system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Thing] If every piece of it is a complete organism, why would it need to hide? Why not just swarm and kill everyone at once?
gpt
The Thing is a hive mind. The smaller the pieces the less sapient it becomes. Enough biomass to emulate a human, it's intelligent enough to think logically. Lose enough biomass until its only a spider-head, it can do basic problem solving. Any less makes it barely more than a wild animal. 

It should also be noted that The Thing wasn't coming in with a plan, it was trying to survive. Its ship crash lands and it gets frozen for thousands of years. Then it gets thawed out and chased.