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This brings up James Bond's interesting ability to be in a city when the most interesting thing that ever happens there is happening (or in this case, the most interesting thing that never happens there is happening). Another good example: In Quantum of Solace, when James Bond is in Siena, Italy during the horse race The Palio di Siena. The Palio takes place on July 2 and August 16, and lasts about 90 seconds each time. That James Bond happened to get in a street chase with a bad guy during those 90 seconds on that day is....
Well, as Han Solo tells C3PO, never tell me the odds!

If you go in Google Earth to -29.00968,134.75495, you can see the crashed spaceship.

I gotta say though, looking at the town in Google Earth, I think the claim that "everybody in the town lives underground" is a bit of hyperbole.

I'd be interested in knowing how far outside of town the actual scenes from the movie were filmed --- I'd guess the prop was moved here after production wrapped.

Very similar sound effect to the THX sound
in the 1979 movie WHEN A STRANGER CALLS, 4 years
before the THX sound intro was used in RETURN OF THE JEDI.
12:15 and 37:45 and 1:31:35

And to be clear, it's not approaching the comet until May 2014, and the lander isn't landing until November 2014.

"We're gonna need a bigger drone!"

Humphrey Bogart definitely weeps in Casablanca, when he's drinking alone, torn because Ilse has come back into his life.

Schrödinger's banknote: Worth both 1000 Austrian shillings and nothing, until you open your safety deposit box!

Dirty Deeds and the Thunder Chief.

Virgin, Virgin...Emergency! Virgin Virgin Virgin Virgin, Emergency!

There's nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do.

Needs more sharks though. This appears to only be a Force One Sharknado.

Yeah, that ship at 11.593481,92.212338 really breaks the Prime Directive.
With it now accessible due to the 2004 tsunami, I think we can assume they've searched the ship and are now basing their entire culture on some 1981 Hong Kong videotape...

More like Forbidden Planets!

reminds me of that time that giant spider attacked the space shuttle!
http://metro.co.uk/2007/12/11/giant-spider-attacks-space-shuttle-587233/

I was curious who did the artwork on this.

Professor H's Wayback Machine blog makes a case that the artist is Alden McWilliams, who also did the TWIN EARTHS newspaper strip, some of the SPACE CONQUERORS! strips for BOYS' LIFE, some of the Gold Key STAR TREK comics, DC Comics JUSTICE, INC. etc.

http://professorhswaybackmachine.blogspot.com/2012/05/space-conquerors-1966.html