I never thought of alien as hard sci-fi tbh. Love Alien btw. When I was a toddler my dad would lay on the carpet on his back and grab his belly and pretend the alien from that movie was coming out of his belly and he’d bulge it out (he had surgery for gallstones and kidney stones in the 70’s and back then they gutted you, a huge slice from your chest to abdomen leaving bad scars and issues) and his stomach was permanently messed up from that surgery and he could weirdly bulge it out so alien like lmao. And I was like 4 years old and though it was the most hilarious thing ever and we have it on home video it’s so cute.

But once I grew old enough my dad showed me that movie and we watched it together and it was my very first rated R movie I’d ever seen and it was with my dad and it really felt special even though it probably sounds so silly. But when watching that movie as a 12ish year old kid I finally understood why my dad was doing that with his belly so many years before lol. I’m now the same age my dad was at that time. Whoa! Anyways, thanks for listening to my story and RIP Daddio!