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Obama Zombie

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I can suspend my disbelief, but only to a point. When logic and common sense itself is violated, it makes it very difficult. Please post flaws you found, I am curious to know who else saw these, or if there were others. GROSS ERRORS OF SCIENCE: 1. Taking off your helmet on a foreign environment, despite a breathable atmosphere. You are on a foreign planet. There is biological material around you. You are in a space suit. The atmosphere reads "breathable"...so LETS TAKE OFF OUR HELMETS! No scientist would EVER even THINK about doing this. It is just so absurd. The smallest biological organism, harmless on that planet, could be a devastating pandemic to human beings who lack the evolutionary resilliency to it. When I saw all these "scientists" take off their helmets simply due to breathability, it made my skin crawl it was so idiotic. Bad writing!! 2. Lets put the head of an alien being on a table, without environmental quarrantine, and without face masks, without bodily protection, and let me get right up to it so i can smell it. Are you serious? What if this thing died of....get ready...A DISEASE! We already knew these beings died en masse, bodies piled up. For all we know, they died of a horrible disease. Yet she just touches it and smells it and breathes it...no problem. (she even said "he stinks") 3. Dumping my DNA into a river, and that somehow leads to the first human. Cmon. The premise of this movie is what is called "panspermia", ok thats totally fine. We got here from another world. But consider that if human DNA is floating around in water, then how did a human being "come out" of it? Are you saying that what came out of it was an amoeba, and then a slug, and then a jellyfish, and then a snail, and then a lizard-->bird-->dog-->ape--man? So much for the entire premise of the movie then (that we did not evolve according to darwinian theory, but instead were created) Human DNA in a river --> human being. Someone explain this to me in a way that is plausible. 4. Human DNA in river --> Cave paintings pointing towards star system. And just how am I supposed to believe this? The beginning of the movie, at least how I interpret it, shows that human beings came about because human DNA evolved into a non-human amoeba, which evolved into non-human animals, which evolved into humans...and those first humans somehow "knew" the exact location of the engineers in space. Yea, right! This is just so full of holes.
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@DustinSDowdy
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My only thought is abou the opening scene. That Engineer was banished and left there by the ship seen. He knows he must drink the goo to create the DNA that will be harvested later. I don't think he is on earth but the planet to which Prometheus travels.
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hum i dont think is possibile that after 2000 years any kind of virus is alive .... so they were right to remove helmets...they had scans and analysis ...nothing strange to me , and that dont have any kind of weight in the movie . Yes the DNA thing is a bit absurd ....like are a bit absurd all the scientific or religious theories . PS it seems that a virus without a host cant live for more than 3 days ( HIV virus 5 minutes )
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Not all infections are viral. There are bacterial infections, and parasitical infections. Here are the scientific facts: 1. The alient environment can sustain life. (breathable atmosphere, water) 2. There was complex life in this environment, as evidence by bodies 3. This environment is currently being actively sustained by working power systems 4. There are viable bacterial spores that have been found that are 40 million years old on Earth (wikiepedia this) Logic dictates....never ever take off your helmet until you run a thorough test of the environment. And as we saw..yes indeed! There was invasive predatory life in that atmosphere, easily detectable had these idiot "scientists" not been so stupid.
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Ok! First of all, your name. If you feel like you need to express your political views in your board handle I guess that is your perogative, but why be so biased. Your handle should just say, "Politicians lie" because they all do. Sorry, aside from that... dude, relax! It's a movie. A movie is not necessarily supposed to be believeable in our world but simply credible within its own paramaters. They establish that the environment is safe to breathe so that the actors can take off their helmets and not spend 80% of the film acting behind those space masks. If the imaginary tech they have can determine that the atmosphere is safe then it can probably determine if the head is safe or not. The theory that spacemen planted something in our eco-system to get the old evolutionary ball rolling is not new and does not conflict with Darwinism. What you described, the amoeba-lizard-dog thing, that IS Darwinism. Darwins theory is simply that survival of the fitest allows for slow evolutionary improvements in a species. This does not conflict with what you cal "panspermia". Anyway Im sorry you didn't like the film. I guess I just have an easier time getting emersed and not being so nitpicky since I am not a professional scientist which you obviously are.
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I'm not a professional scientist and even I was astounded by their actions in these exact situations. The precautions he is mentioning aren't detailed scientific procedures, they are common sense. The world created for this movie stated that interplanetary colonization had become fairly commonplace. l would assume safe practices would be well known at that point much like precautions for traveling abroad and to remote areas are for us.
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thanks Time. nice to know I'm not the only one who noticed these astounding common sense blunders that violate even basic high school understanding of simple biology. dannyblaqvideos: You can't be serious. You criticize me for my name while you are using these forums to market your porn site? That is pretty sick and twisted, you represent the worst of human devolution. The beginning of prometheus might as well show the deconstruction of your intelligence. Everyone reading this forum, go Google dannyblaqvideos: "My interracial site of MILFs & wives getting creamipies cleaned by cuckolds" Someone using these forums to market porn is reprehensible. I hope your name is deleted.
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There is already an entire board dedicated to this, it is called the "Prometheus Reviews (Disliked)" section. Kidding aside, I agree with your complaints about the lack of actual science that went into creating this "science fiction" film. Not sure what that porn accusation was all about though. If it was serious you should report it to the mods, if it was a lie and you were just trying to troll, then get ready for the banhammer.
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My only thought is abou the opening scene. That Engineer was banished and left there by the ship seen. He knows he must drink the goo to create the DNA that will be harvested later. I don't think he is on earth but the planet to which Prometheus travels.

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