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The Day the Earth Stood Still Behind The Scenes

Ronald Milione

A UFO lands in a stadium in Washington D.C, setting the media alight with speculation on whether this is the end of the world or simply some new Soviet trick. The hubcap-shaped spacecraft carries two passengers, spaceman Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and his big robot guardian Gort (Lock Martin). In the f...

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Neil found this book to be a plausible representation of first contact, particularly with its non-biological entity, possibly a machine or probe, as the first encounter from an alien civilisation.

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What about The Day the Earth Stood Still?

— Episode: Cosmic Queries – ALIENS! with Jake Roper

Episode: Cosmic Queries – ALIENS! with Jake Roper

Neil found this book to be a plausible representation of first contact, particularly with its non-biological entity, possibly a machine or probe, as the first encounter from an alien civilisation.

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What about The Day the Earth Stood Still?

Ooh.

The new one with Keanu Reeves?

Well, either. I mean, there was the robot in the first one, but that wasn't really the alien.

Right. Something else controlled something else.

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