prometheus era tech earlier AND better

@aintnozeno Yes you make good points and ones i tried to touch upon regards to the Derelict differences. Look at BSG Vipers from the 80's and the newer ones and they have slight differences but you can recognise they are the same craft, the Cylon Raiders however have changed. When they made Alien in 1979 if they had the Technology of Today then the Scale and Detail of the Ships etc would be better. The Nostromo would have flat panel monitors and not the 70's/80's efforts the reason they was like that was maybe we never knew we would have flat sceens in future but mainly the Technology in Special Effects could not create stuff like that back then. Only in the late 80's did Special Effects start to snowball.

@allinamberclad The original question wasn't about an interpretation. You might have had more luck starting a new discussion that dealt with interpretations, or simply discussing it with me so I could clarify, as opposed to... doing whatever it was that you did. I don't even remember now. Yes the question was loaded, and that should have told you something, i.e. you could have interpreted that I wasn't really talking about what you were talking about, as long as we're interpreting. This began as a misunderstanding as only continues to tangentialize into ever more idiotic territory. I hope to get along with everyone here. No reason to argue. We're all excited about Prometheus. I'll just finally say this: you're right, I'm wrong, I'm an idiot, you're awesome, I was unclear and stupid, and you fixed it. Thank you for fixing it.

Geez... this kind of topic has become the MOST annoying & tiresome thing about this movie. We now live in a world where Kindergarden kids know how to operate an iPad and every flipping tween has an HD touchscreen smartphone for crying out loud. If some of you have a need to see some old Commodore PET's or Apple II computers masquerading as high-tech equipment, just go watch one of those $750,000 made for SyFy (see fee?? sif-fy?) Channel extravaganzas starring Lorenzo Lamas or Antonio Sabbato Sr.? Jr.?

Thanks for the honesty Phil. Was just asking if the filmmakers addressed it! SERENITY NOW!