Unless they only use brains that are dead (???)!!! Look what happened with a non-LA brain, at the end. And believe me, I feel the same way about them harvesting brains from Miami (FL). If they are more intellegent than earthlings, they came to the wrong planet to harvest brains!!!
shareba-dump-dump!
but seriously, it's theorized that we only use 4% of our brain-power. maybe the conditioning (blue lights) reformats said brain into something they can use.
what's more annoying is the "visitors" are color-blind and insert a "red" brain even though it's fairly obvious to the audience (with our simple, unconditioned brains) that this is a bad idea.
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how does a space/time-faring collective/species advance so far without QA?
messageboard rules are serious business. like really serious.
but seriously, it's theorized that we only use 4% of our brain-power. maybe the conditioning (blue lights) reformats said brain into something they can use.
That whole idea is absolute nonsense. The brain simply does not work that way.
We may not know exactly how the brain works, but we absolutely know we do not use only 4% of it. The idea is ludicrous. If that were true, you could destroy 96% of a persons brain and they should still be able to function perfectly, and we absolutely know this is not the case.
And your suggestion that scientists don't understand how trees work is equally ludicrous. You're apparently trapped in a world of outdated science:
http://www.fathom.com/course/21701736/session2.html
Basically the trees cells act like a series of nanotubes.
Once again, the idea that we only use 4% of our brain is completely idiotic, and shows a total lack of knowledge of current neuroscience.
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I sincerely thank you for the scientific counter-argument to that troll or ignoramus.
shareThat seems to be what I do with most of my time on IMDb. Science and logic apparently don't exist in the minds of many movie watchers.
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I want to extend my thanks to you as well for a good response to a stupid claim. It's absurd how often you run into this "you only use x% of your brain" nonsense. I usually just call into question what parts of their brain are they not using currently. Another thing is how do they know we don't use x% of our brain if we don't know exactly how the brain works.
shareI want to extend my thanks to you as well for a good response to a stupid claim. It's absurd how often you run into this "you only use x% of your brain" nonsense.
From my understanding, we do only use about 10% of our brain. But it's not like it's a concentrated 10%. It's more like if you were to make pin pricks all over a 3D model of a brain until 10% of that brain is pin pricks. Then that is what we would use. Not to mention that there are also connections from point to point. So basically any brain damage would either damage one of those points/sever a connection, so there are no "safe spots".
However, I am not a neurologist, or any kind of expert on this subject. Nor am I trying to state any of this as fact, I'm just repeating what I have been told a few times. But to me this would make a lot of sense.
From my understanding, we do only use about 10% of our brain. But it's not like it's a concentrated 10%.
It's more like if you were to make pin pricks all over a 3D model of a brain until 10% of that brain is pin pricks.
However, I am not a neurologist, or any kind of expert on this subject. Nor am I trying to state any of this as fact, I'm just repeating what I have been told a few times. But to me this would make a lot of sense.
Wow, people get so serious OVER A BLOODY MOVIE, come on get with the program and deal with reality, it's only a movie for gawd sake, this movie is not FACT but FICTION, why do we always have to compare logic every time a movie comes upon us.
Some people take movie watching to a level beyond comprehension and there are so many people out there that believe this sort of acting is reality, such a shame that people use movies to insist on their superiority or level of knowledge.
Wow, people get so serious OVER A BLOODY MOVIE, come on get with the program and deal with reality, it's only a movie for gawd sake, this movie is not FACT but FICTION, why do we always have to compare logic every time a movie comes upon us.
My logic is that as an observer of commentary, I felt it my right to express my thoughts, therefore my thoughts are but a contribution to the conversation, that's my logic. I actually don't believe that there has to be any internal logic to a fictitious movie, why must there be a form of guideline to make a movie work?, after all isn't fiction a call of imagination, and isn't imagination thoughts and creativity that astounds us to a level of excursion to another place?. Therefore logic to me is that any art form doesn't have to have an operational concept, as long as the belief of what you are seeing is known to be fiction not fact.
Again my thoughts are, why do people feel the need to get so serious over a work of fiction when in reality it is not a form of true belief?.
Anyway I was simply making an observation and commentary to the topic, again people are so serious about fictitious work that it astounds me that they get so worked up on something that simply is not classified as true.
My logic is that as an observer of commentary, I felt it my right to express my thoughts, therefore my thoughts are but a contribution to the conversation, that's my logic.
I actually don't believe that there has to be any internal logic to a fictitious movie, why must there be a form of guideline to make a movie work?
Again my thoughts are, why do people feel the need to get so serious over a work of fiction when in reality it is not a form of true belief?.
Thank you for your concise retort to one of the most common and lazy excuses made for bad story telling
sharei saw a documentary in youtube where is a little girl that lost half of her brain after a terrible accident that happend to her and she is behave great like nothing happend to her, how do you explain that?
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OH MY GOD! Trees have invented antigravity! We're doomed!
shareIt's worse than that. They can GROW APPENDAGES that MANUFACTURE THEIR OWN FOOD! From SUNLIGHT!! And they can breathe a gas that is DEADLY to humans! Nobody can explain that! Once they figure out that walking around thing, our duck will be seriously l'oranged! They're already making a start on it:
http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/12/03/moving-up-and-out-these-trees-were-ma de-for-walking/
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It's been proven wrong already with the 10% or less nonsense. The people that still carry it on are the idiots that haven't paid attention to scientists for the last 10-20 years. We use our full brain on a regular basis.
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exactly, the people that keeps spouting that we only use 10% of our brain are the ones that use 10% the rest of us use 100% wich is normal =) LOL ! anyways, Skyline was totaly Ok. actually cried a tear or two at the end when Jarod moved his fingers over her face,,showing her " its still me "
what's more annoying is the "visitors" are color-blind and insert a "red" brain even though it's fairly obvious to the audience (with our simple, unconditioned brains) that this is a bad idea.
Perhaps aliens find such micromanagement just plain tedious.
I was wondering what city this was supposed to be for most of the film. But, the Statue of Liberty at the end tipped me off that it was not L.A...
Two cheers for reductionism!!
In the beginning of the movie Terry is trying to get Jarrod to move to the city and they say that it's Los Angeles. The end of the movie shows the Statue of Liberty in New York, The London Eye in England, and several other large cities to let the viewer know that the attack is taking place world wide.
sharelol funny thread
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You are wrong. When you see the Statue of Liberty the film maker is showing you various parts of the world where the aliens have landed. The majority of the film absolutely takes place in L.A..
Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!
All good. Certainly not the first time I was wrong about something...
Two cheers for reductionism!!
they should have harvested ASIAN brains.
shareI'll bite. It was LA for 99% of the film, and at the end they showed a few other world cities that had been conquered, including NYC and London, and maybe a couple of others (Hong Kong?) that I didn't get a good look at...
shareThey're most likely using brains in place of processors. The people whose brains are taken are not in control of the machines.
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Thank you for addressing the "we only use X% of our brains" silliness. While this is nonesense, at times I wonder if the people who believe this are the few that IN FACT do only use 4%. Analogous to only those that believe in a given religion get to go to that religion's version of heaven.
shareThe idea that we only use a certain portion of our brain is absolutely ridiculous, and only shows that people who make such a suggestion don't really understand how the brain works at all.
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king, youre a dum-dum. to say that 'if we only use 4% of our brains, then we can destroy 96%' was a dum-dum argument. it is said that we only use 4% of what our brains should theoretically be capable of using. not that theres a 4% chunk of our brain that we use and the other 96% is just squishy filler.
king, youre a dum-dum.
to say that 'if we only use 4% of our brains, then we can destroy 96%' was a dum-dum argument.
it is said that we only use 4% of what our brains should theoretically be capable of using.
Brains from Los Angeles would be oxymoronic, wouldn't it?
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Lol! Well, you could say that these aliens are huge movie fans!
shareCause LA brains have the least wear and tear from usage on this continent
MrsPrimitiveBoomstick's bit of stuff
LMAO - maybe the Aliens knew that the average LA brain is already programmed with trivial nonsense (celebrity culture etc) so job done .
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