Where is NASA?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Arrival
ignacioara — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 03:55 PM)
Was just wondering during the film if in an encounter like this shouldn't NASA be involved? I thought they were the guys taking care of all space issues in USA. There only seemed to be military with no knowledge of aliens, space, or any other useful scientic-astronomy expertise..
Also, being the first ever aliens to appear on earth and seeing things could somehow get tense shouldn't there have been some more security around the area?
Anyone seemed able to get inside that alien spacecraft, talk the aliens, put a bomb or whatever
Besides this the movie was alright, I expected a bit more though. 7/10 -
tsb2rxn — 9 years ago(November 20, 2016 07:25 PM)
Well we don't know that they're not involved in some capacity. However it is primarily a security situation as depicted in the film. NASA can't really help with that and they don't really have any knowledge about aliens, no one does. Also, they aren't the only ones with knowledge of space. The AirForce has extensive knowledge as well due to having to launch military satellites and their top secret space planes.
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Tsotha-lanti — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 10:12 AM)
Good question. I wonder if it would be in their charter, once alien life lands on earth. I mean they are trained to look at space, a launch vehicles into the Black and so on. Even some departments are engaged with theorizing about extraterrestrial life, but once the critters are on our globe, it might be out of their area of concern.
Imagine that.
