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BoredOfBordellos t1_iuja004 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:20 PM

Reply to comment by Dr_Herbert_Wangus in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin

I think it has to assimilate living organic tissue not dead. But I could be wrong about that and it could be there’s a certain amount of time within the life of the cells “decay” that it can still assimilate.