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how could the alien breathe in space.. does it not need oxygen?


how could the alien breathe in space, when hanging on the side of the ship, near the end of the movie .. does it not need oxygen?

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NOPE..ITS DOES NOT AS EVIDENCED BY THAT SCENE.

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it if does not breathe, how can the alien scream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRXyWtv-huc

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What makes you think it can breathe in space?

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ending of alien.... it was trying to get back in the escape craft

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But was it breathing or holding its breath. How long can it go without oxygen, does it even need oxygen? The crew themselves thought about this when talking about how to tackle the Alien. Parker even says to go back in to cryosleep and let it suffocate basically. Only for Ash to say they don’t even know if it requires oxygen seeing how it basically kept Kane alive without any supply on lv426

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right... where can we read about the alien, and find this info? have anyone got any ideas ?

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Dunno...if only there was something that we could type alien life cycle etc.. in to and it would, i don't know, search for info on the subject. Perhaps we could call it the erm...inter net... or something.

Lol, only kidding. There are loads of sites with such information on them.

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yes, but i can't figure which is fanfiction and which is true alien info

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Anything without wiki in is what I would go for.
There was a site called SFMovieZone which was pretty good. Dunno if it still exists

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https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/30t053/does_the_xenomorph_from_the_alien_franchise/

guess i am not the only one with this question

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The Dark Horse comics (which were endorse by 20th Century Fox) had some good information in them.

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Sound can´t be heard in a vacuum either.

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the same way whales can dive to 1000s of feet and stay underwater for hours.

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Maybe it can just hold its breath in space. Humans can't.

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