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Quote: If the colonist on LV-426 were all captured and used to cocoon and hatch the young -- what the heck are the adult aliens eating to get enough calories to survive ??
It could be that the aliens need very little, or do not need food at all. Remember we are still thinking like humans, that in order to survive we must have food, air, and water. That was pretty much the point of Alex's post. The aliens are so diverse, and so foreign (well... alien
) to us that we cannot understand how they are able to survive under such extreme conditions. They just do.
Consider this: When Kane found the facehugger that grabbed him, how long had it been in that dormant egg state? Years? Possibly decades? And it basically went from a hibernation-like state to a full running start within seconds! No food in it's belly- if it has a belly.
The alien from ALIEN grew to enormous proportions in a matter of hours, and had not eaten anything!
The point is that we must not think about such things as explainable, or as mistakes when there is a gap in continuity.
I think it also adds to the frightfulness of the species. They can survive without food, air, water. They do not need a natural environment (they adapt to anything). And their only instinct is to kill or find hosts to endure. They are relentless. Literally the perfect killing machine.
I will say that they kind of blew it by showing the 'Dog Alien' munching on the prisoners in A3. Makes you believe it
does need food to survive, or that it enjoys tearing it victims to pieces.
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