• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day ago

      So you’re saying Alien is a measure of length and Alien³ is a measure of volume?

      Americans will do anything but use the metric system.

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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        17 hours ago

        Basically any unit can be squared, cubed or whatever, but the resulting unit doesn’t always make sense in the physical world.

        For example, m/s^2 isn’t velocity. It’s acceleration. If you have a formula that gives you an answer in kg^3, you probably made a mistake somewhere.

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            I enjoyed it as a fun adventure with wacky characters but it had zero tension and the white skeletor alien looked stupid.

          • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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            2 days ago

            I liked all the alien movies that didn’t involve predator. They’re all good and different, and comparing them with each other isn’t fair. Prometheus had that stupid running scene, but other than that was really good.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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              2 days ago

              My only real issue with Prometheus and Covenant was that they removed a lot of the mystery which I felt made the whole thing much cooler. The Space Jockey was just a big white dude in a suit? The aliens aren’t actually aliens at all, they’re a combination of the goo that created life on Earth and an angry robot’s genetic engineering experiments?

              I don’t know, it made the whole thing feel a lot smaller and more pedestrian.

              I don’t think we needed to know where they came from. It doesn’t matter. Or at least it didn’t used to matter. I wish Hollywood was satisfied with leaving mystery in things even if they’re big movie franchises. Maybe it’s okay if we never find out the face of the person sitting in Dr. Claw’s chair.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think this went over my head. Why is it common knowledge to you and assume others that alien has a value of 1? Tried googling it and coulldnt exclude results that weren’t about outerspace aliens lol.