Any, as long as the host's body has a high tolerance for the said environment. As tensions rise Kate proposes they inspect the each other's teeth, those with fillings aren't infected. While setting explosives in the underground generator room, Garry is killed by the infected Blair. To do this, the cells begin digesting and replicating the host, eventually taking over the entire body. In the 2011 prequel film The Thing, American paleontologist Kate Lloyd discovers the creature is unable to mimic non-living/inorganic material such as metals or plastic, when she finds a small pool of blood with metal fillings; surmising the creature spat them out when it assimilated its victim. The player assumes the role of Captain Blake, and must learn how to coordinate and command his Bravo Team colleagues while investigating the ruins of Outpost 31 and locating clues and messages detailing the incident for players who are unfamiliar with the film. As he shouts, looking for any survivors, Colin is shown to have been hiding in the radio room and committed suicide by slitting his wrists and throat with a straight razor to ensure that the Thing could never get to him. The consciousness of the creature is yet another mystery, all that can be certain is that it retains an inherited survival instinct and enough of the facets of the assimilated creature to pass convincingly as the original. The Thing grabbed Henrik and pulled him into its body. Derek despite Kate's misgivings about the blood. It has the ability to perfectly imitate organisms after killing and assimilating them. It is mentioned that The Thing rejects non organic materials from its host, hence the tooth fillings and earring missing. When a small sample of Thing blood was exposed to a heated wire, in the presence of its form and still infected host, it leaped away in an attempt to escape. Eventually the Thing manages to escape and attacks them one by one. Blake found the documents that Blair wrote about the Thing and eventually found the frozen remains of Childs. The self-preservation mechanism is one of the few vulnerabilities that can be exploited to aid in the detection of an infected host. In order to minimize the potential loss of biomass should it be discovered, the Thing prefers to be in solitary, close proximity to its target with the condition that it will be alone long enough to generate a replacement organism of the host. Presumably he bled out so quickly that the infection had no time to spread before his biomass was rendered useless by death. During this process, the parasite's cells analyze and record the entire genetic code of its victim, which then are subsequently put to use. Get the hell away from it, idiots!) 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