If you where in outpost 31 when the Thing was on the loose

If you where in outpost 31 when the Thing was on the loose
What would you do to survive?

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Try and fuck it

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The obviously solution is to keep everyone in the same room at all times and sleep in shifts. Then you can call for help when the storm clears and get some real medical testing done. Anyone who disagrees with this plan or leaves the room is assumed to be a thing and killed.

Run a computer simulation to see what would happen if it reached the main population. Then act accordingly based on those results.

Get everyone in one room and burn them all.

kill myself

but what if you're the thing?

Challenge it to a game of chess, winner takes all

This. What if it would actually be friendly if it wasnt in constant fear of being incinerated by scared-shitless humans?

Demand a trial by combat

I though the Thing has its own consciousness and just mimics those it assimilates instead of remaining dormant and the host not knowing if they're infected?

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The thing could just sperg out and kill them all within a few minutes you moron. Besides, who can stay awake for weeks?

What do you think the shifts are for you moron?>Samefagging this hard

Do the blood test plan as they did and hope it goes better.

>who can stay awake for weeks
based idiot

Try and reason with it. Ask it about its home world and what it was up to before the crash. Have a beer together.

Dumbass

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Unironically grab every single supply, burn the place down and then grab a snowmobile.

Fucking tripfags

Disregard this post, I suck cock.

That's, canonically, the closest thing there is to a "correct" answer. There's a canon story the director(s) put out explaining the movie from The Thing's point of view. tl;dr

>life in the rest of the galaxy takes the form of giant decentralized cell-clumps.
>communication is done by exchanging DNA and thought directly
>all life off of Earth is, in a sense, one giant organism communicating slowly with itself
>because all of The Thing's cells are the same type of ur-cell unless they need to rapidly evolve for some specific function, the bigger a Thing is, the smarter it is
>the Thing eventually gets inside a human and is utterly horrified at Earth life
>"sentient cancer" is what it refers to Earth life
>as it slowly takes over the inhabitants of the outpost, it gets philisophical
>muses that the Earth is such a shithole because life is only able to communicate through rudimentary secondary methods
>declares its ambitions to fix the world
>declares it will "rape the truth into them"


there's a dramatic reading by some chick out there who had some hand in the movie, which makes it even more kino

You're the dumbass.
>Being this retarded
Holy shit, you forgot to even put the name! Bwahahahaha! Fucking incel imbecile.

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This kinda makes sense, since it's goal was to survive and there was no need to kill anyone.
The issue here is that it's clearly very aggressive, when it could have easily taken human form and explained it's situation.
This implies it only cares about assimilating prey and surviving.

Cry some more, baby

That's why you have people equipped with flamethrowers.

> Besides, who can stay awake for weeks?

Sleep in shifts like I said in the original post. 4 people sleep, 4 people awake. 2 with flamethrowers at all times.

Just imagine if that fucker managed to get to a city

Of course it's aggressive. It's surrounded by people who want to kill it.

It made the first move by spraying all the dogs with it's semen.
There was no need to kill anyone.

Did you forget that the norwegians found it in the ice first, and everyone there was dead? We don't know who made the first move. And Yea Forums doesn't consider the prequel canon.

Yeah, I can see how things can go out of hand if you wake up and the first thing you see are humanoid entities leaning over you when you're a tentacle monster that's been asleep for thousands of years.
I still think it could have deescalated the situation if it really wanted to.

The thing made the right call, killing everyone before they could hall him back to some lab and experiment him to death.

I believe the guy who wrote that story was Peter Watts.
Blindsight is his best work imo, deals with similar stuff, like how humanity is so ridiculously inefficient, and utterly outclassed by life in the rest of the universe.

Kill everyone and then what?
Infest the whole planet?

What would happen if you tried to communicate with The Thing?

I would like to see this.
>body horror x1000000
>people being assimilated in fucked up ways as the thing takes over the opposite sex and uses sex as a weapon
>thing wears the adaptations of hellish nightmares from lightyears away in order to combat the military and infect all life
>literally earth's biosphere becomes the enemy as the governments fail to track the rate of infection
>humanity, in a last ditch effort to deny the thing resources, decides to rek the planet as much as possible as a final "fuck yoo too"

Present my gaping boy pussy