side note: the xenomorph from Alien and its lifecycle are quite similar to very dangerous zombies, but in today's thinking-about-epidemiology-a-lot world, I want to note how the first Alien (and only the first) bothered to remember instant death = less long term threat
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The purpose of the weapon is to be self-limiting, to NOT spread exponentially, it destroys a ship or a city and then leaves you free to safely pick through the wreckage The implication was that the Space Jockey ship was a target and/or attacker in some ancient war
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(Note that this is a difference from the original concept for the film, where the Alien makes new eggs by dissolving its victims' bodies with its venom -- hence its penis-shaped head, it's a twisted parody of how insemination and fertilization work)
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