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The post below would make a very different kind of sequel for this science fiction classic.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Thinking Outside the Plot




Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: Imagine what the world would be like after the pod people were defeated and all the pods were destroyed . . . supposedly.

Wouldn't the government secretly keep some of them in a special facility to study them?

~ My Theory: The research lab would be designed to prevent the pods from "bonding" with human victims and producing duplicates.

To determine the best way to do this, the scientist would need a supply of the pods they could use for experiments. They would place several pods in a sealed room and then have test subjects in a separate room, some distance away.

If the pods bonded with the test subjects, the replicas would be destroyed before they matured.





The experiment would then be repeated with the test subjects located further away from the pods.

Eventually the scientist would determine the "range" of the pods so they would know the "safe distance" needed between the pods and the people. This would insure that the pods would not bond with anyone and pop open.

During this part of the experiment, the scientists would do several things the pubic would by horrified by if they learned what was going on. (This would explain why the hidden facility is “top secret”.) One example of these questionable procedures would be the performance of autopsies on the partially formed replicas of the test subjects.

Furthermore, in some cases they would actually enlist the aid of terminally ill patients who would agree to allow a replica of that person to reach maturity! This would permit the scientists to determine exactly how the “pod people” disposed of their human originals — and whether or not the replicas possessed the same terminal condition which killed the human subject!

If the replica did NOT have the terminal condition, that would suggest some intriguing . . . and disturbing . . . possibilities.

For example, if a brilliant scientist or a famous surgeon was about to die, could that person’s invaluable knowledge be preserved by creating a pod replica?

The important question here is this; just how complete are the knowledge and the skills of the original human when a pod-generated replica is created!

On a more personal level, what if a man whose wife if dying of cancer is secretly replicated by the grieving husband so he can create a perfect duplicate and not have to suffer the loss of his beloved spouse!
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Gentlemen . . . please . . . share your thoughts about this interesting concept and help me make All Sci-Fi a better message board than all those websites which have faltered and died in the last few years because they never challenged their members the way we do here!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)