Re:it's funny (Score 1)

Yes, the black oil has radiation power, but not when it is gestating an E.B.E.. That process seems to divert too much of its energy. In Tunguska/Terma and Patient X/The Red and the Black, the black oil seen is a more docile from that appears to have been an earlier, less evolved strain, and/or damaged by the crash, and/or tampered with by human engineering. That covers all the black oil's appearances in which it didn't use radiation.