Unmanned helicopter crashes into US Navy ship, damaging hull: Officials

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/unmanned-helicopter-crashes-into-us-navy-ship-damaging-hull-officials-101619569263958.html

An unmanned helicopter crashed into the side of a US Navy ship during routine operations in the western Pacific ocean, officials said here.

No one was injured when the 31-foot-long MQ-8B Fire Scout struck the hull of the USS Charleston shortly after the helicopter took off from the San Diego-based Littoral Combat Ship about 3:40 pm Monday.

The ship's safety net was damaged as was an area above the waterline but it was able to continue its operations, the Navy said in a statement.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

The Navy declined to give further details or specify where the incident occurred or how long the deployment will be.

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The film centers on the arrival of an alien species that latches onto plant life, forming small pods that have a strange effect on people’s behavior. When scientist Elizabeth Driscoll’s boyfriend begins acting strangely after she brings alien-infected flowers home, she turns to her friend and colleague Matthew Bennell for help. Bennell and his colleagues discover it's not just behavior that’s changing, but the physiology of the people themselves. These “flowers” are duplicating humans, copying their memories while they sleep, and killing the originals as a result.

What follows is a tension-filled night of escalating paranoia and body horror as the group seeks refuge as the town becomes overrun by pod people wishing to assimilate any human they encounter. Revealing much more would get into spoiler territory, and this is a film with twists and haunting images best experienced in the moment.

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake, like the 1956 film on which it’s based, can easily be seen as a political metaphor, and a look at two different generations caught in the Cold War. And for modern audiences, there’s certainly something to be said about the fear of who might be right next door to you, or who your friends really are in these politically charged times where the discovery of a red hat is just as terrifying as a pod person.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is essential viewing that offers more than schlock and shock. Anchored by great performances, and the kind of bold, progressive filmmaking so often associated with the 1970s, the film challenges the notions of what remakes can achieve. And for those prone to becoming overly dismissive when the next remake is announced, it’s worth remembering Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and films like The Thing, The Fly, and The Blob that followed in its wake.

Ironically enough, Body Snatchers showed that remakes can be about more than duplication. Indeed, improving on an original work shouldn’t be such an alien concept after all.

*they tell us and show us through the movies we see 'only as fiction' 'it's not real'

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