But remember that the chopper the Americans use is different than the one the Norwegians use. The Thing doesn't want to snap any important parts he may need. However, you do have a good point about the Norwegians, but we are unsure if they were really scientists. The short length of their visit seemed to spark that the Norwegians already knew about it. It may of been military.

Mikey- Exactly how i pictured it happening! Yes very eerie as is the whole movie and soundtrack. Its immediately after that I think that Palmer and Blair double team poor Fuchs. FF- Yes it is very clear to me as well that the Sweedes use a different chopper and most likely other different tech native to Sweeden. I also think it possible they may have been military. Even so, the military would posess specialists of the same types as the Americans to send to Antartica. They would need those said experts to survive in possibly the worst place for winter on the planet. They wouldnt send a Vulcanologist or a Flat out military group that might not posess much needed knowlege to Antartica. Anyway as I see it, thats moot. Thing already posessed the Advanced knowlegde it needed and didn't need much or any of our Primitive technolgical knowlege

Well, I still feel that that was what motivated its selectivity of targets. Of all the people it chose that were vulnerable...

I very much agree It was definately selective of its targets.

what i want to know is how does a scientist who has never probaly worked with cutting torches and shop machines just start building a spaceceraft. and if it was "The Thing" that knew how to make the ship how did it know how to use and manipulate all the human machinerary

Our level of technology that currently seems to us to be complicated probably seems like a child's tinker-toys to the mind of a supremely advanced alien. Not only that, but our particular alien likely carries all of the requisite knowledge of every other organism it's ever encountered. So in essence, the Thing is a super advanced collective of minds that potentially spans the universe. It probably found the cutting torch to be slightly less intricate than a butter knife.

Unless it could mend the metal. Or, it doesn't really matter. Consider the material our rockets are made of...

well even if it is to fly to another locale that would be safer :roll: where did he obtain all the knowledge of are metallurgy to be able to use and form are metal here on earth :shock:

Well, they did assimilate the mechanic and pilot in training.

thats true thats true

I think that Blair was indeed a Thing when he went berzerk. I personally feel that Blair destroyed the radio room not because he wanted to keep the organism from leaving the Outpost, but so that the others couldn't call for help: this would leave the others without the ability to warn outsiders either about the presence of the Thing or that they shouldn't come into contact with the outpost. With the radios gone, Blair-Thing knew that rescuers would come that much faster, providing him with fresh bodies to infect. The gig was up with the men at 31, but newcomers wouldn't be aware of what had happened.

and that would make sense because he hasd handeled the organism alot when it had attacked. he had alll the time in the world to be assemelated when he was alone with the carcasse of the thing i will also say that he was probaly the thing before he went bezerk

I don't think he was a thing when he got beserk, just because it was dumb to act like it. He could expect that he would be banned to a shed when he shot to Childs and when he did whatever he did with Windows and the whole communications room. If he was a thing he should had to think logical either way and keep on the background. He also couldn't expect that he would be banned to the tool shed. He also could go to Mac's shed, where he couldn't build any spaceship at all, so, what would be the advantage of that? Palmer or Norris must have been assimilated him at some time during his stay at the toolshed.