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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Monstrefact: Alien, Part 7 – The Xenomorph

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of STBYM’s The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the perfect organism.

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0:00.0

Guess what will? What's that mango? I've been trying to write a promo for our podcast

0:03.9

part-time genius but even though we've done over 250 episodes we don't really talk about

0:08.6

murders or cults. I mean we did just cover the aluminati of cheese so I feel like that makes us pretty edgy

0:14.7

we also solve mysteries like how Chinese is your Chinese food and how do dollar stores make money

0:20.2

and then of course can you game a dog show.

0:23.4

So what you're saying is everyone should be listening.

0:26.0

Listen to Part Time Genius on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.1

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

0:37.0

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

0:45.4

on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. Thus far in the alien monster facts series we've discussed everything from the

0:58.3

mysterious engineers and their black goo to the xenomorph egg and the face hugger that emerges from it.

1:05.4

As we all know, the next phase in the alien life cycle is the violent eruption of the free-living

1:11.2

chess-buster which swiftly grows to become an adult xenomorph, sometimes

1:16.2

referred to as a stage 4 xenomorph or simply a drone or warrior.

1:21.5

In science fiction, the biology of the alien in alien by Armand, M. Kurus, and Mona Y. Lowl, published just last year in the

1:29.5

Portland Press, the authors describe the xenomorphs parasitic development inside the host. the that then continue feeding and growing during the parasitism.

1:46.1

Because of course we see this in the original 1979 film Alien.

1:50.8

When Kane's face-hugger falls away, he awakens and acts like his old self again.

1:56.2

He chats and jokes with his crewmates.

1:58.8

He enjoys a meal and prepares to carry on his ship duties right before the creature inside him violently emerges.

2:06.2

Curustin Loe compared this to various parasitoid wasps, horsehair worms, and the cortiseps

2:12.1

fungus.

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