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82. The aliens in 'Signs' are killed/burnt by water on contact...

Sat Jul 7, 2012, 02:24 PM

Jul 2012

... but they can run through a Pennsylvania corn field on a late summer night without any trouble?

Seems our good director M. Night S. can't be too familiar with corn, or dew. Corn is usually drippy wet at night in the late summer, between dew and "water of guttation", which is the way corn and many other crops exude excess moisture at night through pores on their leaf margins so their cells don't literally explode from water pressure under conditions of cool temps and high humidity.

So, those aliens running through the corn field should have been burnt all over as if they had been sprayed with battery acid.

Maybe they got lucky and it was a very windy, warm, dewless night during a drought. It does seem kind of dusty when Mel Gibson drops the flashlight.

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