Time travel?

Time travel was indeed mentioned on the first (fake, of course) leaked script, last year. Nothing more. As for FTL, that's how they travel such huge distances... ;)

Perhaps it refers to a faster than light speed space travel. Thus allowing them to travel to distant planets in manageable time frames. 'Warp speed'

No i dont think it lead to time travel ...it just allow to make the movie possible ...if humans dont have a FTL technology its hard to make a scifi movie . If the travel is quite short ( lets say less than one year ) the time relativity implications are limited and they will not play part in the movie plot .

Well from the timeline again we have: FTL Travel made possible "Weyland scientists discover the inverse relationship between velocity and the flow of time making the long sought-after concept of faster than light travel a reality. The search for practical application begins." Let the controversy begin! Some will laugh, some will cry and some will discredit. This should be fun.

[quote]No i dont think it lead to time travel ...it just allow to make the movie possible ...if humans dont have a FTL technology its hard to make a scifi movie .[/quote] I guess that's right. But I was thinking FTL = the possibility of time travel. At least that's what the scientists tell us. I'm still trying to get my head around the fossilised SJ from Alien V the timescale between Prometheus & Alien. I know we've discussed this before. We're assuming it's the same ship? So maybe it's not fossilised at all but it's been through some other process that made it appear to be fossilised. But I've always loved this idea that the SJ ship was extremely old & had been there a long time. I guess one way or another Prometheus is going to change this idea?

This would explain all that old tech on the Nostromo, huh? Time travel? I don't think Scott would go that far with it. It just opens too many boxes.

"This would explain all that old tech on the Nostromo, huh?" No. That's entirely down to the fact that the film was made in 1979!!

I had the same ideia ,about time travel. Because of time line the xenomorfs already came to earth long time ago. At least on the first AVP movie. Maybe somehow the, punish of the gods ( Space jockey), instead of an eagle eating your leaver. its transforming humans into xenomorfing beasts. And some how the xenomorfs return back in time in some way. Like the space ship prometheus returning back entering a black hole, and appearing thousands years before Christ, on earth. But I have some doubts about Ridley scott Using AVP time lines. Just guessing. Did someone, had the same ideas about this, or its just me? :D

You could always break it down like this. Alien - Old Busted Grunge Prometheus - New Hotness Prometheus 2 - Old Busted Hotness Ridley did say that Alien was supposed to have a real used look and the Nostromo is strictly a work tug with only basic equipment. The Prometheus is top of the line best of everything so its all new with the cool techy gadgets. Yeah something from MIB...LOL Rick

[quote][b]Because of time line the xenomorfs already came to earth long time ago. At least on the first AVP movie[/b][/quote] I wouldn't blame Scott if he completely ignores those films. In fact I'm sure he will. They were rubbish!

When Peter Weyland talks about the discover of M-Theory, which tangents of M-Theory are being tested at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC-CERN), I'm assuming what they're talking about is space folding as the means to traveling distances. In other words, the warping of space-time to circumvent large distances. With this method you're not exceeding the speed of light. FTL travel, in general, and in many cases, refers to methods to travel large distances in short periods of times utilizing some exotic physics (creation of very exotic particles and untested concepts such as negative energy). The phrase FTL, many times, gets the point across of large distances being traversed in relatively short period of time, succinctly. Of course, many of you all already know that as you travel faster and approach the speed of light, object attain mass.

didnt the perditors bring the aliens to earth in avp 1 ?

Make sure you read the Weyland timeline post on fast than light very carefully. It mentions "Weyland scientists discover the [b]inverse[/b] relationship between velocity and the flow of time making the long sought-after concept of faster than light travel a reality" The keyword here is *inverse*. They are saying here that the faster the ship goes the more backwards in time ship goes. The timeline stuff on the viral site is giving us tons of clues about the premise of the film. If you have actually read any of the leaked synopses you'll see they mention that Prometheus is stranded on primordial Earth. Whether this is actually what happens in the film or they are actually stranded on a planet in the Zeta Reticuli system as mentioned in the leaked script time will tell. There are a lot of clues I'm sure in that timeline that will make sense once the film is out!

Well we all know from Star Trek that all you need to do to travel back in time is slingshot around the sun. I seriously hope that Ridley avoided using that tired, old sc-fi time travel trope in this movie. It just makes for ridiculously lazy storytelling.