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Are xenomorphs the oldest species in the universe?

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Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 6:43 AM
I ask this because: * In Alien Ash said the atmosphere was almost 'primordial'. * The engineers ( an über-ancient species) have a xenomorph-wallpaper. * The eggs in Alien were still 'alive' (remember that the SJ was fossilized?) What if the xenomorphs were the first multi-cellurar organism in the universe? That they are older than planet Earth itself( this seems logical)? I would be so proud of my favourite fictional critter! What do you people think? To me it makes sense: acid for blood, a tough exoskeleton, no eyes ( because they would be damaged by cosmic radiation if there wasn't any atmosphere), enough claws and teeth to defend itself against the most vicious predators, hypersensitive senses and instinct... the ultimate killing machine...destroyer of civilisations.
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Necronom 4

MemberNeomorphOct-23-2013 7:22 AM
I would hope so! I see them as being a lot more than just big alien insects! More like the perfect personification of pure life, from the dna of some ancient evil. Something that is VERY difficult to kill.

The poster was good though!

 

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 7:32 AM
^^ right on dude. When Ridley said: 'What's the Alien doing in Disneyland'? I also thought: g*dd*amn, it's all about this f***ing money, and no longer about the notion behind it all. Within 5 years from now they could have made the ultimate alien movie ( with all the progress that's being made in Movie Land), but noooooo, we had to swallow this 'theory' first. [b]Shame on you, Fox![/b] After all they did to my all-time-favourite franchise, I'm seriously considering to alter my 'religion'. But who am I right?
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oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 8:23 AM
Gimmefacehug LMFAO !!!! "...but noooooo....!!!!!" That was and still is a brilliant post !!!!! Then everything else including the engineers must have evolved from them . Maybe they did seed worlds ( the xenos did ) and then man evolve from them ???

oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 8:37 AM
Sorry off topic Gimmefacehug The ultimate alien movie was written. It is spaihts alien engineer script and it is brilliant imho. BUT P1 was both a solution and curse at the same time BECAUSE Without the whole alien franchose would have died. In the long run p1 is a blessing because then we can discuss it . As you can see from below the point is not to solve it but to discuss it ...... On topic So maybe man evolved from the xeno and it was a primordial dark world where dolphin shaped head was heccary for echo location as there is no light - tubes at back where the water exited that was filtered for oxygen and / or co2 - elongated movable jaw that effective make you able to kill and eat at the same time - no ones going to eat you because you have acid for blood - you can live from the heat of geysers and volcanic flows and you can literally photosynthysize your own food as you have chrolofil inside your skin and just heat and oxygen and co2 water to produce your own food - maybe that wht they are called the perfect oranism ??? You can sense danger hours before at happens and your collective hive mind can tell all of tour kind 1km exactly what's going to happen - shared memories - Perhaps.........

oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 8:40 AM
Gimmefacehug Yes an alien movie that touches upon the true horror of alien - that human brain/being trapped inside that monster !!!

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 9:00 AM
Wow Oduodu, really thinking out of the box there, aren't you. And thank you for liking my topic, I still can't get over it apparently.... Great thoughts from a clear mind if you ask me! But to me the ultimate Alien script was the ALIEN movie. No pun intended. If they didn't film it, it doesn't exist IMO.
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oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 9:02 AM
Point taken !!!!

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 9:05 AM
The xenomorph does look somewhat like a dolphin/ whale/ beluga. Point taken :) And the spikes on the xenomorph's back really makes me wonder: was it used to breathe under/ above water? To secrete some sort of resin? Who knows?
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Svanya

AdminPraetorianOct-23-2013 9:24 AM
[i]"In Alien Ash said the atmosphere was almost 'primordial'."-Gimmeafacehu[/i] That's just the planet, we still don't know where the Xeno's originate from. [i]And the spikes on the xenomorph's back really makes me wonder: was it used to breathe under/ above water? To secrete some sort of resin?-Gimmeafacehug[/i] Yes, the tubes on the Xeno's back were supposed to secrete a resin. They wanted to make scenes in "Alien" where the Xeno is hanging upside-down cocooning someone with material out of its tubes but they were unable to film it because the special effects were too costly and difficult to do at the time. I can't find the video on the subject anymore on YouTube, if I do I will post it. Also you guys, Ridley is the one who initially described the Xeno as an insect. Like an ant.

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 9:32 AM
@Svanya, hello darling! :) How are the kids? I know, I know, that's why I want to know what the 'xenomorph's background' is . There are so many interpretations for this story since Prometheus so... I'm an enemy of (deliberate, non-sensical) ambiguity. haha Greetings to your children, just say there was a really weird guyt online ;) Again, if they didn't film i, I don't care, so I don't know about xenos secreting resin from the tubes on their back. Love y'all!
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Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 9:37 AM
'Also you guys, Ridley is the one who initially described the Xeno as an insect. Like an ant' wow wow wow wow wow, Where did he say that? I have the Alien Quadrilogy and the Blu-ray Anthology. I never heard him say that in anywhere. But then again, I'm deaf on one side( really)
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Svanya

AdminPraetorianOct-23-2013 9:38 AM
@Gimmeafacehug; This was Ridley and Giger talking, so it was something they did intend on having in the movie, the special effects just could not do it at the time. I'll get the ant video for ya, Ridley is describing it. Also, I don't have any children. Unless you mean my extensive video game collection. :P

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 9:42 AM
*epic facepalm* I thought you had....like 2... Videogames? I'm all ears! :p Name some of your favourite titles if you please, Miss Svanya.
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Svanya

AdminPraetorianOct-23-2013 9:48 AM
Hmm, well off the top of my head, Bioshock series, Deus-Ex, Dishonored, Portal 1&2, Half-Life2, Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, Tomb Raider,Left4dead, Fallout, MMORPG's like Wow and Rift.

oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 9:49 AM
Svanya Another revelation from svanya !!!! Thank you because now I know what ithey do !! Svanya you were also the noticed the embryo passing from the facehugger to kane in the ambiguity questions thread. You posted a photo of it at the time and no one commented at the time ? Where do get all this ?? From the documentaries ?? I would especiall like to know where you read about the tubes at the back . I always thought they were used in aliens to hook up with the nest like ambilical pipes used to transfer heat from the cooling pipe water that tr ansfered heat away from the radiators in the cooling towers of the atmosphere processors. That s how they sustained themselves. Might the differences between the alien in alien ans aliens be explained because the stasis filed he went into had eggs slightly different to the ones kane encountered (as they went to a different stasis field and spaihts alien engineer draft said there were 8 different kind of alien eggs each one slightly different and that came from ridley) and that maybe the stasis field the jordan father went in to had a more weaponised facehugger that might actually produce a queen ?? Not all the eggs were created equal !!! Or something like it

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 9:53 AM
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Svanya

AdminPraetorianOct-23-2013 10:03 AM
@oduodu; Yes I remember that, that was a screenshot from the movie "Alien", when Ash is talking to Dallas. I get my info from all media. I just really am interested in the subject and have seen a lot of documentries. Here is one quote; I still have to find the video of Ridley discussing it, sadly a lot of the videos get deleted from YouTube. [i]"I wanted him [the Alien] to be insect-like. Like an ant. Because if you examine an ant under a microscope they’re kind of elegant, and I wanted him to be very elegant and dangerous.”- Ridley Scott, The Alien Saga, 2002 (archival interview from 1991)[/i] Here is an article someone else wrote on the subject, and he also used Ridley's quotes.[url=http://alienseries.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/the-insect-influence/]The Insect Influence[/url]

oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 10:05 AM
Thank you svanya !!!

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 10:06 AM
Oh you got to be kidding me. Why Ridley, why ?? :(
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oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 10:09 AM
Gimmeafacehug Have you seen the ridleygrams 1 and 2 ??

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 10:10 AM
No, I haven't Oduodu... Do you have a link?
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Svanya

AdminPraetorianOct-23-2013 10:16 AM
All this information is available from the documentaries. Dan O'Bannon , Giger and Ridley all talk about these things. Btw guys watch the documentaries on the thread I posted, a lot of this information is in those documentaries. [url=http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/community/forums/topic/16891]**Official sci-fi documentary thread: Please post any relevant sci-fi docs here.[/url] Feel free to add any sci-fi docu to the thread. :)

oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 10:19 AM
Ridleygrams 1 [url=http://weyland-yutaniarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/alien-unseen-part-one-ridleygrams.html]Alien Unseen: Part One - Ridleygrams[/url] Ridleygrams 2 [url=http://weyland-yutaniarchives.blogspot.ca/2013/01/alien-unseen-part-two-production.html]Alien Unseen: Part Two - Production Storyboards[/url] *Links made clickable by Svanya. **Funfact that blog is created and written by our member [url=http://www.scified.com/member/28]xeno_alpha_07[/url]** :)

oduodu

MemberXenomorphOct-23-2013 10:22 AM
Svanya My internet connection sucks so I can't access those documentaries !!!

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 10:22 AM
Thank you for taking the trouble Oduodu & Svanya. I'll have a look into it. just a sec( hours in my case)
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Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 10:26 AM
Yeah, ok, but Svanya, was/were THIS/ these interviews on the Quadrilogy/ Blu-ray? And I think I watched them all. I think.... But it's very interesting nonetheless.
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BigDave

MemberDeaconOct-23-2013 10:43 AM
i would say they are Ancient, how old.. we cant tell... Certainly older than 2000 years ago, and maybe vastly older but maybe not as old as the opening Scene, because the Engineer Ship and themselves seemed to lack that Xeno Bio Tech look that the latter Engineers and Derelict had... Ridley Scot suggested that the Derelict Tech was Millions of years old how many Millions well that just means more then 1 Million and less than a Billion lol But thats not to say the Xeno or its orgins are older than that, it could be the Engineers found it and stole tech from it, genetically modified the Xeno or its Ancestor at a point after the Sacrificial Scene but Millions years before today. The Sacrificial Scene is supposed to be over a Billion years ago but not at the start of Earth i.e 4 Billion or so. Can we say the Xeno is many Billions of years old? We cant but i doubt it is. Yes the Xeno seems to be able to survive in Hostile environments but we have to ask why was the Engineers trying to Terraform LV 223.. Certainly not for the Xeno or related organism, maybe for themselves or for Human Sacrifices etc. Back to Topic of Perfect Life Form....... how is the Xeno Perfect? it is Perfect in that it can withstand Harsh Environments, it has good deffencive traits and is a Strong, and Fast killing Machine. But better still and especially if we use Aliens onwards as canon, it can Procreate its species and this seems the aim be that you look at Aliens or the Alien DC. Take away Aliens and the Alien DC and all we got is a Stealthy Organism that comes from a Egg that comes from a unknown source that goes around killing its prey via Stealth... some Praise the Alien DC cut as it shows the Alien was not just a killer, and that it actually had a Agenda and that was to capture crew to Procreate its species.... Some dislike the Aliens... Bugs idea.... But these Xenos in Alien are also intelligence, they cut the lights, they also capture victims to procreate its species, they do sacrifice themselves for the greater good of keeping Eggs and Queen safe and thus Bugs mindset.. But when we look at Bugs and if we look at Ants especially, they are for their purpose also Perfect... There agenda is simple its just to procreate its species. And Ants have been around for millions of years longer than we have and they will be around for millions of years once Mankind has died out. Back to the Xeno Perfect Organism, and if we take some comments above about how they are adapted to survival and procreation and if we then imply these organisms are more intelligent and also live for longer.. Then why would the Engineers uses them as a Weapon.... Only 3 outcomes are possible.. 1) The Engineers use them as a weapon to destroy simple as... and once a world is infested well its a risky business to then obtain that world off the xeno... ask the Space Jockey how deadly dealing with a Cargo of them is. 2) The Engineers to a degree can control the Xeno, some how but maybe only Adult Xeno as it would carry some traits of its Host. 3) The Xeno control the Engineers and some other Organism is at the top of the Hierarchy that created the Xeno for a purpose and then the Engineers to help it perform that purpose. Now 2+3 can be used to fit in with the Xeno being used to extract genetic material a Xeno may have obtained but surely a more Advanced Engineer race have other less risky ways to do that. Only unless as with 3... there is some other being or Organism or machine or what ever that is the Lord of all this..... GOD?

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BigDave

MemberDeaconOct-23-2013 10:48 AM
@Svanya nice posts... I only just noticed them after i wrote mine above.... I am sure Cameron did make a comment before about the Xenos being made to act like a Ant Colony, hence Queen as Ridley originally had the Xeno as some kind of insectoid organism. Cant remember the where i read the comment as it was ages ago, like 10 years plus ago maybe much more...

R.I.P Sox  01/01/2006 - 11/10/2017

Svanya

AdminPraetorianOct-23-2013 10:52 AM
Can't find the exact clip about the resin or Ridley talking about the Xeno being ant-like BUT I did find this interview where Ridley is talking about the deleted "Cocoon" scene and he reffers to the Xeno as [b]"The Insect"[/b] :[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hQiV4hPGQ]Ridley Scott talks Cocoon Sequence from 1992 - Alien (1979)[/url]

Gimm-e

MemberOvomorphOct-23-2013 10:58 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVD80hqjM6Y d*mnit Ridley, damn it.
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