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How a Derelict Works!

Ender

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[img]http://www.imageurlhost.com/images/2npb8ao6tt5gzsif9q.jpg[/img] Talk of the derelict spinning in flight were fairly common back when we were looking at + 140 days on the countdown. It seems to have died down of late but I think its a sound theory. Maybe the Derelict spins as it flies to facilitate time travel! I think the cockpit stays stationary as the rest of the ship spins around at high velocity allowing time to pass either forward or backwards outside the cockpit while the occupants remain unaffected. So basically the cannon and sarcophagi in the spherical centre of the ship are the traveling quarters of the Space Jockeys much like our cryo chambers. As much as I think time travel will not improve Prometheus, I think it will feature. There is no other way to explain the Jockeys appearance over the primordial waterfall on Earth or the vast intergalactic distances achieved by the SJ's which are implied by the star map. Just a theory, fingers crossed there will be no time travel but considering the evidence - its a distinct possibility.
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Mmmmm. Alien bacon.
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Poor, poor facehuggers [img]http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x368/bipolarestancia/scrambled-eggs.jpg[/img]
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You cant be serious EVERYTHING on the ship would have to be bolted down because the centrifugal force would hurl it out against hull. The center of the ship would have to be a seperate segment for it to stay stationary. The images we have seen show the ship as a single piece.
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or maybe it's through a wormhole as in "Contact" [img]http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x368/bipolarestancia/11357450_gal.jpg[/img]
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Also pretty hard to ram your ship into the back of it if it spinning. Hate to be stuck in one if the prongs - it would be like riding on one if those Vomitron rides at the carnivals.
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I hope it didn't come across that I was in agreement about the ship spinning, because to my little brain it seems preposterous!
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@ MidnightHorrors - they already bolt stuff down on ships, its called "stowing" I dont think that would be a problem for the Engineers. Plus look at the star cannon and the sarcophagi. They look like they're mounted on a turntable - designed for the ship to rotate around them.
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in fact the idea of time travel is not very original, is an easy way to explain it all or as many would prefer to call "Occam's razor"
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Yes, you are right there too up to a point, invaderzim42
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If this were any other film..it would be really ingenious..but those pictograms are really old....I don't see how time travel would come into play. Edit-...the strobo effect WOULD present just such an image as a soild disk
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It could perhaps function to something of a similar nature a the 'phenomenon' that created The sPhilidelphia Experiment where-by machine generators called: Degaussers rappidly spun in either a clockwise or anti-clockwisemontion. The effect in-turn created an alleged feed-back loop that 'caused' the Eldri dge to supposedly 'de-construct' it's photon-molecular structure and 'phase-out' of existence. If not out of existence then certainly out of sight thats for damn sure!!! Out form the Philidelphia harbour. Maybe the 'Juggernaught' if it spins which inevitalbly i don't think it will would maybe do something simmilar. Just thought provoking thats all.
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It's o.k. W2rh0und. We may not put you into the Egg silo just yet. But at the same time, I'M GOING to be WATCHING you!!! lol!
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They connect (dock) with much larger ships that orbit the universe.
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Or in the great words of the master.... Derek Zoolander Derelict [img]http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj553/klaatu67/derelicteimages.jpg[/img]
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how about [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/3184]this[/url]?
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I always thought the shape of the ship was the depiction of influencing specific interactions of nano particles, interacting in concert with each other while effecting larger particles to create lift. The shape could reflect the way macro Newtonian physics and quantum physics interacts, unifying in a very specific way, reflecting the shape of the derelict or juggernaut. Just a thought.
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Well we dont see it like that in the movie, and this is just got to be a fan made idea. This does not make the Juggernaught apear like a Flying Saucer as it does in the Water Fall scene i dont buy it. Also landing a object that flys as such would be hard as the craft is not semetric enough. Go throw a Boomerang and then a Stick thats shaped a bit like one and compare, this craft would be better designed to be more streamlined if it was indended to be flown in that manner.

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This is obviously a fan made idea! I'm suggesting the ship only spins while in space not atmospheric flight. Maybe the spin function doesn't provide for time travel, but I think the ship does spin due to the rotational nature of the cockpit. I can't see any other methods of propulsion that are obvious on the ship so possibly the rotating facilitates some sort of forward motion? Who knows Obviously the tech on the SJ's is not meant to be comprehendible to us or anyone for that matter since its entirely fictional.
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Sorry guys but you can't be serious?!? This is utter nonsense, technically as well as in any other aspect. The simple displacement of a huge mass like this would spiral out of control in seconds, tearing the ship into shreds!! If the the 'cockpit/starmap room was in the center of mass, it would still be virtually impossible. But hey, we're talking science-fiction here... I know.
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Ender....great post! @newtella....I agree the spinning would be a great defense mechanism. What is the problem with all you guys and time travel? i happen to find it fascinating. Does that make me a faux Alien fan??? I think not.

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