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| Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,872 Views) | |
| sam999 | Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM Post #1 |
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You know the alien. That face hugging, acid dripping, stomach bursting, cantankerous creature of HR Giger's fantastic imagination. We're talking about Ellen Ripley's nemesis and Ridley Scott's meal ticket. Terrifying and slightly resembling your boss, she has made an indelible impression on movie-goers for 30 years. Unfortunately that impression has been watered down as this ferocious beast of deep space has never been explaned. For this we want how it works. Is the facehugger, chestbuster, monster a working idea? Could it evolve? What good is it? So here is where to post ANYTHING that has to do with this space monster. |
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| agatharights | Dec 2 2009, 12:42 PM Post #196 |
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In that situation, then you have a basically...well...a dead planet, waiting for some poor shmuck with a spaceship to land on it... |
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| lamna | Dec 2 2009, 12:56 PM Post #197 |
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Really? I mean I know the planet would be buggered but I assumed that safe-zone idea would work. Unless the face huggers get to to the dolphins I think people would be safe on fortified islands with good quarantine procedures. In fact I found that 89 nations should be able to make it if they are very good and nobody tries for territorial grabs. Also, since you know more about this than me, to the drones eventually die if they have nothing to kill/eat? I assume that was what happened before the first film on the planet (or was it a moon?) |
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| sam999 | Dec 2 2009, 04:02 PM Post #198 |
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Huge mass extinction, the eggs wait until some poor guy with a spacecraft comes. |
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| lamna | Dec 2 2009, 04:11 PM Post #199 |
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Really, I was thinking that the people left would be able to clear out the eggs if the are careful. Or maybe they adapt bomb disposal robots. |
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| ATEK Azul | Dec 2 2009, 04:32 PM Post #200 |
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I think that scenario would create a mass extinction but their would be survivers(unless the condors, albatross and vultures get to them) and they would eventually repopulate the planet it would just take a very long time. The robot Idea is great but needs supplies to be viable. and I think humans would eventually get rid of the eggs and the adults would die with out eventually then the humans will slowly repopulate. Some plants and small creatures would flourish with out most large animals and could create miniature ecosystems where small size is an evolutionary advantage. |
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| lamna | Dec 2 2009, 04:41 PM Post #201 |
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Survivors that get attacked by albatrosses and carrion eaters? Well Mankind looses access to a lot of resources but it still has plenty of areas to get what it needs to make robots. I think the small size thing is right, anything that survives will have to be small. |
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| ATEK Azul | Dec 2 2009, 04:54 PM Post #202 |
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I was meaning what those Birds turn into when the face huggers attach to their faces. Any body say giant flying Xenomorphs? |
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| lamna | Dec 2 2009, 05:28 PM Post #203 |
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Those Mother-Hubbards can fly? That's just not fair. What kind of host do they need? |
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| ATEK Azul | Dec 2 2009, 05:52 PM Post #204 |
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I was thinking that the large flying aliens would use Albatross, Vultures, Condors and other large flying Birds. And yes I have seen pics for flying Alien toys so it is possible they would just have low numbers since their hosts have low numbers. |
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| lamna | Dec 2 2009, 06:40 PM Post #205 |
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I don't think so, even if they could catch then the facehugger's ovipositor would be much too thick, and the bird's body cavity too small. Flying aliens sound very improbable to me, but that might just be me not wanting my plucky islanders* to all die horribly and to be able to fight back and win. *What's the term for inhabitants of a peninsula? Penislanders? |
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| T.Neo | Dec 3 2009, 11:44 AM Post #206 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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I don't think the Alien bodyplan would change that much. Basically, most of the creatures large enough would be wiped out during the reproductive cycle of the Aliens. Anything smaller would be eaten by the aliens for food. A predator as unrelenting and unstoppable as a Xenomorph would probably destroy the ecosystem. The adult forms would probably then die out from lack of food (unless they started eating plants). Any leftover eggs would be the only Aliens remaining, but since no creatures large enough to trip them would be around, they'd stay dormant. I'd imagine they're pretty hardy and will last a considerable amount of time, considering they survived for all that time on a frozen planetoid. In the aftermath, insects and some small vertebrates would be the only things remaining on land. Most aquatic life would survive, as I don't see the Aliens adapting to a fully aquatic lifestyle. |
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| lamna | Dec 3 2009, 12:35 PM Post #207 |
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I don't see them eating all the small animals, don't they ignore hamsters in the second film? I think they would eat their way into dormancy and leave just the eggs behind. Very effective way of salting the earth letting a few of them escape. |
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| T.Neo | Dec 3 2009, 12:56 PM Post #208 |
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Well, predators in the wild won't turn down a small meal if they're starving to death. Either way, a chestburster wouldn't be able to implant within an animal the size of a hamster. |
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| agatharights | Dec 3 2009, 01:10 PM Post #209 |
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Note- Xenomorphs are very adept swimmers (seen in Aliens 4) and do not require air to breath. The Dolphins are doomed. |
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| lamna | Dec 3 2009, 01:35 PM Post #210 |
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Yep, but rodents won't feed most top predators. Well that's going to impact the plans. Of course water would still act as a barrier, I mean people are adept at swimming, crossing trenches and clearing barbed wire. The point of the obstacles is to slow your foeman down enougth to kill them. Also, the Drones (or workers or whatever you call them) being able to swim won't help the face huggers. I don't think they are good swimmers, would fit well over a dolphins face or that dolphin would not be able to dislodge it. Plus in the sea most mammals will be faster or more agile than the aliens could be. Oh and 90 nations should survive, not 89. How could I forget East Timor! Edited by lamna, Dec 3 2009, 01:41 PM.
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