The planet, called LV-1201, and the Weyland-Yutani research station established there are the primary settings of the game.

When playing as the human character the player assumes the role of Corporal Andrew " Frosty " Harrison of the Colonial Marines, stationed aboard the spaceship USS Verloc en route to LV-1201.

When playing as the Predator the player arrives on LV-1201 with two other Predators, and all three are soon captured by the human researchers.

The events of Primal Hunt are set on LV-1201, the same setting as the main game, but take place in earlier time periods.

When playing as the human character the player assumes the role of Major Dunya, a female member of the Weyland-Yutani private military contractor known as the " Iron Bears " who are stationed on LV-1201.

A Predator spacecraft encounters the planet LV-1201 for the first time and the player Predator is sent there to hunt.

*" The Planet of the Dead " — Weird Tales, March 1932 LW2

In 1915, he published his Memoir of a Trans-Neptunian Planet, in which he concluded that Planet X had a mass roughly seven times that of the Earth — about half that of Neptune — and a mean distance from the Sun of 43 AU.

* " The Lonely Planet " — PNG-based animation for web browsers

In the first three novels — Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions — there is or was a League of all Worlds ; in City of Illusions, it seems to have been conquered or fragmented by an alien race, called the Shing, from beyond the League.

Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars ( as in the film Red Planet ), became rare in fiction after the visit of the space probe Mariner 4 to Mars, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia — most frequently in genres such as comics and animation rather than word-based works.

* In his popular book, The Late Great Planet Earth, first published in 1970, evangelical Christian author Hal Lindsey argued that prophetical information in Matthew 24 indicates that the “ generation ” witnessing the “ rebirth of Israel ” is the same generation that will observe the fulfillment of the “ signs ” referred to in — and that would be consummated by the second coming of Christ in approximately 1988.

Peter Bogdanovich was a 31-year-old stage actor, film essayist and critic with two small films — Targets ( 1968 ) ( also known as Before I Die ) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women ( 1968 ) — to his directorial credit.

* Altair IV — From the movie Forbidden Planet, formerly inhabited by the mysteriously extinct race of Krell.

* Big Planet — An enormous but not very dense planet, settled by Earth colonists and divided into a large number of colorful social groupings, in the novels Big Planet and Showboat World by Jack Vance.

* Chiron — A planet ( usually called " Planet ") orbiting the star Alpha Centauri in the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

* Darwin IV — Planet in the art of Wayne Douglas Barlowe.

* Fhloston — Planet in the movie The Fifth Element.

* Hesikos — A high eccentricity asteroid in Angus McVicar's The Lost Planet series.

* Ireta — A planet in Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates series, inhabited by both people and dinosaurs, and so also called Dinosaur Planet – the name of the novel in which it first appears.

* Krankor — The home planet of the supervillain Phantom in the Japanese television series Planet Prince.

* Lumen — The Planet of Light in the British puppet TV series Space Patrol.

* Midkemia — Planet on which the events of the Riftwar books of Raymond E. Feist take place.

* LV-426, or Acheron — The planet on which the derelict ship and its deadly cargo are found in the movies Alien and Aliens.

It's as though James Cameron had cut footage out of Aliens so that it could be rendered in blocky 2D graphics in the 1987 Spectrum / C64 tie-in game released by Electric Dreams — which remains, actually, a superior film-to-game conversion.

# Breakpoint 2005 — " Aliens Ate My Demomaker " ( March 25 – 28 )

Some social sciences research into the Alien franchise's symbology has considered it significant that Sulaco in Conrad's Nostromo is the home of the white owners of the silver mine figuring in the book, while the Sulaco in Aliens transports soldiers to investigate unknown troubles at a corporate outpost of Weyland Yutani and to protect the investment — drawing parallels between the ' corporate ' owners in Conrad's work and the shadowy business entity forming a central part of the Aliens franchise.

* 1959: Strange Days — Aliens in need of a champion ask Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk to test each other's respective heroes ; fortunately, Batman and Superman trick the two imps into turning on each other and convince the aliens to take them instead.

* Aliens ( 1986 ) — Production designer

" — Episode trailer for " Aliens of London "

Throughout the process, Ripley considers that there are monsters in this world, but the Predators are not them — instead, they simply do what they must to survive and maintain balance in the universe when it comes to the Aliens, and that they see the arrival of the Terminator hybrids as an imbalance to the ecology of the stars, with that being the true evil.

In 2002, he published his own drawings, inked by Wood, in three portfolios — Fancy Animals, Human Beans and Naked Aliens.

Aliens continued to immigrate in substantial numbers — some legally and others illegally.

This double bond is stronger than a single covalent bond ( 611 kJ / mol for C = C vs. 347 kJ / mol for C — C ) and also shorter with an average bond length of 1. 33 Angstroms ( 133 pm ).

ICAO also assigns 3-letter airline codes ( vs. the more-familiar 2-letter IATA codes — for example, UAL vs. UA for United Airlines ).

Weight is the gravitational force acting on a given body — which differs depending on the gravitational pull of the opposing body ( e. g. a person's weight on Earth vs on the Moon ) — while mass is an intrinsic property of that body that never changes.

For example, the comp. os. ms-windows Usenet hierarchy has a group reserved solely for advocacy — the Guide to the Windows newsgroups exhorts Usenet posters not to " get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS / 2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP except in the comp. os. ms-windows. advocacy group.

* WordPerfect vs. Word — detailed version-by-version, feature-by-feature comparison of Microsoft Word and WordPerfect

A laser could be used as a photon rocket engine, and would solve the reflection / collimation problem, but lasers are absolutely less efficient at converting energy into light than blackbody radiation is — though one should also note the benefits of lasers vs blackbody source, including unidirectional controllable beam and the mass and durability of the radiation source.

" Biskind notes also that they " were wildly dissimilar — mentor vs. protege, director vs. actor, immigrant outsider vs. native son.

* 1274 BC — The Battle of Kadesh ( or Battle of Qadesh ) in Syria, regarded as the largest ( 5 – 6, 000 ) chariot vs. chariot battle in antiquity.

* Photos of San Jose — 1975 vs. 2005

* 1991 — Donald Gudehus discovers a serious systematic bias in certain cluster galaxy data ( surface brightness vs. radius parameter, and the method ) which affect galaxy distances and evolutionary history ; he devises a new distance indicator, the reduced galaxian radius parameter,, which is free of biases,

Physical castration appears to be highly effective as, historically, it results in a 20-year re-offense rate of less than 2. 3 % vs. 80 % in the untreated control group, according to a large 1963 study involving a total of 1036 sex offenders by the German researcher A. Langelüddeke, among others — much lower than what was otherwise expected.

# Interest rate spread ( 10-year Treasury vs. Federal Funds target ) — The interest rate spread is often referred to as the yield curve and implies the expected direction of short -, medium-and long-term interest rates.

Since then, the two styles — SPL vs. sound quality — have become almost mutually exclusive.

* François André Philidor vs NN, Unknown 1749, Bishop's Opening: Boi Variation ( C23 ), 1 – 0 This game — possibly a composition by Philidor — demonstrates the value of passed pawns

It was recognized that the complex system of opposing alliances — the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire vs. the French Third Republic, the Russian Empire, and the British Empire was likely to lead to a worldwide conflict in the event of war breaking out.

A more useful distinction than " nature vs. nurture " is " obligate vs. facultative " -- under typical environmental ranges, what traits are more " obligate " ( e. g., the nose — everyone has a nose ) or more " facultative " ( sensitive to environmental variations, such as specific language learned during infancy ).