Chestburster food requirement?

I found this 7 minute video pretty good. This guy has some interesting theories (Thanks QES). It touches on your question but doesn't seem to outright and definitively answer it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4IsLEgBHw

With only one recorded instance of someone eating prior to chestbursting, I'm not seeing a connection.

nin- he has a video on surgically removing the chestburster too.

Here it is for convenience. I need to sub this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR2ILljzeeQ

Sorry if this gets the thread off target- it is still early!

yea I agree I think eating has a part to play in how long it takes for chestbursting to occur. I think it would probably be safe to assume that the alien embryo will feed off of the nutrients of its host and so the more nutrients the host takes in, the more nutrients the alien embryo takes in and thus the less time it takes to chestburst.

It probably also depends on the health of the host aswell. If we compare two hosts, one healthy and one unhealthy, which have both taken in the same amount of nutrients, it might take longer for unhealthy host to experience a chestburst because of the strain the alien embryo will have on the host.

Maybe this is why the deacon chestburst out of the engineer that quickly and at that size aswell, due to the fitness and stregnth of the engineer

This also begs the question, could a host so unhealthy that a facehugger would not allow its self to impregnate the host? that's if the facehugger could tell the health of the host obviously

ninXeno426 woahhh, that's definitely why it took long to for the alien embryo to chestburst. If it took in nutrients at a rate which would have caused it to grow at a fast rate, I think it would have caused a large strain on Purvis due to his illness and would have probably caused him to die of stress and whatnot. obviously a dead host is not ideal so it has to control how much nutrients it takes in therefor controlling the rate at which it grows until it is ready to chestburst.

clever creatures when they aren't even born yet lol

@dk watched that video, great video thanks

Fire- QES originally shared and I went down the YT rabbit hole. All good!

Got that right

Tough to say. The embryo could have got nutrition from the dog's body- muscle, organs etc.