Quote from: Valaquen on Oct 09, 2012, 07:48:05 PM
Seems put in there to justify Holloway and Shaw having sex ... which is weird 'cause they're a romantically involved couple.
I think it could be showing that the creation of the Trilobite doesn't just rely on the small chance of someone having sex (as it would do if actually used as a weapon generally) since the infected person is sexually aroused.
However this makes me wonder why the weapon even has the Trilobite-creating abilities, since disintegration seems more than adequate enough to kill everyone. Is the 'Alien' part of the weapon (including the inhalation path) actually an accidental bi-product? If so that negates my above statement about the arousal, but also could explain how the engineers were easily almost wiped out by their weapon on LV-223.
The data there suggests that they expected to just release the bio-weapon into our water/atmosphere, have it spread and break us all down, then life restarts. But uh, due to massive oversights in how the weapon works, the weapon bi-product killed them instead.
Quoteyou dont need to be an expert on alien bio-weapons to know that it doesn't make sense, just basic biology.
After just brainstorming it for a brief few seconds, how about inhaling it keeps the chemical in it's original state whilst consuming it causes digestive enzymes to change the molecule's structure, hence changing the function of the chemical somewhat? Entirely plausible in both real life and (especially) science fiction.
