In a way, it was the same movie. Except without the good parts.

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Winona Ryder was a good part.

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Winona was in Alien Resurrection (#4)

Alien cubed was the prison planet.

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I liked Alien Resurrection unlike most people. Jean-Pierre Jeunet did something different and interesting.

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Lol that’s hilarious, I skipped right over 3.
Guess that proves everyone’s point, huh.

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Like most modern sequels

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c’mon now… it ended.

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I think this went over my head. Why is it common knowledge to you and assume others that alien has a value of 1? Tried googling it and coulldnt exclude results that weren’t about outerspace aliens lol.

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It’s Alien singular and not Aliens? That’s how I interpreted it

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The sequel was Aliens, so I would say assuming the first one was singular makes sense to me.

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Same.

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The original movie had only one fully grown xenomorph, so in that regard you could argue that it’s 1. But what about all the other eggs seen in the background? Apparently they don’t count.

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An egg isn’t a chicken.

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You need to consider units! 1m ≠1m³

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So you’re saying Alien is a measure of length and Alien³ is a measure of volume?

Americans will do anything but use the metric system.

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Hey, if my Big Gulp doesn’t come in Xenomorph ounces I don’t want it.

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Basically any unit can be squared, cubed or whatever, but the resulting unit doesn’t always make sense in the physical world.

For example, m/s^2 isn’t velocity. It’s acceleration. If you have a formula that gives you an answer in kg^3, you probably made a mistake somewhere.

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Unless you take the “i” in Alien to be the imaginary number, then it’s -Alien

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“Alien - Aliens - Alien”

Is actually profound poetry. It’s been staring us in the face.

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Godzilla -1

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Or I suppose take the e in Alien to be that mathematical constant.

Is the first film, in part, an expression of the multiplication of the imaginary number by the mathematical constant? And if case, does n have to do with factorials?

I’m amazed I know this many mathematical terms considering how terrible at math I am.

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What do you mean Alien has a value of 1? In Base26 it has a value of 674,116 and since it’s set in the future i think it’s reasonable that they use Base26.

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Why not Base36? Or even Base62?

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You’re not wrong and the sky is the limit as long as we keep adding symbols!

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