Was Lambert raped by the Alien?

[Local Trouble]

Okay, granted.  I was expecting you to tell me that the eggs are immortal because the aliens are a perfect organism.

However, I imagine the undefended eggs would be far easier for the engineers to deal with than an army of fully grown soldiers.  Especially if the aliens nested in isolated places.

[SM]

If you can do like Ripley and take out a shit tonne of eggs from range - yeah it would be easier to deal with.  But if one or more of them gets out, things start getting a tad tricky.

[Local Trouble]

True, but I assume the engineers would be careful not to allow that.  Which, of course, means they probably did...

[SM]

One obviously didn't.

I have no idea if the Aliens were created by Jockies, or whether they're naturally occurring and what the Prometheus crew encountered was Jockey attempts to genetically engineer their own versions.

[Local Trouble]

I expect you to know these things.  Don't disappoint me now.

[SM]

I could make some shit up - but I generally leave that to other people.

[Local Trouble]

Did I mention my new theory that the super facehugger might just be a regular facehugger that mutated to survive in the aquatic environment that the EEV crashed into?

[SM]

I dunno if that's especially 'new'.

[Local Trouble]

Someone beat me to it?

[SM]

Pretty sure I've heard it over the years.  Happens a lot, especially with a film series this old.

[Local Trouble]

Do you recall shooting it down?

[SM]

Not really.  I think it's patently ridiculous, but there's things going on at the start of Alien that can fall into the same category.

[Local Trouble]

Hey, they can shed their cells and replace them with polarized silicon.  Maybe the tough little sons-of-bitches can grow webbing and spikes too. 

It is, after all, a perfect organism.

[whiterabbit]

Perfect nothing, Ridley say's it's a damn weapon and I'm running with that. 

Which is why there must be a sleuth of reproduction methods available. If it is a naturally occurring creature then yes I agree the facehugger would be the way to go. If we ignore the DC of alien mind you.

Stinging tails does sound dumb though, I must admit. It's a stabbing tool, used to murder.

[SM]

Which is why there must be a sleuth of reproduction methods available.

Oh, of course "there must"...