knudsen (05/11/83)
I didn't take long to decide that a race with interstellar freighters could make water out of interstellar hydrogen, and would also have the good taste to farm cattle, sheep, etc on Earth instead of eating the rather bony brainy omnivores who have become so adept at rasing animals to eat. However, a mid-50s classic, "This Island Earth," had a similar preposterous notion -- that a threatened race with similar space- travel capabilities came here to enlist some our best atomic scientists and neclear engineers to help them out! FISSION yet! Of course, they also planned on migrating to Earth if their defenses failed... Well, i'm not the 1st to say "V" borrowed heavily, but thought I'd mention a favorite "victim". BTW, my vote for greatest SF film of all time is "Forbidden Planet", of the same era. mike k