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Just being the best doesn't make us official... but we don't need no stinkin' credentials We are the best. Probably.

Its a movie, the air gets sucked out as its dramatic, to read anything else into it is insane

As a member of the staff, I think I can cofidently say it is NOT official, unless BH tells me otherwise.

I don't think that works aintnozeno... In the vacuum of space, especially with an opening of that size, you'd be dealing with explosive decompression as in instant and total loss of pressure....nothing to breathe at all...[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression]Wikipedia[/url] "Decompression can occur due to structural failure of the pressure vessel, or failure of the compression system itself. The speed and violence of the decompression is affected by the size of the pressure vessel, the differential pressure between the inside and outside of the vessel and the size of the leak hole.....Explosive decompression occurs at a rate swifter than that at which air can escape from the lungs, typically in less than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds. The risk of lung trauma is very high, as is the danger from any unsecured objects that can become projectiles because of the explosive force, which may be likened to a bomb detonation. After an explosive decompression within an aircraft, a heavy fog may immediately fill the interior as the relative humidity of cabin air rapidly changes as the air cools and condenses. Military pilots with oxygen masks have to pressure-breathe, whereby the lungs fill with air when relaxed, and effort has to be exerted to expel the air again." The conditions described there are in high altitudes where oxygen levels are low, but still existent...In the vacuum of space, you would have instantaneous total and explosive decompression from an opening as massive as that airlock.

Ash sweats white. Vickers doesn't.

@db thanks!

If I were working the Nostromo, I'd be either Parker or Brett...I'm those guys every day

Zookd... Lmfao! (my bitch of an iPad kept trying to auto-correct it's spelling!)

Gravity has nothing to do with atmosphere. Gravity holds you in your seat on a plane, but guess what happens if you pop a window at 35,000 feet? Explosive decompression- gravity or not. Difference in ambient pressure, nothing more. The vacuum of space is many times more of a difference in potential than just a pressurized cabin. What you saw in Aliens is completely plausible. Probable Hollywood drama and action, but the effect is completely realistic. Now how the heck they made gravity, is something I can't explain. If I could, I would be as rich as Weyland.

Excellently put Myrddyn365.

If she was an assassin it would be awesome, Weyland is all obsessed with eternal life and someone sneaks aboard his craft and just offs him before he gets a chance to play with his new toys.

@db....IBM, hey that's good. I think that's why they called him Hal. Little did they know they should have called it: ZOOKD (Apple)

Way to throw us off the scent silica... Vegas baby!

Only if you comp me at the Bellagio

Relax

Why wouldn't the artificial gravity seen in the movie and many other sci fi movies be weaponized or used for many other purposes? Surely the technology to pull things without physically touching them would be used literally fucking everywhere. Why don't we see people walking on ceilings and on walls, why are there no telekinetic weapons or tools? Why would the loader Ripley drives even need legs or arms???! Movies always seem to ignore the full potential of their fictional technology.

I'm Michael Caine! No, but seriously, I'm David Peoples, if you have any questions for me, go ahead, i'm ready. I'm also recommending all of you to get promotions and a free trip to Las Vegas.

I thought the characterizations and acting were brilliantly done. They perfectly portrayed a crew of working class stiffs thrust into a situation they have no business in. The perfection of their portrayal caused me to only be interested in their present rather than their past.

The important question is not which one is Scott, but which ones of you SOBs is David Giler and Walter Hill? C'mon, I know you two are out there!

Hint: what do you get when you add the next letter in the alphabet to the name of the super-computer from 2001: (HAL)?

Not that interesting? As opposed to what? The Godfather? OK. As opposed to Halloween? Or Dawn of the Dead? Or 98% of horror movies? lol.

@db what is ELP and brain salad referring to?

i didnt think it was......... i dont really like any of the characters in alien lol

Almost if they were written to be 'everyday' people...to appeal to the audience's sensibilities

and puffy black jackets... (@db, lol, yes, maybe chuduthu - cannibalistic humanoid ridley scott) could also be: Duh...TC but who's TC?

I don't necessarily believe the black goo is a "primordial" thing, but quite the opposite actually..... I think they're so advanced they assimilate to existing biology and alter (mutate) it to something more physical for themselves.

Alien wasn't very character based?!?! Huh?! Ripley: ELP: Brain Salad Surgery Everybody else: ELP: Brain Salad Surgery

invaderzim42...another fun fact.."Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley has the subtitle "The Modern Prometheus"..yet, the word Prometheus appears nowhere else in the book

david was a king's name vickers could be a joke on victoria - a queen's name elizabeth is also a queen's name

The most interesting thing about the characters in Alien is that there is nothing that interesting about them. I never thought much about who they were and where they came from... Except Ash. He was the most complex character in the film.

I do have a taste for quality cigars.........

@ invader: That would be an interesting twist, coming right out and admitting it, forcing our guard down. I'm beginning to feel a bit like a member of that Antarctic Norwegian expedition.

An honest man..bless you

@ Silica: you can definitely make "chud" out of Dutch that's for sure.

@ Dutch Thanks. Topics like these may be a little shocking but sometimes ya gotta push the envelope.

i am ridley scott. jk lol

"Oh, but I'm not disappointed wih the look of the space jockey. I'm tired of aliens looking like insects, octopuses, and all that crap. I think an intelligent sophisticated alien life form would have a beautiful symmetrical form, so I'm with ridley on this one. No elephant looking creatures PLEASE. The only thing that gets me is the hair. Why are aliens with a human like body always bald." It's almost certainly a result of the hominid line which ultimately lead to us, becoming less hairy over time; the presumption being that completely hairless=more advanced.

Look..the fact that it's not finished doesn't mean it can't be..with a little grease, it can be....if ya know what I mean

idk alien wasn't very character based or at least not enough for me to decide what music they like lol

Silica is just outright scaring me... Lol!