Is there anything which nukes batteries? Because eessentially xenos are big coppertops.

That would make them susceptible to EMP grenades, wouldn't it?

Pitchforks would be nice.

 

Flaming torches are nice as well.

Edited November 8, 200718 yr by WILL THE ALMIGHTY

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Is there anything which nukes batteries? Because eessentially xenos are big coppertops.

 

Just because they have an electrolyte in their blood doesn't mean they have an anode and a cathode.

We need the uber spread gun from CONTRA!

 

*Spams the forum with an uber manly Contra site enough to grow hairy chest and nipple hair from anyone*

 

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That would make them susceptible to EMP grenades, wouldn't it?

 

I guess so. Wouldn't cold also work? I know cold nukes my mobile phone.

Cold nukes your phone because the metal parts are susceptible to heat. Alien flesh probably isn't.

 

Though they probably wouldn't thrive in a snowstorm or similar, considering how warm and humid the nests supposedly are. Though I think it has more to do with the amount of fluid the eggs contain rather than the adult ones needing heat.

Cold puts them into forced hibernation if it's prolonged. Otherwise it pisses them off and can be used to control them.

 

I don't remember if this was from the AvP games or one of the post-Aliens movies or maybe both.

You can do anything with the aliens that you want. We've seen them survive molten lead. There's no direct evidence that they can't survive in a vacuum (which would be immensely cold). Heck, I remember one of the comics featured that. Aliens crawling along the outside of a ship (in space, in flight) to gain access to different parts of it.

 

I didn't read that comic, but I read the novelization of it!

Edited November 12, 200718 yr by Tale

You can do anything with the aliens that you want. We've seen them survive molten lead. There's no direct evidence that they can't survive in a vacuum (which would be immensely cold). Heck, I remember one of the comics featured that. Aliens crawling along the outside of a ship (in space, in flight) to gain access to different parts of it.

 

I didn't read that comic, but I read the novelization of it!

 

Yeah I was thinking that. That was the one where the general wants to domesticate them?

Cold nukes your phone because the metal parts are susceptible to heat. Alien flesh probably isn't.

 

Though they probably wouldn't thrive in a snowstorm or similar, considering how warm and humid the nests supposedly are. Though I think it has more to do with the amount of fluid the eggs contain rather than the adult ones needing heat.

 

Uh, no metal isn't terribly susceptible to anything but the wildest fluctuations in temperature (ignoring shrinking/expansion). The LCD display is more likely what was affected - and that IS susceptible to only moderate deviations in temperature. Further, battery packs can function abnormally at temperature extremes - exploding at high, and functioning extremely slowly, if at all, at very low.

Cold nukes your phone because the metal parts are susceptible to heat. Alien flesh probably isn't.

 

Though they probably wouldn't thrive in a snowstorm or similar, considering how warm and humid the nests supposedly are. Though I think it has more to do with the amount of fluid the eggs contain rather than the adult ones needing heat.

 

Uh, no metal isn't terribly susceptible to anything but the wildest fluctuations in temperature (ignoring shrinking/expansion).

Wait, what?

There is a reason computers usually fail at startup more than any other time.

 

The reason is temperature.

Musopticon: so you're arguing that the reason mobile phones die when the temperature changes is because the components shrink and expand? Somehow, I see expansion as a more macroscopic problem... bridges for example.

 

There is a reason computers usually fail at startup more than any other time.

 

The reason is temperature.

 

It's not the metal case that fails, though. It's the complex interaction of different components, ranging from batteries/capacitors to resistance at certain temperatures. My point was, phones don't suddenly die when they get cold. More often than not, the LCD will be screwed up and that may or may not be temporary. We can't simply say that phones act funky at temperature ranges, phones have metal in them, therefore metal causes things to act funky at temperature ranges.

 

Also I was drunk when I wrote that message.

There is a reason computers usually fail at startup more than any other time.

 

The reason is temperature.

 

 

I figured the surges of power going through wasn't so kosher as well. Though maybe that's because things are cold? I never gave it much thought to be honest.

It's more the rapid heatination and resulting expansion of tiny little circuits that aren't very stretchy. Heat is caused by the power though.