From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!rlr
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: ET (Spoiler)
Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.235
Posted: Mon Jun 21 08:39:42 1982
Received: Thu Jun 24 01:39:22 1982

NO! NO! NO!
E.T. did NOT need to be packed in ice!  If cold was what he needed, why did
he fizzle out and turn all white after staying out in the cold night air?????

I still think the theory about proximity to his own species (i.e., a transmitted
life force received in his abdomen) makes the most sense.   Any other opinions?
(Reading the book is no guarantee of knowing the right answer either; such
novelizations need not be even close to the original intention.)
				Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr