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Awkward beards and mustaches also

Okay, call me a sap, but I do find it fun when scifi characters geek out about material science and engineering, even when it’s hamhanded and silly. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX well if you don't want our help in the lab we're just gonna go outside and go back to making out

@JoeWynne
#Monsterdon #LowBudgetMovie Respect!

"I was speaking metalphorically of course"

HAhahahhah ha ha heh

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Oh no, I'm late for #Monsterdon!!!

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"Well, my assumption may seem fantastic..."

Yes Dr., yes it does 🎉

…and we're back into a Casablanca.

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@steter I think we should award points if any of the other passengers comment on your choice of movie and/or join in with monsterdon.

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everyone stop breathing for the next half an hour, okay, we need this to be _precise_

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Wait, this lady is a Brit? With not a British accent to be found. Only on #monsterdon lol

Professor. Dude. You can just say it looks like a fuel tank and a little rocket engine you don't have to talk all fancy #Monsterdon

Funny, she doesn't look like MacDuff.
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Okay, it's described as being like titanium, but better.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorland

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It just occurred to me that some of these people are supposed to be British. So either British people sounded different in the 50's (which could well be,) or all the British characters are played by Americans.

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I can think of something that is NOT fantastic....

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were these lines fed to a dog who then barfed them up on a rug?
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"From Outer Space?"

"I could not deny the possibility"

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

So what, it's Titanium?

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“Must be in Chicago.” Wait, this castle is located on the moors of… Illinois?

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

It didn't come from Wales, genius. #Monsterdon

The measurements are singularly precise!

Oh, that precise you say?

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"One fifth the specific gravity of steel!"

So, uh, lithium-magnesium alloy?

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We're deducing this rocket is a rocket from first principles #monsterdon

What is it? It's a bunch of random bits we found out back and want you to make it look like a space ship bit. #Monsterdon

"The measurements are singularly precise"

Yes measurements are like that

#Monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

"the measurements are singularly precise"

and you're comparing it to... ?? #monsterdon

#monsterdon What on earth is _THAT_? I don't know, but it has a flared base... #TheManFromPlanetX

let me get her fucking coat i want that whole shit with the collars and cuffs and the belt too #monsterdon

The $64 question

I think the movie's budget is trying to tell us something

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Wait, I know they're supposed to be in Scotland, but he just said "back in the States".

Are these other people supposed to be Scottish?
#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

it's ALIENS

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Will we at least get a Christopher Lee cameo now? #monsterdon

nice self-compliment, you're good at measuring, good job, now, how big is the goddamn thing?

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"Don't worry I'm 70% sure this isn't a bomb."

This movie is a long coat commercial, isn't it?
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In 2024, $64 questions were $760.

Now they're........you don't wanna know.

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They dropped a sea anchor #monsterdon

And… capitalism enters the room.

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Mystereous rocket-shaped prop found! Perhaps a giant's lawn dart?

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Remember when questions were only $64? Inflation's a BITCH #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX aliens lost their ball in your yard

Kinda looks like a bomb #MONSTERDON

AMAZING LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS!

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I was assuming there would be, I dunno, anyScottishaccentsatall. More fool me. #monsterdon

That's a silly prop. I'd look to know more about it.

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

why would he say to another American 'as we stay back in the states?'

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"is it a bomb?" poke poke poke #monsterdon

"yes, the nazis, you asshole"

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

@mariellequinton aw now *I* want tea

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

You found my cudgel!!!

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#Monsterdon Professor looks disgusted to be in this scene.

This is so old it was only a $64 dollar question.

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I wasn't expecting the Internet Archive version to be colorized #monsterdon

Is this "The Trained Reporter" or the "Man from Planet X"?

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this is indeed, a very bomb-shaped rocket

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50s lawn darts _ruled_

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"i'll add 3 more of my own, i like it"
puke yuck i am puking right now
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I'd by that for $64 dollars.
Nah doesn't have the same right to it.
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@Violinknitter They are very under appreciated in our current day and age.

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#monsterdon You hear that? That's the lamentations of the wolves, won't even try to eat the actors. So much plastic.

They've entered Silent Hill. #Monsterdon

"I bet right now he doesn't know what day it is. He hasn't been right lately."

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

wait they get lightning in the UK?
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"What on earth is that?"

Looks like a closeup of a push mower

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Hmm. For some reason I thought this was going to be a dub. I guess it's an American production?

Well, I've definitely never seen it.

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"do me on the moors you spiv twat, I'm ready..."

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is the alien also going to be American?

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...I'm lost on how we got from a university in California to this random tower in the middle of nowhere (Scotland? Scotland) that has the same telescope

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

Lightning without thunder. The Scottish Moors are muting the audio track of the storm.
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you can tell how far it is from the number of seconds, but we're not gonna discuss how to convert time into distance.

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"How's the view from the top of the rise?"

"Foggy, just like everything else on this set!"

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Sheet lightning is some of my favorite lightning ever. Too bad they didn’t show any

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oh, she's supposed to be British? 🥴
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What an amazing non-descript planet

The Hound of the Baskervilles makes a cameo!

Mysterious lightning!

#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

"Static electricity maybe."
"This time of year?"

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

the only place where planet x can be seen hurtling towards earth is this observatory positioned in a low lying area in the middle of the hazy scottish moors. #monsterdon

Does lightning count as "Blink Lights"? #Bingo

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"This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but, well, I already loathe you."

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It grows larger nightly.

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

That telescope was made from a gattling gun. #Monsterdon

I like the painted black pipe fittings holding up the telescope. Gosh stabilization tech has come a long way

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As a trained reporter, I am definitely driving through the fog right now.....

"The last time I saw you I got your solemn promise when I grew up I could be your girl."

Ah. Ahem.

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"hullo, lightning" -- Artie from the Bronx

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Back in the days when it was acceptable to blow your moist, already-breathed smoke it people's faces.

#monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX1951

Just the Hound of the Baskervilles, no worries. #Monsterdon

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Pipe smoking is doing a lot of the acting here

@RamenCatholic our version is a bigger than the B+W version, not necessarily a statement on the colourist’s abilities.
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the view out of the telescope is delightfully round with a planet in the middle and some nice stars all about it!

Got mine, get yours!

#MonsterdonBingo #monsterdon #TheManFromPlanetX

RE: https://hypertext.monster/users/cherizilla/statuses/115164754525212504

"Yes, I saw Casablanca, why?"

#monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX

The Fog, The Moors. It's always those 2 with you folks.

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Werewolf! #monsterdon

We drink tea for something to do.

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the LOOMING PASSAGE OF TIME

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That is the worst telescope ever committed to film. Literally made of steel pipes.

#monsterdon #manfromplanetx

Eerie place these moors... full of backdrops!

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#Monsterdon #ManFromPlanetX "It's tripled in size." That's what she said!

So we are in Scotland right? When do we get to see some Scottish people? #Monsterdon