19 Comments on “Ridley Scott Explains It All For You”

1. Don’t worry, John, the cats would have that thing dead and left on your door step posthaste. Though a cat-alien hybrid is the second scariest thing I can think of. A cat with opposable thumbs being the first.

2. On the plus side she’ll get a ribbon in the science fair.

3. And it sounds like she has a promising career waiting for her at Weyland/Yutani. Building better worlds and all that.

4. Well, this is the stuff of nightmares.

5. Well, the theory behind the facehugger process stipulates that the resulting alien has distinct features inherited from the host DNA.

   That would mean an alien coming from a feline host would nap twenty-three hours a day, randomly kill stuff on occasion, and succumb to the eight o’clock crazies with predictable regularity. (If the host is a Siamese, double the psychotic/hostile component.)

6. Here is a story that I found while catching up with the news. I instanly thought of your book: “The Android’s Dream”

   Human-animal hybrid embyros for stem cell research.

   Science fiction coming fastly to life.

   What do you think?

   http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/05/19/britain-embryos.html

   ~Penny~

7. I for one welcome our new werecat overlords.

8. Marko:

   Yours go off at eight o’clock? Mine likes to wait until the twee hours of the night when its helper monkey (me) is trying to sleep.

9. As the LOLKidz say, “DO NOT WANT!”

10. Of course the real upside to an alien/cat hybrid is how easily they could be lured by the scent of tuna…

11. Ahh, the facehuggers don’t scare me.

    Sooner or later somebody will figure out how to make them into hats for rich assholes, and they’ll be extinct in no time.

    And that acid blood? I bet we could turn that into bio-diesel…hey, at $4.00+ a gallon, I’m willin’ to go into the air ducts after them. Who’s with me?

12. #11 Jim Wright – I’m right behind you.

    Really. Go ahead.

13. Were you a Bloom County fan back in the day, John? I keep thinking back to Oliver getting a chemistry set from his dad, and setting up a genetics lab in his bedroom.

    “‘Success’ is rarely total in science. Try and see the forest for the trees, mother.”

14. Jim, do you mean that the rich assholes will be extinct because of predation, or that the facehuggers/brainslugs will become extinct from lack of nourishment from trying to feed on the rich assholes?

15. I’m good with it either way, Steve.

16. Speaking of face huggers, I came across this. Uh, words, they fail me.

17. Here you go, Jim:

    MOLLUSKS? I thought she was taking me to the MALL!

18. Marko@5 – Yes but the Marine Corps taking out a full blown alien by distracting it with giant bits of dangly string is a bit of a let down, no?
    Not a very compelling sequel.

    Jim@11 Let me know when you get them out of the airducts — I have a sushi chef who says the non-poisonous bits will make a lovely maki.

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