Quote from: SpaceKase on Mar 30, 2021, 10:02:58 AMOld EU? Which media specifically? Do you mean MJF's Original Sin and the AvPvT miniseries?
I mean the pre-
Out of the Shadows stuff, which is when things were apparently reset.
I know the recent Titan and Dark Horse stuff has had Aliens increasingly popping up on numerous worlds, but they were even
more prolific in the old Dark Horse stories. According to all those comics and novels, not only were the Aliens are all over the place but mankind often had ready access to them. Even
if we assume humanity somehow completely forgot about all those encounters just because some computer records got deleted (lol), the Aliens themselves are still liberally distributed throughout the galaxy. So why would the USM need to fanny about cloning Ripley if that were true? (Answer: They wouldn't. Ergo Perez isn't just mistaken.)
The big deletion thing also falls down when you consider the fact that the USM apparently don't know about countless other Alien incidents in the interim, but
do know that a woman named Ellen Ripley destroyed one on Fury 161.
Quote from: SpaceKase on Mar 30, 2021, 10:02:58 AMWhy is modern day Iran going through so much effort to build a nuclear weapon if nukes are indeed all over the place? In 1986 we had over 70,000 hanging around on this planet alone, nowadays we're down to around a measly 15,000 or so. Thanks, Hippies.
Because nukes are kept in hardened, guarded facilities. They're not just roaming free in a field somewhere for Iran to pick up.
Add to which Iran are merely trying to duplicate existing, proven technology. They're not pioneering groundbreaking science with a slim chance of success and substantial probability of failure just on the off chance they might succeed in their goals.
And we still know about the existence of the nukes.