Engineer's Bad Luck With Spacehips

you give for sure that are two different spaceships :p ....

Well one ends up crashed the other we are not sure how it got there and we may never know. So maybe Weyland wants to offer driving lessions and in trade the secrets of life. I agree they dont seem to know how to drive very well.

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That is called a STAR system. Ours is the solar system (around the star Sol, international name for the Sun).

maybe LV-223 is actually LV-426 and the company has some reason to disguise one planet as another...being uncharted, it would be pretty easy to do that, its just a matter of switching numbers around.

The one in "Alien" didn't appear to be crashed. Abandoned, maybe, yes... but I think it was the pilot's bad case of "indigestion" that wound up keeping it there, rather than the ship being damaged. I could be wrong, but that's what I see in the film.

I for one, can't believe there will be 2 separate boneship crashes. Somehow, the one that crashes in Prometheus IS the one we see (saw) in the orginial ALIEN.

I agree, they suck.

Ridley Scott has mentioned that the ship in Alien landed. Not crashed. What happens after that is anyones guess and hopefully won't be covered in Prometheus as that is way to direct a tie in and way to silly.

You have a ship that is rammed by another ship. I'm assuming the derelict is a cosmic vessel that can navigate and circumvent the wonders and terrors of the universe (black holes, neutron stars, gamma ray busters, galactic black holes, ...ect). Yet when these vessels are crashed by another vessel (or the crew is infected by foreign body) , intricate and integral machinery are destroyed, the derelict still remains in one peace. I don't know, but am I missing something? I think these ships have a profound safety history considering they stay intact and don't blow up.

How can you make that deduction without knowing how many croissant shops DIDN'T crash? We could be talking about an enviable safety rate if we are dealing with numerous flights over several millenia. Not to mention that the ship from Alien clearly landed on its own power and the one from Prometheus was intentionally rammed by a bunch of crazy aliens. Can't really blame the pilots for either of those.