Billy Idol
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Watched Rango. I was really impressed by the high level of animation tec. Some scenes looked astoundingly good, almost real. Also, was quite funny for an animation movie. Good.
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...Aliens. Two words:
Rock. Solid.
(Ok, I know. How did the queen get aboard the dropship when the ramp wasn't down and she is too big to fit through the side door? Yeah yeah, nothing's entirely perfect, just go with me here...
)...Aliens. Two words:
Rock. Solid.
(Ok, I know. How did the queen get aboard the dropship when the ramp wasn't down and she is too big to fit through the side door? Yeah yeah, nothing's entirely perfect, just go with me here...
She didn't, she hung on to the outer side. Hard vacuum is not enough to kill an alien queen.
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Aliens is a great movie, but a totally different genre not intended to make one think philosophically. Very much an "action scifi" movie whereas Oblivion is more in the class of 2001:ASO...but since we want to point out plot holes, there is that old multiple-interstellar-trips-in-one-lifetime issue. Unless someone finds ways to violate known limits of physics there isn't any way for a person alive at launch to still be living upon arrival at some distant star system. Why this would be easier to "suspend" than a ship being sent to Titan in 2017 is beyond me.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
Here we go. 3-4 Kelvin can slow an ion but not an alien
The Alien has built in space armour in the form of it's exoskeleton. It's not like an astronaut freezes solid every time they go on a space walk.
LOL. Those suits have things called heaters
but sure, we can imagine a creature with that kind of internal heating capabilities...exactly my point.Oh and: http://movieplotholes.com/aliens.html
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Actually the queen was hiding in the chamber for the rear landing gear. You can see that it's the big hole on the back of the dropship where she's coming out from. It's also the reason why noone noticed her inside the ship
Also, space suits have not only heaters but coolers as well. There's a complete fluid circulation layer inside that keeps the lit/shaded sides balanced. The sun is getting the lit sides pretty hot, AFAIK that's also why the suits are usually white to reflect as much of the light as possible.
Also, space suits have not only heaters but coolers as well. There's a complete fluid circulation layer inside that keeps the lit/shaded sides balanced. The sun is getting the lit sides pretty hot, AFAIK that's also why the suits are usually white to reflect as much of the light as possible.
Vacuum is actually an excellent insulator (think thermos bottle). The only way to lose heat is by radiation, and that's pretty slow (unless your surface/mass ratio is ridiculously low of course. The queen is unlikely to freeze solid, unless the docking with the sulaco takes a rather long time.
Anyhow, I don't think it actually hangs on to the outside, isn't it shown as stepping out of the craft after having speared Bishop with its tail...?
Anyhow, I don't think it actually hangs on to the outside, isn't it shown as stepping out of the craft after having speared Bishop with its tail...?
Babel-17
Veteran
...Aliens. Two words:
Rock. Solid.
(Ok, I know. How did the queen get aboard the dropship when the ramp wasn't down and she is too big to fit through the side door? Yeah yeah, nothing's entirely perfect, just go with me here...
A fantastic movie and I love Sigourney Weaver but the movie had a limited budget and it showed, here and there.
FTL starships and low tech Colonial Marines do not mix.
Even in the 50's and 60's there was SF that had a better grasp on where combat was headed.
It was the other stuff that made Aliens great; the idea of what happens when society monetizes everything, humanity hanging onto its humanity when facing a harsh and alien universe.
You're not serious, right? Rate of heat transfer between a body and it's surroundings is a function of the boundary conditions (particle density) and the temperature difference. If you use a rough number of 315 Kelvin for a body and 4 Kelvin for space that's a rather steep gradient and getting from 315 to 273 (water freezes) is going to happen extremely quickly.
Combat in the far future won't involve human soldiers. When you can design machines with the necessary intelligence (note, not necessarily AI), you'll be able to develop heavily-armoured drones which don't miss when they target something, can react many times more quickly than a human and move much faster.
If any humans are involved in combat, it will be in the planning and repair stage only.
In the longer term, nanotechnology will probably make all the standard shoot-out aspects of combat obsolete in any case.
If we do end up relying on Colonial Marines to save humanity, let's hope they aren't such incompetent gung-ho morons as those depicted in Aliens!
If any humans are involved in combat, it will be in the planning and repair stage only.
In the longer term, nanotechnology will probably make all the standard shoot-out aspects of combat obsolete in any case.
If we do end up relying on Colonial Marines to save humanity, let's hope they aren't such incompetent gung-ho morons as those depicted in Aliens!
Well just to harp on Aliens a bit more...Colonial Marines are less well equipped than today's soldiers, no night vision, no thermal vision, projectile weapons only...
Then there's the fact that the metal-eating-acid-blood seems to have been transfused from all the aliens and replaced with benign blood of some kind between the first and second movies...
Oh and the little girl...really?
Then there's the fact that the metal-eating-acid-blood seems to have been transfused from all the aliens and replaced with benign blood of some kind between the first and second movies...
Oh and the little girl...really?
Babel-17
Veteran
The sleaze ball Burke picked that group with their green lieutenant because he wanted to be able to manipulate them.
A war weary type, or an experienced by the book type, wouldn't have made the mistakes we saw.
We're already seeing drones as the main method of air to ground "precision" strikes, we can only expect this to become more and more common. The US can afford to lose a lot of money in equipment, but each KIA soldier is a huge PR problem, as far as I can see it from here.
However Aliens was not meant to be futuristic, but a very clear and intentional reference to the Vietnam War. The marines' clothing and equipment was designed to reinforce this visually, just as the soldiers themselves had the same kind of style and slang, complete with the cigar smoking african-american sergeant who was played by an actual Vietnam veteran. Not to mention the plot where the confident marines were wiped out by their low-tech 'native' enemies.
And remember, James Cameron wrote the script for Rambo II too
However Aliens was not meant to be futuristic, but a very clear and intentional reference to the Vietnam War. The marines' clothing and equipment was designed to reinforce this visually, just as the soldiers themselves had the same kind of style and slang, complete with the cigar smoking african-american sergeant who was played by an actual Vietnam veteran. Not to mention the plot where the confident marines were wiped out by their low-tech 'native' enemies.
And remember, James Cameron wrote the script for Rambo II too
Particly density in a vacuum is zero.
In a vacuum, energy is radiated away as black body radiation. Naked skin at core temperature would radiate energy away to the tune of 520 W/m^2. However most of the skin is covered with clothes, equilibrium is quickly established between the inside of your clothes and the skin. The outside of the clothes quickly loses heat, but heat transfer through the clothes is very low.
Also, since black body radiation is dependent on the temperature to the 4th degree, at skin temperature=0 degree centigrade, just 315 W is lost per square meter.
Ripley is wearing a short sleeved T-shirt, so let's be generous and say 0.5 square meter is uncovered skin (hands+face+arms), Ripley would thus radiate on the order of 160 W away. No problem at all.
As Grall says, ROCK SOLID.
In fact the pressure drop is likely to flash moisture on the surface of the skin into steam, With water having an evaporative energy of 2.3MJ/kg, this would cause an almost instant cooldown of the skin
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