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.

I would imagine a similar fashion to the dog. The interesting difference was Babe was dead and hanging but the burster survived. Either way I think viewers are supposed to just go with it. Back then, those creators probably didn't know their movies would be dissected to such a high level as they are now. That just goes to show how much we love it imo.

I am going to agree with SM on this...

as far as how healthy a host is?  I think it would not matter to the Xeno it depends on how the Embryo Grows and what does it need and i would assume they would just need Genetic Material off a Host.

But its nice to speculate on health, i think its something to consider if the Host has some disease like Cancer or something maybe the Face Hugger would leave them alone?

But i would think they have a instinct and would be opportunistic 

I've watched a bunch of those Alien Theory videos.  They're  well presented, but also a little frustrating in terms of the conclusions, or rather lack thereof.  For all the videos with 'Explained' in the title, stuff that actually gets explained is very rare.  There's a bunch of theories from different sources, which is helpful, but they generally end with 'What do you think?'

Pretty much anything with 'blah blah blah - Explained' in the title.

The embryo implantation one linked above is a prime example. And that one even states that 'the most widely held view is the hugger implants a cancerous tumour that becomes the chestburster'.  I've been around this online community for the better part of 20 years, and that ain't a widely held view at all.

At least the linked blah blah videos give better theories and research than some posts simply naysaying. It is asked what we think at the end because there is no official answer and invites discussion and debate. If there were official answers there would be no need for debate.