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The Alien; Ripley's nemesis
Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,883 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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I'm pretty sure they are bioweapons.
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You know... THAT MIGHT ACTLY WORK! :lol:


Does it? What role do iron and copper play in our muscle tissue? Structural reinforcement? If that is the purpose, how does more of it make the muscles stronger and less susceptible to tear?
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I've always pondered whether the xenomorphs are sentient or not.
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Does it? What role do iron and copper play in our muscle tissue? Structural reinforcement? If that is the purpose, how does more of it make the muscles stronger and less susceptible to tear?
None as far as I know of. I'm just saying it's possible to reinforce it, making the muscle out of stronger materials may make it more effective.

Though, now that I think about a bit more, that could actually hinder it's ability, limiting it's elastic properties.

Maybe more efficent use of the carbon might be possible.
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Sep 10 2009, 04:48 PM
I've always pondered whether the xenomorphs are sentient or not.
If they where they would use tools.
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Not necessarily, tool-use isn't necessarily a determinant of sentience.
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Not necessarily, tool-use isn't necessarily a determinant of sentience.
Good point I just think they are like ants in a lot of the way they act and are about as smart.
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maybe the chestburster is a deflated alien, or maybe they eat off screen.
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Sep 10 2009, 06:47 PM
maybe the chestburster is a deflated alien, or maybe they eat off screen.
Deflated I dought but eating of the screen may happen. After all did anyone check the food stores on the ship anfter the chestbuster had came out and started to grow.
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I suppose that is possible, but still it's a lot of growth in a few hours.

They seem to just be savage beasts.
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Well, they are capable of some tool use. I think a Queen used the controls of a crane in one of the movies.
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Really? Which one was that? I have no recollection of that, but then I have not seem all the films.
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I haven't seen any of them, I'm just going by what I remember hearing about them.
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Well it sounds like you have got it wrong. Ripley kills a Queen in Aliens with a cargo loader mecha thing, and in Alien vs. Predator the Queen is suspended in chains.
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On LV-426, the aliens were able to cut the power from a section of the complex to allow themselves access to the humans. The queen was able to learn how to operate a giant elevator simply by observing it once


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