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« on: January 18, 2013, 09:08:58 pm »
Because I have an obsession with the Thing, I was rereading some Thing info when the thought hit me - if the Thing is released into an area with biomass, ie not Antarctica, the world is doomed regardless of of the humans win or not. Why? It would infect the plants too. In order to rid the world of the Thing, every plant on Earth would have to be burnt, and at that point it's hopeless to try because the vegetation would fight back, and without plants there is no oxygen. The oceans would have to be killed completely as well, completely drained to make sure one single particle didn't get away.
Because it is all life, the only way to get rid of the Thing fully is to make the planet inhospitable to all life.