Lets talk about flutes

If a flute is good enough for Willy Wonka, its good enough for the engineers. Obviously its the first choice for 'creative' types.

and what about those Rowntree's Fruit Gum buttons?

I didn't see anything wrong with it myself

I wonder if Apple with ditch Siri and put flute control on the next iPhone

The nextlv426 - laugh my goddamn ass off dude!!!!

loool flute control...how about a pointing device which is operated with the ballsack?

i kind of like the flute . it gave me this sort of down to earth (humane) feeling . the buttons looked quite organic so it kind of merged with the biomechanical control system (merging)# there might be some bigger ideas about this flute you hate but we really do not know , there may be some kid of significance to it in the sequel if there will be any . By the way i did enjoy the movie , i thought that the pace was by far to fast , it felt that it rushes to somwehere but then it didnt in the end . i loved the opening credits scene and the first spaceship . it fucking looked and sounded amazing . the problem with me was just that i put the bar to high and my expectations were really to high and even though i really loved the movie i was slightly dissapointed . but it was only my fault cause i ve been visiting this website reguralily for the past 6 months .

The flute, haha! When David knocked out a wee riff I then fell off the edge of the doubting cliff at a velocity only f15 eagles can achieve! Strewth! I was expecting Jethro Tull to appear next!!

I'd like to shove that effing flute up Ridley Scotts ass for that abortion he has created... Twat...

Well we did have a keyboard in Close Encounters of the Third Kind so it doesn't seem THAT silly.

this is it ... you people expected so fucking much , you have been having these (wicked) theories, seen everything that was possibly to seen , and eventually been spoiled . .. Why the fuck you are so dissapointed . it's your own fault , but maybe you spent so much masturbating in toilet, you geeks, that you forgot about the pure pleasure ....?

jelly buttons flute key nothing wrong with either of those concepts, until, someone on here pointed out that DAVID DOESN'T BREATHE. Is this true? I mean, I know he 'doesn't need to breath' hence no helmet needed on alien world but "Can he not emit a wind from his face opening?" Uh-Oh. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9LomMnhLY]flute playing clip[/url]

he's designed to look as human as possible, he wares a suit to make humans feel comfortable as he explained, so how hard is it to put a "useless" breathing device in him? to look human. there are other electrical devices "blowing", it's not magic

Riedley is a good director, he is not Spielberg. If there is a gun, hanging on a wall, it is not just a decor, like it in Spielberg's movie would be. Riedley's gun on a wall will shot in the end of his drama, just like Anton Chekhov told. If Ridley paid so much attention to this flute - there is a sense in it. Lately I'll start few topics to discus with you what i think about that, cause I saw the movie 2 days ago and I just can't stop solving Riedley's puzzle :))

This is the funniest thread on the forums. I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my chair! Seriously giggling away here! Yeah the flute was lame, and were so the big squishy buttons. They reminded me of something you get on a baby's toy, fisher price or early learning centre where you push the big buttons and get animal noises!!! Something more sinister and creepy would have been better, like a load of tentacles coming out and attaching or inserting themselves in to the arm or even head.

facebugger, dude, the director was Riedley Scott, not the Wachowskis brothers ;)

[i]Aside from the voice, flutes are the earliest known musical instruments. A number of flutes dating to about 43,000 to 35,000 years ago have been found in the Swabian Alb region of Germany. These flutes demonstrate that a developed musical tradition existed from the earliest period of modern human presence in Europe.[1][2][/i] source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flute#Etymology THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND YEARS, why does that sound familiar? And it's (probably) an Indian flute ... I'm more and more convinced this Engineer lineage is a combined 'enhancer' or 'borrower' Society, hence the hieroglyphs from all over the universe.