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* The three minute pregnancies in human women from ''Species II'', with the victim's uterus plumping up like a water balloon in seconds, apparently because a 3 minute pregnancy in a normal human wasn't insane enough by itself. To spare a lot of digital ink, let's just say that a (admittedly amateur) calculation I did had the alien fetus putting out over 900 kilowatts of waste heat at peak growth rate. That's enough to boil several kilograms of water per second, when the average baby only weighs a few kilograms. That's not a fetus, it's a self-cooking meat product. Sil's body might include some sort of mechanism to keep the fetus from cooking itself, but the human body has no such thing. Even if we handwave the fetus survivability issue with [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] somehow, there's the absurdity of the victim still being alive when the [[Chest Burster]] emerges, when she just had ... well, I'm not sure exactly what effect having a 900 kilowatt heater jammed into your uterus would have on your internal organs, but phrases like "steam explosion" and "bubbling organ stew" come to mind. Even by the typical standards of [[Hollywood Science]] this is an exceptionally bad [[You Fail Biology Forever|biology fail]]. It's especially offensive because you could easily make the gestation period much more sane while keeping the horror factor [[Fetus Terrible|just]] [[Body Horror|fine]] and there are a lot more plausible ways of solving the "why not just abort the alien baby" problem, including one that both has [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5220551385066049121&hl=en# real life] [http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/ precedent] and [[The Mind Is a Plaything of Thethe Body|is]] [[Brainwashed|plenty]] [[Body Horror|disturbing]] [[Nightmare Fuel|enough]].