That's the lifeboat?

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Myrddin365

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[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J1BYnBx657E/T3GFiSdCzJI/AAAAAAAABC8/RQdSAeSScH0/s1600/prometheus_tv_spot_3_00008.png[/img] [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jUm8H9YwbYc/T3GFeDs9a9I/AAAAAAAABCk/V047nMymFcs/s1600/prometheus_tv_spot_3_00004.png[/img] It is the smaller ship that goes after the engineer vessel. In both shots the extra craft is in pursuit. The shot of the impact shows two thrusters hitting and that little ship has two thrusters right up front. Edit: okay the "smaller ship" is the prometheus but the other ship looks like more than a lifeboat

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March 31, 2012

@ royal jelly. I am wondering what the ship in the foreground is. Due to my faulty spatial reasoning, I thought it was the Prometheus, and the four thrustered ship was a shuttle.

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March 31, 2012

I don't even really like the Prometheus design, but all those bits of panelling and surface detail look fun to mess around with. Anyone here versed in engineering that can tell us if the design makes sense or is feasible?

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March 31, 2012

It's a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL]VTOL[/url] so with some suspension of disbelief about how it produces thrust it is technically feasible.

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March 31, 2012

If it is a ship that is supposed to be viable in Earth similar atmospheres, I don't think the design is aerodynamically viable, but if the propulsion system can compensate for that "the bumblebee still flies"

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March 31, 2012

Destroying expensive star ships in the Alien series seems to a running theme. "They can bill me" - Ripley

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March 31, 2012

@biomechanic... Ditto!

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March 31, 2012

at least there is a model for the Nostromo.. [URL=http://www.imagebanana.com/view/7x5zk5wg/nostromoblueprintenclos.jpg][IMG]http://img7.imagebanana.com/img/7x5zk5wg/thumb/nostromoblueprintenclos.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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March 31, 2012

@arcaneradio thats minus payload of course.

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March 31, 2012

I think it's whatever Charlize runs into in a panic.

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March 31, 2012

Roger that, Kane.

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March 31, 2012

Ron Cobb is an amateur engineer who thinks about all those things, and has enough knowledge to make his designs plausible. I wonder if they have anyone like that among the design team, or are they just movie artists?

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March 31, 2012

Why would he even show these scenes in the trailer. I don't want to know in advance that they crash their ship into a space jockey vessel. I want it to be a surprise. The trailer is too revealing. Sorry to complain, but this is my honest feeling.

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March 31, 2012

@NOW! Im with you, but it looks like they have a backup, But lets be honest. I don't think anyone is making it home..

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March 31, 2012

I'm going to laugh (and rejoice) if all the SJ/Prometheus crew stuff is only about half the running time or less, and there is a whole bunch of stuff after or before that.

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March 31, 2012

What if this is not really an action movie? But they have to sell it to action movie fans, and so they put a few really big action sequences in as teasers? It would have been hard to make an action movie trailer out of Alien.

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March 31, 2012

OH Come you people .. The prometheus ship is the best looking ship in years

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i don't think them crashing their ship into the space jockey ship is at the end of the film i think it hapends mid way in the film. i think the is still lots that go's on after the prometheus go's black hawk down.i think the space jockey in the ship that crashers back to the planet trys to take the humen ship that we see in the pic upabove to finish there plan...i'm probly rong ha

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March 31, 2012

The scene you speak of is a clip from the end of the movie. The damaged android sends a signal to the ship to home in and hit. He also instructs it to leave a drop ship for the two who escape. You can see these two fleeing as large debris hits the ground. The alien ship vapourises leaving no trace. On one of the Moons is another craft...we hear a scream of anger and fear as it meets it new creation.

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March 31, 2012

@ncc1701 ... I with ya on that one ... great looking ship ... Notice how weird that Weyland-Yutani are pasted all over the model drawing of the Nostromo when they wern't actually merged when the ship was in service ... bit of a mistake there? ... Also if you look at the Nostromo plans you can see the basic shape for Prometheus ... the VTOL thrusters have been improved ... Another thing ... out of the Alien/s movies, Promethus is the only ship to be named as the movie itself ...