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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
The Eltanin Antenna is an object photographed on the sea floor by the Antarctic oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin in 1964, while photographing the sea bottom west of Cape Horn. Due to its regular antenna -like structure and upright position on the seafloor at a depth of 3,904 metres (12,808 ft), some proponents of fringe and UFO-related ...
In 1947, Robert A. Heinleinpublished Rocket Ship Galileo, a science fiction novel featuring a Nazi Moon base. In 2012, the movie Iron Skyfeatures a Nazi base on the moon surviving until modern times and launching an assault on earth via a fleet of flying saucers. In 2018, Revellreleased a scale modelkit of a Nazi flying saucer called "Haunebu ...
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. [1][2] The operation was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr., USN, Officer in Charge, Task Force 68 ...
July 19, 2003 (2003-07-19) Running time. 92 minutes. Countries. United States Bulgaria. Languages. English Russian. Alien Hunter is a 2003 American-Bulgarian science-fiction - thriller film directed by Ronald Krauss and starring James Spader, Carl Lewis and Leslie Stefanson.
The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyrein the 2nd century AD. The rounding of the Cape of Good Hopeand Cape Hornin the 15th and 16th centuries proved that Terra Australis Incognita("Unknown Southern Land"), if it existed, was a continent in its own right.
Ancient Aliens: The Game is a city-building game developed by Fifth Column Games. The user plays as an alien-human hybrid who must oversee the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The game was released in 2016 as a free-to-play mobile and Facebook game. A PC port was released by Legacy Games in September 2022.
Piri Reis map. The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by ...