🔴ALIEN ROMULUS: A Scientific Review | [OFFICE HOURS] Podcast 121

[@rillegas08_vods]

One of my favorite bits was the countdown at the end. When the station's voice says 20 minutes and 10 minutes to impact, it's actually 20 or 10 minutes until the station hit the planet's ring. I love when movies do that.

[@plasmatch8]

Alien Romulus really pushes the boundary of how much mass you can gain without eating. From baby to 7 ft tall lanky white guy with a tail in mere seconds.

[@MusicalZombie]

Don't forget all the stuff they spit on the walls to create their nest

[@vroenn]

I think that the offspring actually fed from the mother's body (the black substance she saw on her hands) until she died, so i wonder if this had to do with the growth

[@DarthTingleBinks]

I mean, that has more to do with the science fiction nature of the black good substance and how fast creatures infected or bonded with it grow.

[@dieseluk2k]

Andy's acting was incredible.

[@MrSeedi76]

True. Great actor. But I think the cast overall did a decent job.

[@michaelyoung7261]

The flame sounds like the problem of “which way does a helium balloon inside of a van move when the van accelerates?” It was tested by Veritasium (if I remember right) and the balloon moved towards the direction of acceleration (forwards to the front of the van) because the air inside the van shifted as the van moved, much like how you feel the acceleration the air inside got pushed back and the balloon “floated” to the “top” of the new air fluid positioning. The flame may have done something similar (idk I haven’t seen this movie)

[@Keldroc]

I think the lighter shoots an extra long flame because the character is an edgy asshole and he has the lighter an edgy asshole would have. Nothing to do with the ship.

[@paulstevens865]

This was my interpretation of this. I don't think there is any significance or reasoning beyond this. He's just a douche doing what douches do, to expected effect.

[@soareleonard7570]

There is science behind it. When acceleration increases, pressure inside sealed containers also increases. Pressure is force over surface. Force is mass times acceleration. Increase in acceleration increases gas pressure in the lighter. The diameter of the escape gas that ignites the flame remains constant, so the higher pressure leads to a higher, leaner, gas plume. But the joint smoked in one go is bullshit. Depending on the G force, air can be extra-pushed out of the lungs by the pressure. When the G force stops, you'd inhale a larger volume of air to compensate the squeeze, so if you'd have a cigarette in your mouth then, you could take a super puff of smoke. But that's not what happened.

[@soareleonard7570]

Actually, pressure increases at the bottom of the inside of the sealed container (assuming we accelerate upwards) , and reduces at the top, so it would cancel out. ...but in a lighter, the bottom half in uncompressible liquid, while only the top is the gas, so there may be a way for it to work

[@MadaraOchia]

Hello Kyle, 2 things: You could also send the reactor into space in individual parts and assemble it there. The white "blood" of the androids actually makes sense, we have inflated metal tubes into our company in shapes with up to 3000 bar. The liquid needed for this looked similar to the "blood" of the androids.

[@pwnski]

The only think that broke the suspension of disbelief for me in Romulus was that gravity was absent and 'purging' when they arrive... But there are things like the facehugger finger in a flask still sitting around untouched.

[@criticolehits5766]

Simple explanation, the screenplay writer forgot.

[@mattinakki8253]

This movie reminded me of the Prometheus scene where the "professional expert xenobiologist" (or whatever he was called), basically sticks his face right in front of the egg and gets the consequences. I have been watching X-Files episodes lately and in one of them, the same thing happens. The supposed experts who have done this their entire lives just suddenly forget all contamination protocols and even masks in some cases and get sprayed by a boil or something. Why do they write them as cool science experts in the beginning, just to dump it all away for a scene? It would be more believable if they science guy was: "Oh hey, wait here a moment, I gotta check something." and then one of the rando marines or whomever does it instead.

[@DarthTingleBinks]

Why did this movie, a movie with no scientists, remind you of a few dumb scientist characters in Prometheus? Also, while it is correct that a xenobiologist probably wouldn't go right up to a strange egg or alien creature they've never seen before, A regular person like me probably would. But... I'd also probably make a LOT of the "dumb" decisions people complain about characters in horror movies making. Because I'm more curious than that one cat who died of it.

[@PrzybyszzMatplanety]

Because such dumbness is absolute foundation of Alien franchise. Without it Alien would end after 40 min. with picturing Space Jockey and the ship, informing all authorities and escaping the planet. It is somewhat explainable in the first film as main characters were basicaly just dumb greedy truckers, however Prometheus and Covenant are totally unbelievable.

[@MonkeyKingsformerroomate]

Most of the spaceship designs we see have the engine thrust pushing sideways on the ship, not on the bottom where it would push on the feet of the passengers. The only one I've seen get it right is The Expanse though there are probably other examples. Please let me know folks, other examples, I'd love to check those out. Anyways, I agree with artificial gravity with an on/off button is wrong, but it's such a common mistake that it's easy to just accept when I watch something like Star Trek.

[@jasonmeyer4802]

With the "flame elongation" I kind of assumed it was due to the increased gravity making the air near the floor denser, while the air higher is less dense, amplifying the whole "hot air rises" thing. Is that accurate at all? I have no idea.

[@xponen]

yes, a flame has lower-density so it moves up to meet its equal density.

[@laser8389]

That's my thinking, the opposite of flames in microgravity being spherical due to the lack of a gravitationally-driven pressure gradient.

[@Enchanted_Creations]

This is my thinking as well

[@knappieboy]

At this point, anything that comes out that is canon to this universe is gold to me. Love it! I need more predators now.

[@DavidSweetPrime]

increased gravity directly causes increased atmospheric pressure

[@dogmaticpyrrhonist543]

Only when there's 100km of atmosphere above to press down. In a close space with a fixed amount of gas, the difference would be neglible. It's basically a density gradient, like the difference in air density climbing a mountain. Over a few hundred m it's trivial.

[@xponen]

true, even in less than 1G we can see this pressure difference (ie: "floating helium balloon in a moving car" demo). The effect will be drastic in >1G acceleration.

[@StrixHorror]

Sharks have magnets is one of the best things ive heard in a long time.

[@Damandra]

Hey Kyle. I think you ask were the eggs comes from. There are some option. 1 they are cloned. I think they mentioned it in the movie they cloned the Xeno. 2 Xeno's are able to transform into a Queen or into eggs. Shown in comics and games. 3 They transformed hosts into eggs. Not 100% sure they used that in any comics but somewhere they mentioned that as an idea. And a other noted to Xeno's being an animal. As far as we know there is a version of them out there that are truly animals and develop naturally. The one from the movies are as far as we know upgraded version of them and used as bioweapons by the Engineers/Space Jockey.

[@thomasjoychild4962]

They were 3d bioprinting the facehuggers, there's a brief shot at some stage of a screen saying "printing interrupted".

[@cherrybramble]

so what you're saying is, if I move towards a camera quickly enough, I could become invisible because the light bouncing off of me would be blueshifted out of the visible spectrum?

[@MusicalZombie]

Fun fact about a thing the movie got wrong: 50:57 While it is correct, that the inclination of the two orbits changed and they had 2 intersection points, the movie was still wrong. The ring and the space station had the same altitude (distance to the planet), which means that their orbital speed would be the same. So while they would intersect two times during a full orbit, the space station would not revolve faster around the planet than the rings. They would collide, but it would only be a gentle collision. The space station would not drag across the rings, as shown in the flim and be destroyed at all. It would be perfectly fine and would probably don't even get a dent in the hull.

[@MusicalZombie]

Just to clarify: It would actually be possible what we see in the movie if the space station is orbiting into the opposite direction than the rings. Then it would collide hard and be destroyed. But that's something that nobody would do in real life, because the rings consist out of many small objects and if one of them would have slightly different inclination, it would pose a high and unnecessary collision risk due to the enourmous speeds. So you always want to flow with the rings. Edit: Just randomly noticed a comment in your stream that someone mentioned that James Earl Jones died. RIP. :(

[@naemek9675]

@@MusicalZombie yeah i assumed it orbited the opposite way which really wouldnt be a smart thing to do, even just setting up its orbit would create lots of problems. The issue i had with the rings was that those "icebergs" were rotating slower than the smaller rocks which doesnt make sense because they are at the same altitude.

[@thelostarceus4130]

I believe air pressure on the floor of the ship is the right asnwer - you see it happen to balloons in cars moving at marginally similar a-rates. Given the gass is "lighter" than the atmosphere, the pressure differential should deffinitely ahvea n effect on its upwards acceletarion

[@TheGamerShelter]

My counter to the "there can't be a switch that turns gravity on and off" thing is just that it takes place in the future with technology we can't comprehend. Like imagine in the 40s people were saying, "Why does this movie have a vehicle that can fly to the Moon? That's so unrealistic." Magic is just science we don't understand yet.

[@orionx79]

Ehhh 99% sure no.

[@orionx79]

Here is a simple explanation why. It takes an Earth's mass in atoms and the energy of all those atoms to create a gravity that you can jump against. To even be able to concentrate enough energy into a single spot in order to create a gravitational effect would be like trying to control a planet's worth of atoms in energy. In the space the size of a ship. Then there are other effects that come into play when you try to hold to much energy on a area. So theoretically its not impossible that energy and mass are interchangeable, but in practice, that's alot of energy not to go boom, your talking type 3 civ there. "Faking" gravity with centripetal force is best we could do for long periods of time.

[@TheGamerShelter]

@@orionx79 Sure, but literally everything just said is going off the knowledge we currently have. I just don't find it difficult to believe that in this sci-fi universe they have found out how to do it. New elements? New metal alloys? New fuel? Antimatter? Dark matter? Something humans won't discover for 10,000 years? None of us know. We can't possibly know and that's okay. It's just not going to drag me out of a movie due to modern technology and understanding. That's all I'm saying.

[@orionx79]

@@TheGamerShelter some of that we know is possible, some we can speculate but albert einstein predicted black hole from the math long before he could prove it, hawkings predicted radiation from black holes again before he could prove it, but those were based on "is it possible in the math or physics, i told you some the math is there, even how, but there overall things that would prevent " 1X" gravity. Antimatter is proven we have made it, less then a gram..... Anyway the point is to based scifi within the realm of possibility so that its possible, would you say superman is possible[scifi alien], or star wars lightsabers, now im not saying how we can make them verse how it is in the writing, ie plasma saber, verse a small chunk of light that cuts like the suns surface temp to matter yet bounces off other light based weapons.

[@jamfd3s788]

Watching Kyle struggle to conceptualize a time dilation question makes me feel a little better about my self as a casual physics enthusiast 😂

[@MechanicalMind7]

Haven't seen the movie yet, but I believe, like some other comments I've seen, that the elongated flame might be due to similar physics as with the balloon-in-an-accelerating-car experiment I've seen. Car acceleration forward causes the air/atmosphere in the internal volume of the car to be "shoved" backward relative to the car, causing higher air density in the rear and lower density in the front. The balloon then counterintuitively shifts forward when the car accelerates as the higher density air in the rear pushes it forward. I would assume a similar pressure differential affecting the flame.

[@justinholtman]

Was super fun watching this live Kyle. Very interesting after watching the movie.

[@joeyuzwa891]

(Ignore if he discusses this, I haven’t finished the video) The acids said in Alien: Romulus to make up the blood of the xenomorph (hydrochloric and hydrofluoric, if memory serves) could have been chosen better, in my opinion. I think HF is a decently cool component because it famously behaves in ways most other acids do not (such as eating glass), but it and HCl’s pKa scores are rather unimpressive (4 and -6.1 respectively). Neither of them are even considered superacids (yes that is an actual term). Some better options: magic acid, fluoroantimonic acid (-28 pKa I think), triflic acid (-14.7 pKa)

[@Koushakur]

Problem with that is that basically no one has heard of those, especially compared to how common the hydros are in pop culture

[@MusicalZombie]

1:07:44 I don't really understand the argument here. A "space submarine" would obviously not be shot already fully assembled into space. We would bring parts / modules to space and assemble the construction there - the same way we did with the ISS (which weights 420 tons in total). So the argument with the weight is irrelevant. We don't need rockets which can lift thousands of tons. There is no weight problem.

[@joshXnovak1]

Stream starts at 3:02

[@cyrus05w]

at 53:37 Question because I was asked it and couldn't answer so maybe someone here. Why are solar panels set to a maximum of 13 %power Output? there's a better word i think like transfer or something. The question was brought up because they were going to buy and replace their solar panels but they noticed that the ranges went from 9% to 13%.

[@DailyFrankPeter]

29:04 the solution is to swap a joint for a pudding. Which would then get e.g. squashed by a spoon in high G. Except that would be too normal a food to have in an SF movie.

[@brendanmatelan2129]

I think Alien Romulus was a surprisingly good movie. Didn’t know what to expect when I went in to see it. Some Positives/Negatives though: Positive: great set design, performance from the actors, practical effects Negative: too many plot points from the previous Alien Movie franchise. Resulting in a kind of “Stew” of a movie.

[@DamonFyrian]

According to my own googling, the reactor shell alone for the Nautilus weighed 70,000 pounds. I can't find a weight for the submarine itself and don't know how to do the conversion (you probably do, Kyle) of displacement to weight, but the Nautilus displaced 8,316,000 pounds of water when fully submerged.

[@joshuabishop6258]

My guess for the lighter flame is that the increase in acceleration leads to an increase in the pressure built up around the expelling gasses. Kinda like when you press your thumb over the end of a garden hose, the fuel inside could potentially spray further, and may have a minor delay in ignition due to atmospheric differences. Other than that... It's for "bad boy points."

[@thelightwielder]

27:50 sounds like whoever wrote the joint scene is aware of a gravity bong, but not how it works so they thought they could just swap in a joint and it'd be the same.

[@Kikunosuke777]

The zero gravity acid part, won't the inertia of the xenomporhs running towards them have enough momentum to carry towards them on impact with the blast from the pulse rifle. Also, the xeno acid blood is supposed to be highly pressurized in their body, marines have been told not to fire them within 10m range unless they wanna get a face full of acid shower.

[@jeremiahdaniels8974]

1:23:54 I’m pretty sure they said something in Alien: Covenant about the goo and the alien species having no affect on botanical life forms.

[@darkydoom]

Yeah, I was trying to work out that joint scene. The science I know didn't correlate

[@JesseWelds]

Nuclear thermal propulsion is being developed for spacecraft. Not sure if that reactor would be used to power the rest of the ship

[@player54ug87]

Why isn’t this podcast on Spotify?? I’d love to listen to this on my morning drive without having to open my phone

[@Aerinndis]

For the xenomorphs to be natural, the wildlife of this potential homeworld of theirs would have to be the stuff of complete nightmares to ensure that their incredible destructiveness is kept in check. Otherwise they'd just cause an extinction event. Which hey you could make an interesting story about such a premise.

[@cococreates26]

Love how the auto chapters have given us a while chapter for "Kyle's hair" 😅

[@mrmacken]

I need to be up in four hours yet here I am watching Office Hours

[@SovereignwindVODs]

I think the question about the "fast forwarded star" was getting the time dilation aspect of near light speed travel reversed. If the star is "rushing towards" earth or the person viewing it, it would appear slowed down. But if the person was travel towards the star at relativistic speeds, the star would actually appear "fast forwarded". I think i got that right?

[@kyjo72682]

Plasma has less density than the air, no? Denser air goes down and less dense plasma goes up. If you increase weight then this effect should be stronger - making the flame go up faster. That's my reasoning about it. I agree about the superfast joint though.. that doesn't make sense to me.

[@albruitstuart8408]

I know I'm a day late, but the time dilation difference wouldn't "speed up" until the object moving toward you slowed down. Objects at light speed will always appear to travel through time slower, the distance isn't at relevant as the speed if I remember my relativity correctly.

[@Nijonibi]

12:00 wait... this sounds like an easy fix. Fusion energy making the metal radioactive, recycle that metal to then be used for fission???

[@Elipus22]

You fuse hydrogen. The metal in question will undergo fission. Past iron, fusing products takes more energy than it gives off. Your solution is not viable. That isn't to say the idea isn't unreasonable. You could potentially use some of the material in a fision energy source, but we use uranium because uranium gives off 2 neutrons but only needs one neutron to be set off.

[@laser8389]

1:07:56 plus the non-zero possibility of rocket go boom.

[@scbtripwire]

3:40 No pressure! 😅

[@sebastianpietrasz2711]

As for me it was a solid movie like 7/10 with the first slower part better. Then as you say the action starts to go to fast. I think it could easily be 1 hour longer to make it better. And when the last scene went on movie the whole cinema was like "dafuuuuuuuq' XD Only think i rly didnt like was the floating acid thing. Cheers and keep up the good work!

[@adwareman8349]

The flame could be bigger if they have heavier than oxygen gases in the air mixture. As they accelerate the heavier gas falls, raising the oxygen to the top. Like a helium balloon moving forward in your car when you accelerate, or a centrifuge with gasses. The science question then is, "what were they mixing in the air?"

[@jasonames145]

in the alien novels. in the absence of a queen from the hive, one of face huggers will create a queen embryo instead of a drone (alien3). queens are fertilized by praetorians (male aliens). if no males are present the queen will mutate and produce asexually. the first drones will be praetorians and start the cycle again.

[@stefankalin]

4:10 - 5:30ish quite avant garde

[@beckstheimpatient4135]

I remember a couple of weeks ago on Threads someone was complaining about Alien that it needed a pregnancy trigger warning.... for Alien. The movie series based on violent unnatural and deadly alien pregnancy... The universe built on themes of corrupted motherhood and sexual assault...

[@MusicalZombie]

Good movie, with some annoying characters and a very boring story. The other recent movies had a different style but at least they had a quite interesting story, plot twists, surprises and actually dealt with the background story, answering some interesting questions. Like you said - the movie tries to mimick the original movie without really introducing anything new. A lot of scenes were almost 1-to-1 copies of the first and second movie. The Journey-of-the-Hero progression started identical to the first movie and in the second half it followed the one from the second movie ("Aliens").

[@RobbertNyhan]

I liked the movie. That ending though. Shew wee! I think they can both be lan-made and a natural organism that the creators found.

[@goldensniperz3672]

Is this on spotify?

[@babalonkie]

You forgot much more... 1) The Nostromo Wreckage... just neatly in a tight ball. 2) Big Chap... Just in the middle of wreckage after being ejected from the lifeboat at a angle away from the wreckage. 3) Wey-Yu who tracked and chased Nostromo, not tracking and chasing their super station... right above a Wey-Yu planet. 4) Black goo is not "alien". 5) Floating acid loses it's momentum in Zero-G. 6) Aliens now cocoon themselves all of a sudden. 7) "Don't want to shoot the aliens because Acid blood"... yet it's exactly how they killed Big Chap. 8) Using Alien Resurrection theme track and rehashed story. There is more... i just get fed up constantly listing them.

[@MaaZeus]

3) There is no super fast FTL transmissions in the movie universe. Weyland-Yuani probably had no idea that shit had hit the fan, not yet anyway. And if they did, then it would take ages for them to arrive. The planet below is just a mining planet, no one down there probably even have an idea what the station is or what is its purpose. 5) Supposedly it was floating with air currents. Dunno why they wouldn't get sucked into the intake vents but I don't care. 6) Drones are the ones who build the hives, so they have to have an ability to slowly extrude some kind of resin material from their body. While their instincts are basic and animalistic, it has been pointed that they are not dumb. Maybe building a protective cocoon while floating in space is taking things too far, dunno. 8) Good, because Alien 4 is an embarrasment and this movie took the one good idea that movie had and did it better. Now we do not have to ever think of that traimwreck of a movie ever again.

[@babalonkie]

@@MaaZeus 3) That conflicts with them tracking Nostromo... you know... the entire scene beforehand. Also... they are above a Wey-Yu planet... with administrators, scientists and androids. All clearly stated making it even more confusing. 5) That does not explain the sudden loss of momentum when Zero-G is initiated. Also if thats going to be the "excuse" why is nothing else effected (of which would be in Zero-G). 6) The "creature/human creation/alien/god/whatever Ridley decides" is none thermic. Either space harms it or it doesn't... if it's taking the slow time to build a cocoon (which is shown in Alien as taking time) it is clearly not effected by space and has no need for the cocoon. Also they suddenly don't shed skin anymore when growing "in the middle of the lore" and create a "private part" cocoon. 8) But this movie is not better... The entire movie reaked of Ridley's horrid "going to change this" style... there is a reason Ridley has not got above 80% in reviews for any movie for over a decade... he has lost it. His movies are meh at best. He should not be allowed near Alien again... he did not even write or design the original Alien or Alien film... yet before making Prometheus he openly said he hated where the franchise went and just wanted re-write it all. He is bad news when it comes to actually influencing the plot.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

​@@babalonkieActually, alien still shed skin, cocoon just expain how they suddenly grow that fast. Everything else, yeah.

[@neptunevibe]

Nostromo has been destroyed by Ripley if I remember well! What is this Nostromo? Paralel universe? 😂

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@neptunevibe It was literally vaporized in nuclear expression.

[@dogmaticpyrrhonist543]

Well, I thought I was done with comments, but then "Queensland". We do have a fair slice of the world's dangerous critters, but more in the most poisonous snake etc. And those "charming" parasitic wasps, and all that. But no extraterrestrial xenomorph queens as far as I know.

[@linkbond08]

The recoil of my 30-06 is 20lbs at 12 to 15fps, the rifle weighs 9lbs. Lots of propulsion in it :)

[@nickmarr6740]

i like how the end of the stream was just the Alien version of the Chicken and Egg debate . _ .

[@Jelraclix]

I think it would theoretically be possible to build a nuclear ship in space, but the amount of time it would take to accomplish such a task and resources would be far from realistic. Even when it comes to something like having a printer that can print metal parts in space, it works for printing things that can help with minor repairs works well, but to do something bigger would be a massive scale. Also, printing metal still requires the metal material feed. Does have to be part of the rotation because of the fact that it would not work in space otherwise. Edit Side Note: For theory on Xenomorphs growth and sizing, it could make a small amount of sense if the egg duplicates the DNA from the host before changing, altering it since it is a Xenomorph. Not great logic or perfect science. As far as a natural organism basis, the engineers did not seem to actually have created them. They seemed to have source coding in hopes of making these things into a weapon and that was a mistake. However, that is more just personal belief on that one.

[@Tyulenin]

I like that the prequels are still canon. They were way overhated, Covenant especially. David-xenos are neat, considering Ash.

[@Kainlarsen]

No, they were justly panned for shoehorning in a lot of retcon nonsense.

[@StrixHorror]

What a weird misunderstanding of biology at the end.

[@ChitoBandito6]

Btw his name was Andy cuz his serial number was N-D-255. Not just cuz he was an Android. =)

[@Werewolf914]

I loved Alien Romulus it's my 2nd favorite Alien movie, I love it brings back in the horror, it wasn't perfect, mainly how by the numbers it was, but my problem with Aliens was that they made Xenomorphs canon fodder losing that fear factor from the original, it's entertaining but also an annoying sequel Anyway can't wait to hear all the Science in it and learn how much is fictional and how much is science

[@klarkins23]

How many watchlists is Kyle on now?

[@mdx3020]

Four 20 year olds that cant pay the rent, have a space ship and can "drive it" like their mothers van to an ilegal point in space, and withous suits... The future sounds weird

[@Keldroc]

Pretty much what a medieval peasant might think about you driving a car around.

[@probablythedm1669]

It is very weird... they still use cathode ray tube monitors (CRT monitors). 😂

[@aldengriffin9495]

Don’t worry Kyle I work at nns. I’ll find out info about the subs in a way that won’t get me arrested for e espionage😮

[@dogmaticpyrrhonist543]

for the flame increase and smoking speed to make sense, they need to increase O2 levels. But then you REALLY don't want flame. Ask Apollo 1.

[@MasterDeroy]

I would argue Ridley Scott tried to do something new with Prometheus, and because of mixed reviews, the producers had a hand in covenant. Which objectively failed. If they didn't interfere, we'd have a Prometheus trilogy about the engineers, not the xenomorphs. Now we have a confused half-baked, abandoned trilogy, and they're cowards for not allowing the creator to make his vision undisturbed by outside influences. I liked Romulus, tho. It tries to tie in the prequels to the old Alien trilogy. I think Alvarez did well here, considering he also was tied down what to include from the producers. What can you do, unless you fund it yourself, you're always going to have to make exceptions to please the shareholders. Sad 😢

[@Questionable_creations]

Im suposed to be sleeping, but here i am

[@dogmaticpyrrhonist543]

If zero G fires and Zero G acid is bad, how bad is Zero G RFNA?

[@johnc8485]

I miss office hours :)

[@kapiriasis]

H m m... about the crush, maybe the first phase of flight uses jet engines and the crush happens when entering a really oxygen rich layer of the atmosphere making the engines produce a lot more thrust. In which case the elongation of the flame could be caused by the increase in oxygen in the cabin through bleed air from the engines. But also flame height increases as gravity increases up to 3g (modeling candle flame behavior in variable gravity, Alsairafi, A. et al) in which case perhaps someone read the paper and decided to exaggerate the result for cinematic effect.

[@CHUMBOARG]

what about sending the "space submarine" disassembled, without the nuclear fuel first. assemble it first on orbit, like the ISS, once done, put the nuclear fuel on it using remote manipulators from a safe distance. and...so on. Just asking. I`ve only seen two nuclear reactors on my life, and both where 0 power, one to teach, the other one was to irradiate samples.

[@CHUMBOARG]

also, de design doesn`t need to be constrained by total length restrictions like a submarine has. it could be longer placing the crew even further away.

[@criticolehits5766]

The facehuggers would move a lot faster in real life. 8 legs means theyre almost always accelerating with minimal "air time" and with a tail to help stear their momentum like a cheetah they could change direction really fast. It always bothered me that they move as slow as they do.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Are you sure? Tarantulas aren't that fast.

[@LordMagiru]

Facehuggers don't have legs, they have fingers. They even have fingernails.

[@JurisKankalis]

I literally paused this video at the moment Kyle said "we are going to spoil" and unpaused it now after a week after seeing the movie at the cinema. The Romulus is not a GOOD ALIEN movie - but it is a decent space cowboy pap-pap bang-bang ooooh xenomorphs!!! --type of movie. Let me explain. And no I don't have hair - and even if I had - it couldn't help me (no one sees me). Either way - although Ridley Scott participated as some sort of a producer in the Romulus movie - I don't know if this movie can actually be called "cannon" in respect to all other Alien movies (at least those with our mommy Sigourney in them... Jesus just learned the spelling of her name and it's... intense). So all the other - cannon, at least - Alien movies - deal with serious, deep subjects. Is the creator - as a human - superior to his creation - a mighty robot? Will the humanity screw up its new habitat - just like the old ones? Are we ok with sped-up evolution - or should we just remain us? Can the robot kill some humans - in order to save some other humans? Wait.. this was literally in this movie as well. As well as some remarks that emotions are useless and reason and business (what's best for the company) should dominate. Anyway. At the opening scene of the Covenant - you get immediately - that the movie is going to be something grandeur. Here - in Romulus - there's a bunch of darkness and teens who shoot into space while they wait in line on the planet... which will by the way experience a soon space ship crash in some hours... whom otherwise no one had noticed. Also - there are LOTS of close-up scenes - of our beloved xeno-baby. He (she??) is left right and centre - and sometimes feels like overcompensating for the lack of the depth of the movie. Also - I don't know if Kyle is discussing these two issues or not - but the single crab baby that was stuck on a door glass trying to suck up to a face - made me think. How does it know it needs to enter a human through the mouth? How has the crap... sorry, crab evolved this instinctive, split-second action - where has it gotten all the genes - through how many evolution cycles - where has he gotten all the humans - in many, many generations - to practice on? One might argue other aliens... like the little green men - also have mouths - but maybe they don't. So where has the crab gotten its talents? Because its prime game is human. Also - one more thing - why is the xeonomorph killing humans? Why? They don't eat humans, they don't use them for anything when they're dead - so what's in it for them? Because they would literally be able to breed more xenomorphs - if they had more humans. Remember - they need human faces (and rib cages) to spawn into the world. So why do they keep killing us - if they need us? This is partly explained by the Covenant - being that all the xenos and crabs have been secretly gene-engineered in a matter of 30 years by an evil robot spending his lonely time on a deserted planet.... and making the "best xenomorph" (or lifeform) that is possible and not giving the human race a chance... but... really? That's the explanation? Kinda lame. Also - in the beginning, the gravity machinery priming was a couple seconds - and in the final scenes like a minute or so. Artistic liberty? Who knows. Either way - in terms of IMDB score, I give the Romulus a solid six (with two points of them for xeno-closeups alone) as a space-shooter - but not as an Alien-movie. Thanks for the video - from Latvia. Edited: in the scene where they heat up the room to "blind" crab vision... They all enter through a wide potal-like gate into the room... The crabs would clearly have no difficulty seeing them contrasted to the cold background of the hallway. Just saying. Once again thanks for the discussion.

[@rachel_rexxx]

That's a pretty solid kiwi accent

[@Hamstray]

well it's strong acid, the ions would repel each other, right?

[@JonBrownSherman]

The explanation for the joint/ lighter bit is two fold: 1) the rule of cool always takes precedence over fact and 2) Ridley Scott is a washed up hack. "How can you say that's not how the flame would act? Were you there in space with them? No? Then shut the fuck up!" -Ridley Scott, probably

[@adwareman8349]

Jodorowsky's Dune still needs to be made. Help make it happen, Kyle... Use your magic science people skills.

[@crazymike7883]

Is no one going to mention that terrible prequel Promethius?? Because that is where you get the explanation for where the queen comes from and everything.

[@darkman7009]

i wonder just how hard durability xenomorph head was anyway? because when I was kid, I thought they were weak due to their dome head looks like fleshy soft, include with their skinny body

[@Tom78890]

If xenomorths invaded earth... You think it would be an extinction event? Even for them selves eventually

[@Hamstray]

you don't need to deliver all this stuff into space from earth. just procure most of the stuff you need from the moon and get it into orbit with a mass driver there.

[@gnarlyismymiddlename]

I know you don't want to talk politics, but you're precisely the kind of person we need to help improve the country/world.

[@Khannea]

Alien Romulus was made to secure an Alien (tm) franchise, on behalf of Sir Ridley F**ing Scott. The guy is old, he won't be making another movie. He wants Alien to be a franchise that lasts for many years to come, by any means possible.

[@TheWenexx]

I do want a third alien prequel. I enjoyed Prometheus. Sadly Ridley Scott listend to the fans only in wrong places and fell in love with the android when they made Covenant. The people are still stupid, but now there is an alien in it, attached at the end. I hate David beeing the creator of xenomorphs. But still, end the trillogy and possibliy write yourself out of this stupid development, somehow. Probably not possible, as the face hugger is a regression to the dust. Its like, in Prometheus you are dissappointed that there was no alien, and in Covenant you wish there wer no aliens (becaue David made them).

[@Kainlarsen]

In short... no. It does not make sense. Prometheus and Covenant polluted the waters of this franchise with needlessly convoluted and ill-fitting diarrhoea. This once-beloved franchise is now hot garbage.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Like with The Terminator, ignore everything after the second movie.

[@squeethesane]

do the white bloods bond with titanium O.o

[@whiplashfatigue1430]

I got disgusted in the opening scene. The view was clearly in space and the stars were TWINKLING!

[@Boomken76]

the OG idea is that the Adults caccon people to melted or Morph in to the face hugger eggs

[@pparr052971]

Kyle is fusion fabio

[@dogmaticpyrrhonist543]

Genetic altering fluid.... so, Benzene?

[@sststr]

I don't understand your comparison of deaths in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear incident like Chernobyl, which you say is in the dozens, versus what? All deaths related to fossil fuels [during the course of the stream]? What does that later thing even mean? Deaths during the mining or drilling? Deaths during the transportation? Deaths from people getting into car crashes? Deaths from global warming? What are you including in that fossil fuel number? What about all the long-term deaths from Chernobyl, say due to increased cancer rates among people who had been living or working in the area at the time? Or people who have since gone tramping through the exclusion zone without proper protection? Or eating contaminated meat from animals that grew up therein? Are your numbers actually comparable? Because it isn't obvious at all that they are. I'm all in favor of nuclear, it does seem to me the only viable way for truly green energy generation for the foreseeable future, but let's make sure we're giving out good information here. The way you phrased the two things doesn't sound like an apples to apples comparison. Maybe it is and it was just poorly phrased, or maybe it isn't, but even if you did a more properly apples to apples comparison nuclear would still be orders of magnitude safer (which is my expectation), but let's do be more mindful about what we're saying and how.

[@ThijsSchrijnemakers]

thanks

[@Wangan280z]

How many lives are saved because of fossil fuels? We run generators and ambulances off of fossil fuels

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

?

[@xponen]

also we use more fossil fuel than nuclear hence its incident is higher than nuclear. If we use more nuclear instead then we will get more nuclear incident.

[@JasonOshinko]

And that's what we like to call a logical fallacy.

[@jetshadowcrow]

I have to tune back in a little later, I haven't been able to see Romulus yet.

[@worldcitizen3371]

The Yautja (Predators) created the first Xenomorphs to hunt as the perfect prey for sport.

[@StarScream_47]

Everything after Aliens 1986 should be ignored.

[@DaveLennonCopeland]

1 hour and 40 minutes, nah toooooo long, not gonna bother. 15 or 20 minutes max for this subject.

[@cyrus05w]

Joy to the video boo to KZbins advertisement. KZbin please look up the law about selling sex in my country. unless something's changed in the past year and knowing you have access to my IP address I believe you're breaking the law KZbin. also also I know you have better advertisements I get them while I'm logged under guest while I use my big TV

[@StrixHorror]

My guy ... With all your scientific knowledge... You got stuck on the joint and artificial gravity. Why ??? (P.S. Artificial Gravity is a pretty easy solve)

[@StrixHorror]

The line "It's feeding him oxygen is in the first movie." 😆

[@hiruttessema1197]

so the money through me to my brother my right need to be given to me & only me not with them with u so my right by level is mansion! just me!