After the alien is blown into space…
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GreatWhiteApeofBarsoom — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 07:07 PM)
Alien borrows heavily from A. E. van Vogt's short story Discord in Scarlet.
In that story, Xtl (or Ixtl if you prefer the name given to the creature in The Voyage of the Space Beagle) can survive in space indefinitely.
If we assume the Alien borrows other aspects of its life besides its method of reproduction from Xtl/Ixtl, then, yes, the Alien will float alive in space forever.
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Snake_MacReady82 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 07:37 PM)
The Queen would've eventually re-entered LV-426's atmosphere, burned to a crisp, and splattered across the landscape.
The Alien alien was most likely killed by the shuttle's engine. Even if it wasn't, then it's drifting in interstellar space. If it ever comes into contact with another ship, it'll be when it is splattered like a bug on a windshield.
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kuatorises — 4 years ago(October 25, 2021 05:41 PM)
They are pretty durable. They can survive extreme cold and heat. If it floated in space, I think it could survive a while. It might be in luck if a ship came along.
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WarrenPeace — 4 years ago(February 17, 2022 04:43 PM)
True.
Here are the ways it would eventually die if it lasted so long.
Starve to death.
Get hit and killed by a passing meteor, asteroid, ship or anything else flying around out there.
Gets burned or melted if it comes close enough to a star.
If it survives long enough and gets pulled in by a planet's gravity then it would burn up as it falls through the atmosphere.
It it somehow survives that then the fall would kill it when it hits the surface.
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