First of all, many people mentioned that it is impossible for this disgusting creature to build such a high-tech spacecraft. Some people even give the film a low score because of this, which is really useless such a classic sci-fi setting. In fact, the "evil or disgusting" of a life form is only viewed from your human perspective, and it cannot be judged from this that it must not be highly civilized. At the same time, this disgusting thing may not have been the civilization that drives the high-tech flying saucer. Just like in "Alien", the flying saucer may belong to another intelligent civilization, but encountered this kind of creature during cosmic voyages. The alien civilization crashed on the earth due to the influence of this creature, but because the original intelligent life on the spacecraft has been swallowed and replaced by this creature, there is no original pilot in the spacecraft’s remains, but the spacecraft. This extraterrestrial creature was found near the crash site. After being frozen by low temperature for thousands of years, it finally encountered human beings. Secondly, many people like to compare the monsters in "Alien" with the life in "The Thing". They believe that aliens can survive in many extreme environments such as the high temperature and cold cosmic vacuum. Therefore, they think that aliens are the only kind of life. It is the most perfect and awesome. In fact, as long as you calm down and think about it and analyze it, you will find that this kind of life in "The Thing" is more terrifying and stronger than that in "Alien". It can even be said that the ultimate life form is an evolutionary bug, almost Open the existence of plug-ins. Let's take a look at the characteristics of this kind of life, why it is more terrifying and more powerful than the alien. Friends who are familiar with the film know that this kind of alien life has the following characteristics: 1) It can swallow or fuse other life, and after swallowing to obtain the genetic information of the prey, it can perfectly copy the life form of the target. Don’t underestimate this skill. It is not only very powerful in disguise, but also in a civilization like humans with strong thoughts and emotions, this feature is almost a deadly way of disguising killing and spreading, because it It can not only paralyze the hesitation and blind the judgment of individuals, but also fundamentally shake the mutual trust between members of the group, and even make group members kill each other in mutual suspicion, so that they can take the opportunity to swallow and merge more individuals. It is almost a devastating method for the civilized species of socialization activities! 2) After acquiring the life characteristics of the prey, not only can the biological shape and physiological characteristics be exactly the same as the life form of the original prey, but also the original memory, knowledge and skills of the prey life can be obtained through this kind of replication. , In other words, when it replicates a person, it not only "looks like that person", not only is it physically identical in appearance to the original person, but it also speaks his language to understand him. Skills and possessing his memory (In the film, it can be seen that before being discovered, the person replaced by devouring has the same language and memory skills as the original, and can even drive and use instruments and tools, etc., which illustrates the knowledge and knowledge of using the prey before his death. Skills are not stressful for this creature, and this is why this creature can drive at the end of the film, even if it may not have made a spacecraft of its own, to start it, because after integrating the life of the original spacecraft pilot It has acquired its relevant knowledge and skills) 3) This creature has strong learning and thinking abilities. In fact, many people’s first reaction to this kind of biological form is how “disgusting” they feel, and they feel that this kind of creature is “low-level”, and even go to the short comment area to check it out. Some people judge that this kind of creature is “inferior”. It is impossible to match something as tall as a spaceship. In fact, if you calm down and think carefully, you will find that these are all wishful thinking, even stubborn and arrogant views from a human perspective. What is "disgusting"? Is it possible that in the eyes of other cosmic life forms, you human being is the most disgusting? What is inferior? In the vast universe, the form of life may be far beyond human imagination, so “practical” may be the ultimate direction of evolution. At the same time, the setting of this kind of creature is that in addition to fusing the target life to acquire its physiological characteristics and perfectly copy it, it can also acquire the knowledge, memory, language skills, etc. of the target prey, even if the target prey does not have it before. Knowledge, it can be acquired through the external environment and even various sources of information to make appropriate changes synchronously. After becoming a human, not only did he know how to clean the shower room, he even burned the laboratory decisively when he later learned that the human being was preparing for a test experiment to be identified. After learning that humans can judge whether they are of the same kind based on the inorganic substances attached to their bodies, I even know that the relics of the fusion target are deliberately collected, and then re-disguised after being replaced (Finally, I also know that the fusion male protagonist gets the earrings and re-wears it, if it is not the female protagonist who remembers the details very clearly and admirably is calm and careful , It will almost succeed); 4) Each piece of tissue and each group of cells is almost an independent individual. This feature makes this kind of life, in addition to the overall devastating attack (such as flamethrower), any weapon that will produce the "separation" of cell tissue (from the cold weapon of the knife and axe to the kinetic energy or shock wave fragments of the gun, grenade, etc.) It is almost impossible to eliminate it completely (according to the clues in the film, even if the corpse burned by the flamethrower, this creature still survived) This feature almost makes it the most difficult to deal with in history. There is no one of a kind of alien life forms. In fact, when you face such an alien creature, you are not so much facing a monster as if you are facing a group of molecular clusters containing trillions of terrorist intelligence cells. Any point of cell tissue in the world will have independent consciousness, and will have the ability to capture, infect, fuse, and replace the target life. But it's more than that. If you just think that they become independent individuals and completely separate lives after separation, then you are wrong again. These organs and tissues that have been chopped off, shattered, and blasted, although they can be separate Acting separately and independently, but with an invisible internal connection, they can not only fight and fight in separate formations, but also cooperate with each other, and even reunite with each other when possible. (For example, when the female protagonist's flashlight is illuminated, the two broken hands are re-merging through the organization). And what does this mean that you have thought about it? The truth behind it is the real horror of this creature! Because this means that when these separated individuals merge again, the memories, skills, and knowledge of all the prey that they have previously merged and digested will also be gathered together! Now you may suddenly realize that this seemingly "low-level disgusting" creature is actually not low-level at all! ! It may even be millions of times smarter than you! ! Because it not only learns, but also the separation and integration of countless subdivided small units in it has brought together the essence of countless intelligent life’s technological civilization, emotional thoughts, knowledge and skills, and the objects of these accumulations are not only humans on earth. ! When we carefully analyze these characteristics together, and then look at this creature, we will find that this is almost a monster setting against the sky, not only its life form is strong (strong vitality, evolutionary spreading) The method is extremely efficient) and there is a high degree of wisdom and knowledge accumulation, as well as the ultimate ability of continuous learning and self-evolution. When a life possesses these abilities at the same time, even if it is Alien or Godzilla, it is difficult to surpass it as the ultimate threat to other lives. Finally, I would like to say that, in fact, compared to the exploration in the universe, it is generally easier to overlook the various expeditions of the intelligent civilization on the familiar home planet that it thinks it is born and raised. For example, humans’ expeditions to primitive jungles, Wannian glaciers, dark deep seas and other environments have indeed brought together many elites of human civilization in these scientific expeditions, but these scientists or practitioners’ explorations and scientific investigations in the above-mentioned environments are generally common. They are all based on their own disciplines or industries, and they often rely on humans’ original common sense for potential dangers. You may think that the greatest danger basically refers to the dangerous natural environment or dangerous wild animals, etc., rarely, or almost There is no clear safety operation procedure and prohibited items from the perspective of the safety of all human beings after encountering unknown things. In fact, if it is in cosmic voyages, because of more emphasis, at least a series of strict measures against the threat of alien species will be formulated, and there will be strict prohibitions in the operation, but human beings on the earth are similar to the recklessness of the above-mentioned environments. Acting, it may not only pose a threat to the operator or his own scientific research team, but also an unknown organism or an unknown virus. Under certain irresponsible operations, it may cause All mankind is in crisis. The director of the film showed this thought-provoking lesson in a special way. It can be seen that the characters in the film have committed a series of serious unforgivable mistakes after discovering unknown life forms, which finally led to disaster. In the absence of any isolation and protection measures, contact with corpses of unknown shape and unknown cause of death or even unknown creatures, and even move the corpse into a heated room, and even a circle of people began to dissect the corpse without any isolation and protection measures. , Including the corpses of later alien creatures, it can only be said that it is not just a rhythm of death, but a great death. Imagine in real life, how many humans take samples of ice layers in polar glaciers every day, investigate unknown insects and microbes in primitive jungles, and search for energy deposits in the dark deep sea.. In these various behaviors, in addition to the professional knowledge of the industry, do the relevant personnel have the slightest minimum safety awareness and corresponding operating specifications for the unknown things that may be encountered? Even if there is, the greedy human beings are lured by huge benefits , How many can comply with those operating norms that may be the last barrier to human safety? How much awe of the arrogant human beings can maintain towards nature and the things they don’t know so far? There is a sentence in "Three Body" that may be the best comment on this-weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is.
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