Scientific inaccuracies in Alien

[426Buddy]

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[Xenomrph]

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Another scientific inaccuracy is in 'Alien3' when the egg materializes on the Sulaco out of thin air.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Scientifically accurate Canon.

[[cancerblack]]

Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.

[Local Trouble]

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How else are we going to get a canon war?

[Immortan Jonesy]

Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.

[Xenomrph]

I knew this would become the main topic of this thread

How else are we going to get a canon war?

The canon wars are over

[426Buddy]

I don't know a lot about science but the Alien universe feels less scientifically plausible and more fantasy as times goes on.

Sci-fi futures like The Expanse feel far more plausible and based in science while still having the impossible elements.

[Kradan]

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How else are we going to get a canon war?

The canon wars are over

People thought World War I was gonna be "the war to end all wars" - and we all know how that turned out

[The Cruentus]

Or a 1200km planetoid having near-Earth gravity.

Really, really f**king dense core.

It's not 1200km.

SM says it's 1,200 km.

Andrew Gaska says it's 12,000km.

Where was this?

It was going to be in the RPG core book but got omitted to give players/GMs the choice to go with either Lambert's number from the deleted scene or the CMTM's number, but it seems like "officially" it's 12,000km and that's the number he gives if you ask him.

Not to go off topic but what I like about what Gaska did is that he basically created a Schrödinger''s canon, where is entirely up to the player.

I knew this would become the main topic of this thread

Another scientific inaccuracy is in 'Alien3' when the egg materializes on the Sulaco out of thin air.

Damn it Xeno, we are still on Alien, give me a chance to create that thread lol 

I don't know a lot about science but the Alien universe feels less scientifically plausible and more fantasy as times goes on.

Sci-fi futures like The Expanse feel far more plausible and based in science while still having the impossible elements.

Agreed, especially when newer entries have been going for grandiose visuals and presentation over nuances and grounded science.


Someone brought up gravity and that is another thing, the ship should not have gravity really, I think I read once that in order for there to be gravity there would need to be some sort of rotation or something, I am not sure if I remembering right.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Not to go off topic but what I like about what Gaska did is that he basically created a Schrödinger''s canon, where is entirely up to the player.

This means my beloved Alien is alive in 2004 and not alive in 2004 at the same time? 



But at the same time again, I am like the cat ... sorry I meant like an Alien movie, and someone is watching me to force nature to collapse into one of the two realities *spooky time*  😱



Checkmate atheists 





Edit: That wasn't serious

[Whiskeybrewer]

I knew this would become the main topic of this thread

How else are we going to get a canon war?

The canon wars are over

Begun, The Second Great Canon Wars Have

[Immortan Jonesy]

Someone brought up gravity and that is another thing, the ship should not have gravity really, I think I read once that in order for there to be gravity there would need to be some sort of rotation or something, I am not sure if I remembering right.

Oh yeah 

Artificial gravity can be created using a centripetal force. A centripetal force directed towards the center of the turn is required for any object to move in a circular path. In the context of a rotating space station it is the normal force provided by the spacecraft's hull that acts as centripetal force.

▶Artificial Gravity

There was a rotating space habitat in Prometheus early days 🧐

In early versions of the script, Weyland's headquarters was an immense orbital ring.

▶Work done for "Prometheus" in the early days...

[BlueMarsalis79]

Perhaps all the ships have an internal gravity centrifuge somewhere. 

[SM]

I knew this would become the main topic of this thread

How else are we going to get a canon war?

The canon wars are over

Begun, The Second Great Canon Wars Have

"Second"?