Neat. I own this movie and never really knew that it had a name. -- Somarinoa 17:17, October 21, 2011 (UTC)
Speculation on planetary migration habits[]
I don't know if it warrants a mention outside of the talk page, but I always speculated that the way the Long One left a planet involved the building up of the Primary Host, somehow eventually forming a sort of organic cannon in a manner similar to the Arachnids' Plasma Bugs in Starship Troopers. Anyone else have an interesting hypothesis on how it moves between worlds? -- Somarinoa 17:50, October 21, 2011 (UTC)
- That's a cool idea, I think, the host would have to grow the size of a city to be able to shoot the alien eggs out of the atmosphere in a single shot, but I guess that's not impossible with the aliens dominating everything around. The 'single shot' bit might as well not be the case, supposing the parasite would be able to develop the organic equivalent of a fuelled rocket to propel itself. The only alternative I myself ever thought about does not concern these guys in particular but any of the non-sapient aliens which arrive trapped inside meteors and then proceed to take over planets (the Blob, the things from Evolution, many others I'm too tired to remember now). Supposing that's a natural part of their life cycle, and not a Fred Hoyle-ish accident, how do they get inside the meteors in first place?? One guess is that they actually are (or eventually become) sapient and develop methods of leaving the planet and spreading themselves. Semi-related: there's a fun short story by Isaac Asimov, it's called "Does a Bee Care?" which deals with a similar principle, but based on a sort of symbiosis with the invaded planet's inhabitants, rather than destruction of them; it's very interesting : ) - BlueFrackle 19:31, October 23, 2011 (UTC)