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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nimrod: [QB] Thanks Quatre, I've been out of town. Yes, there are canon facts in the first movie about the composition. It's very fitting that the exo-skeleton is made of such a hard, but not impenetrable matter. And since the "lil bugger" more than tripled its size and shed it's skin, after birth but before killing Harry Dean, it goes to prove it doesn't need much help or nourishment to develop, that came with the package. This is another parallel to evolutionized species. Human babies need very much help after being born and it takes a long time before they can walk, whereas foals and kids just need a couple of hours to get their shit together. So IF the aliens were engineered genetically they could've been designed with extremely accelerated growth and metabolism to quickly get battle-ready. The side effects being many waste-products, like acids and drool. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] It's very interesting that Giger designed them without eyes, much food for thought. I've always thought that the "acid-for-blood" thing was a nice touch. Think of it like this. Since everything about the "aliens" is hard, sturdy and lethal, it's only fitting that the body-chemistry of them is extremely advanced and concentrated. Ahh! Theory 2: Battery acid or gasoline? Here's another item in favor of aliens being very fine, sophisticated cyborgs. In Fox Entertainment's first-person-shooter "Aliens Versus Predator" the predator had multiple filters in which his visor could display different spectrums of light, an idea hatched from the events in "Predator II". Now, the aliens are best visible in the game when the predator accesses the "electro-magnetic" spectrum, concluding that aliens have a high body-electricity. This got me thinking. It's obvious that the alien chemistry is very different. But just how different? The alien body could be compared to an automobile and it's feisty battery, providing power for all the systems. Maybe the acid is not blood but fuel, and the exhaust-fumes are the drool? Now, exactly how it goes by gathering MORE energy is in the shadows, as we've never seen it feed. The groce scene in "Alien III", where the dog-alien is frenetically emptying the inside of a poor inmate, was in my opinion not feeding but a standard way for making sure the prey was dead. Kinda like wild dogs do when they've laid down a beast, they keep biting and ripping and such. In many non-canon books, emphasis has been put on their sense of smell. When a face-hugger has been killed it secretes stress-hormones and other chemicals, alerting other aliens within a kilometre of an attack or fatality. This can also explain to some extent why aliens seem so coordinated, like cattle-herds that move as one, like in the first battle-scene of "Aliens", where aliens started hissing mere seconds after the little alien-infant had been toasted. Appendix: Maybe aliens attack people's foreheads because they "see" the electromagnetic signatures in our brains, the most electrically concentrated part of the body, thus concluding that it's the most critical system in our bodies, and therefore the best spot to attack. Very effective... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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