What are the odds

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wears-alan — 11 years ago(August 22, 2014 09:16 AM)

Ok, let's just for arguments sakes say the ship incurred some damage (after all it wasn't supposed to land on water) and the onboard computer decides to return to home base. Isn't it logical that it would try to land in the USA ?
It wasnt me, it was the other three. Hang them!

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JamesA1102 — 11 years ago(August 24, 2014 08:26 AM)

Good point Alan!

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mill722002 — 11 years ago(October 18, 2014 08:44 AM)

Its the same reason why Superman landed where he did

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Penske_Material — 11 years ago(August 27, 2014 12:13 AM)

OP, I see your point, but get out of your house more often man, stranger things happen in real life.
Enough is enough! I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday thru Friday plane!

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sage2112 — 10 years ago(October 28, 2015 11:10 PM)

You're answering your own question. If you get that, in all vastness of space, the computer got them back to the speck called Earth - why don't you get that it also got them back close to their point of origin?

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degree7 — 10 years ago(November 29, 2015 08:56 PM)

The ship's computer might have been programmed to return them to New York.
Anyway, what difference does it make? If they'd landed on a seperate continent, then Taylor would have come across some other famous landmark, like the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Eifell Tower, etc
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Fletcherj119 — 10 years ago(November 29, 2015 11:49 PM)

And maybe come across French-speaking apes.

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rickrowlands-34179 — 9 years ago(January 26, 2017 02:51 PM)

Now THAT would be funny

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DracTarashV — 10 years ago(December 06, 2015 04:26 PM)

It made sense. Plus, I can't imagine the ending having the same impact without that NY landmark.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

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trollomatic — 9 years ago(April 10, 2016 03:45 PM)

It made sense. Plus, I can't imagine the ending having the same impact without that NY landmark.
And yet, that's exactly how the original book ended. Without that NY landmark.

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JamesA-1102 — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 07:57 AM)

So are you saying the ending of the book was better than the ending of the movie?

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preachcaleb — 1 year ago(July 18, 2024 07:30 PM)

Because it was a French book. But it does end with the Eiffel Tower landmark.
So what are the odds French astronauts landed in France?
So many stories, so little time.

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michaelward15 — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 01:26 PM)

They had to land somewhere. Wherever it was you could have said, "What are the odds of them landing in that spot?!"