From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
Subject: Re: ALIENS Q & A...IMHO....
Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 02:11:58 GMT

x892835@ESSEX.STFX.CA ("Daisy, Daisy...") writes:
>@ () writes:

>>First off, the two films were done by different people, the inners of the
>>alien ship in 'ALIEN' were the actual inners and not excretion from the
>>nasty aliens. It was Gigars' original design that was copied in 'ALIENS'
>>because it looked good.

>Good point. It conforms with the *original* vision of the Aliens (i.e. the 
>ideas that started it all). And the innards of the ship *do* look good. Kinda
>spooky.

So, what's wrong with revisionist history?  That's why Klingons always
had heads like they do now.  (Apologies for Trek reference in a r.a.sf
group.)

>>When Dallas examined the controls I'm sure he flicked a switch, hence
>>that's how I reckoned the transmission stoped.

>Could it also have done something to the stasis field (I assume that's what it
>was) over the eggs in the chamber? I suppose that's kinda shaky, since only 
>*one* egg subsequently hatched, but anything is possible #(:^{)

Notice that the egg didn't show signs of life until Kane was fidgeting
around with the top?

>>The ship was supposed to have been there a LONG time and the pilot was
>>fossilized to the seat.

>If he is *fossilized*, then that ship has been there a VERY long time indeed;

You seem to have made a jump in conclusion there.  The ship may have
still been drifting when he became fossilized, and the ship eventually
encountered the planet.  (This allows the Space Jockey's race to have
originated far far away from LV-426.)

>are we to assume that the Aliens can survive in their eggs that long without 
>food?? Besides, if the Space Jockey was actually *Fossilized* to the chair,

I wouldn't say fossilized TO the chair.  I'd say he was fossilized, and
was held into the chair.  I believe the word "grown" was used in the
movie.  It may be that the jockey and the ship were a single bio-unit.

And as far as stasis fields, the chestburster may have evolved into a
queen (by eating the remainder of the crew, which we saw absolutely no
sign of... if there ever was a crew), hollowed out the egg chamber at
the crash site, laid the eggs, and before natural death, secreted the
protective layer.

>then the eggs would likely be *petrified*. Besides, I find it difficult to 
>believe - even in a film - that ANY power supply could feed a stasis field 
>like the ones the egges were in for that long. We're talking about AEONS here!

Or a warning signal, for that matter?

>>I think the eggs were cargo, they crashed, some got loose and the pilot got
>>infected, hence he set up the warning signal. From what I've heard from so
>>called people in the know, the nasty aliens are geneticly engineered
>>monster warriors, designed to wipe out the enemy, but the designers made
>>them too good and hence they decided to put them somewhere safe, like in a
>>cargo ship and transport them away somewhere.

>Those things as a weapon....aieee!! Nasty.

Yeah, and I agree with the term "so-called people in the know".  There
are no such people.  It is all speculation that the aliens are
genetically engineered, and I personally refuse to believe in that.

And the opening to that shaft to the egg chamber didn't look at ALL like
the design of the ship.  Indeed, it looked more like it had been burned
out with acid.

>Can I just say one thing about the whole in ship/outside ship/ground level
>issue? IMPACT CRATER. There, I said it.

Interesting, but the egg chamber didn't look like a crater to me.  Then
again, they may have constructed a hive in that crater (covered by ship)

>>So Company knowledge of the alien may have been localized at Thedus.  The
>>left hand not knowing what the right was doing.

Woah, that looks like something I posted, but I didn't say I thought the
egg chamber was a cargo hold.  Indeed, I said that I did NOT think it
was a cargo hold, because the scale doesn't work out.

Again, I emphasize the importance of proper attribution of quoted text.

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