Can it recreate alien technology out of human machinery? It has the ability to perfectly imitate organisms after killing and assimilating them. Quarantine is used for anyone who is a contact of someone infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, whether the infected person has symptoms or not. That Time The Clone Wars Was Infected By Brain Worms Just in time for Halloween, StarWars.com revisits one of the creepiest Star Wars stories ever. About the eraser-lip contact: yeah, that actually seems stupid for Blair to do (though in the original story it is argued--incorrectly--that something so alien could not be harmful to any life on earth). Dog infects Palmer- I believe that was his shadow and not Norris's. (Note: Blair knew he was infected while in solitude, which is why there is a noose in the frame when MacReady opens the window.). No need to worry. This is the first film I've seen this done so well and discreet that it's almost missed if you're not looking for it. Is there a logical reason for it to be there? I assume that it was the dog that was attacked (and presumably infected) by the frozen Thing near the beginning of the film, so was it just hiding in an abandoned shed while the other Things were out killing/infecting people? Who is the true villain of Peter Pan: Peter, or Hook? After they landed, the passenger was killed when he accidentally dropped a g… No. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. Who Goes There? I have to say it didn't make a big impression on me, which would be why I didn't recall that part. Carter) tries to leave MacReady out in the storm after finding his torn jacket outside, suggesting that he may have been attacked. If this is true, and Palmer was indeed the first to be assimilated by the dog, then that means that Childs was also infected, except the subsequent blood test proved that he was human. To sum it up: Assimilations are always shown with direct contact. Childs and the rest of the station's crew spot two Norwegians chasing an Alaskan Malamute in a helicopter. If The Thing could infect with only a few cells, the Norris and Palmer Things would have infected Garry, Copper, and Clark when they tied them up, or even other characters through a seemingly innocuous tap on the skin (i.e. 5. And as for Blair. The grammatical nature of וָאִמָּלְטָה in the context of Job 1:15. Is it really proof that Mac was already assimilated and the organisms controlling him are just extremely good at hiding it, or is something else going on? I remember losing myself after the crash. So, what happens now? I also think the process must be gradual when just a few particles are involved. At the end of The Thing we see Mac and Childs together and it seems like a natural course of thought to wonder which, if not both men are infected. The head was trying to survive on its own when it knew the rest of Norris' body would be burned. The Thing is seemingly millions or billions of cells that simply take over other cells and reproduce/replicate them. The movie gives us no sign that there's any more than one ship, but it also doesn't give us the entire history of the creature. We also know that the Thing will divide into different parts that will act independently if they need to, and that it can infect people on a micro level. All the time when an assimilation takes place it happens with a direct contact (e.g. That ship looked rather sophisticated, which suggests that an alien race of considerable technological acumen created it. He doesn't know, because if anyone knew, it would reduce the effectiveness of the movie's central theme: paranoia and uncertainty.