Clarification: pH can only be measured in water-based solutions and superacids are explosive/not soluble in water, so it doesn’t make sense to place them on a PH scale and instead we should use the Hammett Acidity Function (H0). That being said, we can and do typically derive negative pH from this function using the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation which makes H0 equivalent to the pH values. This should have been explained further in the video. Correction: Zeti Reticuli only being visible from the Southern Hemisphere is part of the plot, suggesting those on the Northern Hemisphere must have received this information from aliens or advanced means. Thank you, to everyone in the comments who pointed this out. Want to adopt a star? Not a real one, just the one at the end of our videos - they’re lonely and could use a Patron’s name next to them 🙂[ bit.ly/4anEb5u ]
The Black Goo always struck me as some kind of biological Van Neumann probe/universal constructor. Although it seems to only interact with the fauna of an ecosystem, in Prometheus, there is one iteration of it's many forms that looks like a fungus that ejects spores, implying that it might react with certain flora. Either way, it's arse-puckering scary stuff.
An easy solution to the "acid blood" would be nanites. Once free from the host they simply act like indiscriminate eating machines till the energy in the carrier fluid runs out. 😮
The constellation NOT being visible to ancient humans is the plot point and mentioned in the movies - the fact that the people who drew them could not have seen them in the sky is what clued the researchers in that somebody had to have TOLD them about it - the aliens. So I feel it is an unfair point to subtract :)
@@astrumspaceNo one's perfect Alex, you missed one point, but so what... This video is absolute heaven to me as I love Science, sci fi, Alien and Aliens and deep diving into those two films. Only 1 and 2 are canon...! 😂
That's because Engineers used "Telepathic Telescopes" to tell people to draw that constellation. To lure them to the Planet were the ship meant to wipe Earth was stationed. Genius plan, only problem is it took some thousand years.
ALIEN was such a brilliant movie. My Dad's always telling me the story about when he and his friend went to see it in theatres having no idea what the movie was about: with the slow burn and the gore-free, scare-free intro, into "oh great! the crab's off his face and he's fine and they're all having dinner and... dear... ... what... OH MY DEAR GOD"
It should be noted that when Alien came out, the psychological techniques used to elicit fear were entirely new to audiences at the time. It was a big deal, and many people watched the movie with their eyes closed.
@@binkwillans5138 I just watched the film again yesterday with the special extras on how they made the movie and how it was received at the cinemas. People were passing out and vomiting as the tense and horror was so new people in the late 70s didn't know what was going on. It is an absolute masterpiece. I love pretty much all of the Alien films, and although the 2nd one is more fast paced it won't beat the 1st because by the 2nd film people knew what to expect so the shock factor was totally different.
Alex asked what the most terrifying thing we could think of was. The Xenomorph is certainly near the top of that list, but for me, the alien creature in the original movie "The Thing" was more frightening. It was easy enough to kill...kinda. Fire worked, but if even a single cell survived, it could become all over again. It could mimic anything living or anyone. The prospect of that creature is horrifying.
Worse than death is the blurring and death of identity. The Thing makes you confront that idea - does it take you over 100%? Do you know if it's controlling you? Do you both exist in mind together or are you just wiped completely with just being a "dead" clone? Furthermore it's an enemy that can hide and get you in your most private of moments without you ever suspecting. At least the aliens are a true external threat. The Thing, is able to be an internal threat as well. That's true cosmic horror - the horror that makes you question whether or not your very mind and soul are destroyed - not just your body.
One of the most horrifying aspects of The Thing is how it goes about mimicking a victim. If you're infected rather than just out right killed it can take over at a cellular level, infiltrating each individual cell and replicating, then replacing you while you are at some point conscious. As far as we know you may be sentient up to the point the invading organism feels threatened when it suddenly flips into survival mode and you simply cease to exist.
@@ToomasVane you don't need octopus or aliens for strange forms of intelligence. Just talk to an autist, even aliens will find that mf alien as fuck. Autist: 'weapons grade autistic speech' Alien: what is broken with this human? Human: no one knows, bra. They are born like that. If you didn't notice: I'm probably autistic.
When my wife and I saw the ad for “Aliens” in 1986 and heard that Ripley was going back, we actually felt shocked. I actually blurted out, “She’s going back?”.
OMG, the covenant crew were destined for failure. Why put feet on the ground of some random, wild bacteria ridden planet? I remember smacking my forehead six or seven times while watching that movie. And how stupid, with a capital S, must you be to not realize that David would stop at nothing to get off that planet? OMG, I can't even think about it!
My personal headcanon as to why Xenomorphs aren't dissolved by their own acidic blood is that it is not caustic until exposed to certain gasses. Not a bulletproof idea but it's the only thing I could rationalize myself.
I’ve wondered this recently due to Nethead in the first AvP film. Was it Predators web that put the imprint or the acid burning the actual pattern in on the xenos skull. It doesn’t seem often where their blood actually sits on them
@@12GageGarage212 the predator actually shows that the skin is not burned by the acid, thats why he makes a shield with the head dome and a spear with the tail tip.
Thanks for this! I unfortunately was part of the re-release of the Original Alien film in the early 2000’s (not the one last April). I was sitting next to Ridley Scott when we screened the re-edited film for the first time. He was rather grumpy about it and I don’t blame him. He kept muttering, “I cut that damn scene for a reason!” Poor guy. He knows he has to play the studio game and hates it like they all do.
It was around the summer of 1984/85 and I was 11 or 12. My parents went to work and I was home alone for the day. I ran down to the public library and borrowed Alien. What a great movie.
@@mischarowe That period was a period without worries, trigger warnings and kids were drinking from the hose. Nowadays people are scared of brain eating amoeba.
@@nevrotik91 To be fair, there are stories abound of people talking about having nightmares as kids due to these kinds of movies. My step father forced my sisters and I to watch alien movies and terminator movies when we were kids and I had a few nightmares myself. My sister had nightmares about the movie Backdraft for over a decade. I think the warnings are legit.
@@nevrotik91 well I can tell you I know a lot of kids in my family that still drink from the hose, but they would absolutely never have to or be able to run to the public library alone. That's how your kids get pulled into an alley and disappear forever these days.
Ancient humans on the Isle of sky not being able to see a constellation because it's in the southern hemisphere is the point within the movie. Further proof that an advanced form of life came and told them where to go despite their inability to see the constellation.
Yeah, the movie kind of made a point that they "told" humans all over the world about this constellation. How and why is the usual archaeological mystery. It is even implied it wasn't a guide but a warning, cleverly leaning into the real contemporary concerns we have about nuclear waste storage.
Ah yes. Nuke Waste storage Science Bros tell us not to worry about as Nuke Power is perfectly safe now. Never mind the idea our Legacy to future Humanity will be Nuke waste. @@TheRealDuckofDeath
I think that the Xenomorph was the most terrifying creature HR Giger could imagine, and you'd prefer to to have Giger's nightmares : his lifelong works are near all on the disturbing side
@@Doc_-_Savage_1 I'm pretty sure music-therapy may help you : Ever heard about the brown note, AKA the Maroon Note? I've been told that "Maroon 45", AKA Donald Vanshitz Hispantz, is abusing of this note so much he needs to wear diapers...
I still remember two things I read: The prologue of the manual of my childhood chem set: "Man is by nature a curious being." And Jurassic Park (paraphrased): "They did not stop to think if they should, instead of if they could."
That feeling when I saw the alien ship and the "jockey" (the huge dead alien) for the first time in Alien. Wow. The atmosphere! It was REAL! That's what an incredible film is. The game _Alien: Isolation_ was good too. The sound won awards as it really set it all off, and it had a lot to live up to. Amazingly scary, hearing those footsteps behind you as you try to quickly but quietly hide, or the alien coming through the vent while you're stuck inside with the motion sensor - it all relies on great sound production to put you there, and they did the movie proud I must say. It really elicited that _isolated_ feeling.
Acids are in fact not measured by their pH because that is a measurement of of the concentration of H3O+ ions (in water specifically). You could have two different bottles of the same acid with different pH because one is more diluted. Strength of acid is instead measured by their pKa value. The molecule you pictured there for a second is also not hydrofluoric acid (not even close). Hydrofluoric acid is also a very special case as it isn't exactly super strong as an acid. The problem is the F- anion, not the H+ cation. F- makes _extremely_ strong bonds with many light metals such as silicon, aluminium or calcium which makes it very dangerous to glass, lightweight metal containers and (and I know this first-hand) human bones. It will penetrate the skin and turn your bones into calcium flouride which is *very* painful. Luckily I only received a very small dose of vapor one time but it took 2 months to heal. Also, a pH of -31.3 is physically impossible. The lowest pH possible is around -1.7. At that point every molecule in your water is protonated (pH is a logarithmic scale, so this number is off by 10^30). More is just not possible.
Strong acids and bases are defined by their degree of ionization in water, rather than just by their pH. Strong acids fully ionize (dissociate) in water, meaning they release all of their hydrogen ions (H⁺) into the solution. Common examples are hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄). Strong bases fully dissociate in water to release hydroxide ions (OH⁻). Examples include sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and potassium hydroxide (KOH). Although pH is a measure of the concentration of H⁺ ions in a solution (or OH⁻ for pOH), the strength of an acid or base isn't determined only by pH but by how completely they dissociate in solution:A strong acid typically has a low pH (around 0-2). A strong base has a high pH (around 12-14).
"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage" Incorporation is the villain. 🕊
The enemy is the psychotic apes, US. Corporations are just a symptom of the disease of greed, which is a result of primal human memories of food scarcity, shelter scarcity, and so on. We're not advanced enough intrinsically, to be trusted beyond our own front doors.
It never ceases to amaze me how an independent youtuber is able to produce content superior in both intelligence and quality to that of major studios. There are documentaries on Netflix that aren't half this professional and educational. Well done, Alex 👏 👏
In Romulus they finally gave us the missing piece of the Xeno’s rapid growth rate puzzle by showing one of them emerging from the chrysalis for the first time.
Man I don't like the excess use of strobes in recent films - every time there's supposed to be some suspense, on go the strobes... I dunno whether to be scared or to start dancing!
The most frighening part is how much the company wants the species to try to utilize it. But we have people like that here already. Space would just make it easier, when we have solved how to actually go to and stay in space, since it can be done like in Alien Resurrection, out of sight and hidden completely from anyone that should oversee things.
One thing I was always annoyed with in Prometheus is that they instantly land onto the moon as soon as they arrived out of hibernation. Why couldn't they orbit and observe the weather patterns? Why didn't they pack a satellite?
And why is it, that over 100 years later, the Nostromo crew finds itself in deep, uncharted, uninhabited space, and yet, almost 100 years before, the Prometheus has no problem zipping out to the same area of space? Lambert: "We haven't even reached the Outer Rim. What the hell are we doing out here?"
My take on Xenomorphs rapid growth is ... perhaps its rapidly growing like Bamboo sprouts. Their cells work as balloons and can grow rapidly because the cells are already there, they just need to be expanded. Perhaps chestbursters are extremely dense with cells that are then inflated and hardened.
0:10 Afterall the Diddy memes lately I was half expecting the alien to open its mouth to show a bottle of baby oil coming out instead of its iconic tongue/second mouth
Alex spins a nice theory about the Alien lifecycle being based on parasitic wasps, but apparently he's not familiar with H.R. Geiger. I'm pretty sure parasitic wasps were not on Geiger's mind when he developed the Alien. He has a good point about there being close approximations to the Alien lifecycle already existing in nature on Earth. Nice video as always!
@@LadyGreySpacePirate Giger wasn't the one that came up with the alien gestating within a human host anyway, it was Dan O'Bannon, the original screenwriter. Giger just used his ideas to visualize the alien and all of its life stages. Whether O'Bannon was inspired by wasps or just came up with it independently - I'm not sure.
When i was a kid i watched The Blob...the scene when the person got pulled into the sink drain traumatized me so much i wouldnt go near a drain for awhile and my mom had to litterly fight me to take a bath lmao. I was maybe in kindergarten
I first saw blob on TV as a kid while flipping channels in the 90s. It was on the part where they're in the sewers. Good God that was horrific. It's proudly in my movie collection now. Took a long time for me to find out what movie it was
Event Horizon is a scary movie, not necessarily an alien, but more of an answer what could happen travelling faster then the speed of light and thus intervening with other realities… could you encounter a version of ‘Hell’?
First point is not fair at all. The writing on the cave wall is placed by the engineers or people who have encountered engineers. So the fact that Zeta Reticuli is in the southern sky doesn't matter. What's more, the fact that people in the northern hemisphere have no way of observing it, confirms the statement in the movie that the painting is an invitation.
Agreed. There was actually supposed to be a lot more to the engineers story but they cut all those scenes to dumb it down. I can't remember who did it, but there's a video on TH-cam that reads the script for all the cut scenes in Prometheus. It makes so much more sense and the movie would have been so much better had they left that stuff in.
If you look into the actual story you quickly find out why they didn't. It just got too religious and the studios got scared to piss of religious people. For instance. There are two black goos, not one. The one we see seeding life in the movies is the blood of the god Deacon that the engineers worshipped. You can see a depiction of it on the wall over the canisters with its arms spread out, like its on a cross. (Not the same Deacon creature we see alive in the movie) The engineers can't reproduce so they used the blood of the original god deacon to do that through sacrifice. - They eventually ran out of the blood and used what information they had to attempt to replicate it, creating a hellish version of it. One that puts self preservation before all else. Self preservation is extreme aggressiveness and greed. Something the engineers hate. Which is also why the one engineer we see talk to Shaw's team was on a mission to kill humanity. Humanity was too selfish and self preserving to be allowed to exist. - There's also some bit in there about a child being taken from earth two thousand years ago and being sent back to teach the humans the correct way to live, only for humans to kill him, which is why the ship in Prometheus was on the way to earth. I would have loved to see all this explained in film but it would have likely made people angry.
@@Nstone53 i don't see the Engineers worshiping anything. They are masters in many sciences live on a biomechanical world they built along with their other colonies spread throughout the other galactic arm in Unknown Space. The story concept was confused as if they weren't sure what they were doing so the story meandered and had many dead ends. Glad they canceled that stupid idea of just one messiah in one society out of the hundreds they would need to create to make the experiment worth while. I saw the Manu as I call them were artificially created 25 million years ago as a surrogate for the Old Ones seen in "AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" before the last of them withdrew to an underground sunless sea. Humans rose separately millions of years later. When the Earth got too hot during the Miocene many of them left for a new world some remained went into hibernation for that time. The Manu settled their own world called Ixx and created their own society rising a mile above and to a mile below the surface across that entire planet. their own queer mixture of life and machine into one including themselves. Just as their creators made them and the protoplasmic shoggoths to slave for them the Manu made their own slave species. Living inorganic machines that reproduce and can work in any environment including the imperfect vacuum of space. But they built their slave xenomorphs too well like the Old Ones did with their shoggoths they in both cases rebelled against their masters. They didn't find out till after the 100 cargo ships went out sending the slaves to colony worlds. They created the Predators to hunt down and destroy them. Again they fail as the Predators cultivate them to hunt not to exterminate. The mutation has even increased to creation of a Queen from "royal jelly" which some of the workers produce.
@@Nstone53 I watched all those deleted scenes too and it's basically telling the story of Jesus. I agree that this could lead to making the church angry but man it would be so great if they had continue the story with the engineers leading to a final movie where engineers, aliens, and predators face each other.
The scary parts of Alien were always what we didn't know or understand. The blanks our brains filled in were so much more interesting than the lore they kept adding. It really was the perfect Lovecraftian story.
The distance/time discrepancy in Prometheus *kind of* remained consistent with the original films. It was part of the lore. Ripley was devastated when she learned that her daughter had died while. Burke tells her that she was out for "57 years" That indicates the amount of lost time wasn't expected when she was "finally" rescued at the beginning of Aliens. She expected less time away, had her original mission been concluded on time. Instead, the shuttle- said to have been adrift- not powered- to be "picked up by the network" "with some luck". I always saw it as either every trip is a one way trip, or they're implying a reasonable time/space/lifespan trade off expectation for the character. Marines have families back home, too.
Biblical Christians believe that God is Omniscient, which means he knows everything. With that in mind, if that is true, there is NO original thought, not one. And this proves that ANYTHING we can imagine, or create, IS in fact either out there, or is possible. Just a thought.
@@Doc_-_Savage_1 which (and I've thought about this too, oddly. It's comforting to not be the only one, is what I mean) means that there is a universe (well...an infinite amount of them, really) where there is aGod so powerfull that they created that universe and they multiverse.... .....and, conversely, the same number of universes with an entity that cannot have been created by a God. Universes that can't have been created by a God. Universes with zero God. .....and a universe where there are many gods, who are responsible for the creation of reality as well...somehow. BTW: can a God, who knows everything and how everything will turn out... find the power to be able to change his mind? ....also, if the universe we live in is (for sake of discussion) the only universe that matters, as it's the only one we can interact with (so far as we know)... if our universe is as complex as it is, yet "it requires a God to make it", then that God must be more complex than the universe it created, correct? Yet, God is often said to not require a creator. So, why would it be reasonable for some to conclude that something as complex as the universe *requires* a creator.... yet, something *more complex* (a god) doesn't? Why would something of a higher complexity be more likely to 'come from nothing' than something of a lower complexity? ...you know the "watchmaker" argument for God? If God doesn't need a creator but a watch does... then, by that (im going to say) logic: the watchmaker, which is a human in that case, is more likely to just *_^_* into existence than the watch....for...reasons? 🤷🏽♂️
@@Doc_-_Savage_1 "anything we can imagine" .....I just imagined an entity that cannot *not* exist and it cannot exist with any godlike entities existing in any other of the infinite universes. ....sorry, Christians. 🤷🏽♂️ I mean...doesn't mean it exists but... it *_is_* possible. now 🤷🏽♂️ If you want an in-depth explanation: just deal with "works in mysterious ways" and have faith in .... 🤷🏽♂️ ...idk, whatever the faithful have faith in, I suppose.
The reason alien movies are so good and scary is the elements that come with them. Unknown enemies with strength and resilience, claustrophobic atmosphere, misguided trust from peers and psychological implementation. The story telling of these movies is just phenomenal!
3:44 What's almost more interesting, surprising, and uncommon than the narration, editing, writing, and overall production quality.....is that he's literally the first person I've heard to date who pronounced the name of that place correctly!
The Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual says they have a "tachyon shunt" to go faster than light; a drive that shifts all the particles of the ship to tachyons that travel at faster than light speed.
Weyland-Yutani being "a sort of Amazon of the future"... now that cracked me up! Order your alien eggs with free same-day shipping! Order an XXL pack and get a free can of black goo!
I bought this Pulse Rifle and Autocannon set and it failed to clear my infestation, so I'd like to return it and have you exchange it for a Bishop that can do the knife trick without chopping off my finger. Also, could you please cancel my Primeval memberspaceship
Something terrifying to me about deep space. Especially seeing a planet from a distance but still close enough to see details. Like the Saturn picture with its shadow on the rings.
An idea I had for why xenomorphs are able to grow so fast is that the majority of the resources it needs is already inside their body. I could be wrong but I heard that the stalk and cap of mushrooms are already formed before sprouting, all they need is moisture so they can inflate like a sponge. Though it doesn't account for the majority of it's size change, it could be a good boost as its gathering resources. I also want to introduce the possibility that xenomorphs are build be more efficiency then organisms we are familiar with. We often have kinks in our biology as a result of the limitations of natural selection, from the laryngeal nerve needlessly looping under an artery, to a useless vestigial tendon in my arm, to the incredibly risky process of giving birth. If xenomorphs are engineered to any degree, or even just being a natural algorithm of the black goo, it's not a stretch that they would streamline its biology from the placement of organs to the very cellular processes themselves.
The Prometheus alien is the dumbest thing ever. How is it able to grow from black ooze to an entire octopus in like a day inside a human lady without using a corresponding amount of biomass from its host? And then when she left it alone in the robot surgery room without any kind of nutrients or biological matter at all, it somehow still grew 10 times larger in a few hours. Nothing about that movie made the least bit of sense tbh.
Have you ever watched a bird hatch and grow up? Where does that bio-mass come from? They grow faster than they can eat. And why don't we continue to grow when we're over 20, even though we eat more? For the average thinking human, there was too much to think to make this be an entertainimg movie.
Alien was already sh*t like 3 seperate times before Prometheus was even an idea. Half the charm from this franchise comes from the fact that half the movies are objectively terrible. I wish that wasn't the case cause it deserves better, but nothing can or ever will be worse than Resurrection.
Its worth mentioning that in the original Alien movie, Ripley was in hypersleep for 57 years (Earth time) after she defeated the alien and returned from Calpamos to earth in the lifeboat shuttle. This took place after the events in Prometheus, which traveled to Calpamos, taking two years ship time and, according to your calculation , 37 years Earth time (although your graphic at 11:14 shows 35 years).
Ripley was picked up by chance in the lifeboat (drifting in deep space and not back on Earth), aboard which she had been in stasis for 57 years if I remember correctly? Then the Event Horizon tried to kill everyone from the Lewis and Clark. Or did I dream that ... :)
Alex, huge fan been watching for years and have seen all your videos starting from a realistic representation of the solar system. Last time I commented it was asking for a new video on venus and i like to think my comment wasnt overlooked because you delivered as you always do. Im always excited when i get a notification that you or Astrum Extra posted a new video. Anyways i was wondering if youve seen the netflix show “3 Body Problem” it incorporates aliens, quantum physics, and has a great story to it based on the Wow signal. I wanted to know if you thought maybe “3 Body Problem” was more realistic than alien, avatar, interstellar, or any other movies youve covered. Thanks!
Hey Alex! Thank you for another awesome video! I am constantly learning something new from all of your videos! I wish you were currently teaching my EMT course 😅. You have such a great way of teaching and keeping my mind involved in all of your topics! More instructors could learn to be more like you . Thank you for everything! ❤
I love you covered this. This installment broight me back to the original feel of Alien, with a dash of Aliens. As a fan of films, the lore, the comics, and a large number of the novels I love the universe.
There's a classic saying. "Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." I beg to differ. I'd rather inhabit a universe in which we are alone than live in fear of a universe which contains the xenomorph, or the Shrike, or the creatures from the Mist, or whatever it is that caused the mutations in Annihilation.
The actual creatures we may encounter, are going to be breathtakingly more horrific or friendly than we can possibly imagine. A L I E N S, would be a devil we know. Or something similar. But there will always be a Weylan-Yutani (1979 cannon spelling), always a Carter Burke, and always a United Military Systems. The greatest threat to mankind.......is mankind, and ever will be.
I watched Alien for the first time when I was 5 y.o. and I couldn't sleep without a pillow on my face thinking that if I didn't put something on my face, i would die because of a facehugger.
11:15 there is no direct on screen mention of the FTL drives used by the Nostromo et al, but it's definitely covered in the pre-production materials for Aliens. You can find this discussed in the of this in the Colonial Marines Technical Manual - the cannon explanation is the use of quantum physics, tacheons I believe, to break the light speed barrier. The closest in gets to being shown on screen is one of the Nostromo file saying "limited knowledge of FTL drives" during Ripley's debriefing screen with Wayland-Yutani on Gateway.
Oh my goodness, this is an awesome video, as a microbiologist, I loved it! One little point (sorry for being a pedantic Biology Prof), the second word of a Latin binomial isn’t capitalised and the all parts of name are italicised. Sorry again for being a pedant 😅 Very happy to already be an Astrumnought
You missed the point. The depiction of early hominids pointing to the stars does not mean the peoples that painted the walls could see them. They were simply passing on knowledge of the 'Makers' star system/constellation, as it had been taught to them. As such, the storyline is accurate.
What if all habitable planets start out with dinosaurs like ours did. It seems very feasible. However in this scenario, the planet never got hit by a meteor. Then I'd say its even more possible that reptiles could evolve into something like this, instead of birds. Frightening.
Because the creatures in aliens go against physics. Sure in an infinite universe every possibility will eventually happen, but those possibilities still have to obey the laws of physics. Something kind of similar to xenomorphs could maybe exist, but not xenomorphs as depicted in the movies.
It could potentially be an oxidizing acid as they can use the oxygen in the air to actually do the destroying of a material as the acids facility that reactivity. Concentrated Sulfuric can do it as one can see when dropping Conc H2SO4 onto Sugar it rapidly turns to carbon as though it was burned but more importantly organic acid like Performic acid are rather potent in their own regard. If an acid can catalize the splitting of O2 into oxygen radicals while directing those radicals to attack the exposed material it would essentially burn away anything it touches
There was a line in one of the first two films which states that the blood turns into acid on contact with the oxygen in the air. From one of the androids researching it. A lot of people miss it. Was a quick line. Not sure if it was only in an extended edition or not.
@@NefariousKoel In Romulus the android from the station (who either was the same android from the first film or a least the same model) told exactly which acid it is, but I cannot remember what he said =(
I just watched another Alien breakdown vid that literally just said that they gave the aliens acid blood for plot reasons. There are many points where people could just shoot the dang things, but the acid blood makes it too dangerous to just shoot them. Real simple. Don't overthink it. Lol
The most terrifying thing for me is that we're not far off from making bio weapons ourselves. Not like this, but in ways we can't even imagine yet. Think about viruses that make you subservient and docile, ones that make you sterile, one that makes it impossible to sleep dumping you in a scenario where the public slowly goes mad. In my opinion, these could be less than 20 years away. The scary part is we couldn't even make a large section of the population wear a mask during something that we've been dealing with since the dawn of time. 🤦🏻♀️
Read Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo. Then you will really be scared. As an NBC warfare specialist in the 80’s told me during my Navy training, your mask might as well be a sieve if it doesn’t have a positive seal. How do I get that with cloth. To be effective, I would have needed a half mask with either a P-100 or GME filter. This has since been confirmed by hard science since the government stopped censoring it.
It apparently started 80 years ago if you focus on engineered bioweapons. "The first notable success in creating an engineered bioweapon occurred during World War II. The Japanese military, particularly Unit 731, conducted extensive biological warfare experiments and successfully deployed bioweapons."
@@skeptikus yes I'm aware. The movie is 100% nightmare fuel. Nobody can say for sure what exists in a deep dark lab underground somewhere, but I'm referring to weapons that are designed not just to kill but to cause scenarios ala 28 days later, one's that cause hallucinations in madness which all serve to weaponize the population. Using the Japanese as for instance, imagine they come up with an engineered plague that has a 90% or more lethality rate but having Japanese ancestry makes you completely immune.
@@skeptikus There are also historical records that document primitive biowarfare earlier than that. It is said that early warfare involved using dead bodies to poison water sources, although these tales weren’t reported until centuries later. Shortly after the invention of catapults, they were used to throw dead bodies into cities under siege to spread disease. During the middle ages bodies of plague victims were preferred, although any camp disease such as typhoid or cholera was a second choice. Unit 731 was less an engineering process and more of a breeding process. Actual engineering started with the advent of modern DNA manipulation techniques. In the 80’s, there was an editorial in Analog magazine that posed the possibility that the answer to the Fermi paradox was that eventually biotech becomes so accessible that teenagers are playing with it in their basements, much like happened with radio, and later computer technology. Imagine a teenager with access to CRISPR who just got dumped by his girlfriend deciding to show the world. Scary stuff. Think Columbine for the whole world. The only thing in our favor in that scenario that I can think of is a study in the 60’s by the Rand Institute titled Red Queen. It was a biowarfare wildfire type study that found that there would always be a few survivors after a slate wiper pandemic. They would survive either due to genetics, isolation, or the disease burning out before it reached them. The problem would be that survivors would be far from each other, causing difficulty in finding mates. If they did manage to get enough population together to prevent inbreeding, then the problem becomes devolving tech levels. It is hard to build lightbulbs when it takes all your waking time to stay fed. Governments establishing tech vaults containing libraries teaching how to evolve tech from bronze age up to modern tech (along the lines of seed vaults) would be good, but nobody would be willing to pay for it. When Europeans reached the Mississippi river valley and found the remains of the Mound Builder civilization, they asked the locals who built them. They were told “the gods”. The locals were only four generations removed from the last of the mound builders. Now imagine a post plague society where for the last three generations the most advanced technology has been the local blacksmith’s forge. The local storyteller/historian tells of the an ancients being able to walk into a room, touch a spot on the wall, and a globe of light would appear. If you had never seen a light switch or a light bulb, you would be picturing a powerful wizard. Now picture an explorer walking through the remains of any major city. To him, metropolis is 15000 people and a skyscraper is three stories. As Arthur C Clark said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and without a repository, it would all have to be invented from scratch again.
@@Simple_But_Expensive You are correct. That's why I qualified my statement with "if you focus on engineered bioweapons". Otherwise we would have to look for the first time someone sneezed on someone else.
As for bridging the gaps in the xenomorph life cycle, what if the black goo is a combination nanomachine + genetic reprogramming tool? It would always make sure to preserve some basic form within any host or subsequent offspring to help it adapt to changing environments. It could explain a quick growth phase via matter transformation (like the comic version of going through ship's stores to bulk up). It could explain the varying forms as a response to the environmental pressures of the moment, including host DNA, actual environment, remembered environmental pressures from previous hosts, etc. I could even see the ability to continue creating more basic black goo eventually being lost as a built-in failsafe, so that the Engineers could hit a planet with the black goo, let it ferment for a while, and then eventually come back to see what had developed without fear of further infection.
If I recall correctly, in the book adaptation of the first movie, it's clarified that the acid is not actually the xenomorph's blood, it's just circulating, under pressure, below its skin. I don't remember if this is mentioned in the actual movie, though.
The most terrifying creature I can imagine is probably humans ourselves. The Saw franchise just goes to show there's no depth to human evil and inventiveness to suffering.
Prometheus - the spaceship's name in the Unreal games... 1, Return to Na pali, and 2 too. Prometheus movie's landing scene on the alien planet was so much like watching the world from this game. Still it's stupid to run exactly at the lenght of where that C shaped spaceship is falling down.. whyn don't she just sideruns to safety, lol
On the argument that the Alien isn’t silicon based, keep in mind, in the first movie, the Nostromo was a mining ship returning from its voyage. The Xenomorph could have gotten into the mined material for silicon. Once you get to the 3rd movie nothing really matters due to bad writing. On that note, the Alien wasn’t shown to have acidic blood in adult form in the first movie. The crew never make it bleed. It only bled in the Facehugger form when Ash cut one of the legs. He then commented on it being a defense mechanism to make sure no one could remove it from a host once attached. No matter what happens, a person will pretty much die once a facehugger attaches.
this video was so well put together.well done astrums team. what might be out there has always fasinated me. maybe i will rethink going out to check stuff out now because of this 😆
Honestly the most terrifying creature I can imagine is us. Almost everything we fear in aliens and boogeymen are just reflections of ourselves. If we reach space travel its entirely possible we are a galactic plague
Counterpoint; Earth is currently the only known planet containing life, and Humanity is the only chance life has of escaping Earth as all easily available hydrocarbons have been used up. There's no industrial revolution mk.2 for future species. In many Sci-Fi mediums there's an elder race that seeds life across the cosmos; that's probably us. It is our species' grand destiny to bring life to dead worlds. The universe is already dying as with every passing second stars lewve our local cluster and lost to us forever. Advances made by post-human lifeforms with access to galaxies worth of resources are likely the only shot we have to reverse the tide and save the universe from entropy. We are the heroes, currently living out our tragic backstory.
For me, the moons from Dead Space or the Flood from Halo are the scariest lifeforms because there is nothing that proves that something like that cannot exist.
What's interesting, from a perspective of mixing the the series lore with real world events and mythology, Zeta Reticuli is the same star system that is mentioned in the "star map" viewed by Betty Hill during the Betty and Barney Hill Abduction in 1961. The Engineer writing found in Prometheus and in writing found on the other project planet found in Covenant is based on Ancient Sumerian text. This language was also featured in "Fourth Kind".
Missed: the strength of the acid could explain the rapid growth of "newborns": the embryo could store the energy harvested from the human host in acid and then use that after bursting out to fuel its rapid growth (and also to quickly break down many different materials it encounters to embed them into its body).
Amazing! Love the way you break down these topics into real science. The real world often tends to be more frought than even the most wildest imaginations💫
Prometheus dropped when I was a kid, and I was already a nerd who liked space and sci fi. Thank you for addressing the lack of FTL travel regarding the ship, and the problem with only it taking two years. cause I was like they clearly showed in the beginning of the movie a fast moving object crossing the screen with a background of stars and nebulae with no warb nor any other visible classical sci fi FTL elements. Thank you sir.
Clarification: pH can only be measured in water-based solutions and superacids are explosive/not soluble in water, so it doesn’t make sense to place them on a PH scale and instead we should use the Hammett Acidity Function (H0). That being said, we can and do typically derive negative pH from this function using the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation which makes H0 equivalent to the pH values. This should have been explained further in the video.
Correction: Zeti Reticuli only being visible from the Southern Hemisphere is part of the plot, suggesting those on the Northern Hemisphere must have received this information from aliens or advanced means. Thank you, to everyone in the comments who pointed this out.
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No deal, I'm adopting Zeta Reticuli
LV426 could be made from a material inside the Island of Stability. That could be a science fiction explanation with a possibility of being real.
The Black Goo always struck me as some kind of biological Van Neumann probe/universal constructor. Although it seems to only interact with the fauna of an ecosystem, in Prometheus, there is one iteration of it's many forms that looks like a fungus that ejects spores, implying that it might react with certain flora. Either way, it's arse-puckering scary stuff.
An easy solution to the "acid blood" would be nanites. Once free from the host they simply act like indiscriminate eating machines till the energy in the carrier fluid runs out. 😮
I've seen the aliens and the pods I've seen hindu gods with spears trying to fight the Spider aliens
The constellation NOT being visible to ancient humans is the plot point and mentioned in the movies - the fact that the people who drew them could not have seen them in the sky is what clued the researchers in that somebody had to have TOLD them about it - the aliens. So I feel it is an unfair point to subtract :)
Completely agree. Seemed obvious.
Good rebuttal, to be fair!
@@astrumspaceNo one's perfect Alex, you missed one point, but so what... This video is absolute heaven to me as I love Science, sci fi, Alien and Aliens and deep diving into those two films. Only 1 and 2 are canon...! 😂
That's because Engineers used "Telepathic Telescopes" to tell people to draw that constellation. To lure them to the Planet were the ship meant to wipe Earth was stationed. Genius plan, only problem is it took some thousand years.
@@astrumspaceyou need to rethink your entire channel now…
Can’t believe you’d make such a mistake lol 😜
ALIEN was such a brilliant movie. My Dad's always telling me the story about when he and his friend went to see it in theatres having no idea what the movie was about: with the slow burn and the gore-free, scare-free intro, into "oh great! the crab's off his face and he's fine and they're all having dinner and... dear... ... what... OH MY DEAR GOD"
Funnily enough, that slow burn was the reason I prefer the later movies. #2 as the best though.
It should be noted that when Alien came out, the psychological techniques used to elicit fear were entirely new to audiences at the time. It was a big deal, and many people watched the movie with their eyes closed.
What a experience it must have been indeed!
@@binkwillans5138 I just watched the film again yesterday with the special extras on how they made the movie and how it was received at the cinemas. People were passing out and vomiting as the tense and horror was so new people in the late 70s didn't know what was going on. It is an absolute masterpiece. I love pretty much all of the Alien films, and although the 2nd one is more fast paced it won't beat the 1st because by the 2nd film people knew what to expect so the shock factor was totally different.
Well-written. I remember it well.
Alex asked what the most terrifying thing we could think of was. The Xenomorph is certainly near the top of that list, but for me, the alien creature in the original movie "The Thing" was more frightening. It was easy enough to kill...kinda. Fire worked, but if even a single cell survived, it could become all over again. It could mimic anything living or anyone. The prospect of that creature is horrifying.
How about a Tyranid
The Thing is definitely up there for me too!
I agree, much more terrifying concept in my opinion
Worse than death is the blurring and death of identity. The Thing makes you confront that idea - does it take you over 100%? Do you know if it's controlling you? Do you both exist in mind together or are you just wiped completely with just being a "dead" clone?
Furthermore it's an enemy that can hide and get you in your most private of moments without you ever suspecting. At least the aliens are a true external threat. The Thing, is able to be an internal threat as well. That's true cosmic horror - the horror that makes you question whether or not your very mind and soul are destroyed - not just your body.
One of the most horrifying aspects of The Thing is how it goes about mimicking a victim. If you're infected rather than just out right killed it can take over at a cellular level, infiltrating each individual cell and replicating, then replacing you while you are at some point conscious. As far as we know you may be sentient up to the point the invading organism feels threatened when it suddenly flips into survival mode and you simply cease to exist.
Maybe the real Xenomorphs are the nightmares we made along the way.
Remember: If I'm ever on a spaceship and a crew-member ever gets infected by an alien creature, he's spaced immediately.
It's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission. 😂
@@AllSetWithLife83 True!
All those among us xp finally paid off
Like Clarke would say : go float yourself
“Alien is not real”
Lifeform that pretends to be Alex from Astrum
Alien Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence are the same. -Ridley Scott
@@Loreweavver so is octopus intelligence alien from us.
Alex is just one of the names Astrum the Alien used
@@ToomasVane you don't need octopus or aliens for strange forms of intelligence. Just talk to an autist, even aliens will find that mf alien as fuck.
Autist: 'weapons grade autistic speech'
Alien: what is broken with this human?
Human: no one knows, bra. They are born like that.
If you didn't notice: I'm probably autistic.
The perfect organism
When my wife and I saw the ad for “Aliens” in 1986 and heard that Ripley was going back, we actually felt shocked. I actually blurted out, “She’s going back?”.
WTF? You were married in 86? How old are you?
@@StevieB8363you know married people existed before the 2000’s lol. Edit: or they could have met around that time, but now they are married
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@@StevieB8363 If they were 18 in 1986 they'd be 56 now. I'm 63 so I wouldn't call 56 that shockingly old.
These young ones would be shocked to know what we got up to in them days, the 70s, 80s....
I don't know about you, but i hope whoever goes out into space, are a helluva lot smarter than the people in Prometheus and Covenant.
Elizabeth Shaw was smart. Too bad, she's too kind towards a robot...
OMG, the covenant crew were destined for failure. Why put feet on the ground of some random, wild bacteria ridden planet? I remember smacking my forehead six or seven times while watching that movie.
And how stupid, with a capital S, must you be to not realize that David would stop at nothing to get off that planet? OMG, I can't even think about it!
@@amandahugginkiss55 Yeah, it was the Stupidity in these films that spoiled it for me. You wouldn't think it was the same person that directed "Alien"
Not only that, but that they’d follow proper procedure, unlike some characters in the first movie.
@@grimble4564 So instead of ‘Space Camp’, we get ‘Far Out Space Nuts’?
😉😏
My personal headcanon as to why Xenomorphs aren't dissolved by their own acidic blood is that it is not caustic until exposed to certain gasses. Not a bulletproof idea but it's the only thing I could rationalize myself.
Are batteries dissolved by their own acid, our stomachs?
Oxygen activates the molecular acid and once oxidizes stops.
@@randallbesch2424oh wow. Xenomorphs are like the Energizer Bunny’s shadow side 😮
It's because their tissues are made of polarized silicon. Molecular acid can eat throught plastics, but not polarized silicon glass. Maybe? haha
I’ve wondered this recently due to Nethead in the first AvP film. Was it Predators web that put the imprint or the acid burning the actual pattern in on the xenos skull. It doesn’t seem often where their blood actually sits on them
@@12GageGarage212 the predator actually shows that the skin is not burned by the acid, thats why he makes a shield with the head dome and a spear with the tail tip.
Thanks for this! I unfortunately was part of the re-release of the Original Alien film in the early 2000’s (not the one last April). I was sitting next to Ridley Scott when we screened the re-edited film for the first time. He was rather grumpy about it and I don’t blame him. He kept muttering, “I cut that damn scene for a reason!” Poor guy. He knows he has to play the studio game and hates it like they all do.
Which scene was that and what was the reason?
Curious as well.
It was around the summer of 1984/85 and I was 11 or 12. My parents went to work and I was home alone for the day. I ran down to the public library and borrowed Alien. What a great movie.
Bogles the mind how a kid could rent such a movie, tbh.
@@mischarowe That period was a period without worries, trigger warnings and kids were drinking from the hose. Nowadays people are scared of brain eating amoeba.
@@nevrotik91 To be fair, there are stories abound of people talking about having nightmares as kids due to these kinds of movies.
My step father forced my sisters and I to watch alien movies and terminator movies when we were kids and I had a few nightmares myself.
My sister had nightmares about the movie Backdraft for over a decade.
I think the warnings are legit.
@@nevrotik91 well I can tell you I know a lot of kids in my family that still drink from the hose, but they would absolutely never have to or be able to run to the public library alone. That's how your kids get pulled into an alley and disappear forever these days.
@@nevrotik91 Those days also had more serial killers.
Ancient humans on the Isle of sky not being able to see a constellation because it's in the southern hemisphere is the point within the movie. Further proof that an advanced form of life came and told them where to go despite their inability to see the constellation.
Yeah, the movie kind of made a point that they "told" humans all over the world about this constellation. How and why is the usual archaeological mystery. It is even implied it wasn't a guide but a warning, cleverly leaning into the real contemporary concerns we have about nuclear waste storage.
exactly my rebuttal the moment he mentioned it
Oh…interesting - i assumed it was a not really explored magnetic flip scenario…isle of skye was the bit i didnt believe1
But then they couldn't see it unless they migrated or made the first real ships to go south... still a weird predicament
Ah yes. Nuke Waste storage Science Bros tell us not to worry about as Nuke Power is perfectly safe now. Never mind the idea our Legacy to future Humanity will be Nuke waste. @@TheRealDuckofDeath
I think that the Xenomorph was the most terrifying creature HR Giger could imagine, and you'd prefer to to have Giger's nightmares : his lifelong works are near all on the disturbing side
Depends on how tight your waste elimination orifice is.
@@Doc_-_Savage_1 I'm pretty sure music-therapy may help you : Ever heard about the brown note, AKA the Maroon Note?
I've been told that "Maroon 45", AKA Donald Vanshitz Hispantz, is abusing of this note so much he needs to wear diapers...
Giger was within a collection of artists who made similar work, he was the one that got the Hollywood job.
I still remember two things I read: The prologue of the manual of my childhood chem set: "Man is by nature a curious being." And Jurassic Park (paraphrased): "They did not stop to think if they should, instead of if they could."
That feeling when I saw the alien ship and the "jockey" (the huge dead alien) for the first time in Alien. Wow. The atmosphere! It was REAL! That's what an incredible film is. The game _Alien: Isolation_ was good too. The sound won awards as it really set it all off, and it had a lot to live up to. Amazingly scary, hearing those footsteps behind you as you try to quickly but quietly hide, or the alien coming through the vent while you're stuck inside with the motion sensor - it all relies on great sound production to put you there, and they did the movie proud I must say. It really elicited that _isolated_ feeling.
Acids are in fact not measured by their pH because that is a measurement of of the concentration of H3O+ ions (in water specifically). You could have two different bottles of the same acid with different pH because one is more diluted. Strength of acid is instead measured by their pKa value.
The molecule you pictured there for a second is also not hydrofluoric acid (not even close). Hydrofluoric acid is also a very special case as it isn't exactly super strong as an acid. The problem is the F- anion, not the H+ cation. F- makes _extremely_ strong bonds with many light metals such as silicon, aluminium or calcium which makes it very dangerous to glass, lightweight metal containers and (and I know this first-hand) human bones. It will penetrate the skin and turn your bones into calcium flouride which is *very* painful. Luckily I only received a very small dose of vapor one time but it took 2 months to heal.
Also, a pH of -31.3 is physically impossible. The lowest pH possible is around -1.7. At that point every molecule in your water is protonated (pH is a logarithmic scale, so this number is off by 10^30). More is just not possible.
Encountered this stuff whilst working in an oil refinery.
Unfortunately a very widely spread misconception that weak and strong acids and bases are defined by their pH, they are not.
Strong acids and bases are defined by their degree of ionization in water, rather than just by their pH.
Strong acids fully ionize (dissociate) in water, meaning they release all of their hydrogen ions (H⁺) into the solution. Common examples are hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄).
Strong bases fully dissociate in water to release hydroxide ions (OH⁻). Examples include sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and potassium hydroxide (KOH).
Although pH is a measure of the concentration of H⁺ ions in a solution (or OH⁻ for pOH), the strength of an acid or base isn't determined only by pH but by how completely they dissociate in solution:A strong acid typically has a low pH (around 0-2).
A strong base has a high pH (around 12-14).
Very interesting, you must be a chemist. It’s a shame life is so short. I would like to know more about chemistry
This section was painful to watch.
"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage"
Incorporation is the villain.
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Such a great line!
The enemy is the psychotic apes, US. Corporations are just a symptom of the disease of greed, which is a result of primal human memories of food scarcity, shelter scarcity, and so on. We're not advanced enough intrinsically, to be trusted beyond our own front doors.
They do fuck each other over though, just different things
Hoomans will never be as fluffy as us
Oomans are the most dangerous species! Even their science is scarier than Hard Meat!
It never ceases to amaze me how an independent youtuber is able to produce content superior in both intelligence and quality to that of major studios. There are documentaries on Netflix that aren't half this professional and educational. Well done, Alex 👏 👏
Some so-called documentaries on Netflix are outright misinformation pretending to be real research
Anyways tho ur 100% correct great job Alex I rlly appreciate content like this
Why? That doesn't even make sense to say. People like you are so weird, got some superiority complex.
@@sailormoon1095you're a bot
It's botadelic baby!
In Romulus they finally gave us the missing piece of the Xeno’s rapid growth rate puzzle by showing one of them emerging from the chrysalis for the first time.
Explain please?
This! The inclusion of this officially made them many times-fold more formidable. In terms of it serving as their space travel vessel/protection.
The insect world is far more horrifying than any alien movie.
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I love how the disco tech lights always come on when an alien come into screen
Aliens love disco tech strobe lights
😭😭😭😭😭
Haha! This puts strange images in my head of one of the aliens taking John Travolta’s place in “Saturday Night Fever!” 🤣
discotheque?
Man I don't like the excess use of strobes in recent films - every time there's supposed to be some suspense, on go the strobes... I dunno whether to be scared or to start dancing!
@stevengill1736 how often are u scared inna nite club....middle of the dance floor??? U know the deal. Bussss a move!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The most frighening part is how much the company wants the species to try to utilize it. But we have people like that here already. Space would just make it easier, when we have solved how to actually go to and stay in space, since it can be done like in Alien Resurrection, out of sight and hidden completely from anyone that should oversee things.
One thing I was always annoyed with in Prometheus is that they instantly land onto the moon as soon as they arrived out of hibernation. Why couldn't they orbit and observe the weather patterns? Why didn't they pack a satellite?
And why is it, that over 100 years later, the Nostromo crew finds itself in deep, uncharted, uninhabited space, and yet, almost 100 years before, the Prometheus has no problem zipping out to the same area of space? Lambert: "We haven't even reached the Outer Rim. What the hell are we doing out here?"
And how can they find the place instantly after deorbiting? "Yeah, it is just right behind the next mountain to the right"
Plot progression.
My take on Xenomorphs rapid growth is ... perhaps its rapidly growing like Bamboo sprouts. Their cells work as balloons and can grow rapidly because the cells are already there, they just need to be expanded. Perhaps chestbursters are extremely dense with cells that are then inflated and hardened.
0:10 Afterall the Diddy memes lately I was half expecting the alien to open its mouth to show a bottle of baby oil coming out instead of its iconic tongue/second mouth
Lol what
@@LisaAnn777😂😂😂 as if alien's arent strange enough
Try therapy.
So so true 😔
Bio lube 😂😂😂
The movie "Life".Now that is a scary creature.
Calvin was horrific!!
Never heard of it
@@matthewboire6843 Ryan Reynold's is in it.
@@Vicki_Benji ok
@@Vicki_BenjiHe's only in it briefly though. Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson play the main characters
Alex spins a nice theory about the Alien lifecycle being based on parasitic wasps, but apparently he's not familiar with H.R. Geiger. I'm pretty sure parasitic wasps were not on Geiger's mind when he developed the Alien. He has a good point about there being close approximations to the Alien lifecycle already existing in nature on Earth. Nice video as always!
Well, I'm sure H.R. Geiger also have a fear of bugs which spawned the Xenomorphs. 😂
@@LadyGreySpacePirate Giger wasn't the one that came up with the alien gestating within a human host anyway, it was Dan O'Bannon, the original screenwriter. Giger just used his ideas to visualize the alien and all of its life stages. Whether O'Bannon was inspired by wasps or just came up with it independently - I'm not sure.
When i was a kid i watched The Blob...the scene when the person got pulled into the sink drain traumatized me so much i wouldnt go near a drain for awhile and my mom had to litterly fight me to take a bath lmao. I was maybe in kindergarten
Ever watch the film _Caltici_?
I’m like, bro I don’t remember writing this.
Me too
I first saw blob on TV as a kid while flipping channels in the 90s. It was on the part where they're in the sewers. Good God that was horrific. It's proudly in my movie collection now. Took a long time for me to find out what movie it was
I was afraid of ghoulies coming up out of the toilet when I was in kindergarten!
Same. Saw The Blob in the theater as a six year old. Couldn't sleep well for a long time after.
This video brings two of my favorite things together. Alien, and Astrum.
Imagine Toxoplasma Gondii chooses a killer wasp as a host, and let's say oxygen levels drastically increase on earth, expect zombie xenomorphs
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Event Horizon is a scary movie, not necessarily an alien, but more of an answer what could happen travelling faster then the speed of light and thus intervening with other realities… could you encounter a version of ‘Hell’?
That's my scary movie.
I freakin LOVE that movie!! 90’s sci fi horror was so rad. Loved the first Cube movie, too.
@@MollyMcBooter ya cube was smart and underrated.
Fully agree. I’ve never felt so creeped out and bleak as after Event Horizon. Superb film.
Was a good idea Event Horizon especially the ship log diary , looked proper s h i t e in hell 😂 dimension.
First point is not fair at all. The writing on the cave wall is placed by the engineers or people who have encountered engineers. So the fact that Zeta Reticuli is in the southern sky doesn't matter. What's more, the fact that people in the northern hemisphere have no way of observing it, confirms the statement in the movie that the painting is an invitation.
I just wished they did not stray away from the Engineers topic. That was way more interesting than the typical xenomorph stuff.
Agreed. There was actually supposed to be a lot more to the engineers story but they cut all those scenes to dumb it down. I can't remember who did it, but there's a video on TH-cam that reads the script for all the cut scenes in Prometheus. It makes so much more sense and the movie would have been so much better had they left that stuff in.
If you look into the actual story you quickly find out why they didn't. It just got too religious and the studios got scared to piss of religious people. For instance. There are two black goos, not one. The one we see seeding life in the movies is the blood of the god Deacon that the engineers worshipped. You can see a depiction of it on the wall over the canisters with its arms spread out, like its on a cross. (Not the same Deacon creature we see alive in the movie) The engineers can't reproduce so they used the blood of the original god deacon to do that through sacrifice. - They eventually ran out of the blood and used what information they had to attempt to replicate it, creating a hellish version of it. One that puts self preservation before all else. Self preservation is extreme aggressiveness and greed. Something the engineers hate. Which is also why the one engineer we see talk to Shaw's team was on a mission to kill humanity. Humanity was too selfish and self preserving to be allowed to exist.
- There's also some bit in there about a child being taken from earth two thousand years ago and being sent back to teach the humans the correct way to live, only for humans to kill him, which is why the ship in Prometheus was on the way to earth.
I would have loved to see all this explained in film but it would have likely made people angry.
@@Nstone53 i don't see the Engineers worshiping anything. They are masters in many sciences live on a biomechanical world they built along with their other colonies spread throughout the other galactic arm in Unknown Space.
The story concept was confused as if they weren't sure what they were doing so the story meandered and had many dead ends. Glad they canceled that stupid idea of just one messiah in one society out of the hundreds they would need to create to make the experiment worth while.
I saw the Manu as I call them were artificially created 25 million years ago as a surrogate for the Old Ones seen in "AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" before the last of them withdrew to an underground sunless sea. Humans rose separately millions of years later.
When the Earth got too hot during the Miocene many of them left for a new world some remained went into hibernation for that time.
The Manu settled their own world called Ixx and created their own society rising a mile above and to a mile below the surface across that entire planet. their own queer mixture of life and machine into one including themselves. Just as their creators made them and the protoplasmic shoggoths to slave for them the Manu made their own slave species.
Living inorganic machines that reproduce and can work in any environment including the imperfect vacuum of space. But they built their slave xenomorphs too well like the Old Ones did with their shoggoths they in both cases rebelled against their masters. They didn't find out till after the 100 cargo ships went out sending the slaves to colony worlds.
They created the Predators to hunt down and destroy them. Again they fail as the Predators cultivate them to hunt not to exterminate. The mutation has even increased to creation of a Queen from "royal jelly" which some of the workers produce.
@@Nstone53 I watched all those deleted scenes too and it's basically telling the story of Jesus. I agree that this could lead to making the church angry but man it would be so great if they had continue the story with the engineers leading to a final movie where engineers, aliens, and predators face each other.
Agree
-- What is the most terrifying creature you can imagine?
-- Ahem... mother-in-law?
My former boss. (Former being the key word ☹).
That's one of the best videos I've watched where science and science fiction are intertwined. I love it, I'd love to see more of these!
The scary parts of Alien were always what we didn't know or understand. The blanks our brains filled in were so much more interesting than the lore they kept adding. It really was the perfect Lovecraftian story.
By God good points!
Agreed. Also, it's ceases to be "Alien" when things start getting familiar.
@@rusparr2528 Dude, that is the best summation of this movie
The distance/time discrepancy in Prometheus *kind of* remained consistent with the original films. It was part of the lore. Ripley was devastated when she learned that her daughter had died while. Burke tells her that she was out for "57 years" That indicates the amount of lost time wasn't expected when she was "finally" rescued at the beginning of Aliens. She expected less time away, had her original mission been concluded on time. Instead, the shuttle- said to have been adrift- not powered- to be "picked up by the network" "with some luck". I always saw it as either every trip is a one way trip, or they're implying a reasonable time/space/lifespan trade off expectation for the character. Marines have families back home, too.
In an infinite universe, there is a Xenomorph out there. Just maybe not in our Galaxy, luckily.
Biblical Christians believe that God is Omniscient, which means he knows everything. With that in mind, if that is true, there is NO original thought, not one. And this proves that ANYTHING we can imagine, or create, IS in fact either out there, or is possible. Just a thought.
@@Doc_-_Savage_1 which (and I've thought about this too, oddly. It's comforting to not be the only one, is what I mean) means that there is a universe (well...an infinite amount of them, really) where there is aGod so powerfull that they created that universe and they multiverse....
.....and, conversely, the same number of universes with an entity that cannot have been created by a God. Universes that can't have been created by a God. Universes with zero God.
.....and a universe where there are many gods, who are responsible for the creation of reality as well...somehow.
BTW: can a God, who knows everything and how everything will turn out... find the power to be able to change his mind?
....also, if the universe we live in is (for sake of discussion) the only universe that matters, as it's the only one we can interact with (so far as we know)... if our universe is as complex as it is, yet "it requires a God to make it", then that God must be more complex than the universe it created, correct? Yet, God is often said to not require a creator. So, why would it be reasonable for some to conclude that something as complex as the universe *requires* a creator.... yet, something *more complex* (a god) doesn't? Why would something of a higher complexity be more likely to 'come from nothing' than something of a lower complexity?
...you know the "watchmaker" argument for God? If God doesn't need a creator but a watch does... then, by that (im going to say) logic: the watchmaker, which is a human in that case, is more likely to just *_^_* into existence than the watch....for...reasons? 🤷🏽♂️
@@Doc_-_Savage_1 "anything we can imagine" .....I just imagined an entity that cannot *not* exist and it cannot exist with any godlike entities existing in any other of the infinite universes.
....sorry, Christians. 🤷🏽♂️ I mean...doesn't mean it exists but... it *_is_* possible. now 🤷🏽♂️
If you want an in-depth explanation: just deal with "works in mysterious ways" and have faith in .... 🤷🏽♂️ ...idk, whatever the faithful have faith in, I suppose.
@Doc_-_Savage_1 in the quran its said that God created what Human don't Know so extra life its definitely a possibility
Not infinite and the xenomorphs are synthetic in composition.
The reason alien movies are so good and scary is the elements that come with them. Unknown enemies with strength and resilience, claustrophobic atmosphere, misguided trust from peers and psychological implementation. The story telling of these movies is just phenomenal!
3:44 What's almost more interesting, surprising, and uncommon than the narration, editing, writing, and overall production quality.....is that he's literally the first person I've heard to date who pronounced the name of that place correctly!
The Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual says they have a "tachyon shunt" to go faster than light; a drive that shifts all the particles of the ship to tachyons that travel at faster than light speed.
Weyland-Yutani being "a sort of Amazon of the future"... now that cracked me up! Order your alien eggs with free same-day shipping! Order an XXL pack and get a free can of black goo!
I bought this Pulse Rifle and Autocannon set and it failed to clear my infestation, so I'd like to return it and have you exchange it for a Bishop that can do the knife trick without chopping off my finger.
Also, could you please cancel my Primeval memberspaceship
Imagine amazon being the first group of humans to discover alien life 😅😅
"Probe the Alien films"
I see what you did there. Nicely done 😂
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this is top notch YT content even on your scale Astrum, which is already top notch! all thumps 1000 times up! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This was a fun episode. Thanks Alex
Something terrifying to me about deep space. Especially seeing a planet from a distance but still close enough to see details. Like the Saturn picture with its shadow on the rings.
An idea I had for why xenomorphs are able to grow so fast is that the majority of the resources it needs is already inside their body. I could be wrong but I heard that the stalk and cap of mushrooms are already formed before sprouting, all they need is moisture so they can inflate like a sponge. Though it doesn't account for the majority of it's size change, it could be a good boost as its gathering resources.
I also want to introduce the possibility that xenomorphs are build be more efficiency then organisms we are familiar with. We often have kinks in our biology as a result of the limitations of natural selection, from the laryngeal nerve needlessly looping under an artery, to a useless vestigial tendon in my arm, to the incredibly risky process of giving birth. If xenomorphs are engineered to any degree, or even just being a natural algorithm of the black goo, it's not a stretch that they would streamline its biology from the placement of organs to the very cellular processes themselves.
They still seem to violate conservation of mass lol. Unless they are very very not-dense, yet still strong.
@@InternetCommenters I mean, inflating with moisture means that mass is being added.
I was thinking that xenomorph blood isn't corrosive at first, but is catalyzed when its tissue is damaged.
i had the same thought
Finally, science and cinema knowledge is coming together to form one of the best documentary content on TH-cam! Yay!
Thank you so much!
Great video! Thanks for the work it took to create it!
the scariest would be the thing from john carpenters well ... the thing
possibility one or more Astrum team members infected by the alien organism ....... 75%
One of my favorite movies... Way underrated
@@campbellpaul mine too also the ending is just brilliant
Imagine the offspring of a combination of DNA from the Alien Xenomorph and The Thing - both using host DNA to change themselves! 😮
Agreed.
The Prometheus alien is the dumbest thing ever. How is it able to grow from black ooze to an entire octopus in like a day inside a human lady without using a corresponding amount of biomass from its host? And then when she left it alone in the robot surgery room without any kind of nutrients or biological matter at all, it somehow still grew 10 times larger in a few hours. Nothing about that movie made the least bit of sense tbh.
No to mention that most of those “scientists” acted like they grew up on a diet of lead paint chips.
The whole film was awful to be honest. It got slated a lot when it wad released.
It was a very poor film for the thinking human.
Have you ever watched a bird hatch and grow up? Where does that bio-mass come from? They grow faster than they can eat.
And why don't we continue to grow when we're over 20, even though we eat more?
For the average thinking human, there was too much to think to make this be an entertainimg movie.
Alien was already sh*t like 3 seperate times before Prometheus was even an idea. Half the charm from this franchise comes from the fact that half the movies are objectively terrible. I wish that wasn't the case cause it deserves better, but nothing can or ever will be worse than Resurrection.
Its worth mentioning that in the original Alien movie, Ripley was in hypersleep for 57 years (Earth time) after she defeated the alien and returned from Calpamos to earth in the lifeboat shuttle. This took place after the events in Prometheus, which traveled to Calpamos, taking two years ship time and, according to your calculation , 37 years Earth time (although your graphic at 11:14 shows 35 years).
Ripley was picked up by chance in the lifeboat (drifting in deep space and not back on Earth), aboard which she had been in stasis for 57 years if I remember correctly?
Then the Event Horizon tried to kill everyone from the Lewis and Clark. Or did I dream that ... :)
In the end, the Xenomorph was the friends we made along the way.
Alex, huge fan been watching for years and have seen all your videos starting from a realistic representation of the solar system. Last time I commented it was asking for a new video on venus and i like to think my comment wasnt overlooked because you delivered as you always do. Im always excited when i get a notification that you or Astrum Extra posted a new video. Anyways i was wondering if youve seen the netflix show “3 Body Problem” it incorporates aliens, quantum physics, and has a great story to it based on the Wow signal. I wanted to know if you thought maybe “3 Body Problem” was more realistic than alien, avatar, interstellar, or any other movies youve covered. Thanks!
Sometimes the best science fiction is written by real scientists that actually understand the physics.
I, for one, really enjoyed both Alien movies.
I see what you did there. However, contrary to popular opinion, I liked alien 3😅
This is your first video that is NOT going into my "bedtime" playlist! 😂
Hey Alex! Thank you for another awesome video! I am constantly learning something new from all of your videos! I wish you were currently teaching my EMT course 😅. You have such a great way of teaching and keeping my mind involved in all of your topics! More instructors could learn to be more like you . Thank you for everything! ❤
I love you covered this. This installment broight me back to the original feel of Alien, with a dash of Aliens. As a fan of films, the lore, the comics, and a large number of the novels I love the universe.
There's a classic saying. "Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
I beg to differ. I'd rather inhabit a universe in which we are alone than live in fear of a universe which contains the xenomorph, or the Shrike, or the creatures from the Mist, or whatever it is that caused the mutations in Annihilation.
Annihilation is underrated, I really liked that movie
@@rickshawwheelchair Annihilation is... cosmically horrifying lol. Excellent movie, but here's hoping nothing like it exists in real life😂
The actual creatures we may encounter, are going to be breathtakingly more horrific or friendly than we can possibly imagine. A L I E N S, would be a devil we know. Or something similar. But there will always be a Weylan-Yutani (1979 cannon spelling), always a Carter Burke, and always a United Military Systems. The greatest threat to mankind.......is mankind, and ever will be.
@@rickshawwheelchair there are 2 more parts to it.
At 9:03, music gets pretty loud compared to your mic audio. I don't mean to pick, just wanted to let you know. Love the video though.
That face hugger is the scariest thing ever!
I watched Alien for the first time when I was 5 y.o. and I couldn't sleep without a pillow on my face thinking that if I didn't put something on my face, i would die because of a facehugger.
11:15 there is no direct on screen mention of the FTL drives used by the Nostromo et al, but it's definitely covered in the pre-production materials for Aliens. You can find this discussed in the of this in the Colonial Marines Technical Manual - the cannon explanation is the use of quantum physics, tacheons I believe, to break the light speed barrier.
The closest in gets to being shown on screen is one of the Nostromo file saying "limited knowledge of FTL drives" during Ripley's debriefing screen with Wayland-Yutani on Gateway.
I truly love your channel. Keep doing the best work.
Oh my goodness, this is an awesome video, as a microbiologist, I loved it! One little point (sorry for being a pedantic Biology Prof), the second word of a Latin binomial isn’t capitalised and the all parts of name are italicised. Sorry again for being a pedant 😅 Very happy to already be an Astrumnought
You missed the point. The depiction of early hominids pointing to the stars does not mean the peoples that painted the walls could see them. They were simply passing on knowledge of the 'Makers' star system/constellation, as it had been taught to them. As such, the storyline is accurate.
dude - turn th emusic down a little. Its hard to hear you. 9:00
Stopped watching halfway. Why is it so hard for youtubers to remember how disruptive music is?
Excellent video , I enjoy this keep them coming 👍
As a biologist and Alien fan appreciate this video, it is pro, the dedication, Amazing!
But how do you know it's not real....its a seemingly endless universe 😅 Facehuggers make me shiver lol
In an infinite universe, any possibility is a certainty somewhere.
What if all habitable planets start out with dinosaurs like ours did. It seems very feasible. However in this scenario, the planet never got hit by a meteor. Then I'd say its even more possible that reptiles could evolve into something like this, instead of birds. Frightening.
@@chefmike4414 but wouldn't these kind of aliens need a human-like host to develop and continue the species' reproduction cycle?
Because the creatures in aliens go against physics. Sure in an infinite universe every possibility will eventually happen, but those possibilities still have to obey the laws of physics.
Something kind of similar to xenomorphs could maybe exist, but not xenomorphs as depicted in the movies.
It's not real because nature hates to waste energy.
The face hugger stage is a needless step in the development of the alien.
It could potentially be an oxidizing acid as they can use the oxygen in the air to actually do the destroying of a material as the acids facility that reactivity. Concentrated Sulfuric can do it as one can see when dropping Conc H2SO4 onto Sugar it rapidly turns to carbon as though it was burned but more importantly organic acid like Performic acid are rather potent in their own regard. If an acid can catalize the splitting of O2 into oxygen radicals while directing those radicals to attack the exposed material it would essentially burn away anything it touches
There was a line in one of the first two films which states that the blood turns into acid on contact with the oxygen in the air. From one of the androids researching it. A lot of people miss it. Was a quick line. Not sure if it was only in an extended edition or not.
@@NefariousKoel In Romulus the android from the station (who either was the same android from the first film or a least the same model) told exactly which acid it is, but I cannot remember what he said =(
"what's the most terrifying creature you can imagine?"
Humans.
Yep 😂
Lol
your mum
@@DanGiga-c6c my mum hasn't been alive since I was a child, so I can imagine she could be very terrifying.
Outstanding video. Thoroughly enjoyable. The perfect balance of educational, entertaining ,, and deliciously horrifying.
Im definitely coming back to watch this video once ive seen the alien movies, excited for this type of content alex!
I just watched another Alien breakdown vid that literally just said that they gave the aliens acid blood for plot reasons.
There are many points where people could just shoot the dang things, but the acid blood makes it too dangerous to just shoot them.
Real simple.
Don't overthink it. Lol
The most terrifying thing for me is that we're not far off from making bio weapons ourselves. Not like this, but in ways we can't even imagine yet. Think about viruses that make you subservient and docile, ones that make you sterile, one that makes it impossible to sleep dumping you in a scenario where the public slowly goes mad.
In my opinion, these could be less than 20 years away.
The scary part is we couldn't even make a large section of the population wear a mask during something that we've been dealing with since the dawn of time. 🤦🏻♀️
Read Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo. Then you will really be scared. As an NBC warfare specialist in the 80’s told me during my Navy training, your mask might as well be a sieve if it doesn’t have a positive seal. How do I get that with cloth. To be effective, I would have needed a half mask with either a P-100 or GME filter. This has since been confirmed by hard science since the government stopped censoring it.
It apparently started 80 years ago if you focus on engineered bioweapons. "The first notable success in creating an engineered bioweapon occurred during World War II. The Japanese military, particularly Unit 731, conducted extensive biological warfare experiments and successfully deployed bioweapons."
@@skeptikus yes I'm aware. The movie is 100% nightmare fuel. Nobody can say for sure what exists in a deep dark lab underground somewhere, but I'm referring to weapons that are designed not just to kill but to cause scenarios ala 28 days later, one's that cause hallucinations in madness which all serve to weaponize the population.
Using the Japanese as for instance, imagine they come up with an engineered plague that has a 90% or more lethality rate but having Japanese ancestry makes you completely immune.
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There are also historical records that document primitive biowarfare earlier than that. It is said that early warfare involved using dead bodies to poison water sources, although these tales weren’t reported until centuries later.
Shortly after the invention of catapults, they were used to throw dead bodies into cities under siege to spread disease.
During the middle ages bodies of plague victims were preferred, although any camp disease such as typhoid or cholera was a second choice.
Unit 731 was less an engineering process and more of a breeding process. Actual engineering started with the advent of modern DNA manipulation techniques.
In the 80’s, there was an editorial in Analog magazine that posed the possibility that the answer to the Fermi paradox was that eventually biotech becomes so accessible that teenagers are playing with it in their basements, much like happened with radio, and later computer technology.
Imagine a teenager with access to CRISPR who just got dumped by his girlfriend deciding to show the world. Scary stuff. Think Columbine for the whole world.
The only thing in our favor in that scenario that I can think of is a study in the 60’s by the Rand Institute titled Red Queen. It was a biowarfare wildfire type study that found that there would always be a few survivors after a slate wiper pandemic. They would survive either due to genetics, isolation, or the disease burning out before it reached them.
The problem would be that survivors would be far from each other, causing difficulty in finding mates. If they did manage to get enough population together to prevent inbreeding, then the problem becomes devolving tech levels.
It is hard to build lightbulbs when it takes all your waking time to stay fed.
Governments establishing tech vaults containing libraries teaching how to evolve tech from bronze age up to modern tech (along the lines of seed vaults) would be good, but nobody would be willing to pay for it.
When Europeans reached the Mississippi river valley and found the remains of the Mound Builder civilization, they asked the locals who built them. They were told “the gods”. The locals were only four generations removed from the last of the mound builders.
Now imagine a post plague society where for the last three generations the most advanced technology has been the local blacksmith’s forge.
The local storyteller/historian tells of the an ancients being able to walk into a room, touch a spot on the wall, and a globe of light would appear. If you had never seen a light switch or a light bulb, you would be picturing a powerful wizard. Now picture an explorer walking through the remains of any major city. To him, metropolis is 15000 people and a skyscraper is three stories.
As Arthur C Clark said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and without a repository, it would all have to be invented from scratch again.
@@Simple_But_Expensive You are correct. That's why I qualified my statement with "if you focus on engineered bioweapons". Otherwise we would have to look for the first time someone sneezed on someone else.
What you might have missed?
You didn't even mention H.R. Giger - The CREATOR of the Xenomorph !!!
19:43 The oxygen concentration in the atmosphere peaked ~290 million years ago at 35%, this is not 300% higher than it is today.
agree, too much oxygen in the atmosphere would result in fires
As for bridging the gaps in the xenomorph life cycle, what if the black goo is a combination nanomachine + genetic reprogramming tool? It would always make sure to preserve some basic form within any host or subsequent offspring to help it adapt to changing environments. It could explain a quick growth phase via matter transformation (like the comic version of going through ship's stores to bulk up). It could explain the varying forms as a response to the environmental pressures of the moment, including host DNA, actual environment, remembered environmental pressures from previous hosts, etc.
I could even see the ability to continue creating more basic black goo eventually being lost as a built-in failsafe, so that the Engineers could hit a planet with the black goo, let it ferment for a while, and then eventually come back to see what had developed without fear of further infection.
Music is a little overbearing.. I cant hear you in parts.
I watched the original Alien. It brings back memories.
love the narrator!! much love from Myanmar
You misspelled 'Burma' there mate.
If I recall correctly, in the book adaptation of the first movie, it's clarified that the acid is not actually the xenomorph's blood, it's just circulating, under pressure, below its skin. I don't remember if this is mentioned in the actual movie, though.
The most terrifying creature I can imagine is probably humans ourselves. The Saw franchise just goes to show there's no depth to human evil and inventiveness to suffering.
Prometheus - the spaceship's name in the Unreal games... 1, Return to Na pali, and 2 too.
Prometheus movie's landing scene on the alien planet was so much like watching the world from this game.
Still it's stupid to run exactly at the lenght of where that C shaped spaceship is falling down.. whyn don't she just sideruns to safety, lol
Panic makes people do strange things you would never think of doing normally.
On the argument that the Alien isn’t silicon based, keep in mind, in the first movie, the Nostromo was a mining ship returning from its voyage. The Xenomorph could have gotten into the mined material for silicon. Once you get to the 3rd movie nothing really matters due to bad writing.
On that note, the Alien wasn’t shown to have acidic blood in adult form in the first movie. The crew never make it bleed. It only bled in the Facehugger form when Ash cut one of the legs. He then commented on it being a defense mechanism to make sure no one could remove it from a host once attached. No matter what happens, a person will pretty much die once a facehugger attaches.
I think the real lesson from aliens is not to let mega corps exist
Love always but this one was special. Very cool. Nice work as always
this video was so well put together.well done astrums team. what might be out there has always fasinated me. maybe i will rethink going out to check stuff out now because of this 😆
Honestly the most terrifying creature I can imagine is us. Almost everything we fear in aliens and boogeymen are just reflections of ourselves. If we reach space travel its entirely possible we are a galactic plague
Counterpoint; Earth is currently the only known planet containing life, and Humanity is the only chance life has of escaping Earth as all easily available hydrocarbons have been used up. There's no industrial revolution mk.2 for future species.
In many Sci-Fi mediums there's an elder race that seeds life across the cosmos; that's probably us. It is our species' grand destiny to bring life to dead worlds.
The universe is already dying as with every passing second stars lewve our local cluster and lost to us forever. Advances made by post-human lifeforms with access to galaxies worth of resources are likely the only shot we have to reverse the tide and save the universe from entropy. We are the heroes, currently living out our tragic backstory.
You're an idiot
There are only two Alien movies worth watching. The rest is what happens when someone tries to over-explain something and makes it less interesting.
When they try to squeeze as much money from a good story as possible..
Your videos are great! Entertaining and edifying 💥
For me, the moons from Dead Space or the Flood from Halo are the scariest lifeforms because there is nothing that proves that something like that cannot exist.
What's interesting, from a perspective of mixing the the series lore with real world events and mythology, Zeta Reticuli is the same star system that is mentioned in the "star map" viewed by Betty Hill during the Betty and Barney Hill Abduction in 1961. The Engineer writing found in Prometheus and in writing found on the other project planet found in Covenant is based on Ancient Sumerian text. This language was also featured in "Fourth Kind".
Missed: the strength of the acid could explain the rapid growth of "newborns": the embryo could store the energy harvested from the human host in acid and then use that after bursting out to fuel its rapid growth (and also to quickly break down many different materials it encounters to embed them into its body).
Amazing! Love the way you break down these topics into real science. The real world often tends to be more frought than even the most wildest imaginations💫
Prometheus dropped when I was a kid, and I was already a nerd who liked space and sci fi. Thank you for addressing the lack of FTL travel regarding the ship, and the problem with only it taking two years. cause I was like they clearly showed in the beginning of the movie a fast moving object crossing the screen with a background of stars and nebulae with no warb nor any other visible classical sci fi FTL elements. Thank you sir.
What a great video! Really made me think more into the aliens instead of just experiencing them on screen