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Predator's Real-life Home Planet | io9.com
Terx2:
Were real motherf**kers ;D
Xenomorphine:
--- Quote from: The Necronoir on Feb 07, 2012, 12:24:17 AM ---Not really. Our planet is 'smothered' in radiation too, we've just evolved to be able to distinguish between wavelengths at a very close frequency, and hence see. It would be the same in the thermal spectrum.
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And you saw how well that worked when the thing took off its filtering mask in the first one, didn't you? ;)
Somewhere cool would be better for natural eyesight to evolve like that. Just because they come here at the hottest times doesn't necessarily mean that's where their species was developed. Either that or they're genetically engineered creations for a different creature (which either died out naturally or they took over in conquest, which would at least explain how they managed to get technology).
The Necronoir:
--- Quote from: Xenomorphine on Feb 08, 2012, 07:53:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: The Necronoir on Feb 07, 2012, 12:24:17 AM ---Not really. Our planet is 'smothered' in radiation too, we've just evolved to be able to distinguish between wavelengths at a very close frequency, and hence see. It would be the same in the thermal spectrum.
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And you saw how well that worked when the thing took off its filtering mask in the first one, didn't you? ;)
Somewhere cool would be better for natural eyesight to evolve like that. Just because they come here at the hottest times doesn't necessarily mean that's where their species was developed. Either that or they're genetically engineered creations for a different creature (which either died out naturally or they took over in conquest, which would at least explain how they managed to get technology).
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Somewhere uniformly cool would have precisely the same problem: lack of differential. Given that we know the predators come from a planet hotter than ours (they generally come to earth during heatwaves etc), it suggests that their natrual habitat is an arid one as well. The problem the predator had in the first film was the latent humidity in the air, which made it like one of use trying to distinguish white objects in a white room. Mind you, he didn't seem to have any problem tracking Dutch with his mask off...
Omegazilla:
We could always say the first Predator was affected by some form of alien daltonicism, since Predator 2.
/crazyrandomtheory
Xenomorphine:
--- Quote from: The Necronoir on Feb 08, 2012, 11:13:28 PM ---Somewhere uniformly cool would have precisely the same problem: lack of differential.
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Not when hunting prey. Warm bodies would stand out.
--- Quote ---Given that we know the predators come from a planet hotter than ours (they generally come to earth during heatwaves etc), it suggests that their natrual habitat is an arid one as well.
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Not necessarily. Maybe they just realise more humans are outside at those time.
Sharks don't go to California because they like the scenery. They go to eat seals. :)
--- Quote ---The problem the predator had in the first film was the latent humidity in the air, which made it like one of use trying to distinguish white objects in a white room. Mind you, he didn't seem to have any problem tracking Dutch with his mask off...
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Neither did the audience - but it was more difficult than when the mask was on. One could easily have read that scene as the Predator deliberately handicapping itself as proof to itself that it can still wipe the floor with its chosen target.
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