How did microscopic alien parasites fly a spaceship?

Why didn't the dumbfuck alien just keep pretending to be a dog till their got out of the station? It revealed itself for no reason

It didn't fly, it crashed

By shapeshifting into the bodies of the former crew. They inherit all the knowledge needed to fly the ship, and get to keep their own memories as well.

Then why did they crash?

life, uh, finds a way

It had already infected at least one team member, even if it failed to take the dogs it was still in the game.

shit bros im itching for more ayy movies pisses me off how few of them are

He didn't fly so good

I like to imagine that the intelligence of the thing is separate from the intelligence of the host.
That way the victim has no idea he has been taken over until his body erupts and mutates. If the thing makes a copy of the brain, then the nerves would be intact and the pain during mutation would be excruciating.
If the thing has just a basic animal/instinctual intelligence, then it would make sense as to why it didn't stay as a dog or why the space ship crashed.

Have you seen The Man Who Fell To Earth and Under The Skin?

tell me about macready, why does he wear the hat?

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They didn't. The implication is that the ship and the Norweigan base suffered the same fate. You're seeing that The Thing is wrecking havoc wherever it goes, for both Aliens and humans. It's also likely that the last act for the aliens is that they chose a cold place to crash to have the best chance of containing the alien. You can guess that the Thing intentionally was tryning to fly to earth to infect it.

>Why didn't the dumbfuck alien just keep pretending to be a dog till their got out of the station? It revealed itself for no reason

It's an animal that acts by instinct not reason. It can mimic a person but it can't hide it's true nature for long. When it was alone with the doggos it just saw too many helpless dogs to imitate it couldn't resist eating them.

because the other dogs were going fucking mental at it forcing the pedo guy to come and inspect things
there are some movies you should switch your phone off for broccoli hair

>I like to imagine that the intelligence of the thing is separate from the intelligence of the host.
> That way the victim has no idea he has been taken over until his body erupts and mutates. If the thing makes a copy of the brain, then the nerves would be intact and the pain during mutation would be excruciating.

I like to think they have two modes: Calm-rational mode and berserker mode.

In the first mode, they can talk, converse, plan, and strategize. If they have copied a person they have access to higher level cognition. They do plan and are aware of their infection, since they do things like try to sow doubt among the crew and frame other people or tamper with the blood. Once their cover is blown instinct completely takes over and they just go into berserker mode.

>It's an animal that acts by instinct not reason.
No evidence of this.

oh wow, there's a lot to unpack in this vitriol.. yikes!

first off, when you have actual friends, your phone is important. it's not just something to look at drawn anime feet, you know.

secondly, why would you even want to watch this boomer garbage movie? there's barely any poc representation and everything is literally white as snow!!

the evidence is the fact that it never stays hidden for long you fucking retard

Exactly how I always felt. Like the Thing is operating subconsciously under the surface while 'Blair.app' runs front and center. I think during the blood test scene the person who was most surprised when Palmer exploded into blood and teeth was Palmer himself.
I like the explanation from 'The Things' short story, that seemed to imply that the mass of the Thing was directly proportional to its intelligence/memory.

You're nuts

I always thought a crew member was infected and the rest of the crew fought back or at least disabled the ship/crashed it to keep it from getting out.

It didnt. The thing was only stored on the ship

A thing could theoretically just chill for months or years. Instead it's constantly planning on how to reproduce and eat. It's obsessed with this and everything is to achieve this goal. It's an instinct driven creature.

>the mass of the Thing was directly proportional to its intelligence/memory
There is likely an entire planet where The Thing took over. And it’s probably trying to spread.

I was always of the opinion that the spaceship was always the Thing's ship, and the crash was just an accident of some kind.

In Watts' story the host is unaware of the thing corrupting it, until it starts to touch the brain but by then it's too late.

More like planets. I bet the plurality of habitable planets are 100% Thing.

what do they eat?

That's a big hat

How do humans build skyscrapers?
How do humans build microchips?
tools

Yeah so the ship crashed because the parasite infected the space jockeys

Because it didnt know that there was an outside world. How does he know manhattan on shanghai exists? For the alien, the ice station is earth

sun

Why didn't the monke putin just not invade Ukraine?

I disagree, the Thing probably knew there were other biomes on the planet as soon as it assimilated any lifeform that knew that. Even the dogs would've known there are other, more hospitable places in the world.

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Be crew of ship. Wreck. Catch respiratory illness. Maniac Captain forces everyone to take DNA altering " Vaccine ". Shots turns crew into the Thing

It imitated the aliens who knew how to fly the spaceship

it didn't know that dogs are primarily an alarm system

more easily than a big useless ayy body

lol that looks so fake. are they standing in front of a tv or something?

damnit bros, I wish like you wouldn’t believe I could watch this for the first time again.

Oh, good point

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There's lots of theories/guesses, but none are confirmed.

It was unknowingly brought on the ship, started going berzerk, the ship crashed
It was a prisoner/specimen being trasported and got out
It was impersonating a/the pilot, crashed here accidentally or on purpose

It depends on how you think it assimilates. Does it hide in the host without them knowing til they start splitting open, does it take on the memories in order to hide perfectly, or does it just impersonate with minimal personality traits.

its also possible it was a biological weapon that got out.

It looks fine to me; am I autistic?

They build a giant people sized thing to control it like if ants wore a trench coat to walk around like people

Why didn't the thing just imitate a working space ship and fly away?

No, he’s just a retarded zoomer that has no concept of special effects beyond CGI

Why would he assume that they would get out of the station?

It infects other species from different planets. That spacecraft was most likely another species, and it flew to earth to start the process all over again.

Forbidden planet?

>special effects
the UFO at the beginning of this movie was fucking terrible

Or the ship did belong to it and The Thing is just an alien pilot doing their version of SERE after crash landing and finding itself stranded on a hostile biosphere. Everything it does seems to be focused mainly on escape rather than attack, when it has the opportunity it tries to build some sort of aerospace craft rather than any kind of weapon.

From The Thing's perspective, after being shot at by the Norwegians, the first thing these new aliens do is imprison it in a cage with vicious dogs and then attack it with a flamethrower.

Dude probably has a wife and kids he just wants to get back to.

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>*creates a spaceship out of spare parts in a cuckshed by pure instinct*

The other theory is that it is a mega organism hive mind but when damaged or broken into small enough parts can't function as the hive mind and runs on pure survival instinct. And the consumption of the crew was the attempt to gain enough biomass in order to function enough to survive and get off planet.

The Thing's actual species is a giant carpet of cells that creates a hive mind. Think of the miles long groves of aspen that are considered to be one organism.