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2mo ago

Wouldn't the movie Alien³ actually be the same movie as Alien since Alien has a value of 1?

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In a way, it was the same movie. Except without the good parts.
- Winona Ryder was a good part.
  
  Winona was in Alien Resurrection (#4)
  Alien cubed was the prison planet.
- Like most modern sequels
- c'mon now... it ended.

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.
- It's Alien singular and not Aliens? That's how I interpreted it
  
  The sequel was Aliens, so I would say assuming the first one was singular makes sense to me.
  
  Same.
  
  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.

You need to consider units! 1m ≠1m³
- 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.
  
  Hey, if my Big Gulp doesn't come in Xenomorph ounces I don't want it.
  
  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.

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.
- Why not Base36? Or even Base62?
  
  You're not wrong and the sky is the limit as long as we keep adding symbols!

Unless you take the “i” in Alien to be the imaginary number, then it’s -Alien
- "Alien - Aliens - Alien"
  Is actually profound poetry. It's been staring us in the face.
- Godzilla -1
- 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.

How tf do you figure Alien has a value of one, because it was the first in the franchise? That doesn't mean it equals one. x = 1x

It is a single alien again. But a cubed alien could have some other characteristic that's been self-multiplies. It doesn't have to be the number. Could be size (not so here) or bad attitude.

Alien
\

Square alien
\

Cube alien
\

AAAlll(-i)eeennn -20AlAlAlinnn
-20AlAllAninn
-20(AAlAllininn)

Alien Wuornos

Your crew would push you in the back in that movie

If you assume that Alien is real, you can take a cube root of it, and get a single value. However, if we assume that Alien is complex, it will have three distinct values.

This logic is 4fastfurious for me.

https://showzstore.com/52toys-megabox-mb-06-xenomorph-queen_p1940.html
- Now it all makes sense!

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