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New York Times
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- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Alien: Earth' Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Weird Science
Season 1, Episode 3: 'Metamorphosis' The 'Alien' franchise explores two overlapping nightmares. The first is the Alien, a cold and implacable force against which humanity is defenseless. The second is humanity itself, which through technological hubris and old-fashioned greed might well invite its own destruction. Against the first we are helpless; with the second, we are all too eager to help. Where, then, does this leave a man like Morrow? The cyborg science officer aboard the doomed deep-space research vessel the Maginot may or may not have the freedom to make his own decisions regarding his mission to preserve the hostile alien life forms the ship was carrying. It seems highly possibile that his paymasters at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation have hacked his brain and forced him to comply. He also speaks of those awful aliens as his life's work, however, the mission to which he gave up 65 years of his life, in frozen slumber, in order to see it through. Everyone he knew in his old life, from his daughter to his crew, is now dead. The eyeball octopus, the bloodsucker, the dangling tentacle plant, the barfing bug and xenomporph are all he has left. Even when Ms. Yutani waves him off, he tells her that he will get those specimens back. Whether motivation or compulsion drove him to seal himself inside a safe room and allow the monsters to slaughter his fellow voyagers, the decision clearly weighs on Morrow. While downloading the ship's data into his computer-augmented brain — a process that involves a set of light-up tubes and, evidently, a good deal of pain — Morrow tries to explain his plight to Slightly and Smee (Jonathan Ajayi), the childlike human-synthetic hybrids left behind to guard a cache of Alien eggs. 'There's a feeling you get,' he says, 'when the monsters come, and you can't — you don't — help.' The dilemma leaves him wishing he were the robot the hybrids suspect him to be, since being fully mechanical would relieve him of the moral burden of what he has done. But when he is interrupted by Kirsh, the hybrids' synthetic guardian, and he sees one of the Alien eggs beginning to hatch, he makes a leap into the chasm created by his crashed ship and disappears. For a time, at least, it seems as if Morrow's mission is a failure. Kirsh and the hybrids secure the alien specimens and bring them back to the island headquarters of the genius inventor Boy Kavalier and his upstart mega-corporation, Prodigy. (The company's teddy-bear logo is particularly noxious considering its conduct.) Kavalier is especially smitten with the xenomorph corpse, seeing an ocean of potential in that hunk of obsidian exoskeleton and acidic blood. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Japan Times
05-08-2025
- Japan Times
Taiwanese vessel suspected of conducting survey in Japan's EEZ for second time
A regional branch of the Japan Coast Guard has said that a Taiwanese research vessel was confirmed to have lowered what looked like a cable into waters in Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off Kagoshima Prefecture. According to the 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, based in the city of Kagoshima, a coast guard patrol boat spotted the Taiwanese vessel conducting the suspicious activity at a point some 335 kilometers west-northwest of the island of Tokunoshima in the prefecture around 3:50 p.m. Monday. The JCG boat radioed the Taiwanese vessel and told it to stop the activity, warning that a survey without prior consent is not permitted. The Taiwanese ship passed the geographically equidistance line between Japan and Taiwan to the west at around 7:47 p.m. and left Japan's EEZ. In June, the same Taiwanese vessel was found carrying out a survey without consent in Japan's EEZ near the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, prompting the JCG to urge it to stop the activity.
Yahoo
28-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Chinese research ship detected off Alaskan coast, Coast Guard says
A China-flagged research vessel was detected Friday off the coast of Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard reported Saturday that the Xue Long 2, an icebreaker, was detected about 290 nautical miles north of Utqiagvik, Alaska, in the North American Arctic. The Xue Long 2 is operated by China's Polar Research Institute. The ship was in the U.S.'s Extended Continental Shelf, or ECS, which is a portion of the continental shelf that goes beyond 200 miles nautical miles off the coast, according to the State Department. The ship was determined to be 130 nautical miles inside the ECS. "The U.S. has exclusive rights to conserve and manage the living and non-living resources of its ECS," the Coast Guard said in its news release. A Coast Guard C-130J Hercules, a long-range surveillance aircraft, responded to the ship. The Coast Guard also released a photo of the vessel. "The U.S. Coast Guard, alongside partners and other agencies, vigilantly monitors and responds to foreign government vessel activity in and near U.S. waters to secure territorial integrity and defend sovereign interests against malign state activity," said Rear Adm. Bob Little, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Arctic District, in a statement. CBS News reached out the Coast Guard for clarification on how it was dealing with the vessel. Earlier this week, Canada's CBC News reported that the Canadian military was monitoring the movements of the Xue Long 2 in the Arctic. In a statement provided to the CBC Tuesday, Maj. Alexander Naraine, a spokesperson for the military's joint operations centre said that the Xue Long 2 was "not currently in Canadian territorial waters." Canada was using a Lockheed CP-140 Aurora aircraft based out of Alaska to "actively" monitor the Chinese ship, Naraine said. This comes after four Russian military planes were spotted and tracked flying near the Alaskan coast Tuesday by North American Aerospace Defense Command. The aircraft flew through a section of international airspace called the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. While the Alaska ADIZ is considered part of international airspace, it is defined as an area where sovereign U.S. airspace ends but "that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security," according to NORAD. In January, American and Canadian fighter jets were scrambled after Russian warplanes were also spotted in the Arctic, NORAD said. The Russian warplanes remained in international airspace. And in July 2024, the U.S. intercepted several Chinese or Russian bombers near the Alaskan coast. At the time, a U.S. defense officials said it marked the first time ever that Russian and Chinese aircraft have jointly entered the Alaska ADIZ, and the first time Chinese H-6s have encroached off Alaska. While many believe 10,000 steps a day is optimal, new study suggests different DOJ's closed-door meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell fuels pardon speculation California artist brings Bob's Big Boy statues back to life Solve the daily Crossword
CBS News
26-07-2025
- General
- CBS News
Chinese research ship detected off Alaskan coast, Coast Guard says
A China-flagged research vessel was detected Friday off the coast of Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard reported Saturday that the Xue Long 2, an icebreaker, was detected about 290 nautical miles north of Utqiagvik, Alaska, in the U.S. Arctic. The Xue Long 2 is operated by China's Polar Research Institute. The ship was in the U.S.'s Extended Continental Shelf, or ECS, which is a portion of the continental shelf that goes beyond 200 miles nautical miles off the coast, according to the State Department. The ship was determined to be 130 nautical miles inside the ECS. "The U.S. has exclusive rights to conserve and manage the living and non-living resources of its ECS," the Coast Guard said in its news release. A Coast Guard C-130J Hercules, a long-range surveillance aircraft, responded to the ship. The Coast Guard also released a photo of the vessel. "The U.S. Coast Guard, alongside partners and other agencies, vigilantly monitors and responds to foreign government vessel activity in and near U.S. waters to secure territorial integrity and defend sovereign interests against malign state activity," said Rear Adm. Bob Little, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Arctic District, in a statement. CBS News reached out the Coast Guard for clarification on how it was dealing with the vessel. Earlier this week, Canada's CBC News reported that the Canadian military was monitoring the movements of the Xue Long 2 in the Arctic. In a statement provided to the CBC Tuesday, Maj. Alexander Naraine, a spokesperson for the military's joint operations centre said that the Xue Long 2 was "not currently in Canadian territorial waters." Canada was using a Lockheed CP-140 Aurora aircraft based out of Alaska to "actively" monitor the Chinese ship, Naraine said. This comes after four Russian military planes were spotted and tracked flying near the Alaskan coast Tuesday by North American Aerospace Defense Command. The aircraft flew through a section of international airspace called the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. While the Alaska ADIZ is considered part of international airspace, it is defined as an area where sovereign U.S. airspace ends but "that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security," according to NORAD. In January, American and Canadian fighter jets were scrambled after Russian warplanes were also spotted in the Arctic, NORAD said. The Russian warplanes remained in international airspace. And in July 2024, the U.S. intercepted several Chinese or Russian bombers near the Alaskan coast. At the time, a U.S. defense officials said it marked the first time ever that Russian and Chinese aircraft have jointly entered the Alaska ADIZ, and the first time Chinese H-6s have encroached off Watson, Emily Mae Czachor and Stephen Smith contributed to this report.
CBC
22-07-2025
- Science
- CBC
Why is the Canadian military closely monitoring a Chinese research vessel?
The Canadian military and possibly the Coast Guard are closely monitoring a Chinese research vessel that has breached Arctic waters for the second year in a row. CBC's Murray Brewster says the Coast Guard was 'following a parallel course' of the vessel, despite denying any 'shadowing.'
