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The Alien; Ripley's nemesis
Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,878 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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Plus, it's been shown multiple times that they'll purposely injure themselves in order to melt their way through things. I always figured that their outer shell was some sort of powerful anti-acid chitinous armor and man that sounds ridiculous with me writing it out loud.

Reportedly, Yautja also have basic blood that can help lessen the effects of xenomorph blood. What's human blood's ph level? For some reason the idea of highly acidic substances or highly basic substances working as blood (instead of just defensive bodily fluids) makes my failed-chemistry brain ping.
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It's between 7.35 and 7.45 for humans and different mammals vary between 6.8 and 7.8. 7 being Neutral of course.

So Yautja are Alkaline? What happens when you drop one in Coke?

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I don't know. But that just may be the best/worst science experiment ever.

It goes right up there with xenomorphs "Showing characteristics of both silicon and carbon based life forms"
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Well as they apparently do eat people they must be carbon based. The Silicon is probably Silica or something similer, like in grass.

Also I missed franticly trying to keep up with someone posting.
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I imagine that their outer shell is silicon-based. Smooth, tough, and reliable even in a vacuum or under extreme water pressure.
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That's pretty much how I see it being. Does the tail blade have metal on the edge?
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Probably not *metal* strictly speaking, but a very hard bladed substance. They must be continually re-secreting their shells to maintain such high standards.
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I thought I remembered them having that, but now I remember that it is scorpions who have high metal concentrations in their claws and sting.
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Same basic principal, I suppose.
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Same basic principal, I suppose.
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It would make sense given how good they are at hacking up people they are with that thing. It must have very powerful muscles behind it.
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Actually, that was another question of mine. Do you think they weigh more or less than they seem? Because I see them doing things like knocking parked cars out of place, which would seem to imply that either they weigh quite a bit more than your average human, or at least that they can dig their claws into the asphalt itself so hard that they can use their muscular system to move cars...

...but at the same time, you see them going around treetops and wires and across narrow little beams that wouldn't hold a person's weight so well.

I speculate that they've got a 'different' muscular system. It'd also explain how they get so strong whiel still looking so slim.
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It sounds like it could be an explanation for their crazy strength and light weight, but how could it work?
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I imagine like whipcord. Their muscles, instead of being bunched like ours, would be very...thin, and tight. Like wire-thin and elastic. An extreme version of a squirrels, for all their crazy agility.
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It's about the original Yutani of Weyland-Yutani and how, as a young man, he came across a damaged, downed Yatuja ship in China, and became super-smart and rich by reverse-engineering and selling the technology he found. It's pretty boring, for part of the AvP franchise.

I mean, most of it's just him being a businessman.

Oh, and trying to train pet xenomorphs. By the way? Poor idea. Although I imagine if you were able to 'hijack' whatever intelligence they have (they can learn things. Like how to open doors, operate simple machinery. In one of the movies a queen learned to use an elevator) and program them to beleive that you were their 'hive' or 'queen' they'd be one heck of a force to be reckoned with.

Good luck keeping a collar on one, though.
Trianing a hive of xenomorphs to think that you where thire queen? WOW! That would be one of the best wepens EVER! I would finly be able to get rid of that anoying creationist who keeps trying to convert me. Just hope they never find out you tricked them or that the "queen: has to breed to keep the hive going. Ick
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