Stranded

Stranded may refer to:

Music

Glossary of baseball (L)

L

lace

LAIM

large sausage

laser show

late innings

laugher

launch

launch pad

Lawrence Welk

lay down

lay off

lead

leadoff hitter

Stranded (2013 film)

Stranded is a 2013 science fiction-horror film directed and co-written by Roger Christian starring Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, and Michael Therriault. Astronauts stranded on a lunar mining base attempt to survive an attack by a shapeshifting alien life form. Filming was at the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios by Regina, SK based Minds Eye Entertainment. The film was one of the last financed by the province's canceled film employment tax credit and was produced entirely in Saskatchewan.

Plot

Four isolated astronauts in the lunar mining base Ark suffer a meteor storm. While inspecting the damage caused by the meteors, astronaut Ava Cameron discovers spores contained in one of the fragments and brings them back to the base for investigation. The medical officer discovers that these spores can grow rapidly, and in the process Ava is contaminated with them. Shortly afterward, Ava shows evident signs of a rapidly progressing pregnancy and, a few hours later, she goes into labor. The life form escapes the lab, and none of the others believe Ava's stories; they instead attribute her pregnancy to a cyst. The alien stalks crew member Johns, eventually taking his shape and killing him. Using notes posthumously left by Johns, Ava and Col. Brauchman attempt to kill the alien before it can kill them. Eventually, Ava and Brauchman prepare to abandon the base in an escape pod, but it is hijacked by the alien. Ava and Brauchman, having expended most of the base's remaining power to ready the escape pod, are resigned to their fates until a rescue ship arrives from Earth. Brauchman sends a message to Earth from the rescue ship, warning them to kill whatever they discover in the escape pod, but it's revealed that the alien has escaped.

Tuff

Tuff (from the Italian tufo) is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is compacted into a solid rock in a process called consolidation. Tuff is sometimes called tufa, particularly when used as construction material, although tufa also refers to a quite different rock. Rock that contains greater than 50% tuff is considered tuffaceous.

Tuff is a relatively soft rock, so it has been used for construction since ancient times. Since it is common in Italy the Romans used it often for construction. The Rapa Nui people used it to make most of the moai statues in Easter Island.

Tuff can be classified as either sedimentary or igneous rocks. They are usually studied in the context of igneous petrology, although they are sometimes described using sedimentological terms.

Volcanic ash

The material that is expelled in a volcanic eruption can be classified into three types:

Tuffé

Tuffé is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.

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Tuff (name)

Tuff is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: