Alien, the movie.

[garyw]

Any creature that had acid for blood would necessarily be made of material that could resist it, otherwise it's whole body would melt

There is a very good book all about the alien lifecycle, how the acid blood works. If I recall right, the alien veins have the equivalent of a teflon lining to stop their blood eating through their own veins.

Ok, it's all sci-fi but it was very well thought out.

 

[Notebook]

Yea, when I was a lad and nobody wanted to go the cinema with me(pre-audio levels didn't make your eardrums meet in the middle of your head), when you could actually hear the dialogue at a natural level, ....probably shouldn't have mentioned the first bit.

N.

 

[Andy44]

Besides - why the hell did they choose Sigourney Weaver? She's not that attractive, she has an annoying voice - not the best leading lady material.

Because she's not a supermodel airhead. She's a much more believable freighter ship officer than the usual Hollywood blonde. And she turned out ot be an absolutely wonderful leading lady; she carries the whole Alien series of films. I fear for the upcoming Alien-universe film because the story doesn't involve Ripley. No Sigourney = High risk of bad movie.

One of the things I love about the first two Alien films is that Ripley is not a superhero or a girly girl, she's just an ordinary spacecraft crewman who does her job and winds up in mortal combat with some awful creature, and by the end of the second movie she has risen to the challenge and become a complete badass. That fight with the power loader is one of the most epic SF movie scenes of all time.

 

[Andy44]

Okay, remember I said I was worried about the upcoming film? Not anymore. Looks like Ridley Scott's got things under control. He won't say for sure if this takes place in the Alien universe, but that thing at 0:31 of this video looks an awful lot like the Space Jockey's derelict ship on LV 426:

 

[Ripley]

...And I though Ripley was awesome

:tiphat:

 

[Loru]

Okay, remember I said I was worried about the upcoming film? Not anymore. Looks like Ridley Scott's got things under control. He won't say for sure if this takes place in the Alien universe, but that thing at 0:31 of this video looks an awful lot like the Space Jockey's derelict ship on LV 426:

Some tentacles looks similar to facehugger for me.

 

[jedidia]

If I recall right, the alien veins have the equivalent of a teflon lining to stop their blood eating through their own veins.

Well, what I really wonder is, how does it transport oxygen...

 

[Loru]

Well, what I really wonder is, how does it transport oxygen...

Actually acids are usually oxygen rich and have "urge to oxidize" everything around it

[speculation]

That kind of reaction is usually egzothermal so it's possible alien don't use oxygen as we do but somehow uses oxidizing reaction to create energy in more straightforward, simple chemical means.

[/speculation]

 

[Andy44]

The aliens seemed to breath human-friendly atmosphere just fine, and they also seemed to be able to function in LV 426's natural atmosphere as well, before the colonists terraformed it. Although the derelict ship's eggs were all stored beneath that layer of blue haze, and we're not sure what kind of atmosphere the Space Jockey's race breathed. The ship had obviously vented its own atmosphere after crashing on LV 426.

The aliens also seemed to be able to handle vacuum for long periods of time by human standards; we see two of them (the original and the queen) exposed to it and for the several seconds they were on screen neither of them lost consciousness. The original was killed by the engine plume, but the queen was still thrashing when last seen.

 

[Notebook]

I'd dispute that assertion, Andy44, the original was killed by the engine plume. I always took it as it(Alien) was jettisoned/ejected from the lifeboat. Either way, there was a chance it could come back....N.

EDIT: apologies, thought you were talking about the first film.

 

[TMac3000]

:tiphat:

Both of you, that is