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"what's laying these eggs" line always bothered me.


How would Ripley automatically know that all the eggs under the oxygen processor were new eggs that had been recently layed? She knew about the derelict spacecraft having a massive egg chamber with thousands under it (she even mentions what Cain had told her, early in the movie), so there was the very real possibility that the eggs were the same ones Cain had seen. They could simply have been transported as well.

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They're trying to understand how the Aliens function in general, in terms of behavior and biology. They're using the situation with the colonists and the atmosphere processor as examples/ reference points. When Ripley asks "who's laying these eggs," she's wondering aloud how the eggs are formed and realizing there's a significant gap in their knowledge of the Aliens' life cycle.

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