I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this movie.  I don't remember the storyline too well, it's been way too long since I've seen the movie.  All I remember is the aliens are very humanoid but have inverted legs i.e. their knees bend backwards.
I’m looking for an alien movie I watched years ago, mid to late 2000’s about the Earth being cooked or heated up by aliens. The poster is a reflection of the Earth heating up with an orange glow on an aliens eye. It was a low budget movie and I think the one I watched was pirated from China. Again low budget, bad quality and the name could’ve been something worthy he word scorch or something like that. The alien in the movie had legs with knees that went inwards and it had red eyes.
I remember reading a story about an alien who came to earth and gave/sold a human a little device.  It was the size of a pen, and when you aimed it at something metal, the metal became malleable, like clay.  A second time, and the metal resolidified.  When the alien came back not long after, human civilization had completely fallen to pieces because of it.  Does anyone know the name and author of the story? Why does English spelling use silent letters? Can we have a list of all the Stack Exchange domains somewhere, for firewall purposes? I wrote an email to Prof. X to ask about a PhD student vacancy and talk about a topic in one of his papers. He refused to accept me because of his retirement and replied with a warming email. In that, he cc-ed two others that he thought might be interested in me, Prof. Y and Prof. Z. Prof. Y refused because his area is somewhat distinct to mine; Prof. Z hasn't answered yet. I haven't responded to anyone yet. I also want to ask Prof. X's opinion about Prof. T's work, who is actually the one that I want to follow.  How should I respond to this? My feeling is that if Prof. X cc-ed others, this means that he wants to create a group discussion. As a group, everyone should have the right to hear each other voices. Should I reply to the group with a generic "thank you" email?  But if I do that, then I have to send another private emails to Prof. X and Prof. Z. I just worry that this will make me looks sneaky because I don't have the courage to discuss this in public.   What should I do? How to calculate the difference between two dates using PHP? In-universe explanation for single line of planetary entry/departure in Star Wars Why are planetary blockades confined to a single point of a planet instead of being sphere shell shaped around the planet? (I know, it would take an awful lot of spaceships.)  Also, when a rebel ship wants to escape from a planet and there is a single star destroyer hovering in the atmosphere (or some more of them further up, like in the Empire Strikes Back) how come it's not a viable maneuver to fly low altitude for a couple of hundred kilometers horizontally (they would be out of the single-point blockade), then make a vertical dash upwards? Having recently reviewed a few suggested edits, I've found that not being able to see the comments on the post is hindering my understanding of the context of some edits.  In particular, there have been a few posts where someone has made a substantial edit to a question or answer which significantly alters its meaning. Typically I'd reject that as "too radical", since it can't be known that the new meaning of the post was what the original author intended.  However, in some cases it is clear from the comments that the original author is aware of the intended change, and as such the editor is not in fact misrepresenting the author's intentions. In these cases, it would have been useful to see the comments when making the review decision.  As an example, a common cause of this is when an inexperienced user is asked to clarify their question, and ends up writing a comment that would be better off as an edit to the question (due to length, excess code content, etc), presumably due to lack of awareness that the question can be edited. Often, other users will helpfully edit the question to include the information the OP put in the comment (see ,  and  for examples). In this situation, it is clear that the edit reflects the OP's intentions, but this information is only present in the comments which are not visible in the review interface.  Following is the suggested edit screen showing the suggested edit. It seems indentation is increased and one line is moved a few lines upwards and some empty lines added to increase readability. But it look like an invalid edit since changing the related line may cause alteration on the runtime. So not looks lie a valid edit. Better open the answer and examine it        Checking the Q&amp;A itself reveals that a talk had taken place between the OP and the answerer and revision done by the OP with the permission of the answerer. So it was indeed a valid edit.        In short: is there any particular reason comments are not displayed in the suggested edit review interface? I think it would add useful contextual information when making review decisions, and presumably this would be trivial to implement.  Note: this is not a dupe of , as it does not concern comments posted after the suggested edit. How can I find the right lens cap for my lens? I own a Nikon D3000 Camera with the AF-S 18-55mm VR Kit Lens. Last week I lost the lens cap and now I want to buy a new one.  But when I went to , I got confused with the different ranges of lens names —  LC-62, LC-78, etc.  My concern is what if I order one lens cap and it won't fit correctly on my lens?  If you guys have an D3000, can you please let me know how to find the correct lens cap names? I had to take ownership of the special folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps to fix . The issue is now resolved, so I'd like to reset the permissions to the way they were before I took ownership of the folder.  I reverted NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller to the owner and removed my account's permission entries:     But I still have full control of the folder and can browse the folder in Explorer without getting the usual warning that I would have to take ownership:     Is it possible to restore the default permissions of this folder? What is the procedure to load LAS files in QGIS 2.0.1? What is the present procedure to load LAS files in QGIS 2.0.1?  After some searching I found a paper outlining the procedure; however, it was for 1.8.something, and related posts here are all rather dated. My cursor is moving by every selection by large increments!  Normally when I use Blender, I am able to select and move objects to any coordinate. Now, all of the sudden, when I select an object or mesh the selection moves by an inch or so in each direction.  How do I reset it to normal? This  gives this comparison chart for the four Windows 8 Editions (Core is usually just called Windows 8). I notice specifically, about half-way down, the max physical processors is listed as 1 for "Core" and 2 for all other.  In the second image i see physical processors listed as 8 in a Windows 8 Task Manager.  My question is, what is the limit then? Can anyone verify the article or the screenshot?  Was this a mock-up? Another Edition? (Server perhaps?)      To clarify, i am looking for links to official microsoft.com articles detailing these specifications.  I have been unable to find any. Is there a problem with defrosting meat on the counter? I generally defrost meat on the kitchen counter. A friend of mine suggested that this was dangerous and suggested that I defrost meat in the refrigerator. I am no biologist but it seems to me that as long as the meat doesn't get warm defrosting it on the counter should be safe.  Generally, I remove the frozen items from the freezer and place them on a plate on the counter in the packaging they were frozen in. When they are mostly / completely thawed I place the meat in the refrigerator.  Am I wrong and should I be defrosting in the refrigerator? I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 duos with stock Android Marshmallow, and I'm considering encrypting my SD card to prevent access to its contents in case I lose my phone. The main reason of not doing this is that I'm not sure if there's a way to mount an encrypted SD card on Windows (or other desktop OS's)   When I encrypt the SD card on my Samsung Galaxy S5, is it using a known implementation of encryption, or is it something that only works on Android (or perhaps Samsung) phones?   I do not want to use USB connection to my phone to access my SD card, it's terrible. Mounting the SD card is much easier and faster and less annoying.   EDIT: just to clarify, I am NOT talking about adoptable storage. I want a portable encrypted SD card that can both be read on PCs and Android phones (i.e. I want to be able to remove the SD card from my phone, plug it into my PC, provide a password to decrypt and read/write it like any other SD card) Books for Hyperbolic Geometry. I want to read hyperbolic geometry. Can any one suggest some good books on the topic. Will I miss anything by watching Dragon Ball Z Kai instead of the other series? I've read that Dragon Ball Z Kai is an HD remaster and recut of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. However, Kai has  while Dragon Ball has  and Z has .  If I watch only Dragon Ball Z Kai, do I miss anything I would get by watching the other two series? And is anything censored in Kai that is not censored in the others? Multinomial logistic regression analysis or binary logistic regression Sometimes it is convenient to refer to a group of equations by a letter and a number.  For example:   2+1   (A1) 2+4   (A2) x^4   (B3) x^e   (B4)   Placing  \tag{A\theequation}\label{eqn:thisone}\stepcounter{equation}} instead of just \label{eqn:thisone} works, but seems hacky (especially manually stepping the counter).   Is there a better way? What is a field, really? Sorry for posting such a simple problem but I'm having trouble understanding this concept.  In the picture below, we have a force, $ \vec F_{app}$ acting on two objects, A and B.  Mass of block A: $ M_a = 4kg $  Mass of block B: $ M_b = 6kg$  The acceleration of the two blocks can be found using F=ma  $$ 20N = 10kg * a $$ $$ a = 2m/s^2 $$  If we find the force Fba on block B from block A we get:  $$ \vec F_{ba} = 6kg * 2m/s^2 $$ $$ \vec F_{ba} = 12N $$  What I am confused about here is why don't we say that the total force $ \vec F_{app} $ applied onto block A is also applied to block B (20N). Is the force somehow distributed into the blocks?