they only give the length of magnet, wonder the width and depth of these things