It is not a telescope it is...

yes, and it also acts as a telescope to see where its firing :)

It's a penis....

Fascinating Technology.

@Svanya ... What the penis? ... you betcha ... :) ...

good one

you people crack me up

A penis able to shoot it's eggs across the galaxy, most impressive. . .

Why not :)

It's a cannon which shoots eggs to implant life on a distant planet. So basically you can consider it as a penis as it also contributes creation of life. Though the species being sent to that planet might have destructive powers and means ^^

So it's a destructive, life-giving penis that can see really far away? I'm confused.

Until proved otherwise, I'm definately imagining that the 'space-jockey' seat is really a 'gun-emplacement' for firing several 'ampules' at once towards various planets when the 'derelict'-ship(s?) are nearby them...to 'seed' them with their contents... There's also a shot of 'David' approaching what looks like stacked columns of numerous 'ampules', and I agree with those that have said this is an 'armoury' room of some sort where they have been neatly stacked ready for use...possibly in VARIOUS combinations... The clincher for me at this stage, is the fact that when the very tip of the 'gun-emplacement' is seen rising up towards us from a 'birds-eye' view angle, there seems to be about a dozen 'ampules' pre-loaded into it. I don't have time to add the photo of this at the moment, but I'm sure most will know what shot I'm meaning. The only thing I'm not sure about is where this 'seeding' gun will exit the 'derelict' to do this. Perhaps the 'window' area directly above opens up somehow, or there's another 'opening' for the 'ampules' to fire through instead... I think...

No no no.....Just a plain old fashion, space jockey throbbing member....

ok so it maybe a big cannon or a big telescope ? But why either ? your in a spaceship why not just fly there ? my own personal theroy is its a scanner used to create the start maps fly to a new part of space set it off and it maps all the start systems planets and galaxys ! But I've been proved wrong before !