Scientific inaccuracies in Alien

[BlueMarsalis79]

Maybe any exoplanet worth mining is small and filled with heavy, exotic minerals.

You should copyright this theory

[Immortan Jonesy]

Earth is 12742km & Planet 4 is 2350km. Both planets have the same gravity.

Yeah that's been the topic of discussion for several pages.

Yup, now I see how the thread has grown in a few hours, just like the Alien 

Not really, but close enough.

Oh all right.

[Local Trouble]

Maybe any exoplanet worth mining is small and filled with heavy, exotic minerals.

You should copyright this theory

Good idea.  Alien Theory might be lurking.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Maybe if he uses your intellectual property in his videos,  you will be able to sue him and avenge the wiki editors once and for all. Be a hero!

[BlueMarsalis79]

Local Trouble hallucinates long MIA cowl believers.

Spoiler

As they too believed the skull must be overtaken and filled in, purifying the design.

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[Local Trouble]

Legends, all of them.

[Immortan Jonesy]

In space, no one can hear you scream ~

At least the tagline of the movie got it right 

[FenGiddel]

I wonder if it might be more along the lines that nobody hears you cuz nobody gives a sh*t.... It's such a downer of a universe.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Nobody in power gives a shit, like the real world.

[OmegaZilla]

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

[Xenomrph]

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

This is especially true in 'Alien'.

[Local Trouble]

Like the triple explosion at the end?

[Xenomrph]

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.

[Local Trouble]

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.

I can forgive some of that simply because he wasn't the ship's science officer.

[Xenomrph]

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.

I can forgive some of that simply because he wasn't the ship's science officer.

It's not that he's "wrong", it's audience shorthand. The Space Jockey isn't *literally* fossilized, but Dallas is conveying to the audience that it's "old". Likewise, all acids are molecular acids - Dallas is conveying to anyone in the audience who's a little slow on the uptake that it's a harmful liquid that you don't want spilling around in a spaceship, nevermind that the "acid" doesn't behave like a real acid (this is especially true in the later movies where it's potency and properties change depending on what the movie needs it to do).

The triple explosion is a good example though - it's conveying to the audience that it's not just a regular explosion, it's a super-mega sci-fi explosion with wild colors and multiple blasts, and it's a damn good thing Ripley got out of the blast radius.