March 17, 2012I seriously don't know. If it's a helmet, why all the bone fragments from the decayed corpse from the original [b]Alien[/b]?
I'm beginning to speculate that Ridley Scott is thinking of an alien being [u]far more removed than anyone has thought of before[/u]. What if the Space Jockey body is in some constant metamorphic state. Its body always changes to best suit its environment! That would make it the most ideal organism. An organism that adapts to any environment. I highly doubt that the "blue guy" is the Space Jockey. It's just too cliched... too human.
Matter of fact, from the original Alien movie, [b]Ash discovers the original Xenomorph is Silicon based as opposed to Carbon based[/b][i][u][/u][/i](which is what all organisms on Earth are based on). Furthermore, because the Xenomorph is silicon based it's able to adapt much faster to its environment. This would explain why everything in the Alien and Aliens universe is "[b]bio-mechanical[/b]".
Personally, I find this to be very interesting. Silicon chemistry is similar to organic carbon based chemistry (for any scientist in here, silicon belongs to the same column with carbon and most importantly contains four valence electrons). However, silicon is the core of computer and machines in today's technology. What if in the evolutionary process, silicon replaces carbon to create organisms that are more malleable and able to think at the speeds of computers. This would explain the intelligence gained by the Space Jockey.
Sorry for being so nerdy. It's just the scientist in me. Ridley Scott just gets so much of his story right with science.
