..but I am super curious on how they produce fire. I mean stage one metroids just suck energy and that's it.. but from Alpha and on, they can produce fire to use as an attack. I mean a burst of energy can spark a fire.. but to excrete it and expel it even I can't come up with a possible bio-engineering theory for that.
..but I am super curious on how they produce fire. I mean stage one metroids just suck energy and that's it.. but from Alpha and on, they can produce fire to use as an attack. I mean a burst of energy can spark a fire.. but to excrete it and expel it even I can't come up with a possible bio-engineering theory for that.
That's funny, I'm in the reverse situation - given that we produce methane on our own more or less daily, I could totally see an alien organism creating some form of flammable liquid or gas, storing it in an organic sac, and then expelling it as a breath weapon, but to my knowledge it's actually pretty difficult to convert biological or thermal energy into a physical spark as opposed to just heat so that it could light it afterwards. What, do they just knock a few boney plates together until it makes a spark? Can bone even do that? Do they swallow flint and stone to light with, the same way some animals swallow rocks to grind food for digestion?
Pyrophoric compounds don't need a spark to ignite. It's actually plausible that a creature could excrete and store two kinds of chemicals that combine to ignite spontaneously. More plausible than flying jellyfish that absorb energy, at any rate.
I kinda can understand that from the both of you.. because as I took a lot of good points from the two of you.. with that possibility that it could be a gas since they are hollow on the inside and said gas could become a liquid state to dribble out of (from the Alpha).. But to spark that, chiton can do that, but since we can't see it, it has to be inside the mouth.
Elle_Lowel said: The Omega Metroid is a big cheater..
..but I am super curious on how they produce fire. I mean stage one metroids just suck energy and that's it.. but from Alpha and on, they can produce fire to use as an attack. I mean a burst of energy can spark a fire.. but to excrete it and expel it even I can't come up with a possible bio-engineering theory for that.
