Dallas, Kane and Lambert

Alien Drone, Ya, I don't believe that the ships are the same. I also know the breech you are speaking of, but I have a hard time believing that some lifeforms can bust though that intergalactic metal..

What age groups is everyone in who: 1. Reads this forum as amusement? 2. Reads and posts on this forum as if these movies are more 'real' than the Trek genre?

ifp123, For condition number one, I think all age groups.. For 2, generally anyone who was 17 or older when the original alien came out... lol

1 we see how the ship flys arms upward. How would the eggs stay so neatly possitioned? 2 what a mess it wo[b][/b]uld have[b][/b] made if it landed upside down

IMHO it's the same type of ship. I just don't see any glaring differences. I do way see too many similarities. Some obvious, some not so obvious.

I agree with you Biomechanic. Kane seemed to be lowered directly into the egg chamber. I've always thought that what he saw when he peered through the opening on the navigation deck was, indeed, the eggs.

I'm reading the novelization and there was no mention in the book about the jockey and the burn on the floor. In the book it says they stumble across a shaft that goes down into the darkness and this is right after they find the transmitter of the signal on the wall. I do want to point out that in the book Kane makes a comment that he is well beneath the surface of the planetoid that they are on and thus underneath the ship, leading to the egg chamber not being on the ship itself. I'm sure Ridley is going to put some of the novelization in prometheus, since he mentioned the derelict as being a "bomber" the shaft to me would be a loading/unloading tube for the spores. They did mention that they felt like they were in a cargo bay. So it gives credence to the theory.

I have been starved for 30 years for anything nearing the sci-fi quality that I saw in the first Alien movie. Dimensions? Scale? Entrances (vaginae)? Routes? Descriptions in novels? Stills of matte painting analysis? All these things I have read in this post. I am 40 years old, was born in Britain and came to the US in Dec of 81. Alien aired on the BBC airwaves during a late night spot and I must have been 9 (maybe 10), and it both dazzled made the most indelible/scarring impression on me such that I have spent the last decade in deep fascination over all things "derelict spaceship" and "space-jocky" and I'm sorry to say, the recent Aliens vs Predator installment just don't feed my ds/sj hunger (a hunger that I can sense all of us here have). Prometheus will be like Christmas to me, just as the recent Tron movie was a couple of years ago and as the Hobbit will be later on this year. My point? Be glad that we're going to receive new ds/sj data. I hope they don't give it all away. I have thrived on the mystery surrounding this race and the purpose of their craft. If Prometheus does its job right, I will gain some knowledge, but be fueled on for another 30 years with unanswered questions.

@Biomechanic: you pose an interesting theory here i feel, that there is a continuity gap in ALIEN, there is a shot of the [url=http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/writing/figs/eggchamber.jpg]M A S S I V E cavern[/url] that Scott didn't account for way back when, i think if in fact the eggs are stored inside the derelict, that would explain the error nice analysis Biomech!