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Ok maybe the adult aliens don't eat at all. Thus if a planet of aliens is left alone long enough all that will be left is eggs ready for the next lot of stupid humans.

This may also explain the constant need for aliens to harvest humans for the facehuggers to inpregnate and continue the aliens existant as a whole.

Of course, you would think that the Queen would still need to eat. Although I guess after a while a new queen will be born, ready to replace the dieing queen.

Posted by: trauma on September 3, 2004 05:00 PM

Although not quite the same, maybe this explains why zombies feel the need to kill the living, it's the only way they can reproduce. Some sort of base instinct or something.

Ummm.... think ill stop now, going off topic a bit.

Posted by: trauma on September 3, 2004 05:09 PM

You get to see the dog/hybrid alien in Alien3 eating one of the prisoners. My feeling is that they're actually very polite creatures outside of the killing and maiming -- they don't like eating in public (too shy).

As for zombies -- according to two very reliable sources (Buffy and the Simpsons) they eat brains. And supposedly they're controlled by their zombie master, so their actions aren't dictated by themselves. So if you were unfortunate enough to be turned into a zombie by Baz Luhrmann, you'd have to do his zombie bidding by ballroom dancing in a 19th century brothel.

Posted by: scruff on September 3, 2004 08:20 PM

I just watched aliens 3 special edition as I could hardly remember it.

At 1:52 and a couple of times after theat the alien certainly looks like it is eating the bodies.... badly, considering it doesnt actually rip any flesh off them.

To be honest apart from the first time, the others just look like its ripping at the victims throat to finish them off.

Had a quick scan through the final script and I guess this confirms it.

http://www.planetavp.com/amr/scripts/Alien3Fin.txt

"A scream reverberates down corridor -
Moves forward into POV of the Alien - devouring Vincent"

"The Alien leaps from the door, to the abandoned body of Kevin -pounces -- devours -- dead meat -"

Well I guess this confirms it, Aliens (or at least the weird arse hybrid version) eat human. Aparently, it must be rather picky on which part it eats as it only goes for the choice cuts around the neck/head area.

One other thing.... how bloody crap does the alien look when its CGI!! terrible. Thats one thing AVP has, great looking classic version aliens, dissapointing movie though.

Posted by: trauma on September 5, 2004 06:15 PM

Okay, first for the logical deduction bit. In the first Alien film, the nasty goes from a chest burster to a full sized alien without anyone dying. This would indicate they do not need to eat people to grow a LOT. There is no real indication that the alien mouth is for anything except killing. It seems to work primarily as a weapon, and does not appear to be structured for ripping and tearing (as a true carnivour would). Also, the baby alien, when born, ran away. It had not eaten the host in the first film, as he was happily chatting before exploding.
In the book, the egg is seen to be in the hosts lungs. This also follows, as the face huggers tube is in keeping the host alive, supplying air, so it must feed the lungs. From this it would seem fair to deduce that the aliens are similar to plants, and use oxygen (probably water as well) and other base nutrients.
Having said all that, it is pretty certain that the Aliens can live on something other than people from the fourth film as well, where the aliens are being grown in captivity.

My bet is that they are actually motile plants.

Posted by: Sparker on September 6, 2004 09:19 AM

Makes those Triffids look like a bunch of pansies. Pansies, get it? har har I kill me

Posted by: trauma on September 6, 2004 10:29 AM

....Which brings us back to zombies, I suppose.....

Posted by: Sparker on September 6, 2004 10:34 AM

do zombies shop at prouds?

Posted by: Decay on September 6, 2004 11:06 AM

Well if they loved shopping there or worked there they might return there as the undead.

Just like how Zombies went to the mall in Dawn of the Dead. Through some sort of memory of living... or a base instinct to shop.

Posted by: trauma on September 6, 2004 11:35 AM

Given the "other" conversation, it would appear there is a lot of evidence that Zombies do not actually shop at Prouds, but instead serve there.

Posted by: Sparker on September 6, 2004 11:38 AM

.... Hey, maybe this answers the original question:
Q: "What do aliens eat?"
A: "Good Proud's customer service"

Which explains why there is none of it left, and why the aliens are so thin.....

Posted by: Sparker on September 6, 2004 12:09 PM

ok ok... let's not cross thread this excellent and insightful post with Proud's stuff......

*ahem* sorry I brought it up *ahem*

Posted by: Decay on September 6, 2004 03:04 PM

Do you think an alien would be able to survive inside a zombie? Or would we end up with a Zombie alien? If so, then would it go out and eat other aliens (or, if they have them, their brains)?

Also, given the alien seems to take on some of the form of its host, it would be fun to impregnate some other animals like: a snake, a mouse, an elephant, a whale. We could have a whole army of weird aliens. What fun.

Posted by: Sparker on September 8, 2004 05:01 PM

Alien Turtle!

Posted by: Decay on September 8, 2004 05:18 PM

Well from watching Aliens 3 and Aliens 4 it is shown that the Alien is under the rib cage attached to the hosts lungs and drawing oxygen directly from there.

So you have to ask the question, do Zombies breath? Going by the Zombie Survival Guide Book most of the organs shutdown once undead.

Posted by: trauma on September 8, 2004 10:23 PM

Ah, but the face hugger actually feeds the oxygen into the lungs, otherwise what's-his-face from the first film (Cain, I think) would have died when his helmet was melted in.

Posted by: Sparker on September 9, 2004 09:14 AM

The face hugger keeps the victim alive while its laying the egg, then the facehugger dies. The victim then stays alive for a while. Depending on what movie the victim stays alive from 5 minutes (AVP) to a few days (Aliens 3).

Posted by: trauma on September 10, 2004 05:20 PM

the theory that the aliens are like plants is a very good theory. in the game avp2 playing as an alien you require to find food a small animal like a cat or dog. so it is my ghess that in aliens 4 the fed them but that just makes me wonder about the first one it really didnt eat any little animals so perhaps it eats a bit of the host because it always takes awhile to come out.

Posted by: mike on September 12, 2004 12:10 PM

The idea of eating the host has merit, except that the size difference between the chest burster and the full sized monster is so large, that there is no way it could have enough stored food inside itself to manage the transition. To compare, think of the content of an egg. The egg is full when it is laid, and full of an animal when it hatches. The final size is very similar to the size of the source (the egg contents). In Alien, the alien grows well beyond anything it could be carrying. So, either it raided the pantry, ate rats, or it's a plant.

Posted by: Sparker on September 13, 2004 10:31 AM

Methinks Hollywood never really thought about the food side that much. Hmmm, the Aliens blood is acid.

Perhaps there is a chemical reaction between the acid and iron minerals within the body to create electric energy!
Bit like the simple batteries vase batteries found at digs in Iraq and a few other places.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm

Posted by: trauma on September 13, 2004 10:52 AM

Maybe the spikies on the shoulders are Iron rod bones inside ;)

Posted by: trauma on September 13, 2004 10:57 AM

Aliens are a type of galvanic cell?

Posted by: Decay on September 13, 2004 12:02 PM

They don't traditionally grow, do they?

Posted by: Sparker on September 13, 2004 12:16 PM

me thinks you are all wasting far too many brain cells worrying over this :D

:) DK the Elder

Posted by: DK The Elder on September 13, 2004 02:40 PM

My cats breath smells like cat food.

Posted by: Guru G on September 14, 2004 10:17 PM

...Ah, I understand that subtle comment: You are suggesting we should smell the breath of an alien and that way we'll know what they have been eating. Brilliant!!! Now, where is a convenient alien that will let me smell its breath (do they breathe) without smashing its tongue into my head....

Posted by: Sparker on September 15, 2004 09:58 AM

Now what do predators eat? never see them eat in any of the movies?

And no, they don't eat aliens, at leastnot in aliens v predator :)

Posted by: trauma on September 15, 2004 10:56 AM

ok... looking at it another way..... do aliens shit?

actually don't look at it another way........

Posted by: Decay on September 15, 2004 04:02 PM

My alien's breath smells like soilent green?

Posted by: M34tb4LL on September 16, 2004 12:51 AM

SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!
SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!

Posted by: mike on September 17, 2004 09:30 AM

oh yeah im also electronic its wierd '~'

Posted by: mike on September 17, 2004 09:30 AM

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Posted by: Will on December 11, 2004 05:03 AM

Aleins ARE RELATED TO PEOPLE BECAUSE OF PORN

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Posted by: Trevor on December 22, 2004 05:22 AM

Herdy Gerdy is a gay game.

Aliens come from nice eating places.

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