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The Green Slime
1968 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!
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>"In some science fiction movies (for example "Life", "The Green Slime") the alien life forms grow incredibly fast. If that works or is possible, it makes one wonder why no terrestrial life-form didn't adapt a similar strategy."
Really? Bacteria can divide every twenty minutes and human T-cells once per hour. Lets say you've got one bacteria cell living in your pipes at midnight, by the next day you could have up to 2^(3*24) = 4.722366e+21 cells. At 1e-15 kg per cell[1], that would be 4,722,366 kg worth of them.
The limiting factor is food, not ability to divide.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28mass%29
In some science fiction movies (for example "Life", "The Green Slime") the alien life forms grow incredibly fast. If that works or is possible, it makes one wonder why no terrestrial life-form didn't adapt a similar strategy. In the above movies the fast life-form in question does come from a dead planet (the probable outcome of such strategy, but not really something evolution has enough time to select against).