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The Alien; Ripley's nemesis
Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,882 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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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


Okay, it was an elevator.
Mabey the queen is smart but I do not think the drones are.
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Ah. Does not necessarily smart. Goldfish can learn to push leavers.

Also how do they see?
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How do they see?
Sonor like a bat. Remember all that hissing they make?
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Ah of course, though that sound itself can't be effective echolocation.
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that big thing on their heads is just a visor, no evidence to support this though.
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Some kind of supergood sence of smell?
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I don't know how well echolocation works in a big, metal tube. Wouldn't all the acoustics make your "vision" fuzzy? I mean what good is echolocation if it echoes all around?
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I don't know how well echolocation works in a big, metal tube. Wouldn't all the acoustics make your "vision" fuzzy? I mean what good is echolocation if it echoes all around?
It's different than the eye as we have it and not exactly the most efficient system. But then again if they're just drones what does it matter how complex they are? Perhaps the Queen has eyes.
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Well it matters quite a bit. If they're drones, they're the ones doing all the work. To have something inefficient and blind doing all the work you can't do yourself would be a game of evolutionary Russian roulette.
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Well it matters quite a bit. If they're drones, they're the ones doing all the work. To have something inefficient and blind doing all the work you can't do yourself would be a game of evolutionary Russian roulette.
If nothing else on their planet has eyes what is the problem? Also you have LOTS of drones so if a few die big deal.
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The queen has to produce drones, which means the drones must somehow provide energy for the queen. If they're inefficient and easy to kill, the queen gets less energy and produces less drones. The fewer drones produced, the less energy you get. If the drones are inefficient, you end up losing energy. It's like owning a company and spending money left and right; you end up losing more money than you make.
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well obviously from what we can see from the movies they are not easy to kill.

also as for eyes i would imagine it would be the other way around, the drones have eyes due to having to deal with the world while the queen sits in her chamber eyes and force fed by the drones while she pumps out eggs...
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well obviously from what we can see from the movies they are not easy to kill.

also as for eyes i would imagine it would be the other way around, the drones have eyes due to having to deal with the world while the queen sits in her chamber eyes and force fed by the drones while she pumps out eggs...
How about some supergood snce of smell? Also the queen does more then sit in her chamber and be force fed by the drones while she pumps out eggs...
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Here I thought I would post some cool fan versions of these nightmares which some might have already seen.

http://iririv.deviantart.com/art/Aliens-tribute-97122580
http://iririv.deviantart.com/art/Aliens-tribute-II-100119241

The second link is cooler though the first has a few cool ones.
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Here I thought I would post some cool fan versions of these nightmares which some might have already seen.

http://iririv.deviantart.com/art/Aliens-tribute-97122580
http://iririv.deviantart.com/art/Aliens-tribute-II-100119241

The second link is cooler though the first has a few cool ones.
The wailen in the first link was my fav I just do not think a facehugger could hold onto a animel of that size.
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