Is it true that one scene in Alien where there is an encounter with the main chick and the monster and ,....?

Question

there is a little golf sized hole in the space ship caused by who knows what, but then everything including the big monster alien comes out through there, yeah,...... does that really happen? an event where the whole setting per say goes "inside out"

Answer 1

I don't think that the air pressure is large enough for that.

Answer 2

The answer is no. This would be impossible.

One answer said that there is a sucking force in space. This is not at all true. There is no sucking force in space that will try to suck the air (or the monster) out of the craft. A vacuum in space is not the same as a vacuum cleaner.

The correct answer is that if you fill up a spacecraft with air, this creates air pressure. Air pressure is a force, like filling up a balloon and then releasing it. In a space craft the hull is better constructed than a balloon so it won’t pop just because you put a hole in it.

If you create a hole in the hull then the air pressure is the force that will try to push the air out. The greater the pressure on the hull, the greater the volume of air stored inside, the greater the force on release.

Since the woman is human, she’s breathing in a standard air pressure environment. This would be enough pressure to push air molecules out of the craft and even some small objects, but hardly enough to push out an acid-blooded monster.

In the best-case scenario, air pressure would have pushed the monster over the hole, and maybe pinned it there, but this would require a massive amount of force greater than the monsters mass – much greater.

If that were the case, no human could have lived inside the craft in the first place – that is, if the spacecraft could possibly have contained that amount of air pressure in the first place without exploding. Imagine blowing up a balloon. Sooner or later it will pop.

Another example is filling a sink with water and dishes, and then releasing the plug – the dishes don’t go down the plughole.

In order for the effect of the monster to be sucked out (like the movie), you do need a sucking force, but remember, it still has to be a force much greater than the mass of the monster. And such a powerful force would be so great that the entire spacecraft would be drawn into it right along with the monster.

Hollywood physics aren’t the same as real life physics!

Answer 3

This calls for a trip to Blockbuster. Go through the movie again, and I don't think you will find an event such as you describe. Cirric is right about that.

In the first movie, "Alien," when Ripley is in the lifeboat and discovers the acaramegaloid is in the lifeboat with her, she puts on a space suit, puts the cat in a sealed tube, and opens the rear hatch. That produces a suction that sucks the acaramegaloid out. In the process, the creature comes in the line of fire of several large rocket engines, which Ripley activates, blowing the acaramegaloid off into space.

In the second movie, "Aliens," there is a famous fight scene in which Ripley manages to grab the Queen acaramegaloid with a heavy handling machine, and suck it out through a large cargo hatch. Ends up with only one shoe, if you remember.

Strictly speaking, this is a "movies," or "science fiction" question, rather than a science question, but after giving a detailed answer I don't guess I can complain.

Answer 4

The complete vacuum of space exerts a powerful suction on all pressurized ships, capsules, etc. As nature seeks to even out these pressures even a small hole can be a disaster. This is much like a submarine. The water has tremendous crushing power and a pinhole could shoot a deadly stream and left unplugged can do serious harm to the ship.

In space the pressure in reversed and it wants to suck all of the gases from a ship. This is a VERY powerful force. Is it enough to suck an Alien out into space guts first? I can't say. I guess he needed more sphinctre control. Did anybody ever wonder why they didn't try some kind of bug spray? Who know it may have worked.

Answer 5

I think your talking about (ALIEN RESURRECTION) where Ripley is a Half Alien Clone and useds her acid for blood to burn though a small window in the spaceship the (Betty) ! As far as your Question go any hole in a spacecraft would be FATAL, For one thing the Loss of air pressure would basiclly kill the Crew though a thing ( Dysbarism ) also known as the ( Bents ) in short there Blood would Boil in there Veins.

Answer 6

It's not that powerful. Myth Busters already busted that one

Answer 7

Hi. No. It was a large airlock.