Directions to Aliens home planet

I don't think that information has been given yet. But my guess is the drawings/paintings/etchings all date to a single period. How long of a period...?

Chimera, It has been over a millenia. One of the Pictographs is Sumerian (First known civilization) circa 6K-4K BC, they also mention Aztec and their civilization didn't begin until around 6th Century AD. So yeah they've been dropping us hints for years. You realize part of the Prometheus story line is based on the Ancient Astronaut Theory, and Eric Von Daniken's Book Chariots of the Gods. Regards, Rick

I think that the etchings are a trap that are coordinates were the Space jockey's planted a ship that would upon discovering and exploration it would travel back to earth and destroy the human race and restart

it was said in one recent interview .." the Engineers did help humanity with advanced technology all over our history " ( more or less )

Frantz, Hey bud that falls along the ancient astronaut theory. They've been giving us little trinkets/tools and tweaking our DNA for thousands of years. Regards, Rick

If the Engineers are completely sinister, then they may have only have seeded our planet for raw materials for their biomechanical war machine. A race that could achieve space travel had developed a large enough population to "harvest." It would make sense that they would give little boosts along the way like a farmer pruning and tending the crop. The faster technology advances, the faster the population grows. Despite war, famine, and disease the human population has grown more in the last 200 years than it has in the 2000 before that. I bet they fed recent new info to the Illuminati. j/k Too much cheesy conspiracy theory already. If this is true, which it may not be, the engineer race is pure, unadulterated, f@#*ed up evil.

illuminati, lol. Oh wait I'm playing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (top game BTW) which as well as having a character use a matrix device to live out the memories of past lives stored in his DNA, also has Assassin's and Templars fighting over two Pieces of Eden, which are actually alien technology left behind by advanced aliens that gifted use with intelligence, before being destroyed by a solar flare. And when I bought 'em I thought they was just about an assassin out for revenege.

is this involvement going to be shown in the first 15mins of the film? i'm under the impression that the veiny guy at the waterfall (with the saucer in the background) is an ancestor of sorts, probably wrong

@Myrddin365 This is deeply flawed - a race that can achieved Space travel would have had a "large" population long, long before they could leave the planet. Earth's population was in the Billions when we discovered powered flight, let alone actually left the Earth. If they've been visiting to, "tend the crop", they could have "harvested" it on any number of occasions? There has to be a lot more to it than just the numbers of available Humanity.

Maybe this movie will hint to how they had vistited us for many years untill something may have gone wrong with their civilisation preventing them from visiting us again? Or maybe a handfull had remained on Earth but was punished for giving us fire. Who knows...

As Shaw seems to be a believer in God and her faith is shattered by what she sees on the planet, it could be that we are nothing more than toys, pets etc, and of little interest. Plenty of people ascribe human behaviours and meaning to the actions of dogs, and its fair to say we have done the same with gods. If they're just as messed up as us it would come as a shock. I think one of the engineers will rape a crewmember, ridley slipped up in one of the interviews and said there would be horrifying rapes etc, i can't think of something more horrifying to shaw than that tbh.

@Windood...."ridley slipped up in one of the interviews and said there would be horrifying rapes etc" When did he slip up with that...I don't believe he's ever said anyone was getting raped.

yes surely Ridley didnt talk about rapes ...he did say he was "embarassed" to talk about a scene ( and can be the squid removal from shaw's belly )

If their really are directions can I get a copy of them please someone? I am planning my own private excursion with that Rich "Brandon whatever" guy.

@Windood Without support for that - and where, "revealing slip-up's", are under discussion - a person might be inclined to think that it is you, rather than Scott, who is committing them.

@allinamberclad While any theory has its flaws, and speculation doubly so, It's the simplest explanation for why when the Engineer ship leaves, Shaw is convinced that the earth is in dire straits. Invasion, annihilation or assimilation are the most likely probabilities. Given that human beings appear to be susceptible to infection by their engineered plagues, then that must be how they produce more tech. If all of their tech revolves around biomechanics, then what are their raw materials if not appropriately sized organisms. It could even be argued that we were "designed" to be perfect hosts for their stuff. Why would there have to be more to it than that? At least if they are harvesting us they have a logical purpose other than wholesale slaughter for just plain giggles. The capacity for FTL travel and ability to find the Engineer planet may also give them an opportunity to "sample the batch" and conclude that we've reached a genetic level of evolution to be a viable vehicle for their "Engineering." Last of all, I'd say that if they gave us little boosts along the way, it was by a single Engineer or very small group of Engineers that remain under the radar on earth and feed the appropriate advances at times they choose, but they do not have the capabilities to begin a harvest, nor do they need to, because that is what LV-223 is for. It could be argued that Weyland has been influenced by one of these "boosts" because the population has reached acceptable volume. All that being said, it's just fun to speculate and then see how truly far off we all will be.

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@Myrddin365 ?... You may say it is the "simplest explanation", but that seems another contest completely - I was only pointing out that the conclusion on which you based your entire line of reasoning - and your explanation - did not seem quite sound? You concluded that the fact that a Race develops space travel is definitive of their achieving a population density large enough to harvest, [where population is the defining issue and where harvest of that population, for whatever purpose, was the Engineers agenda]. I was only pointing out that the conclusion in this really cannot be correct - as, if population density were the defining issue, that will have been achieved perhaps centuries before the Race would be able to travel in Space, so the correlation is not direct. Furthermore, as I did say, if the Engineers were, “tending their crop”, as you suggest, they would obviously already know that population density was achieved? With that knowledge, for what possible purpose would they await centuries for us to develop Space travel, in order for us to travel to them, for them to travel back and harvest us - when what, according to you, they’d be interested in, was simply density of population? Would they not just harvest us as part of their, “crop tending”, activities? This doesn't seem to have much reason: it was [i]that,[/i] as a position, I suggested there had to be "more to" - and, (while the conclusion I query still seems to be the basis for what you’re saying), as what you’ve said, [i]now,[/i] seems, quite substantially, different from what you said, [i]then,[/i] I can only take from this that you agreed with me.

This is all very interesting speculation regarding the SJs agenda. I like the idea that we were bread as a component of their bio-mechanical end-product, the Alien creature. We're just "raw materials" breed suitably for face-hugger rape.

Maybe the ship is heading to earth because we set of a booby trap of sorts and were deemed dangerous. Maybe that trap is designed to protect the universe from us as a species. A sort of test of our morality that we fail and send that ship heading off to earth.