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Quote from: Knight of Fools on January 02, 2013, 05:03:25 am

Bay12 has four dimensional tracks.

The fifth dimensional ones pop up on occasion, too, but only after 3000 pages.

Depends on the PPP.

I can tell you exactly why a raven is like a pineapple.

"Well, I couldn't die out here, now could I? That would disappoint Mo'kar, AND leave you without His guidance. Can't have that. Who are you, by the way, and where are we going?"

WHAT THE SHIT

Actually, it was the dog thing that tipped them off.

Additional speculation: how would X-Com handle the Thing or Xenomorphs?

Quickly, bring in the metabombs!

Maybe...maybe.
I meant the spaceship when I said not airtight.
I would like to know about the hivemind, because I know basically nothing about it.
Although I'm unsure as whether the hivemind would detect it in the first place - say an alien ate a Thing corpse or something. I probably shouldn't be using Peter Watts' story as canon, but would it be concievable that the Thing might take an organism over without it knowing it?
In fact, the nature of the Thing suggests it might be at least sort of psychic, otherwise it couldn't shapeshift when imitating something due to perfectly imitating the cells - the process must be nonmaterial.
The thing about the Thing being a rebel may just be that it has no telepathy among itself apart from the transformation thing, thus not being able to coordinate on the spot.
How fast do Xenomorphs evolve? I guess it's a moot question, the real one being how fast it's hosts evolve because the aliums get characteristics from the host.
The Thing's vulnerability to fire might be explai Ed by the fact that it didn't have time or something to develop fireproof traits. After all, if it's been in the cosmos with other aliens for any significant length of time it will have probably met fireproof aliens of some sort.
In conclusion, both are awesome, and it's too bad that there hasn't been more Thing material. And more Xenomorph material too.

Frumple: It is basically every organism ever, at least potentially. It would be the form a monotheistic diety would take if it ever manifested.
That kinda explains the wierd angels in the Bible.

Huh.