From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Subject: Re: Do the Aliens come from EARTH?
Summary: Discussed before
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:07:56 GMT

In article <rabjab.14.0@golem.ucsd.edu>, rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
> >> I think a good case can be made that long before the crew of 
> >> the Nostrono made contact with the derelict ship on LV-426, the 
> >> Company developed the Alien species and infected another civilization's 
> >> home planet.  
> 
> >Sorry, but that's pure nonsense.  It explicitly contradicts Ash's
> >mission, Mothers misleading informations plus the fact that the
> >Nostromo was sent (yes, sent; perhaps you should watch Alien again) to
> >LV 426 at all.  It also completely contradicts the Company's handling
> >of LV 426 in Aliens.
> 
> During Ripley's debriefing, the Company never stated that it had
> sent the Nostromo to LV-426 to investigate a signal.  But because we know it 
> WAS sent -the decision to place Ash aboard was a result of "the network" or
> other agency picking up the signal before the Nostromo was dispatched.
> The Nostromo was probably viewed as a "ship of opportunity" that
> would pass by the area in transit, so as not to arouse suspicion by
> whatever overseers the Company had to contend with (ICS?).  We can
> infer that the Company had interpreted the signal as a warning, perhaps
> to a greater level of detail than Ripley had time to do.  How much
> detail did the signal contain?  Did it completely describe the Alien?
> I would have thought that the discovery of an intelligent life 
> form broadcasting anything - even a warning -
> would have been extensively publicized - that a SETI program 
> of sorts would have been contacted.  Instead the Company decides to keep
> the whole matter a total secret from science.
> 
> My belief is that even the explaination we are given - getting the
> Alien for the bioweapons division - is part truth: they are 
> retrieving the weapon to examine it.  It may have been genetically
> programmed with a capability to alter its genetic makeup to suit the
> host - something hinted at in Alien^3.  The Company may have been 
> surprised that a ship from the other civilization had left home base,
> and was curious to see why.  Was it enroute to Earth for a counter-attack,
> assuming they figured out was  Earth that screwed them?
> 
> Because the Company had done the dirty deed, they could not visit the
> actual scene of the crime (the home planet of the other race) for
> a long time.  The Nostromo was a convenient probe to use to check on
> a minor deviation from the Company's plan without getting much
> attention.
> 

This has all been discussed before and I'll repeat what I said
last year sometime.  I think any idea that the company even knew
that the Aliens existed is wrong.  If they knew that these things
were there, why send a ship full of amateur who were almost certain
to set them loose.  There was only a miniscule chance that they
would bring home eggs without them hatching. So the aliens are loose,
all the crew are dead and a ship full of aliens is drifting towards
earth.  Where's the advantage?

the only scenario that makes sense is the one we saw.  The company
put Ash on the ship since you never know what they might find and
put a clause in all contracts that they have to investigate anything
they find out of the ordinary.  Othewise they'd just ignore it
and keep going.  Ash was there to make sure that the company
interests were watched over.  The crew was ultimately expendable.
The alien was released by accident (and ash made usre it was not
left behind) and ran loose.  Give the chance ash would have made
sure that it was not killed, the ship not destroyed and the
company alerted to intercept.

If they KNEW the aliens were there - why not send out a ship, 
quietly, with a picked crew (maybe ALL androids) and pick up
eggs without them hatching?

As for the idea that the aliens started on earth and were shipped
out - considering the age and such of the ship the eggs were found
on, they must have been launched in the 1920's

marc colten

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