@Taweret makes it hard to keep up with the timeline! #monsterdon

America’s answer to everything - a new type of weapon

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@blogdiva Just like Microsoft stole "Cortana" from Halo. #Monsterdon

"We will return your father and the police officer after we've err......'had our fun'" #monsterdon

"You have two of your lunar days" is just chef-kiss quality scifi dreck. #monsterdon

if the fate of the world rested on me remembering like 10 digits for long enough to write it down we would be toast #monsterdon

Aw shit they made him into a zombie #monsterdon

"...I am now known as General GPT"

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@Taweret see, they know baseball! But they maybe Yankee fans so...
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"What have you done with my father?" "We sucked his brain dry of information and left him a mindless husk. Is that wrong?" #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

Goddamned alien LLMs #monsterdon

Something tells me they're not gonna get much out of Coppy McShootington's brain there. #Monsterdon

Their pulse slowed, but the rest of them is normal speed? #monsterdon

@diazona They don't shortchange you!

#EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers
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How come their hearts are stopped but not their flapping jaws? #monsterdon

Wait, did we just get Arrivaled? #monsterdon

No pulse, but my brain works fine. Neat!
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Really feel like the cop is going to be the Red Shirt on this.
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@georgieboy

That man is a communist!
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so, that portal is like... the flying saucer's vagina, right?

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@JoeWynne I am enjoying the number of flying saucers per unit time

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Dammit, Mrs. Scientist. Don't be a narc.

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#Monsterdon The Cyclotron is the best ride at the fair - they don't need anything else!

You get these great careful detailed composite shots then the loud clomp clomp as they step into the cheap plywood set. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

Cop's gonna give the UFO a ticket.

"...hey, you can't park here!"

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which is the movie we saw weeks ago with a beach scene?

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Chesapeake Bay looks a lot like Malibu.
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Come on you came all this way, you can't just leave without saying hi to the aliens

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boy meets flying saucer, classic romance structure. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Heya, Russ! This is Secretary Sweetie comin' to ya' on Channel 8, come back now. #CB_Radio_Mama

@CactuarJoe Look, they understand humans. #Monsterdon

these are the best saucers EVAR #Monsterdon

Honest question: did cars in the 50s really have such ridiculously underdamped suspension, or is that just a movie thing? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Headcanon: Professor Dad just thinks that the aliens might be super sexy, and that's why he's stealing a car to meet with them, ignoring both the army and his wife.

I like how the bench seats let directors stage scenes where people got in their cars on the wrong side. Even though I don't think people really did that very often. #monsterdon

We're gonna have to face facts, here, Russ. Your wife's a snitch. #Monsterdon

Off to a secret late night meeting is it now? Well known spot in the city park is it? #monsterdon

She's going to snitch on her husband?!?

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Whoah, THIS is grounds for divorce! Carol, you jerk! Your husband's trying to save the world! And you're being selfish and stupid, squealing on him like that! #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

..girl that's just a shut door, you can follow him #Monsterdon

The camera angles... did they film the corridor separately from the guys walking down it?

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@blogdiva They do though

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this is a really nice hotel if it has a shortwave transmitter/receiver in the guest rooms.

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Imagine if they loudly discussed the Bomb with open windows and lax security, amateur hour here!
Are they blaming Dr Ross for that whole base being destroyed or what?
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"...our beige uniforms won't allow us to make decisions"

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@Lazarou She’s just a woman, she’s not going to do anything! #Monsterdon

maybe if we didn't have a policy of shooting at people who definitely have superior weapons idk

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next headline: Dipshit Writes Bigoted Song About Skyhook Incident #monsterdon

Wait- was he taping over the message when the batteries died?
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Ooooh wiggle waggley slow tape sounds… #monsterdon

Wasn't this Skyhook project secret? And now it's front page news? Something has changed....

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"remember to drink your ovaltine" #monsterdon

If only the batteries had died sooner… #monsterdon

"The atmosphere is becoming toxic" - was the barbecue *that* bad?

"The gas generator has stopped" - new euphemism for flatulence just dropped...

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"we have not seen or heard anybody else for hours so clearly we're the last people left on earth" has big April 2020 vibes #monsterdon

I love when aliens say things like “your sun”. #Monsterdon

Guess the saucer aliens are kinda fast talkers. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers

just recording some classic #monsterdon audiologs

An interstellar conveyance! With a ceiling light which sees into people's brains!

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"Can you explain why, after contacting Dr. Marvin, we were met with violence?"

[The human race shuffles its feet] Look, you gotta understand that we suck real bad

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These visual and sound effects and sets are amazing
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oh no, they put a picture of a brain over his brain! it's all over for the general! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers Okay, I don't understand the internal layout of these flying saucers; they have a big collapsible cylinder thing that seems to take up most of their hull that they use to disgorge people, and the interior of the saucer (which isn't all that big) seems to resemble a big round barn with nothing in it except a glowing translation kleenex. The crew seem to be working behind a little window?

My cat likes the sound effects even less than I do 😾 #monsterdon

the air is becoming toxic, much like our relationship

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@dogwelder @blogdiva It was colorized later. You and I are true purists. #monsterdon

See? Cross section reveals an *intensely* smooth brain. #Monsterdon

"I'm scared Russ" she said, calmly

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"The Rose" by Bette Midler starts playing #monsterdon

yeah this must have been hand colored. #monsterdon

Welcome foolish mortal.. to the haunted saucer. #Monsterdon #EarthvstheFlyingSaucers #PaulFrees

#monsterdon okay ngl for 1956 this is some kick-ass effects going on.

Also the "Oh hey you got some very aggressive earthbeings on your hands, here we'll make them go away, there, ur welcome!"

this must have been a manual colorization, there is no way they could nail the blue energy beam like that purely algorithmically #monsterdon

I'm immediately on the side of the aliens. #monsterdon

The shimmering curtain effect under the space ship is pretty cool #monsterdon

oh crap, they brought guns to a disintegrator ray fight #monsterdon

dude, they landed on your sidewalk, and you kill the first alien that comes down? i mean, i know you're the US Army, but like, are none of you even remotely curious about them? #monsterdon

Why are these LGMs so goofy? Why don't their arms bend?

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"I'll see your rock tossing sticks and raise you a force field and an evaporation ray."

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'Muricans really gotta work on their First Contact skills #Monsterdon

The thing about the classic saucer design is that it feels like all saucer movies are part of the same story. This is like a sequel to "The Day The Earth Stood Still". #monsterdon

the saucer looks really cool and i would like it to stop making that noise

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#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers So far no toy boats yet, but lots of archaic computers eating punched tape, so that's neat.

Also, I like how disinterested the sergeant is about UFO reports; his shift is almost done and he's ready to go home.

Good thing the flying saucers don't have stealth technology

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with the noise it makes maybe it's a flying roomba #monsterdon

"...people of Earth, who ordered the Domino's Pizza?"

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Love that UFO design, tho, halfway between Adamski and the more rounded seamless The Day the Earth Stood Still saucer look :D #Monsterdon

These are some A+ saucers. #Monsterdon

"...UFO approaching"
"what does it look like"
"how should I know, it's a UFO"

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So, they're going to have sex in mission control? That's what the movie is telling us in it's coy 1950s way? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers I find it interesting that the movie people have as good an explanation for Foo Fighters as anyone has been able to come up with. If I remember correctly the current scientific consensus on foo fighters are that they were probably stress induced hallucinations or other optical effects, but weird atmospheric electrical trickery might be plausible as well.

This time we've got TV cameras so we can watch the launch from the bunker. Never tried that before.

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fool lights, not foo fighters? #Monsterdon #EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers

what is that sterno burner pan thing on the table, that's exactly like a mysterious thing my grandparents had and we could never explain during my childhood... was that a normal kitchen thing at the time, or like a fad like a Ronco Rotisserie thing? #monsterdon

@Bluedepth Fortunately we have the aliens to help clean up

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"Apparently, they blow up in outer space!"

Again, y'all's telemetry game is weak.

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characters so far:

General Mustache
Daughter of the Mustache
Professor Dad
Flying Saucers
"Birds" (that are really satellites)

#Monsterdon WE HAVE COFFEE-SIGN! WE HAVE COFFEE-SIGN!

THey sure are blasé about that saucer they saw.

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