Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 08, 2021, 01:17:49 AM
Yup, now I see how the thread has grown in a few hours, just like the Alien
Yeah that is definitely one of the more unrealistic aspects, I mean they did mention the Alien taking food from storage in the novel or early script, but even with that, it would be unlikely for something that complex to grow that fast without burning out.
Quote from: Omegamorph on Feb 08, 2021, 04:36:27 PM
movies as an art form employ visceral logic - not everything that happens on screen is 100% accurate to reality nor has to be, as long as it's not something absolutely ridiculous
movies cheat on reality all the time, in the subtlest of ways, and Alien et al are no exceptions
True and some more than others but Alien was fairly ok for what it was, it left some things ambiguous, it didn't explain cryo or its travel ability so there is nothing really to contradict if we ever do discover a way to safely induce stasis and achieve some form of reasonable space speed.
Quote from: Xenomrph on Feb 08, 2021, 06:12:38 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 08, 2021, 06:05:27 PM
Like the triple explosion at the end?
Or Dallas saying the SpaceJockey is "fossilized", or that the facehugger bled "some kind of molecular acid", or pretty much anything the Alien does.
Bar the rapid growth speed and the sheer potency of its blood, the Alien isn't that implausible, its life-cycle is based on real life parasitoids and there are animals with double jaws.
@oduodu.
I would assume that during stasis, that the ship would be in conservative mode, so power and atmosphere would likely be low or absent as to not waste it.