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I enjoyed the Predators take on the mythos though I think it adds very little to it. My biggest concern/complaint is it made the preds look to soft. In P1 a single pred nearly wipes out two elite military outfits. Don't forget what happened to Hopper and his men. In Predators, three preds can't...

Hello. I was wondering if you would mind doing some brainstorming on this topic? I've been tinkering with a similar idea for some time and was interested in if you'd be interested in bouncing ideas off of each other?

So I've been thinking about a way to incorporate this anatomy and physiology discussion into the general knowledge base for a fictional story. The best idea I can come up with is a pred ship malfunctions and crashes killing its pilot but not before the US government picks it up on radar and...

Without a doubt the best option for any new predator movie. KPH will always be the best but if it was my call to make Ian Whyte would play the predator again.

The thing with the Monette pred is the clicking could be merely coincidental. The same is true with the heart. It was able to shapeshift and change its physical form nearly at will. That would necessarily (or at least very likely) be true of its internal physiology as well. At least that's what...

Yeah one of the things I always liked about the preds is their durability. And because of this I've often wondered about their physiology. I've always assumed some of their physiology was similar but there must be some major differences as well. That's where the idea of the cardiac muscle...

Yeah the circulatory idea is just a possibility. We have to remember in the Monette book we are dealing with an entirely different physiological design. I'm not say its good or bad, but it is very different from the dreaded, mandibled preds we know and love. If we follow the original model, we...

You know, if we did the cardio-circulatory system, rather than the central heart idea there would be no heart shot. Ergo, decapitation or destruction of the central nervous system would be the most certain ways I can imagine to kill a pred. It seems in the movies that is the only real way to...

You know its funny. I totally missed the sexual pun in there. Lol. I must be getting old.

Maybe its a traditional combat tool? I mean the removal of the spinal column or in essence the central nervous system would be an efficient way to kill a pred, I'd imagine. And since humans are similar in design, i.e. bipedal with bilateral symmetry, it seems to do the trick. No muss no...

What I mean is, the dual blades seem to be ideally set for boning a human being. The width seems perfect for separating the spinal column from the rib cage. So is this a ceremonial type weapon or is it coincidence?

Klean Klay is probably your best option.

Tech question: Do you think the traditional pred wrist blade is a specialized tool for hunting and field dressing people?

The Blain study looks interesting. However it seems like a lot of study based on the assumption that preds are biologically similar to terrestrial organisms, which would be a stretch in my opinion. None the less very interesting. Thanks Shadowedge.

No way. I completely agree with you Estelle. The book does offer some really good insight into the character. In fact, I can say that there is little in the book that I don't like, save the physiological aspects. As for the movies, I think all of them have a place in the predator mythos (they...