We saw in Transformers 1 and in ROTF that the humans referred Megatron as NBE ONE, why did they referred him as NBE ONE? And Sam calls him Megatron. Anybody knows why that name was given to him? Thanks
NBE = Non-biological extraterrestrial. A robot from space, in laymans terms. Sector Seven designated Cybertronians as NBE's because they did not know their proper species name, regarding them merely as, well, alien robots. Megatron was the first discovered and the first to be moved, secured and studied, hence why he is NBE ONE. The first one they ever found! Sam was fortunate enough to have Optimus tell him proper names and plots and stuff, while S7 essentially had to pick up pieces in the dark. You can see this when Sam and Simmons debate in front of the frozen Megs: "NBE 1. That's what we call it." ... "Well, Mr NBE 1 here, AKA Megatron. That's what THEY call him."
It was an interesting and ironic twist, having him locked up by the race of insects and being the foundation of their tech (that too just a hangar away from the AllSpark). Most other writers would have had Megatron arrive with the Decepticons to Earth and start tearing up cities in search of the AllSpark.
You know, I thought Megatron was well within his rights to be pissed in the first one. If I was frozen in ice for decades with a bunch of insects experimenting on me I'd probably want some payback too. Of course, going on to attempt to wipe out and/or enslave said insects may have been going a tad too far.
I always found this to be completely unbelievable (in the context we're given). If any agency or whatever found something like Megatron in the ice, you know the first thing they would do would be to defrost it to study it. Megatron would've flicked them away like they were nothing and would've continued on his way. And that's after you realize that space is a lot colder than the arctic in the first place, so he shouldn't have frozen at all!
There was nothing to freeze on him in space though. The water managed to get into every nook and cranny of Megatron's body when he crash landed (presumably on fire from entering the atmosphere) in the ice, melted it and then it refroze around him. It makes perfect sense if you think about it logically. There's no water in space so of course he wont freeze out there. His systems are running and space-worthy Cybertronians probably have fail-safes and systems to prevent them from freezing and locking up in space.
Think of it this way, firehawc. Does a NASA space shuttle freeze up into a 100 foot ice cube when it flies into space? No. Throw that space shuttle into an Arctic iceberg for years on end? Now it'll turn into a giant ice cube.
Not completely unrelated, but a little off topic: I think that's Simmon's line "NBE-1's still up and kicking, huh?" would have been a great line for one of the RotF trailers...
Absolutely. The key difference between the Artic and space is actually very mundane/simple when you think about it. You see, space has no air. Boom. Heat loss can be divided into three sections; conduction, radiation and convection. Remember the third one, it's gonna be important for this. Conduction is pretty simple; you simply transfer your heat into another object via physical contact, be it a spoon, a bottle or another person. Your heat goes from you to them, because heat will always go to where it is colder. Convection is your heat essentially being sapped away by an outside force. Go out on a windy day, and you'll feel a slight chill whenever the wind blows against you. That's because the cold air is drawing out your heat and blowing it away, which of course makes you chilly. Radiation is the least efficient of the three. This one is simply heat radiating out. No spoons or bottles or air required. It just slips out by itself. But it's very, very slow compared to the other two, hence why it doesn't bother us that much. Now, remember convection? How the air saps your heat? What does space NOT have? You guessed it; air. No air, no convection. Megatron didn't have to worry about freezing in space because, since there is also no conduction going on either, the only way he's losing heat is by radiation, which is pathetically slow. If anything, Megs needs an efficient cooling system; with only slow-ass radiation in space, his engine is in danger of building up too much heat, so he's gotta keep it cool lest he end up melting himself or something.
I love learning from games! Like, Pokemon taught me the all-important life-lesson that, yes, water can put out fire! Ha, that's pretty cool! But educate me; what does TL;DR mean? I've seen it a couple times but I've never deduced it.
Space is also only very "cold" when you're in a shadow and aren't getting a bombarded by a bunch of different types of radiation that aren't being filtered out or mitigated by earth's magnetic field, ozone layer, and atmosphere.