How could a computer in 1982 estimate such a probability? I thought the Thing was supposed to be kino.
How could a computer in 1982 estimate such a probability? I thought the Thing was supposed to be kino
Adam Watson
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Hunter Smith
It's sci-fi you fucking retard.
Nathan Miller
what the fuck do you know about computers?
Nicholas Bell
those were Wilford Brimley's notes
Evan Russell
>Number of people infected since contact
>Time taken for person to be assimilated
>Create exponential equation for global population
It's just a bit of calculus.
Anthony Adams
>how can a computer compute something
That's what computers are best at, retard. Computers are incredibly, incredibly efficient at computing numbers and probabilities. The entire infrastructure of a computer is based entirely around processing numbers.
In the reality of processing a probability, it's a couple equations which are done in a couple steps and take up a couple bytes. The problems arise when you make huge arrays and do a ton of loops, and when you're doing graphics (which are repeated loops/arrays of several equations)
They had computers computing stocks and all kinds of shit back then. Considering it's sci-fi who would have thunk.
Carter Jones
What's with all these stoners making The Thing threads?
Oliver Parker
It ran the Atari simulation, crunched some numbers and came up with that percentage. Doesn't seem too far fetched, even for an old computer.
Nathaniel Ward
It's a simple calculation of 100% - Pt, where Pt is the probability that none of the team members may be infected. Retard
Nathaniel Reyes
Nathan Brown
Is this your 2nd day on this board kid?
Anthony Gutierrez
Phony terminals and bad hacking scenes are one of my guilty pleasures.
Andrew Clark
But what IS a computer, though?
Austin Brooks
Third, faggot.
Luis Hughes
By compairing with other known organisms that infect. Who knows. It could even be wrong.
Juan Campbell
Lame. Nothing suggests they have different tech from what is normal in 1982, ye fool. Computers can be wrong, also.
Caleb Walker
Ah, my bad
Jason Williams
What can and can't the the thing assimilate? We see it assimilate dogs and humans, so let's just say it's safe to assume it can assume any mammal at the very least.
But breaking it real down, could it assimilate something as small as an insect, say an Ant for example? And what about plants? They are a living thing after all?
Jonathan Clark
I really liked it when I knew Yea Forums praised it as a "so bad it's good movie", but it turned out they're serious and rate it as a "great movie" without bad elements and cheesy acting and stupid plots. Now I don't like it, because Yea Forums doesn't genuinely like it beyond "haha 80s look at that dumb effect nobody could be scared of that"
Cooper Mitchell
1/10
lacks effort.
Jacob Wright
I'd love to kick that little cunt in the fotch
Nathan Hall
@111928575
No.
Carter Cox
Ya this "simulation" was fucking dumb. Like how would you even begin to program an alien entity you barely know anything about.
Nicholas Adams
spbp
Lincoln Jackson
You fill in the unknown variables using guesswork and approximation.
Welcome to how shit gets done in the real world
Isaac Richardson
>How can a computer in a sci-fi do x?
>How can a man survive (action stunt)?
>How can a (supernatural being) be real?
>Having assburgers this bad