Back in 96,

in 96, Atlanta was booming with excitement

around hosting the Centennial Olympic Games.

And then, a deranged zealot, willing to kill for a cause,

lit a fuse that would change my life and so many others,

forever, rippling out for generations.

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from stuff to blow

your mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

Today we continue our alien monster fact series leading up to the August 16th release of alien Romulus with a trip back to the very beginning, the Xenomorph egg.

In the original 1979 film Alien, the crew of the Nostromo discovered thousands of strange rubbery eggs, each between two and three feet in

hide, or 0.6 to 0.9 meters in height, aboard a derelict engineer spacecraft.

As I originally discussed in the article how the alien xenomorph works back in 2012 for the website

How Stuff Works, the first stop in interpreting this strange stage of the alien life cycle is to approach it as an egg.

That is to say, we have to compare it to the amniotic eggs of birds, reptiles, and amphibians

which protect and nourish the organism inside during its early development.

The xenomorph eggs certainly contains and protects an organism, the face-hugger stage of the xenomorph

life cycle.

No matter what the external environmental conditions might be,

the eggs seems to keep the face hugger moist, alive,

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