So that knife didn't have any Thing cells to spread to the others? The Thing is less transmissible than AIDS. For most of the movie, it really doesn't feel like the Thing "infects others on a cellular level" so much as it consumes them, digests them, and replicates them, like a sentient blob of gory plasticine.
The only one you could make a case for the infection method is Windows, who gets his head chomped on rather than being fully consumed.
Windows isn't a Thing. They kill him out of fear because they've been led to believe the Thing replicates on a cellular level when really it's like you said.
They killed Windows because Palmer fricked him up and transferred Thing cells to him. It absolutely does work that way and Windows would have stood back up later to kill them all. Didn’t you hear the alien scream when Mac blasted him with the thrower?
Both you and OP are morons
Blair's INFECTION.EXE is not exactly a very reliable source. Clearly the Thing can replicate cells, but if it spread like a virus, it'd just need to cough in their general direction and get in them to take over the entire camp.
they're probably all infected but if you get a big dose, it goes faster
I think that programm is a simulationof how fast it could spread according to 1 example of how fast 1 cell can infect the other and how they both continue to infect exponentially.
So why aren't they all Things after the dog licks a bunch of them?
they are. the test didn't actually work
>blair sits in his office and drinks whiskey for days straight trying to imagine how the thing works
>programs conway's game of life 2.0 and simulates an absolute worst case scenario
>drunken paranoia leads him to believe the thing operates on cellular level and causes him to melt down and decide they had to all die
The thing really is required to grab and consume people to imitate them, and blair was simply wrong
The computer simulation was an eighties contrivance and a mistake in hindsight, because too often the audience takes it as fact and breaks the logic of the film
Nothing the film shows you in how the thing actually works supports blair's simulation
Correct, but also windows was completely fricked and dying
Presumably they swabbed the knife with alcohol between taking samples
I think Windows just wipes the blood off the knife on his jeans before taking it straight into his finger.
The Thing was the friend we made along the way
> cheating b***h
>0 IQ
Childs was infected at the end.
>70 IQ
We don't know who was infected by the end.
>100 IQ
MacReady was infected
>200 IQ
They were both infected. It was The Thing speaking with itself.
>3,000 IQ
Nobody was the thing and it was all about mental illness
>Trying too hard IQ
Your post.
That’s the A24 way of thinking
Technically, sure.
But MacReady was infected as well.
We never know for sure it can spread on a cellular level, Fuchs just says they should treat it as if it can.
Carpenter made a mistake by including the dialogue where they speculate that the thing may just need one cell to take you over and that it could be like a virus. morons to this day are taking that seriously and discussing that and think they're so fricking smart
>hurr why didn't the thing just release a cloud of spores in a room and kill them all instantly, hurr why didn't the thing just drop 1 cell of matter in some food
The thing just eats you and replicates you. This entire virus thing comes from the stupid computer scene, a computer that can just go ''beep boop, all of humanity will be consumed in 10 days beep boop'' like it's some advanced AI that can perfectly predict the mechanics of an alien species that has never been encountered. Those computer scenes were there to explain things to literal morons, and wasn't Carpenter forced to add those scenes?
I don't believe the term "virus" has the same definition as it does in contemporary terms as versus movie lingo (people often forget exists). The term virus in this has simply to do with the object contagion / entity that is consuming other lifeforms. That's it, that's all. It eats you, transfers its blood to you, it owns you and you are apart of it.
Even a moron should know that this is called assimilation and not a virus
The Thing here. I don't know how I work I just thingify people. Hope that clears it up!
Anons...
come here you little shits i'm gonna thing you!!!
I'm also the thing now thanks to this butthole, nice to meet you
Thanks The Thing!
unironically this, the Thing™ can only mimic human intelligence and behaviour but doesn't actually understand it. So it doesn't always choose what we would consider the most logical means of infecting people because it doesn't KNOW what's it's doing so much as it is acting on a kind of instinct.
>the Thing™ can only mimic human intelligence and behaviour but doesn't actually understand it
It's just like me!
Digits confirm, that was The Thing speaking.
Stuff it, Thing.
He's full of shit. I'm the real Thing. I frick people and replicate them so I can frick them again. Fricking plebs.
HOLD STILL WHILE I THING YA
In spite of what the characters say about a single cell being able to take over an organism, the Thing clearly needs to latch onto someone to assimilate them. If it didn't, all it'd need to do was lick every doorknob in the outpost to infect everywhere.
I want to watch that version of the thing.
>I think everyone on this base is starting to get cabin fever. I keep catching people giving blowjobs to all the doorknobs.
>The only one you could make a case for the infection method is Windows, who gets his head chomped on rather than being fully consumed.
It's strange that Copper gets his arms bit off then just dies and doesn't come back either
>Aw who's a good boy? We won't let those nasty Norwegians get you. Come on, you're sharing my dinner and sleeping in my bed tonight.
As a Norwegian, the "Norwegian" the guy speaks at the start is hilariously butchered.
I don't think that one singular cell can infect anyone, If your immune system is fine then it can just kill those cells just fine. If not everyone is fricked regardless of the end of the movie.
But close contact in long time period would've increase the risk of assimilation.
Ok, listen up! We're going down into the dark, creepy, spooky basement. We know there's a sneaky thing running around that can silently kill people and transform them into things. We need to plant these bombs so we can blow this place up. So, let's split up and go off alone out of eye sight!
If the thing can replicate organic life forms then it should also replicate plants? So the thing could've infect any plant on the base and survive?
1. What happened to the pool of blood that was clearly a sentient hostile being that Mac dropped during the blood test?
2. What happened to Fuchs?
3. How didn't Clark the dog guy or anyone else get infected when he was isolated with the dog all day?
It died. It can only be on its own for a limited amount of time.
A thing was chasing him and he burned himself up rather than get thingified.
It liked him. It wasn't completely and utterly hostile and could have feelings too.
1. Mac either burned it up with the flamethrower or it was blown up with the rest of the outpost at the end of the movie.
2. It's vague but I think he killed himself to prevent himself from being assimilated.
3. The Thing knew he'd be the first to be suspected so he saved him for later.
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