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I read somewhere that the most likely "alien" visitor is a bacterium, virus, or other organism that rode here on a meteor fragment. That achieves interstellar t
by mimixco 5y ago
I read somewhere that the most likely "alien" visitor is a bacterium, virus, or other organism that rode here on a meteor fragment. That achieves interstellar travel without the need or intelligence or intent. It was also the subject of the terrific movie The Andromeda Strain.
- birdyrooster 5y agoAlso for me was the scariest movie I saw growing up even against Child’s Play, Halloween, Friday 13th.
- mimixco 5y agoYes! Still scary. The realism of it is alarming to this day.
- ncmncm 5y agoIt has no realism at all. Why would an organism with no experience of Earth environment outcompete life evolved to it?
- outworlder 5y agoWhy not? We see invasive species outcompeting native species all the time.
- ncmncm 5y agoThey all come from an extremely similar environment, and typically eat or infest very similar prey/hosts.
- jnurmine 5y agoPerhaps it evolved on a planet with an Earth-like, but much harsher, environment. To draw an analogy from fiction, what would happen if one sent Giger's Alien in all its glory, razor tail and all, to compete in an entry-level boxing match? The Alien has no rules, has acid for blood, tongue-crushes the skull of the referee, and so on.
- ncmncm 5y agoThe aliens in the movies were doing rather poorly by the end of each.
- jnurmine 5y agoYes and no :) Yeah, they got vented into space et cetera, but I'd say in the first 2 movies humans actually failed to kill the xenomorphs (eggs on LV-426 and aboard Sulaco). At the end of the third movie the newly born xenomorph queen clearly dies. However, in the fourth movie the xenomorphs are again brought back through cloning. Also, in "Prometheus" and "Alien: Covenant" it becomes apparent that the original crashed ship on LV-426 in "Alien" was not one of a kind, there were tons of ships carrying the gooey secret sauce of xenomorphs. Also, at the end of the second movie the queen xenomorph was simply vented into space, but whether it died or not was not very clear. I mean, the xenomorphs seemed to be quite resilient and not too picky about things like atmosphere and cold temperatures.
- ncmncm 5y agoAnyway they were specifically designed to attack humans, and to operate in a human-rich environment; and when there aren't any, to wait around for one to come along and stick his face in just the right place. So, not really alien at all.