whats david pulling out?

@Kiddo, yes this has been discussed. The opinions were that the 'fingers' you can see are some sort of cage that 'David' is holding the handle of. As we are unlikely to see anything we have already seen until the end of the film (if at all), I think it is unlikley we will see a 'facehugger'. Other theories have been suggested in multitude so I am apologies if I miss any out, but I think they were: 1. Contains the building blocks of life 2. DNA of an entire world or species (different species in different Ampules or rooms) 3. Infant species of the Engineers / Jockeys in stasis 4. Biologocal weapons 5. Progenitor to the xenomorph in safe storage

@BellisanAlien - I'm gonna lean more towards your 5th point there! I think that "goo" looking stuff he's fiddling with is the genetic makeup of the progenitor to the Xenomorph species, I believe extracting it and toying with it is in some way related to the rumoured "pre-Xeno" we're likely to see in Prometheus. . .

I think it has four lobes that appear to be holding onto him, rather than the other way around. When I first saw it it reminded me of an egg. I'm wondering if the eggs we see in Alien are inside the ampules, which later decompose over time and the agg with facehuggers inside harden (polarized silicon anyone?) to protect themselves. Ridley once alluded to the eggs being like spores...

[img]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/Fun%20on%20the%20Internet/ampuleanatomy3.jpg[/img]

You are all wrong!!! it's just his lunch,was supposed to be pumpkin soup!!! but someone dropped his thermos flask....

Is it his lunch or is he it's lunch?

[i]An ampoule (also ampul or ampulla) is a small sealed vial which is used to contain and preserve a sample, usually a solid or liquid.[/i] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampule]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampule[/url] So, most likely some sort of genetic building block...or perhaps, the "white worm/serpent" in stasis?

Reading the title I half expected this to be another USHBUCK ban and locked thread drill.

I've always thought that the top of each of the 4 'lobes' had claws on the end of them. It's the beginning of something scary, for sure. Why else would it be slimy and green?

I called the claws cannula but I was lazy with that rendering and should have made them curved a bit more. I figure it is a biomechanical syringe. The claws are used to grab a hold of an organism, pierce the flesh to inject whatever substance is contained in the ampules. Grasping it's prey tightly like this allows all the ampule fluid to be injected before the host could remove it.

Let's throw this one into the mix!!! the ampules could be vessels containing embryonic SJ's!!! imagine if you can,the most realistic way to travel the vast distance between stars is at sub-light speed.The most realistic state to travel in,would be frozen in an embryonic stage then born/grown at your destination... you would need caretakers,hundreds of generations of them, their sole function throughout the journey would be to monitor and maintain the ampules then revive you at the other end!!! could be that we were the caretakers at some time in the past and the xeno's have evolved along the way??? probably started the voyage from the SJ home world as something akin to a cockroach and evolved into the xeno we know and love!!! given the journey times involved,... could be?? this is a thinned down theory,thought I'd throw it out there for consideration

"[i]Reading the title I half expected this to be another USHBUCK ban and locked thread drill.[/i]" Hah! Yes, in the immortal words of Elaine Benes: "He took it out"... [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwJE5DEk7U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwJE5DEk7U[/url]