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It doesn't like the cold?


It comes from space...a notoriously cold place. Seems a little illogical. I wonder if they avoided fire because that was the weakness of The Thing.

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The government created the Blob, so it didn't actually originate from space.

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It still fell from space, where it seemed to have done just fine.

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It's worth noting that the cold doesn't seem to actually kill it though (at least not at the temperature it was subjected to), since the reverend has a revived piece of it in a jar at the end of the movie. It's not really illogical since it isn't a biological creature that originated from an environment that would kill it, but a combination of bacteria, radiation, and human experimentation.

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I alaays thought that felt like a sequel setup that we never got.

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It may have been frozen in space and thawed in the atmosphere or after the crash..people live in cold climates, doesn't mean they like the cold.

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The blob came from the planet Mercury, which is a extremely hot planet

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