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The Alien; Ripley's nemesis
Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,867 Views)
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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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Oxygen or CO2 would be great catalists on space ships(the main place we see Aliens in the movies) for the acidic properties to become dominant.
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Are you plausible?

The reason I mention it being some other volatile is that the facehugger in the first movie burns through the victim's helmet (if I remember correctly). The victim was wearing a helmet because the air was unbreathable, which could mean that the medium in which the egg had been growing was toxic, or something within the otherwise breathable air was toxic. So yeah, O2 and CO2 are great catalysts, it's possible that something else could be responsible too...
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Other Human products to consider would be Methane(well you can guess what thats from), Water and salt(which are from sweat).

Though other possibillities remain I am sure.
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Dec 9 2009, 10:50 PM
Perhaps the acidic nature only manifests itself in the presence of oxygen
Then how does the alien breath?
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Perhaps the acidic nature only manifests itself in the presence of oxygen
Then how does the alien breath?
It doesn't. They can survive short amounts of time in space so they abviously have no need to breath.

Plus I think it was said earlier that they didn't breath also.
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Perhaps the acidic nature only manifests itself in the presence of oxygen
Then how does the alien breath?
It doesn't. They can survive short amounts of time in space so they abviously have no need to breath.

Plus I think it was said earlier that they didn't breath also.
So how does their matablesam work without oxagen? Also I alawys asumed that the alien being blown out of that airlock was suffacateing and it folding up into a featle posistion was body fluids decompressing out cracks in it's shell squiching it together.
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I honestly don't know how they don't breath I just know they don't.
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I have a feeling that the Aliens are bio-mechanical. Mechanical because they don't need to breathe or feed (apparently, if the victims go straight to the facehugger)... maybe they evolved from virii-like organisms? I mean, way back in their distant evolutionary history.
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I am pretty sure they are geneticly engineered in the canon actually.

But that hasn't stopped me from giving evolutionary answeres if your wondering.
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Mechanical because they don't need to breathe or feed
They apparently don't breathe, but they do feed. When the facehugers implant their "spores" if you like, they develop inside the human being. The larvae feed on the human's organs, untill it reaches a certain age, and it becomes a chestbuster. The chestbuster apparently... busts from the chest of the victim ¬_¬.... and leaves. Then it just takes it a couple of hours for the chestbuster to develop limbs (since they're worm like) and reach maturity as the xenomorph, also commonly named as "the alien".
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Mechanical because they don't need to breathe or feed
They apparently don't breathe, but they do feed. When the facehugers implant their "spores" if you like, they develop inside the human being. The larvae feed on the human's organs, untill it reaches a certain age, and it becomes a chestbuster. The chestbuster apparently... busts from the chest of the victim ¬_¬.... and leaves. Then it just takes it a couple of hours for the chestbuster to develop limbs (since they're worm like) and reach maturity as the xenomorph, also commonly named as "the alien".
If it feeds of the orgens wouldn't that kill the host?
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No, because they don't feed on the whole organ. They just eat a small piece of it. And that's kinda plausible concidering that the facehuggers lay only one spore in the victim's body, not a thousand.
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No, because they don't feed on the whole organ. They just eat a small piece of it. And that's kinda plausible concidering that the facehuggers lay only one spore in the victim's body, not a thousand.
I still think the poor fellow would notice his or her orgens being eaten.
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Probably. You should better take a look at the wikipeda article. It might clarify your doubts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(Alien_franchise)

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They probably secrete some kind of pain killer so the victim does not notice until it's too late.
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