Ammonia breathing life- xenobiological differences.

Calaban

Calaban
While lacking any degree of xenobiology.. I can make several interesting assumptions about the very significant differences between Humanity and the Thargoid life forms.

Lets start with the air we breathe. Oxygen. Free, molecular.. Oxygen... just.. floating around!!

While we take it for granted and think little of it, Oxygen is actually a horrifically corrosive element. Most worlds would have very little free oxygen loose, as it would have attacked absolutely everything and oxidized (corroded) it. But microbial life keeps the o2 level around 22% here on Earth, and to a life form that doesnt specifically take advantage of this, this atmosphere of ours is... well, lets take a youtube trip, but couch it in a Thargoid viewers' point of view.

Imagine, instead of Chlorine Trifluoride in this video link, describing its horrible effects on.. well.. everything.. imagine its talking about molecular oxygen... like a warning video against visiting earth-like worlds.
[video=youtube;dAhiqGZCwNQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAhiqGZCwNQ[/video]


This is what oxygen would be like if set loose on an ammonia atmospheric world. Heck, Hydrofluoric acid (a byproduct of chlorine trifluoride contacting, and exploding, in contact with water) may be the reactive chemical the Thargoids evolved to breathe to drive their metabolism- released by some alien organic microbes on their home world.

Its an interesting take on how very different the two races are fundamentally. Oxygen breathers and Ammonia breathers are utterly toxic to each other. We could never actually stand and shake hands with each other- each exhaled breath would be a poison to the other. A face dissolving, necrotic acid to each other.

So, this is one difference between us and the Thargoids. What other horrifying differences can some of you guys thing of? :)
 

Vasious

Vasious
Is Ammonia what they breath or their analogue for water as a solvent in their bio-chemistry
So the temperatures for Ammonia to be liquid is very cold to water so would kill either in the others environment

Ammonia Carbon based life and Water Carbon based life seems to be the differential on the system map

Assuming I follow
 
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Rubbernuke

Rubbernuke
So, this is one difference between us and the Thargoids. What other horrifying differences can some of you guys thing of?
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Your question offends me, mammal.
 

Calaban

Calaban
If liquid ammonia is 70% of their body mass the way water is the % of our mass... wow.. we really ARE monsters to them.

Liquid ammonia is very cold. meaning the water on their world is liken to our silicate rocks- a solid, never to be melted, as that would be their version of LAVA.

.. meaning we are these horrendous creatures that can melt their rocks in our hands. and spit salty lava. And sweat... yikes! We would be lava covered, volcano steaming stuff of nightmares if we were to walk around on their world. (Avatar of Khaine comes to mind)

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I have to admit, If I encountered such lava monsters in the hyperjump space lanes, I may be inclined to shoot first and attempt an eradication as well.

hmm that may be why they are abducting escape pods... they could have developed ammonia steam power generators that run from our body heat. We would be their uranium core, flash boiling liquid ammonia to spin their steam turbines, to generate power most efficiently.. just need to feed us biscuits and tea (and air) to power us.. for years.

:rolleyes: :eek: is there a human cocooned up in each one of the Thargoid Hearts?!?
 
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