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    Getting to Know The Thing

    Ever wonder what The Thing of John Carpenter’s The Thing fame was thinking? Well, I have, and so has Peter Watts, a biologist and scifi writer. As I was IMing a friend discussing the motivations, methods, and general thought processes

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