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Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 12:49 AMOn the 20th of September, 1996, a planet was discovered orbiting the star Zeta 2 Reticuli which is a G1V similar to Earths Sol.Zeta 2 Retituli is a G1V spectral class star, the Sun is a G2V. They are both “G” class main sequence stars, the difference between the “2” and the “1” indicates that Zeta 2 Reticuli is a little hotter than the Sun. The higher the middle number the lower the temperature. The “V” means they are both main sequence (middle age) stars but given Zeta 2 Reticuli’s higher temperature, and lower metallicity, it is probably older than the Sun by appoximately 2 to 8 billion years. Those crazy engineers are like interstellar Energizer batteries kids.
Now this big quarter of a Jupiter mass planet is in an orbit about Zeta 2 Reticuli which lasts 18.9 days and has a Semi-Major Axis of 0.14 Astronomical Unit (AU). For comparison Mercury has a Semi-Major Axis of 0.387 AU equal to 36 million miles and Earth has a Semi-Major Axis of 1.00 AU equal to 92.9 million miles. Now if we assume that this newly discovered planet, which we will name Reticulum 1 in accordance with Bob Lazar’s convention, is the closest one to Zeta 2 Reticuli (it’s hard to imagine a closer one), then following Bode’s Law (the law which states each planet is about twice the distance from it’s sun as its inner neighbor) Reticulum 2 should be at 0.28 AU, Reticulum 3 should be at 0.56 AU and, INTERESTINGLY, Reticulum 4 would be at 1.12 AU in between the Earth’s 1.00 AU and Mars’s 1.52 AU, well within the “life-zone” of a G class star! Now for the strange part, four days after announcing the discovery of this new planet, the statement was retracted, and the explanation given was that it was a distortion caused by irregular pulsations of the star.
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elder
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 1:14 AMi think its amazing that this might play into prometheus, its funny that lateley people have been into the whole ancient alien, chariots of the gods subject some people tie these theorys with 2012, the return of our creators, niburu, annunaki and not only that but even conspiracy has a hand in ancient aliens theory, political greed the illuminati and corporate corruption by lizard people older then us. i think all these themes will be touched on in the slightest, i belive that life is everywhere and i can almost bet there is life within a lifetime of travel, what do they think. are they smarter or just like us and when they look into the night sky can they see our sun and wonder if we exist. sorry for the rant just really excited about this movie

Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 1:34 AM@Elder, thank you for the courtesy of an ellaborate and open minded reply. I have enjoyed reading so many of your postings, especially those that demonstate more than a little imagination and acceptance that this is SCIENCE FICTION, there are no facts, it isn't real, canon is the domain of fiction, and it's subject to the mechanizations of each and every author that pens additions to it as well as the imaginations of every person who reads it. The facts are always stranger than fiction and the REALITY would probably upset so many of the rigid little clique that pats one another on the back until they are proven utterly wrong by someone who had no preconceptions and kept an open mind. Ridley can do whatever he wants with this franchise, he was there at it's creation, and with this film he's going to take it one step further and peel away some of the mysteries that have resisted the passage of four decades.

elder
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 1:52 AMagreed 100 percent. when i first saw alien i found it boring in the beggining and passed out, i then awoke to find the crew in front of a huge "thing" in the chair. thats what kept me awake to finish the movie, i love the xenomorph but i think its time to return to the main idea ( the eggs where found on an alien ship ), many are up set becuase it is shown that the jockey might be a suit. IMO it does not matter if its a alive, a suit an infected crew member or even freakin elmo haha jk. i know sir ridley knows what to do i mean they guy redeemd hannibals horrible book (in my opinion of course) and made it into an awsome movie.

Biomechanic
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 1:55 AMDid you guys know that the Zeta 2 Reticuli system was actually chosen as the backdrop for Alien because the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_and_Barney_Hill_abduction]Betty and Barney Hill abduction[/url] story was fresh in everyones mind.
You can't expect to tell an interesting story on science alone.

elder
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 1:58 AMlol @ SXV first time seeing the word conspiranoia haha and cant stop saying it lol
i want look into my huge space book and see if they have anything on the zeta 2 system , do u think prometheus will the same moon the nostronomo did?

skyguy1054
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 11:19 AM@ Bio
I noticed on the Wiki page for Zeta 2 Reticuli that the star map provided in interviews with Betty and Barney Hill looks like the one referred to in the trailer. Has anyone posted a side by side?
TKfanboy421
MemberOvomorphMar-22-2012 1:24 PM@elder, I don't know why people are hating the idea that the S/J space suit/pilot's suit, is a suit. in the trailer it looks like it is bio-mech, being living tissue that assimilates onto it's subject to create an environmental barrier between the subject and the exterior. (And that is freaking fantastic!) Which makes me think that the alien ship, is like an open air atrium and when it travels through space, the vacuum of space is freely on the inside of the ship, possibly to travel via sub light speed, i.e faster than prometheus's new FTL travel. Physics says that the maximum speed is the speed of light, but that is the great thing about sci-fi, -what if the S/J's are that advanced and that alien to where they have the capability to travel faster than faster-than-light? , i'm steering of my own subject here....

Biomechanic
MemberOvomorphMar-23-2012 2:35 AM@skyguy
[img]http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/7831636/img/Prometheus-Trailer/vlcsnap-2012-03-17-22h00m14s220.png[/img]
The star cluster found on the cave painting in Prometheus.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Zeta_reticuli.png[/img]
Margorie Fish interpretation of Betty Hill’s purported alien star map.
I think the similarities are too striking to be a coincidence.
I started a new topice [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/2334]Betty and Barney Hill Abduction[/url] if anyone wants to discuss it further.

Ripley Clone 8
MemberOvomorphMar-23-2012 2:54 AMYou have a very interesting point Biomechanic!
http://i.imgur.com/vbAPQY6.gif
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