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How it might work in real life (in the far distant future):
Scientists like Mark Roth have studied suspended animation by starting with cases of spontaneous suspended animation, like the Canadian toddler who survived 2 hours of bitter cold in a nappy, the Japanese man who survived 23 days in the cold with no food or water, and the 29-year-old skier found ...
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It's actually his right eye.
The common belief is that Apone is flipping Hudson the bird (showing his middle finger). A gesture which means "f--- you".
It isn't obvious because Apone is also holding his cigar between the middle and forefinger of the same hand. This somewhat obscures the gesture.
But it's probably safe to assume that this is a well ...
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Yes, the ships are capable of speeds significantly above the speed of light. From in-movie clues this is fairly clear, e.g. from Alien dialog:
DALLAS: How far to Earth.
LAMBERT: Ten months.
Then later in the meeting they have:
DALLAS: Well, some of you may have figured out we're not home yet. We're only halfway there.
So the journey they ...
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From the book of Alien ISTR that hyper sleep is just a very deep sleep and you dream in the same way as you normally would only more vividly due to the deeper sleep and longer time spent in it.
However, you do not need food or water (or at least do not seem to). Hence one can be in hyper sleep for long periods (Ripley managed 57 years) without serious ...
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