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Science Fiction Movies
My interest in flying saucers is strictly limited to science fiction movies. The first such movie I ever saw, back when I was just a kid, was Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956). I’ll never forget the way a flying saucer lands, and an alien steps out from the force field surrounding that spacecraft. Before the alien has a chance to say, “Take me to your leader,” we let him have it, killing him on the spot. On the other hand, sometimes we were the ones with the flying saucer, as in Forbidden Planet, which was also made in 1956.
It didn’t have to be flying saucers, of course, just as long as there was some kind of spacecraft that would allow extraterrestrials to visit Earth or for us to visit them. And the distance travelled need not be great, as in Cat Women on the Moon (1953). More likely, the extraterrestrials would be on a planet in our solar system, such as Venus in Queen of Outer Space (1958), or Mars in War of the Worlds (1953).
As for the possibility of encountering extraterrestrials originating outside our own solar system, it was necessary to imagine some kind of faster-than-light space travel, such as hyperspace or warp drive. Since we have no such technology, our visiting other planets outside our solar system had to be imagined as taking place far into the future. Aliens from other planets, on the other hand, could arrive at any time.
As indicated above, as far as I was concerned, all this was just for fun. I never...
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