Flamethrowers??
Ok, just why the hell would UNDERWATER mine workers be equipped with giant flamethrowers?
shareWhat about the frigging hedge trimmer?! Topiary tube worms, maybe. It appears in the arming up scene only. Thank smeg.
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Flame throwers could be used to either heat up supercooled piping in case of a blockage and to remove things from the wetroom and from the suits (algae, barnacles and the life).
As for the hedgetrimmer, this is the main weapon Willie carries round for t a lot fo the film :)
Sure, it could be. It COULD be used for making popcorn, shrinkie-dinks, and baked alaska. At 25 paces. But c'mon. It's not a brazing torch or even a welding torch. It's a (surprsingly light) flame thrower! I tried to rationalise it too, but in the end I think "they have it in case they want to set fire to their own base, you know, for cleaning" is less believable than "they have it in case of monsters!"
Didn't notice the hedgetrimmer in other scenes, thanks.
Flamethrowers...what an awful choice of weapon for an environment where you have a limited oxygen supply...back in WWII, they used to audition flame-thrower operators by seeing if they could hold their breath for a full minute under combat conditions - when you shoot a flamethrower it consumes all the oxygen around you in about a six foot radius, and you can't breathe until a few seconds after you release the trigger...that's the ENORMOUS amount of oxygen consumed...such a weapon would eat through the oxygen in an enclosed underwater structure in a matter of seconds...
As to why they have flamethrowers in "Leviathan"...cause they had flamethrowers in "Alien", and this movie is a 100% rip-off of "Alien". Of course, flamethrowers are a pretty bad idea on a spaceship as well, but hey, I'll give a GOOD movie more leeway than I'll give "Leviathan".
Wrong and wrong!
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The difference is that in Alien they were built by "Parker" for the purpose of defeating the alien, they weren't part of the ship equipment. In Leviathan they actually had them as part of their tools which is far more unconvincing
shareThe flamethrowers in Alien and Leviathan were gas, while the ones in WWII were liquid fuel. Liquid fuel burns hotter and sticks, like napalm, and burns for a long time, sucking up oxygen.
I personally have been in small spaces were gas flamethrowers were used to take barnacles and other sea life off bilge and water tank walls. I sweated profusely but did not suffocate. It was more like lighting a match and using it to burn off Irish pennants from a shirt. As an aside, the gas throwers were also good for dealing with sea snakes that got through mesh screens into the main condenser.
The flamethrowers in Alien and Leviathan were gas, while the ones in WWII were liquid fuel. Liquid fuel burns hotter and sticks, like napalm, and burns for a long time, sucking up oxygen.
I personally have been in small spaces were gas flamethrowers were used to take barnacles and other sea life off bilge and water tank walls. I sweated profusely but did not suffocate. It was more like lighting a match and using it to burn off Irish pennants from a shirt. As an aside, the gas throwers were also good for dealing with sea snakes that got through mesh screens into the main condenser.
I'm calling BS on this, or you just don't know how to do your job.
Barnacles can be taken off easily with a wire brush or wire wool. Why in the name of *beep* would you be firing a flamethrower at barnacles!?!?!?! A gas fire stream would take forever to remove a calcite substance and cost a fortune in fuel and manpower.
Also using gas throwers to remove damp sea life is about as dumb as using water to start a fire! Bilges, sumps, boat hulls etc etc. are cleaned by hand or with jet/pressure wash with a chemical mix for tougher stuff. I have never once seen or even heard of a single soul using a flamethrower to clean maritime equipment.
Also, what the hell were you doing using fire in a small space, you clown?
Whether you use a gas thrower, or liquid thrower, it will consume oxygen, that is how fire works! If you are in a confined space without a good oxygen flow, you will pass out pretty quickly, especially if you in there using a FLAMETHROWER to clean, for what will undoubtedly takes bloody ages, given that flamethrowers aren't cleaning tools.
A quick relevant question, what happens to the gas and o2 once it is burned? Does it magically disappear to fairy land?....here's a hint...no it doesn't! It becomes carbon monoxide, which is even worse than the oxygen used up by the fire!!!
I assume you are writing this post from the afterlife, to warn us as to the dangers of using fire to clean water tanks???
Also, if you use excessive heat around metal, it gets hot (funny that) and it distorts and weakens.
The fact is, the makers stuck them in, because they are cool and they were used in Alien and The Thing to fight aliens. A maritime mining crew wouldn't be issued with them.
Stop making sh*t up to defend lazy writing, pv7!
Because Alien.
shareThe BIGGEST flame throwers in bad-cinema history.
And those four flames on the tips. So silly.
They made the hedge trimmers look realistic by comparison.
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