Lifeforce

Lifeforce is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper, based on the 1976 novel, The Space Vampires, by Colin Wilson. The screenplay was written by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby. Featuring Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart and Christopher Jagger (Mick Jagger's brother) in acting roles, the film portrays the fictional events that unfold after three mysterious humanoids, discovered in a space shuttle, are taken to Earth.

While investigating Halley's Comet, the crew of the space shuttle Churchill finds a 150-mile long spaceship hidden in the corona of the comet. Upon entering the alien craft, the crew finds hundreds of dead, shrivelled bat-like creatures and three naked humanoid bodies (two male and one female) in suspended animation within glass coffin-like containers. The crew recovers the three aliens and begins the return trip to Earth.

During the return journey, mission control loses contact with the shuttle as it nears Earth and a rescue mission is launched to investigate. The rescuers discover that the Churchill has been severely damaged by fire, with its internal components destroyed, and the three containers bearing the aliens are all that remain intact. The aliens are taken to the European Space Research Centre in London where they are watched over by Dr. Leonard Bukovski (Michael Gothard) and Dr. Hans Fallada (Frank Finlay). Prior to an autopsy, the female alien (Mathilda May) awakens and sucks the titular "life force" out of a guard. The female then escapes the research facility and proceeds to drain various other humans of their life force, also revealing an ability to shape-shift. It transpires that the aliens are from a race of space vampires that consume the life force of living beings, rather than their blood.

Google's April Fools' joke went so wrong that it might have cost someone their job

Edit TechRadar 01 Apr 2016

We try to avoid as much of April Fools' day as possible on techradar. In fact, as a rule, we'd advise sleeping in until midday, that way you'll avoid all the terrible "jokes" entirely. We can imagine there are a few people at Google who would like to go to bed and start the day again though after its latest feature went south very quickly ... Not so funny ... Meanwhile, Abdus Salam wrote ... ....

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Singer Miley Cyrus performs in concert during her ‘Bangerz Tour’ at the Verizon Center on Thursday, April 10, 2014 in Washington D.C.

WN.com Week In Review For March 27-April 2, 2016

Edit WorldNews.com 01 Apr 2016

The end of the week comes with the start of a new month and a look back at the Top 5 most viewed stories on WN.com.Maybe you saw these stories when they first appeared on our pages – maybe you didn’t. Either way, let’s take a look back at the past week.. + A report claims Indian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday ... The animal was discovered by a biker ... – WN.com. ....

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Chairman of the board of Americans for Prosperity David Koch speaks at the Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

Inequality Even Before Birth And After Death: How The Koch Empire Impacted Me

Edit WorldNews.com 01 Apr 2016

Article by WN.com correspondent Dallas Darling After all of these years I have had to come to a dystopian realization that even before my birth and long after my death, the powerful and domineering Koch Empire has – and will continue – to impact me.Indeed, my grandfather was killed while working for Koch Industries ... Nor did my grandmother like to discuss his death ... Consequently, he fell 30 feet from a Koch Industries oil platform....

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South Korea says North fired missile, as US hosts nuclear summit

Edit The Times of India 01 Apr 2016

... to undermine strategic stability between the United States and China," insisted Dan Kritenbrink, Obama's top Asia adviser.This is the fourth in a series of nuclear security summits convened at Obama's behest and with the president leaving office next year, it may well be the last.But it risked being overshadowed by two men who were not even there....

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Porn and the Threat to Virility

Edit Time Magazine 31 Mar 2016

Since the advent of Viagra and similar medications, awareness and acceptance of erectile dysfunction is much higher, and thanks to all those TV commercials, the stigma is correspondingly lower, so more people may be admitting to it ... As these have risen among the young, so may have instances of ED ... A 2014 fMRI study from the Max Planck Institute found that habitual porn use may have an effect on the brain....

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Los Angeles Angels 2016 Schedule

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