Prometheus [Spoilers]

[Olgar Shiverstone]

And here I though Prometheus was the name of the starship.

 

[Marclee]

Can I get a citation up in here? Did NASA say this?

Let's try it.
Alejandro Rojas: Ridley Scott's New Alien Movie Influenced by Ancient Astronaut Theory
and von Dniken poisons everything | Pharyngula
In the first one, the claim was rejected; neither vatican nor nasa ever made statements of that sort.
Second link is interesting, too. Apparently, Scott has been inspired by von Däniken who was a pseudoscientist claiming that Egyptians had help from aliens. Otherwise, how could they build pyramids blbalblabalbla

 

[greyhaze]

They covered that in AVP.

 

[Water Bob]

Apparently, Scott has been inspired by von Däniken who was a pseudoscientist claiming that Egyptians had help from aliens. Otherwise, how could they build pyramids blbalblabalbla

It wasn't aliens. They were human--just not from earth.

They came from the Twelve Colonies and mainly Caprica.

 

[Kaodi]

I have a hard time believing it was seeding life on Earth. What kind of idiot launches a plan that is going to take billions of years to bear fruit?

Something like the Alien must have been the projected outcome, or an outcome known from experience. What else explains the Alien mural?

 

[RangerWickett]

I have a friend who likes this movie, and who has the theory that the death goo reacts to carbon dioxide.

The engineers might have been making weapons based on the Xenomorphs, which already exist. Similar to what Weyland-Yutani ends up doing in the series, the engineers found the aliens, transported some, had a disaster (on LV-426), and decided that these monsters were cool. So they made goo based on their genetic code.

I'm not sure how the "creation of life on earth" thing fits in, nor why 2000 years ago an accident on one engineer world somehow stopped the entire engineer race from visiting earth.

 

[Starman]

I'm not sure how the "creation of life on earth" thing fits in, nor why 2000 years ago an accident on one engineer world somehow stopped the entire engineer race from visiting earth.

The one guy who had Earth's coordinates accidentally erased the file and he hadn't done a backup in awhile.

 

[Mark CMG]

The one guy who had Earth's coordinates accidentally erased the file and he hadn't done a backup in awhile.

You're just saving a new thing or two, here and there, figuring a backup at the end of the week should be fine . . .

 

[RangerWickett]

From an io9 comments section.

Consider: The Engineers are bald men with googly eyes. The ones we see in the movie spend all their time sleeping peacefully or running around in panic or blind rage. Their spaceships look like donuts (or cookies, like the one seen in the prologue). They seem to screw up a lot, especially when it comes to running facilities with toxic byproducts. They really hate miserly old billionaires.

Also: Mr. Burns’ assistant Smithers’ first name? WAYLAND.

 

[El Mahdi]

You're just saving a new thing or two, here and there, figuring a backup at the end of the week should be fine . . .

The engineer was probably just distracted. More than likely talking on his cellphone while intergalactic piloting...