If a Facehugger impregnated a gerbil...?

[Reverend]

^Or maybe they were. That laser wotsit could have been some kind of stasis or nullentropy field that protected the eggs while the Jockey's corpse was mineralised. Still, though it's been a while since chemistry class but I think a bigger problem wouldn't have been the time it'd take but the environment. Wasn't the atmosphere of Acheron mostly inert gasses like argon? Don't you need something a little more reactive to get that kind of process moving?

Of course that assumes that the inside of the ship had been de-pressurised for most of the time and doesn't take into account all the particulate matter in the air....if that even makes a difference.

 

[Whofan]

This thread reminds me of the old Aliens action figure line from the early 90s, which had Alien versions of everything....(some quite well designed).


http://www.toyarchive.com/Aliens/Toys/AliensFigures.html

 

[RoJoHen]

Aw, I had so many of those toys!

 

[TremblingBluStar]

^Or maybe they were. That laser wotsit could have been some kind of stasis or nullentropy field that protected the eggs while the Jockey's corpse was mineralised. Still, though it's been a while since chemistry class but I think a bigger problem wouldn't have been the time it'd take but the environment. Wasn't the atmosphere of Acheron mostly inert gasses like argon? Don't you need something a little more reactive to get that kind of process moving?

Yeah. I remember now that there was some sort of field over the eggs. Still, in order for a corpse to turn to rock it does need to be buried in sedimentary material. Even then, only the hard parts of a body, like the calcified bones, will turn to stone.

The character should have said the space jockey was mummified, which will happen due to dehydration.