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A minor correction if I may? The Director's Cut of the film DID show that Captain Dallas had survived the attack, but was "cocooned" by the Xenomorph. Ripley found him and he begged her to kill him. Also, when Kane went near the egg creche, he inadvertently broke what sounded like some kind of "field" over the egg he was looking upon. When the field was broken, the egg hatched and attached itself. Finally it should be noted that the "distress call" was noted by Ripley as not a distress call but a "warning" as she replied to Ash. Other than that good video!! Especially with the description of the Nostromo.
Honestly, this doesn't feel like an April fools episode as much as an excellent addition to your spin-off series of fictitious naval disasters. You should do the Event Horizon, or SS Poseidon.
10:18 It should be pointed out that Ripley did not ignore a direct order from the Captain. At moment she was the commanding officer of the Nostromo and therefore did not have to take orders from anyone else as there was no one of higher rank than her on the ship. Ash did not supersede her order. He deliberately disobeyed a direct order from the commanding officer, which would normally get you fired at the least.
@@robirvine6970 - The Captain is only in charge of the ship and crew when he has entered the ship. As he has not gone through quarantine, she outranks him, which means that the captain only made a "suggestion", not an order.
Ash also wasn't actually part of her crew, he was a Weyland-Yutani Android planted as basically a saboteur. He ignored her orders because they contradicted his orders which came from higher up than her.
It would be a independent film the way Hollywood is now I wouldn't make anything I'm surprised that anything is made without some leftist message in it
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 Absolutely. A true story about a corporation sacrificing its employees for money would definitely be a right wing narrative that Hollywood would never touch. I'm sure they'd really do it justice. RIP NOSTROMO.
@@forresthenry9535, between Nostromo's disappearance (2122) and when Ripley finally gets picked up by some junkers (2179), I imagine there would've been a whole slew of movies, books, TV shows, etc., all on what could've happened to it. Most conspiratorial stuff, but still.
Fun fact: Ridley Scott didn't tell the majority of the cast about what was going to happen in the Chest Burster scene, so their shock and fear was a genuine reaction (especially Veronica Cartwright, who absolutely flipped). The only people who knew what was going to happen were John Hurt (obviously) and Ian Holm, so Ash could act accordingly
@@qasimmir7117True. That was an elaborate scene to put together, you're not hiding half a fake John Hurt, and of course, they had scripts. Cartwright does slip on the scene and takes a fall due to the fake blood on the floor. She was a pro, though, and pops up to keep the scene going. Im not sure, though, if her, "Ahhhh, God!" Was scripted or not.
Between this, and Fascinating Horror doing a video on the Isla Nublar Jurassic Park incident, I'm like a kid in a candy store of dark April 1st youtube videos! Love this! I'd love you to do Aliens next, but that one doesn't have as much of a maritime theme, so I understand if you have to go a different direction. I LOVE THESE!
😂🤣 this could have gone on all day APRIL FOOLS!🎉 I appreciate you saying something because I've been getting overwhelmed by rabbit holes 🕳 to nothing... wish I missed your comment because I needed the ego check so... way to be on point and next year don't spoil it🤣😂
The Operations Room did a run down of the dogfight in Top Gun as he would any other engagement overview. Once I realised it was April 1st I had a good chuckle.
An excellent presentation. May I recommend another "historic" starship? The United planets Cruiser C 57 D, as featured in Forbidden Planet. Truly one of the most iconic movie starships.
Man, this was yet another fun side-project, not to mention a great lore video from this channel. 💖 I'm sure someone has suggested already within the comments but you GOTTA try doing the USG Ishimura at some point!
Everyone talks about the scuttling of the Nostromo but no one talks about the scuttling of the Enterprise during the Genesis incident, which had a much greater impact on Galatic politics for years
Holy moly! I did a project for my college science course in which I wrote a news article about this very disaster. I took the pose of a news reporter for the fictional news channel "Atlantic Cable News". I wish I could have had all this information back then (1992), it would have been a far more detailed report than I eventually produced! Brilliant piece of work - Thank you!
Your research into the lore of this disaster is amazing. As a fascinating event, that will always haunt me, I am amazed at your accuracy to detail. Not exactly the way I was told this story, but I heard it in 2147, years after the incident, and my trip in 2163 to now, affected my memory, which is a rare side effect that I was unfortunate to have happened to me. What was your return times? 2163 to 2020 for me, I'm still adapting to the culture shock and nostalgia.
In case you're wondering, I didn't choose 2031 like most do, because I wanted to see the supernova in 2024, and 2020 was the nearest algorithm coinciding with the gravitational frequency that I was scheduled to leave. I didn't wanna wait till 2166, so I opted for two years earlier, and I'm glad I did. Or else I woulda waited three more years to gain two.. on the 2022 ship. But that just didn't add up in my head.
Except where he makes strong assertions that "they received orders from The Company" when the evidence simply cannot make such an assertion safely. The reality is, we know only that Mother told Dallas to capture it, crew expendible. We don't know if they have FTL comms in Alien, as it's never explicitly shown; and the fact that Lambert can't raise anybody is telling in that regard, as if they had FTL comms, they should have been able to reach somebody. Obviously by the time of Aliens, they do have FTL comms, as the plot requires; but we can't take that fact and make the same assumption about Alien. We cannot safely assert that "The Company" even knew about the alien based upon this film alone - prequels and sequels try to tell us a variety of things, but since they're all over the place, none of them is truly of the same level of canonicity as the first film. All we can safely assert is that Mother had a general "collect interesting samples, and damn the crew" rule in place, to be invoked if anything odd was found, etc. All of that other stuff assuming "Evil Company" comes from other people, and just wasn't shown at all in this film. Even Aliens doesn't show an evil company, just one so large and bureaucratic as to be horribly run... but not evil. It's when you get to the dumpter fire that is Alien 3 (and the magic egg) and afterwards where that becomes a theme... but Alien doesn't go there, so it's unwise to bring along other peoples' baggage of doubtful provenance and act like it's top shelf authoritative. It simply is not. People will use the crew transfer of Ash as a solid assertion of The Evil Company knowing, but once again... possible but not in any way actually demonstrable.
"The final price tag of the vessel and her towed refinery being around 46 million dollars." Remember this is actually on the cheaper side of ships because the Nostromo is just a big tow truck in space. All the REAL expensive stuff is back at Weyland-Yutani HQ. I even heard they're working on new A.I. tech using some sort of ancient patents from an old defunct tech company called "Cyberdyne". Of course all the Connorologists are all worked up about it saying that this will cause the machines to rise up against us and now we don't have the Lord John Connor to save us from them. I, being a man of science, just take these worries as nothing more than religious hokum. John Connor was never real and he never fought the machines in a massive war. Machines would never turn on us, that idea is just silly.
Fun Fact: When shooting "Alien" the actors weren't told that the chest burster scene was going to happen (orher than the guy who was in the rigged up fake body contraption that was made convincingly enough none of the other's noticed). The reactions of the crew of that scene are the actor's genuine reactions and all lines are genuine. Supposedly that was the only scene shot that day because some of the cast were too shocked to get into character again.
An excellent rundown on the technical aspects of the Nostromo, its refinery, and the events that occurred resulting in the destruction of both. Just one somewhat minor quibble. The eggs were NOT in the "cargo hold" of the derelict. They were in a separate underground chamber that looked to've been artificially hollowed-out using the same biomechanical processes that, presumably, helped in the construction of the Space Jockey's ship. We actually don't even know if the derelict has a cargo hold (though it probably does, just unseen). Unless you believe the ship had TARDIS-like space-warping technologies, there's no way that much volume would fit inside the derelict (impressive in size as it was). I just see this repeated a lot when people discuss the egg chamber, when it can't possibly be true given the geographies on display. It's just one additional thing to screw with your head and make the whole experience more, well, alien.
Good point. Screwing with your head, absolutely. The Alien lifecycle itself is built on nightmare logic, and considering Prometheus and Covenant, built on the nightmare logic of a twisted A.I. (David). I use to think this was lame, like many others, but I think it's kinda interesting, especially with how David's character is portrayed. Alien is a masterpiece of unknown horror, where not knowing a damn thing about where it all came from is advantageous for that particular story. But if one's seriously going to explain where it came from.... there's some big hurdles like how the Facehugger seems just about perfectly designed to smother a human being's face. So how could one say "oh man it's truly alien" ? How can something that is truly alien, be able to attach itself as a parasite to human biology? Another interesting thing is that during the production of Prometheus, Ridley reasoned the difference in interior and outer appearance of the Engineer ships/structures between Alien and Prometheus was due to decay and degradation. In other words, the Derelict interiors had been worn down to the underlying bonelike organic structure, due to the environmental exposure, the deep freezing cold of the surface. Nostromo crew didn't pass through any sealed chambers. In Prometheus the interiors are strongly reminiscent of what you see in the Derelict but it's different, like stylized hard plating is covering everything, covering the bones. It's all intact due to the ship being stored in perfect condition underground. And the ship in Prometheus has some spines or antennas along the outside, whereas the Derelict no longer has them from wear and tear.
I wondered the same thing and I concluded that specific type of ship has some kind of space-warping tech, making it bigger on the inside. The juggernaut in Prometheus indeed looks smaller than the one in LV-426.
@@abelaidloera5930 Even if that was true (which it isn't), such tech would've failed long ago since the derelict had been "dead" for probably hundreds, if not thousands, of years with the warning beacon the last remnant of something operational. It also doesn't mesh with the "radically different, but viable" concept of biomechanics that Scott expressed through Giger's artwork and sculptures. To put it another way, if you asked either Giger or Scott if the egg chamber was a physical part of the derelict, made during its construction, and carried with it during flight, I'd lay serious odds they'd look at you like YOU were alien. That sort of "fantasy sci-fi" is best left to shows like Doctor Who where's it's a cute plot contrivance rather than something that could actually be created. The "engineers" are obviously advanced, but not THAT advanced, FTL capability notwithstanding.
@@GiantBoarMonster Remember that the chestburster has borrowed DNA attributes from the host. Come to think of this, this probably happens during the facehugger phase, as the parasite samples the host and adapts the embryo to be viable both inside and outside the victim. Hence why the xeno in Alien and Aliens are roughly humanoid and the one in Alien 3 is dog-like. I always thought this was a brilliant way to explain how the alien lifecycle can work with virtually any organism that can be facehugged. If DNA or something like it is there, the alien can use it and make it its own while crossing it with its own superior biology. It's absolutely terrifying, almost beyond comprehension, like the body-snatching entity in The Thing. No wonder W-Y are after it for their bioweapons division.
I absolutely love the alien trilogy(couldnt get on with alien 4)and have avidly read all books i could collect and keep.Ditto everything from the Halo franchise.Glad you put this on it was a trip down memory lane for sure .
Incredible. Never learned so much about the Nostromo. Even that name is creepy. I saw Alien in the theater at 12 years old. Never saw a movie so terrifying again. The whole premise of a wild space bug seemed way more plausible than Close Encounters of the third kind was. In space, no one can hear you scream. Thanks for your quality research.
I love this content as well as the REAL content thank you for being so damn good at what you do it doesn’t even matter if it’s at sea or in space in the future keep doing what you do man it’s great!
As somebody who just watches ALIEN for the first time today this was amazing. Such a nice touch of a maritime disaster channel to cover science horror fiction
Having both you and Fascinating Horror produce quality videos on some of my favorite movies in your usual styles with absolute seriousness has been a treat this April Fool's.
Discovered your channel today, binged whole day during work as the episodes went. That said this one knocked me off the chair, the factual style applied to one of my all time favourite horror classics. Congratulations on your work on these stories.
I was only 13 or 14 the first time I watched Alien. The local library had it on VHS and with my parents at work for the day I rode my bike to the library and checked it out. It is such a great movie. Thanks Maritime Horrors for the great work you do.
I was enjoying this, but then I realized I've never actually seen all of Alien. You know what? I'm gonna remedy that. I'm gonna watch it all and come back here. Give me a minute.
As another huge fan of the film I found this video brilliant! I went to see the it the day it came out in my local movie theatre and was hooked. This was an April present. Thanks lots from the UK.
Hey, I loved this episode. The ‘Alien’ series is one of my favorites as well. You should make that diagram a part of your merchandise, if possible. I have been a science fiction fan for a long time. And I think you have something to do again from time to time.
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I love your regular videos, I got turned on to your channel by your Edmund Fitzgerald narratice (amazing stuff) and I've watched tons of your excellent content since and have loved it all, and this is somehow one of your best vids yet 😅. Keep it up, never stop, cool to see folks out here doing and creating what they love.
You're an Alien fan too, sweet haha 😄. I haven't seen such a great breakdown of a spacecraft since the Spacedock channel. Congratulations on 100k subscribers as well!
As a kid, I saw Alien in the theater. It was a gamechanger of a film at the time, it made spacefaring seem real, not clean fantasy tech like Star Wars. You've done a man's job, sir, your video belongs perfectly in that universe.
@@mbryson2899 dirty white ships, crumpled uniforms, and making use of smugglers in wrecks of a ship! Had a base on an ice planet for a while though. Imperials had white uniforms
I was hoping for an account of the destruction of the HMS Thunderchild, A torpedo ram that was sunk during the Anglo-Martian War of the late 19th century. Still a great choice for a video though.
3:13 Just trying to get my mind around some of these numbers. Great video. 👏👏 Alien is a top 3 favorite for me so it's great to learn a bit more about the Nostromo.
I love this film franchise as well, a hybrid of Ridley Scott's apathetic characters and James Cameron's over testosteroned foolhardy soldiers with Ripley in the middle, kicking Alien ass while becoming one of my favourite actors. Anyway, great vid. I bought the Nostromo Tshirt in dark blue. Most probably have no idea what the blue print and title means other than I am probably some total nerd, but, I love it, high recommend.
When it comes to Sci fi ships you can forget the Enterprise or imperial star destroyers. The uscss nostromo is the best looking ship in my opinion. Great work as always that's why I love your channel.
The entire Aliens series was such a cool and important part of my childhood and life, just Loved all that growing up, and then, by luck, I ended up flying over to NZ, to WETA, to work on Prometheus, and that was just an awesome experience. Great clip, really enjoyed the details about the ship, thanks so much!
$46 million seems like a laughably low price for the Nostromo considering an F-35 costs in excess of $75 million. This is without taking into account inflation from when the price figure was made. Maybe in the future there is a massive economic deflation event which makes $46 million for a faster than light multicrew starship seem reasonable.
Probably the access to almost endless amounts of the raw materials that interstellar flight would grant them, coupled with 200 years of progress in industrial processes.
This All of this! Also, The Operations Room doing Top Gun on the 1st was LEGEND. Keep this craziness going. Proof the interwebs still work for the awesome.
I hate to press, but I get a little nervous when awesome channels like this haven't uploaded in a while and also haven't posted any updates/delays. Hope you're doing alright man.
You know, the most unrealistic thing about this video is this ship only costing 43million dollars in the year 2101. That would either be super cheap, or we're in for some major economic correction. An average passenger airplane can cost about 30million $.
Several years back a local theatre did weekend revivals. I was lucky to see Alien, an original reel with all the pops and dirt worn into it, on a big screen. PFM 🎉
Great vid, thanks, I still remember seeing Alien for the first time at the cinema in 1979, I thought it was awesome at the time and sure enough it become an all time classic.
This was an amazing video. So much technical lore I had never heard before. April fool me all the time with this kind of thing guy! Much enjoyed, much appreciated.
This has been mentioned in another video about the scuttling procedures, but the automatic detonation override did not work because Ripley did not do it correctly. Most people assume she wasn't quick enough, but on the emergency destruct system panel it clearly states: *"FAILSAFE SYSTEM WILL NOT ENGAGE IF SAFETY INTERLOCKS ARE DISENGAGED. REENGAGE SAFETY INTERLOCKS PRIOR TO ABORT CODE INPUT"* She failed to commit the abort procedure in the correct order.
This is awesome! I only found this channel about a week ago and had your videos playing while doing some work, (which are all amazing, informative and fascinating) This one came up randomly and it took me a few minutes to realize what this was because it's done so well, and I'm a huge Alien fan! I'd love to see more and want to say great job on all of your videos.
I usually sleep while listening to such documentaries and youtube has the autoplay feature so it just plays video after video till i wake up , now Imagine going to sleep listening to real events and waking up with the same guy talking about events in the 22nd century , i had to check my calendar twice just to make sure
The plot of the movie "Goliath Awaits" would be perfect for this kind of thing. It is about an ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1939 whose wreck is discovered in 1981, with over 300 survivors and their descendants living in an air bubble inside the ship. It was a made for tv movie released in parts that totaled over 3 hours so there's plenty to work with
The Nostromo is honestly the best "realistic" ship in Sci-Fi history: It was designed to be as believable and gritty as possible, and by god it succeeds. Everything just has a lived-in run-down industrialism to it, and the design itself, paired with the haul, is instantly recognisable and reminiscent of a 16th century freighter.
Fun fact: Jones is in fact Ripley’s cat. No, seriously, if you look at her bridge terminal in the movie, she has a photo of Jones as a kitten taped to it.
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There's a spin off channel??? Tell me more🤔
Heya! There is a rather understated sinking ship story out there. You should watch the Finest Hours or look up the S.S Pendleton.
A minor correction if I may? The Director's Cut of the film DID show that Captain Dallas had survived the attack, but was "cocooned" by the Xenomorph. Ripley found him and he begged her to kill him.
Also, when Kane went near the egg creche, he inadvertently broke what sounded like some kind of "field" over the egg he was looking upon. When the field was broken, the egg hatched and attached itself. Finally it should be noted that the "distress call" was noted by Ripley as not a distress call but a "warning" as she replied to Ash. Other than that good video!! Especially with the description of the Nostromo.
Quick question. WHY HAVENT YOU DONE THE HMS THUNDERCHILD YET? YOU DID THE PILLAR OF AUTUMN FOR GOODNESS SAKE!
Honestly, this doesn't feel like an April fools episode as much as an excellent addition to your spin-off series of fictitious naval disasters. You should do the Event Horizon, or SS Poseidon.
I agree …. I’m totally down for fictional ship wrecks as well
The Event Horizon was the ship of my childhood nightmares, that movie still haunts me. I hope he does it.
Or the SS Venture for Lost World
USG ishimura as long as we're making a list
Although I could've sworn he's already done that one ...
All in favor say aye
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10:18 It should be pointed out that Ripley did not ignore a direct order from the Captain. At moment she was the commanding officer of the Nostromo and therefore did not have to take orders from anyone else as there was no one of higher rank than her on the ship. Ash did not supersede her order. He deliberately disobeyed a direct order from the commanding officer, which would normally get you fired at the least.
No. The captain gave her a direct order. She ignored it. As she was supposed to. The fact she was right dosnt mean she didnt ignore it.
@@robirvine6970 - The Captain is only in charge of the ship and crew when he has entered the ship. As he has not gone through quarantine, she outranks him, which means that the captain only made a "suggestion", not an order.
@@spacecadet35 And even if she had, it is a duty to refuse to comply with an unlawful order and the captain's order was unlawful.
@@marvindebot3264 - An excellent point.
Ash also wasn't actually part of her crew, he was a Weyland-Yutani Android planted as basically a saboteur. He ignored her orders because they contradicted his orders which came from higher up than her.
Such an incredible story. This would make an amazing movie.
Would be really cool - if they then made some prequels that explain what the aliens are, and where they come from. Thoroughly.
It would be a independent film the way Hollywood is now I wouldn't make anything I'm surprised that anything is made without some leftist message in it
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 Absolutely. A true story about a corporation sacrificing its employees for money would definitely be a right wing narrative that Hollywood would never touch. I'm sure they'd really do it justice. RIP NOSTROMO.
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I see what you did there
Excellent breakdown of a tragic loss. Those poor crew need their story told.
You could make a movie with such a tale
I see what yinz guys did there...
That would be ironic if there was an in-universe movie about the “Mystery of the Nostromo.”
@@forresthenry9535, between Nostromo's disappearance (2122) and when Ripley finally gets picked up by some junkers (2179), I imagine there would've been a whole slew of movies, books, TV shows, etc., all on what could've happened to it. Most conspiratorial stuff, but still.
"Each shuttle could house up to three crew." Says something about either the company, the crew sent on the mission, or both.
These are great. :)
I love when channels like this apply their "formula" to fictional events! It's my absolute favorite. Wonderful video, perfect for this time of year. 😉
Especially when that fictional event comes with all the details of a real one.
wait this is fictional???? 😧😧😧😧😧
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Same here.
One of my favorite channels, Facinating Horror, did a video in their usual style, about the catastrophe on Isla Nublar. 😉
True treat
@@paulmuaddib451 that was excellent and quite hilarious 😂
Unironically I’d love to see more videos about other vessels in sci fi and fantasy lore
I think you'd like the channel Spacedock.
Fun fact: Ridley Scott didn't tell the majority of the cast about what was going to happen in the Chest Burster scene, so their shock and fear was a genuine reaction (especially Veronica Cartwright, who absolutely flipped). The only people who knew what was going to happen were John Hurt (obviously) and Ian Holm, so Ash could act accordingly
That’s a myth, they knew. The only thing they didn’t know about was the fake blood.
@@qasimmir7117True. That was an elaborate scene to put together, you're not hiding half a fake John Hurt, and of course, they had scripts.
Cartwright does slip on the scene and takes a fall due to the fake blood on the floor. She was a pro, though, and pops up to keep the scene going.
Im not sure, though, if her, "Ahhhh, God!" Was scripted or not.
Between this, and Fascinating Horror doing a video on the Isla Nublar Jurassic Park incident, I'm like a kid in a candy store of dark April 1st youtube videos! Love this! I'd love you to do Aliens next, but that one doesn't have as much of a maritime theme, so I understand if you have to go a different direction. I LOVE THESE!
😂🤣 this could have gone on all day APRIL FOOLS!🎉 I appreciate you saying something because I've been getting overwhelmed by rabbit holes 🕳 to nothing... wish I missed your comment because I needed the ego check so... way to be on point and next year don't spoil it🤣😂
I'm with ya. These are pure gold.
I watched the isla nublar video right before this one lol
The Operations Room did a run down of the dogfight in Top Gun as he would any other engagement overview. Once I realised it was April 1st I had a good chuckle.
Same. I was so excited when I saw it. Them pop up on my feed. Had me cackling in glee immediately.
I love this so much. Sulaco next? She was a very interesting example of the Conestoga class assault transports. Had a few fascinating quirks.
Oddly enough, even though this takes place way in the future, I remember hearing about it as a kid.
Alien!!!
Yes. More of this on this day every year.
I’m sorry you’re telling me the entire Nostromo costs less than a single F-18?
Commissioned in 1979?
An excellent presentation.
May I recommend another "historic" starship? The United planets Cruiser C 57 D, as featured in Forbidden Planet. Truly one of the most iconic movie starships.
or the disappearance of the XD-1 Discovery One in the year 2001 on her way to Jupiter
@@The_Str4nger The disappearance and reappearance of the prototype FTL vessel event horizon would be a good episode too.
No no, the Morbius expedition colonist's vessel that was destroyed on lifting from the surface of Altair 4.
Do it!
Actually i change my mind. The terrorist attack on the USG Ishimura. That was a horrible event that needs coverage.
Man, this was yet another fun side-project, not to mention a great lore video from this channel.
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I'm sure someone has suggested already within the comments but you GOTTA try doing the USG Ishimura at some point!
Everyone talks about the scuttling of the Nostromo but no one talks about the scuttling of the Enterprise during the Genesis incident, which had a much greater impact on Galatic politics for years
Computer. Initiate self destruct sequence, one, Code one, one A!
@@commandingjudgedredd1841 GET OUT OF THERE! GET OUT OF THERE!
@@Strideo1 *Enterprise proceeds to explode*
Oh please Commander Ryker scuttles the Enterprise everytime he's left alone on the bridge all they do is build another one.
"Who's THEY?!? and what is an Aluminum Falcon? I haven't even paid it off yet!"
This is by far the best April 1st "prank" I've seen in a long time. Respect!
Holy moly! I did a project for my college science course in which I wrote a news article about this very disaster. I took the pose of a news reporter for the fictional news channel "Atlantic Cable News". I wish I could have had all this information back then (1992), it would have been a far more detailed report than I eventually produced!
Brilliant piece of work - Thank you!
Do you still have anything on that? Because I would really like to see it.
Alien and Aliens are two of my favorite movies! Thank you for taking the time to put this video together. Would love to see one on the U.S.S. Sulaco!
Your research into the lore of this disaster is amazing.
As a fascinating event, that will always haunt me, I am amazed at your accuracy to detail.
Not exactly the way I was told this story, but I heard it in 2147, years after the incident, and my trip in 2163 to now, affected my memory, which is a rare side effect that I was unfortunate to have happened to me.
What was your return times?
2163 to 2020 for me, I'm still adapting to the culture shock and nostalgia.
In case you're wondering, I didn't choose 2031 like most do, because I wanted to see the supernova in 2024, and 2020 was the nearest algorithm coinciding with the gravitational frequency that I was scheduled to leave. I didn't wanna wait till 2166, so I opted for two years earlier, and I'm glad I did.
Or else I woulda waited three more years to gain two.. on the 2022 ship.
But that just didn't add up in my head.
Very well done. That was great.
I didn't even read the book it came out before the movie and I watched the making of the movie and no thanks.
Except where he makes strong assertions that "they received orders from The Company" when the evidence simply cannot make such an assertion safely.
The reality is, we know only that Mother told Dallas to capture it, crew expendible.
We don't know if they have FTL comms in Alien, as it's never explicitly shown; and the fact that Lambert can't raise anybody is telling in that regard, as if they had FTL comms, they should have been able to reach somebody.
Obviously by the time of Aliens, they do have FTL comms, as the plot requires; but we can't take that fact and make the same assumption about Alien.
We cannot safely assert that "The Company" even knew about the alien based upon this film alone - prequels and sequels try to tell us a variety of things, but since they're all over the place, none of them is truly of the same level of canonicity as the first film.
All we can safely assert is that Mother had a general "collect interesting samples, and damn the crew" rule in place, to be invoked if anything odd was found, etc.
All of that other stuff assuming "Evil Company" comes from other people, and just wasn't shown at all in this film. Even Aliens doesn't show an evil company, just one so large and bureaucratic as to be horribly run... but not evil.
It's when you get to the dumpter fire that is Alien 3 (and the magic egg) and afterwards where that becomes a theme... but Alien doesn't go there, so it's unwise to bring along other peoples' baggage of doubtful provenance and act like it's top shelf authoritative. It simply is not.
People will use the crew transfer of Ash as a solid assertion of The Evil Company knowing, but once again... possible but not in any way actually demonstrable.
@@chouseification Found the Company plant here!
"The final price tag of the vessel and her towed refinery being around 46 million dollars."
Remember this is actually on the cheaper side of ships because the Nostromo is just a big tow truck in space.
All the REAL expensive stuff is back at Weyland-Yutani HQ.
I even heard they're working on new A.I. tech using some sort of ancient patents from an old defunct tech company called "Cyberdyne".
Of course all the Connorologists are all worked up about it saying that this will cause the machines to rise up against us and now we don't have the Lord John Connor to save us from them.
I, being a man of science, just take these worries as nothing more than religious hokum. John Connor was never real and he never fought the machines in a massive war. Machines would never turn on us, that idea is just silly.
Don't forget to factor inflation into that number, too. That thing's dirt cheap.
So Aliens didn't crossover with Predator... it was a Terminator sequel this whole time...
i dunno, just because you can do a thing doesnt mean you should do a thing. just sayin.
46 mil wouldnt have paid for 1 landing gear, let alone the WHOLE refit!
@@TheSighphiguy That's 46 million in "adjusted" dollars.
Looking forward to Part 2: The Sulaco, a BEAST of a ship.
Make it happen!
Fun Fact: When shooting "Alien" the actors weren't told that the chest burster scene was going to happen (orher than the guy who was in the rigged up fake body contraption that was made convincingly enough none of the other's noticed). The reactions of the crew of that scene are the actor's genuine reactions and all lines are genuine. Supposedly that was the only scene shot that day because some of the cast were too shocked to get into character again.
Alien is truly my favorite film of all time and this was a nice surprise when opening TH-cam :)
I'm not even mad. Alien is my favorite movie monster franchise. Top notch work.
This video changed me from a frequent visitor to a channel subscriber. Thank you, sir.
An excellent rundown on the technical aspects of the Nostromo, its refinery, and the events that occurred resulting in the destruction of both.
Just one somewhat minor quibble. The eggs were NOT in the "cargo hold" of the derelict. They were in a separate underground chamber that looked to've been artificially hollowed-out using the same biomechanical processes that, presumably, helped in the construction of the Space Jockey's ship. We actually don't even know if the derelict has a cargo hold (though it probably does, just unseen). Unless you believe the ship had TARDIS-like space-warping technologies, there's no way that much volume would fit inside the derelict (impressive in size as it was).
I just see this repeated a lot when people discuss the egg chamber, when it can't possibly be true given the geographies on display. It's just one additional thing to screw with your head and make the whole experience more, well, alien.
Good point. Screwing with your head, absolutely. The Alien lifecycle itself is built on nightmare logic, and considering Prometheus and Covenant, built on the nightmare logic of a twisted A.I. (David). I use to think this was lame, like many others, but I think it's kinda interesting, especially with how David's character is portrayed. Alien is a masterpiece of unknown horror, where not knowing a damn thing about where it all came from is advantageous for that particular story. But if one's seriously going to explain where it came from.... there's some big hurdles like how the Facehugger seems just about perfectly designed to smother a human being's face. So how could one say "oh man it's truly alien" ? How can something that is truly alien, be able to attach itself as a parasite to human biology?
Another interesting thing is that during the production of Prometheus, Ridley reasoned the difference in interior and outer appearance of the Engineer ships/structures between Alien and Prometheus was due to decay and degradation. In other words, the Derelict interiors had been worn down to the underlying bonelike organic structure, due to the environmental exposure, the deep freezing cold of the surface. Nostromo crew didn't pass through any sealed chambers. In Prometheus the interiors are strongly reminiscent of what you see in the Derelict but it's different, like stylized hard plating is covering everything, covering the bones. It's all intact due to the ship being stored in perfect condition underground. And the ship in Prometheus has some spines or antennas along the outside, whereas the Derelict no longer has them from wear and tear.
I wondered the same thing and I concluded that specific type of ship has some kind of space-warping tech, making it bigger on the inside. The juggernaut in Prometheus indeed looks smaller than the one in LV-426.
@@abelaidloera5930 Even if that was true (which it isn't), such tech would've failed long ago since the derelict had been "dead" for probably hundreds, if not thousands, of years with the warning beacon the last remnant of something operational. It also doesn't mesh with the "radically different, but viable" concept of biomechanics that Scott expressed through Giger's artwork and sculptures.
To put it another way, if you asked either Giger or Scott if the egg chamber was a physical part of the derelict, made during its construction, and carried with it during flight, I'd lay serious odds they'd look at you like YOU were alien. That sort of "fantasy sci-fi" is best left to shows like Doctor Who where's it's a cute plot contrivance rather than something that could actually be created. The "engineers" are obviously advanced, but not THAT advanced, FTL capability notwithstanding.
@@GiantBoarMonster Remember that the chestburster has borrowed DNA attributes from the host. Come to think of this, this probably happens during the facehugger phase, as the parasite samples the host and adapts the embryo to be viable both inside and outside the victim. Hence why the xeno in Alien and Aliens are roughly humanoid and the one in Alien 3 is dog-like.
I always thought this was a brilliant way to explain how the alien lifecycle can work with virtually any organism that can be facehugged. If DNA or something like it is there, the alien can use it and make it its own while crossing it with its own superior biology. It's absolutely terrifying, almost beyond comprehension, like the body-snatching entity in The Thing. No wonder W-Y are after it for their bioweapons division.
What a fascinating historical event. Somebody should make a movie about this.
Just as eerie as the movie. Great video!
Saw Nostromo, put it in watch later because i tought i recognized the name.
When i saw the dates, i finally put everything together.
Nice one 😅👍
I absolutely love the alien trilogy(couldnt get on with alien 4)and have avidly read all books i could collect and keep.Ditto everything from the Halo franchise.Glad you put this on it was a trip down memory lane for sure .
Incredible. Never learned so much about the Nostromo. Even that name is creepy. I saw Alien in the theater at 12 years old. Never saw a movie so terrifying again. The whole premise of a wild space bug seemed way more plausible than Close Encounters of the third kind was. In space, no one can hear you scream.
Thanks for your quality research.
I absolutely adore your channel. This was a nice little look into the specs, and exactly what i love about your everyday content.
Event occurs in 2122.
Proceeds to speak of it in past tense.
There are no words for how this amuses me.
We miss you Sir Maritime!
I love this content as well as the REAL content thank you for being so damn good at what you do it doesn’t even matter if it’s at sea or in space in the future keep doing what you do man it’s great!
That was fantastic. The level of technical detail you provided was amazing. Nice work!
As somebody who just watches ALIEN for the first time today this was amazing. Such a nice touch of a maritime disaster channel to cover science horror fiction
This is by far my favorite April fools joke
Having both you and Fascinating Horror produce quality videos on some of my favorite movies in your usual styles with absolute seriousness has been a treat this April Fool's.
This was excellent. Thanks for this pleasant surprise.
This makes me wish for a video talking about the drive plate failure on the JMC Red Dwarf.
"Gazpacho soup!"
Discovered your channel today, binged whole day during work as the episodes went. That said this one knocked me off the chair, the factual style applied to one of my all time favourite horror classics. Congratulations on your work on these stories.
I was only 13 or 14 the first time I watched Alien. The local library had it on VHS and with my parents at work for the day I rode my bike to the library and checked it out. It is such a great movie. Thanks Maritime Horrors for the great work you do.
I was enjoying this, but then I realized I've never actually seen all of Alien. You know what? I'm gonna remedy that. I'm gonna watch it all and come back here. Give me a minute.
This isn't an April Fool's Joke... It's a great documentation of an iconic starship...
As another huge fan of the film I found this video brilliant! I went to see the it the day it came out in my local movie theatre and was hooked. This was an April present. Thanks lots from the UK.
Hey, I loved this episode. The ‘Alien’ series is one of my favorites as well. You should make that diagram a part of your merchandise, if possible. I have been a science fiction fan for a long time. And I think you have something to do again from time to time.
Saw this comment and my channel artist did just that! I'll probably pick one up myself too!
www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/29190763-uscss-nostromo?store_id=67383
Documentary-ish channels making videos about movie events are starting to be a special genre. I'm not complaining. Go on, it's great.
This is genius and it is very well made
I love your regular videos, I got turned on to your channel by your Edmund Fitzgerald narratice (amazing stuff) and I've watched tons of your excellent content since and have loved it all, and this is somehow one of your best vids yet 😅. Keep it up, never stop, cool to see folks out here doing and creating what they love.
You're an Alien fan too, sweet haha 😄. I haven't seen such a great breakdown of a spacecraft since the Spacedock channel. Congratulations on 100k subscribers as well!
As a kid, I saw Alien in the theater. It was a gamechanger of a film at the time, it made spacefaring seem real, not clean fantasy tech like Star Wars.
You've done a man's job, sir, your video belongs perfectly in that universe.
Star Wars was deliberately not clean - certainly for the rebels!
@@katywalker8322 Weren't the rebels the ones with the white spaceships and the spic and span base on the ice moon?
@@mbryson2899 dirty white ships, crumpled uniforms, and making use of smugglers in wrecks of a ship! Had a base on an ice planet for a while though. Imperials had white uniforms
I adore these fictional episodes. Would be stoked for another Halo one too. Love the channel, watched pretty much every episode.
The fact that this FTL 'commercial tug' spacecraft only costs '$47 Million', while an F22 Raptor costs $150 Million, never ceases to make me laugh.
These types of videos are amazing, I'd love to see more of them.
I was hoping for an account of the destruction of the HMS Thunderchild, A torpedo ram that was sunk during the Anglo-Martian War of the late 19th century.
Still a great choice for a video though.
3:13 Just trying to get my mind around some of these numbers. Great video. 👏👏 Alien is a top 3 favorite for me so it's great to learn a bit more about the Nostromo.
I LOVE sci-fi told as history. Brilliantly done, sir. Better than many documentaries of actual events.
Thank you!
Such an amazing story, a whole series of films could be made from its story
Gotta say this April fool videos are very cool keep up the work
Awww and to think this incident is now less than 100 years into the future. Nostalgia at its best
Thanks for joining legal vices. I love a good crossover.
I love this film franchise as well, a hybrid of Ridley Scott's apathetic characters and James Cameron's over testosteroned foolhardy soldiers with Ripley in the middle, kicking Alien ass while becoming one of my favourite actors. Anyway, great vid. I bought the Nostromo Tshirt in dark blue. Most probably have no idea what the blue print and title means other than I am probably some total nerd, but, I love it, high recommend.
When it comes to Sci fi ships you can forget the Enterprise or imperial star destroyers. The uscss nostromo is the best looking ship in my opinion. Great work as always that's why I love your channel.
I don’t know… I think the Prometheus was one of the prettiest ships ever designed.
@@fatfreddyscoat7564 she was nice your right
I enjoyed that with a beer on Sunday afternoon! Well Done!
The entire Aliens series was such a cool and important part of my childhood and life, just Loved all that growing up, and then, by luck, I ended up flying over to NZ, to WETA, to work on Prometheus, and that was just an awesome experience. Great clip, really enjoyed the details about the ship, thanks so much!
$46 million seems like a laughably low price for the Nostromo considering an F-35 costs in excess of $75 million. This is without taking into account inflation from when the price figure was made. Maybe in the future there is a massive economic deflation event which makes $46 million for a faster than light multicrew starship seem reasonable.
Maybe a new currency?
Probably the access to almost endless amounts of the raw materials that interstellar flight would grant them, coupled with 200 years of progress in industrial processes.
This All of this! Also, The Operations Room doing Top Gun on the 1st was LEGEND. Keep this craziness going. Proof the interwebs still work for the awesome.
May this April 1st tradition go on for a long, long time. These are so well done as your regular fare and I for one look forward to them.
Wow! What a fascinating subject, I'd swear my heart almost burst from my chest! 👍
Joke aside viewing space as an ocean there are some very real disasters to cover such as Challanger or Apollo 13 and much more.
I'm a new subscriber! Doing my part to get you to 100,000. Great videos! Thank you Broseph
I love that you did this so seriously!
I hate to press, but I get a little nervous when awesome channels like this haven't uploaded in a while and also haven't posted any updates/delays. Hope you're doing alright man.
Two months, just happy to see you active.
Please make more content, you're damn good st it.
You know, the most unrealistic thing about this video is this ship only costing 43million dollars in the year 2101.
That would either be super cheap, or we're in for some major economic correction.
An average passenger airplane can cost about 30million $.
Several years back a local theatre did weekend revivals. I was lucky to see Alien, an original reel with all the pops and dirt worn into it, on a big screen.
PFM 🎉
Great vid, thanks, I still remember seeing Alien for the first time at the cinema in 1979, I thought it was awesome at the time and sure enough it become an all time classic.
This was an amazing video. So much technical lore I had never heard before. April fool me all the time with this kind of thing guy! Much enjoyed, much appreciated.
Watching this really makes me appreciate the background audio to the standard videos. Nothing wrong w this btw
dude i love this id listen if u did an extended cut of alien!!!
This has been mentioned in another video about the scuttling procedures, but the automatic detonation override did not work because Ripley did not do it correctly. Most people assume she wasn't quick enough, but on the emergency destruct system panel it clearly states:
*"FAILSAFE SYSTEM WILL NOT ENGAGE IF SAFETY INTERLOCKS ARE DISENGAGED. REENGAGE SAFETY INTERLOCKS PRIOR TO ABORT CODE INPUT"*
She failed to commit the abort procedure in the correct order.
I haven’t watched any of your other content, but I liked it, and I dig history. Subscribed.
"Cause I blew it outta the goddamn airlock!"
- Ellen Ripley
Very High quality, executed perfectly.
“Good, That’s because I blew it out of the God damn airlock.”
This is awesome! I only found this channel about a week ago and had your videos playing while doing some work, (which are all amazing, informative and fascinating) This one came up randomly and it took me a few minutes to realize what this was because it's done so well, and I'm a huge Alien fan! I'd love to see more and want to say great job on all of your videos.
Fantastic episode, you made “Alien” really feel like a part of history.
This just showed up in my suggestions and I love it. Really well done.
I usually sleep while listening to such documentaries and youtube has the autoplay feature so it just plays video after video till i wake up , now Imagine going to sleep listening to real events and waking up with the same guy talking about events in the 22nd century , i had to check my calendar twice just to make sure
Well done sir I love it, and love all videos related to real ships. Keep them coming man you are doing a great job.
congrats, 100k subs. fully deserved, here's to the next 100k
Fantastic! Much love hahaha. This isn't April fools this is April Awesomeness!
Love the blueprints and space jargon.
The plot of the movie "Goliath Awaits" would be perfect for this kind of thing. It is about an ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1939 whose wreck is discovered in 1981, with over 300 survivors and their descendants living in an air bubble inside the ship. It was a made for tv movie released in parts that totaled over 3 hours so there's plenty to work with
ALIEN is a great classic. It's worth treating it as one of this channel's usual fare.
The Nostromo is honestly the best "realistic" ship in Sci-Fi history: It was designed to be as believable and gritty as possible, and by god it succeeds. Everything just has a lived-in run-down industrialism to it, and the design itself, paired with the haul, is instantly recognisable and reminiscent of a 16th century freighter.
Really enjoyed this. Thank you for giving me a a reason to watch this again.
Fun fact: Jones is in fact Ripley’s cat. No, seriously, if you look at her bridge terminal in the movie, she has a photo of Jones as a kitten taped to it.
She has a photo of a kitten taped to it which may or may not be Jones.
@@Sporkmaker5150 it’s an orange cat, I’m pretty confident it’s meant to be Jones given how she acts towards Jones throughout the movie.