Ampule room.

I wouldn't be in total shock if that was the case. 1) We know they find something on earth that leads them to believe that we were created/engineered by a being. Could this be the giant head? Maybe they do carbon dating and find the head is millions of year old (throwing out arbitrary time long ago), which predates homo erectus. This leads to the above conclusion. 2) We also know they find a location/destination to travel. Do they decipher the glyphs on the giant head which tells the coordinates? An even odder notion. Could the discovery on earth actually be a buried long lost derelict type ship? They go into the ship, and find the urns/head. While still investigating the earth derelict, they start prepping the Prometheus to travel to the destination coordinates. They then find the pilot room and activate the star map. This causes the ship to come to life and lift off on an automated route home. The prometheus is launched and follows the derelict. In this scenario we might have a case where people are trapped on the derelict during the flight, or maybe they were able to get out of the ship (once they figured out it was going to launch). They then got on board the Prometheus and followed.

The only images in which they are without helmets are the one with HAlloway injuried and a couple of shoots made for a news magazine ( so they can be actually not realated to real movie scenes ) .. i think that in all the others they wear helmets... on earth there will be really no need of helmets ... so we can presume that MAYBE they discover , thanks to some incidents , that the air INSIDE the temple is somewhat breathable ... or maybe we will discover that they are on earth in a temple with unbreathable air :p

It would not be a total shock to me if that were the case. In fact, it wouldn't be a total shock to me if the whole first act takes place on earth and here is why. What are we pretty confident that we know? 1) We make a discovery that leads us to believe that we were created or Engineered by some type of being. Maybe it's the giant head and Space jockey suite/corpse that leads us to this belief. They carbon date the items in the room and discover they are millions or a billion years old. I'm just tossing out an arbitrary time long ago that predates Australopithecus or some ancient ancestor. 2) We also think that some discovery on earth leads us to another location/destination. Do the researchers decipher the runes on the giant head and discover a set of coordinates? Or.. an even stranger notion that I've been contemplating. What if the discovery on earth is actually a long lost derelict style ship that has been buried for aeons. They excavate the ship and explore it on the ground. They remove some urns, etc and find the star map/pilot room with coordinates, and they start prepping the Prometheus to check it out. At some point someone messes around with something and the ship comes to life. It's preprogrammed to return home. We could have a scenarios where either some people get trapped on the ship durind it's flight and have bad things happen along the way. Or, they could figure out that the ship is going to launch and get out before it does. The ship launches and the Prometheus gives chase.

Some good stuff there Jeff. The problem I have with the earth theory is all crews gear looks designed for space and they are not archaeologists.

Could the suits be biological or haz mat type protection gear? I'm not saying it is, but just a thought. There are some scenes where the suits look bigger/bulkier than the suits in the ampule room. Or chould the ship potentially have an alternate atmosphere that eventually gets vented as they explore the ship?

I think they'll land on LVP and find out some temples then for whatever reason the SJ will land/crash there. Also the fact that we see the ship rolling in the trailer might explain why it fell on the side like in the first Alien movie. Just make a dime roll, it will fall on the sides.

Jeffomorph, although it's a long-shot, I like that idea of finding a derilict-shaped ship on Earth for 2 reasons: (i) we know the crew needs a space map to find the destination planet and we also know from the trailer that a space map is seen by humans inside a derelict room; (ii) in the trailer we never actually see a big human interstellar ship - we might assume indeed that the one we see is a smaller one that follows the derelict. Again it's a long-shot, but it's an interesting idea.

Maybe the derelicts are a collection vessel. Bare with me one minute. Sometime in the distant past the engineers sent out a fleet of derelict ships to seed any planet that looked promising for life. Maybe the ships were automated, or possibly the ships are alive in their own right. Once the seeding is complete the ship shuts down and goes into hybernation mode. The assumption here is that once a lifeform becomes suitibly advanced, it will discover the derelict. Think monolith in 2001. Once discovered the derelict reactivates and takes the evolved lifeform home to the creators. The derelict on LV-426 could have become the victim of it's own creation. We know in early drafts of ALIEN/Star Beast that the pyramid containing the eggs was indiginous to the planet (seeded life). The pyramid was what was left of a civilization. Maybe a hugger got out and found the derelict. Being the only available host, it jumped on the biomechanoid jockey and created a new creature. But... I can't explain the 1000's of eggs in that theory :)

but why then a ship have to go in space to reach a destination on planet earth ? in 2 shots we see clearly the "magellan/prometheus/snoopy" orbiting or entering in an atmosphere

Frantz,if you see on teaser trailer, on the ampule room they are not using helmets! And if you look well that room look like are closed for a long time. And in the year that story roles,perhaps the air on earth are not breathable because of pollution or environment changes, but it´s only a idea...

Frantz, I'm just having fun thinking out loud. I would be shocked if any of my scenario was actually in the movie. But, to answer your question. It could be that they discover the coordinates of the ships "home", and they are completely unaware that the ship is still functional. They start prepping for the Prometheus for the voyage when suddenly the ship reactivates. It could be something someone does while examing the ship that causes the ship to wake up. Perhaps it's a console/puzzle that requires a certain level of intelligence to activate (prime numbers, etc). Clearly they would keep examing the ship even though they know where it comes from. The derelict ship launches and Prometheus follows in chase..

can be can be...what puzzle is that there are many images inside with helmets on and some other without ...something happen , different places or they get aware later that the air is breathable ?

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@Ripley Clone 8 Ahhhh...soooo cute! Although...that has got to be the worst Facehugger model I have ever seen. LI

Hi Li, welcome to the site!! Guys we have Giger Girl on board the ship

Li, we need picks of your tatt!!! lol. Oh hi n welcome :-)

Thanx for the welcome fellas. Pix of the Tatt...hmmm...well...maybe...if your goodboyz. Li