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Compilation of Scientific Errors

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GROSS ERRORS OF SCIENCE THAT I NOTED [b]1. Taking off your helmet on a foreign environment, despite a breathable atmosphere.[/b] Reason: We know on earth that spores can last millions of years. The smallest biological organism, harmless on an alien 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 destroyed the believability. How did the writers overlook this? [b]2. Alien Autoposy without quarrantine.[/b] 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. 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") [b]3. Dumping human DNA into a river, and that somehow leads to the first human.[/b] (Assuming that the opening scene is the seeding of primordial earth) 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? Is that what the movie is saying happened? [b]4. Cave paintings when humans came from DNA in a river:[/b] Consider the following: 1. Human beings came about from micro-evolution due to alien seeding on our planet and millions of years of evolution. THEREFORE, 2. How did our early ancestors know the exact location of the alien world? If our ancestors evolved from jellyfish and amoebas that came from alien DNA, by what basis would they know where the star system was? [b]5. Alien locked in a sanitized surgical room grows to 100x its original size without a food source.[/b] How does an organic biological being increase its organic mass in a sterile environment? There is no food in there. Am I supposed to believe this alien is simply feasting on plastics and computer terminals?
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Drexlspivey
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The "NON-flame retardant environment suit". I mean come on. The suit Halloway was wearing should have been fire resistant if nothing else.
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Of course, there's the classic: --Slice --Rip --Staple method of abortion.
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Jdax8
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Spell check approved and very well written
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Inquisitor Tremayne
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@Obama Zombie 1. agree 2. agree 3. humans were already here according to the timeline - the engineers merely helped them evolve. not really a let down point of the story - in my opinion! 4. agree the painting were not necessary 5. nobody knows what an alien would require to grow, sustain, etc... to increase its mass, accelerate growth, etc... in Alien (the original) - the Alien grows quickly w/o having any additional food/sustenance! from chestburster to full size alien in hours!
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@ jdax - Can you please use a full stop/period in your post. Thank you.
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Space ship engines make sound in space. Space ship engines run all the way to destination. Space ship 100x bigger than it has to be. Gravity on space ship. With the ability to create artifical gravity in a space ship why bother with thrusters for landing? Space ship has 'nuclear ion' engines, but crew walks around with LED flashlights. No moisture condensors in space suit helmets - something even Apollo astronauts had. Atmosphere inside citadel was different than outside. Noted in plot but not explained. Alien organisms growing from nothing to monsterous sizes, etc.
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Whydonttheyfreezehim yes I will. Thank you
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Agreed on all points. It's a panspermia of sorts with these monk scientists, I believe. The lack of probes, drones and robots in terms of scientific & security protocols offended my sensibilities as well. $3 trillion and you allow these extraordinarily unscientific/unprofessional scientists just bulldoze their way off of your ship, upon the surface, enter an alien structure with out robot probes or at least David or several lesser droids, damage & remove important; perhaps dangerous items from the site and then the EXACT geologist who maps the site, GETS LOST? Don't even get me started on the Phantom Menace approach to treating the technology in a retroactive manner. I'll probably give it a second viewing due to Cavalorn's livejournal blog about it: http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html It's still a pretty, but extremely weak attempt at enlargening a previously believable universe and mythology, with boring dialogue, overly attractive casting, boring character archetypes and nonsense cliched ending.
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I have to agree with the carelessness/errors and plot holes all over the movie. Did anyone notice Shaw had no gloves when the Juggernaut was coming down on her. Full flesh skin and then incredibly she had them on when jumping out of the Juggernaut with David?
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interestingly enough, one piece of technology i really liked from the movie was the floating orb 3d mapping drones, which could actually be created today with a quadcopter and a kinect.
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@ jdax - Can you please use a capital 'Y' at the start of your sentence. Also, you forgot the 'S' at the end of "thank", did you not? Thank you. ;)
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1. If I remember correctly, one of the scientists scanned the air and declared that it was purer than Earth's air. I assume this scan would check for any thing harmful. 2.A scan was made of the Engineer's head and determined that it had no contaminants. The one doctor stated they were okay to remove the surgical masks they were wearing. 3.This is really hard to judge considering nobody knows how human life began. Therefore, the idea in the movie is as plausible as any other. 4. I thought they stated the Engineers visited Earth periodically to check on us. This may have come from an interview with Ridley Scot but I am pretty sure this was stated as the case. My problem with this is why give us a map that provides the location of a WMD manufacturing facility instead of the Engineer's home world. 5.I believe the Xenomorph grew in this manner. If you look at the first Alien movie, the Xenomorph on the Nostromo was full grown before it killed anybody, minus the chest bursting scene, so it did not eat the people. Unless that guy was running around the Nostromo stealing food, then he grew without the addition of food.
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@jdax time to update your spell checking functions! You should have noticed that it is quarantine and not quarrantine! ;) @Redleader I too noticed Shaw not wearing gloves when she enters the Juggernaut. The first thing I thought was that she picked up David's gloves on her way out (my brain couldn't unconsciously bear one more blunder!)
Ridley Scott will eventually tell us how the Queen was born. Right now we have the Deacon; coming soon the Mercury, the May and the Taylor.
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Yeah... I have to admit some of the scientific blunders in this movie were laughably stupid of a supposedly trans-galactic scientific team. Good lord. //rolling eyes How about those fish bowls they put on their heads? - Did they get those at the acquarium section of Petsmart? 10 for $10.00? Christ guys...... we just landed on an alien planet, some 35 BILLION miles from Earth.... and let's hop down out of our spaceship, ride in in the first 6 hours, take off our helmets and start licking the walls!! Woo Hoo!! Again.............. //rolling eyes. They could have applied a little common sense in the production of this movie to keep the "reality" hounds at bay. As it is,..... some of the mistakes are ridiculous.
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And let's not forget the one that always is disobeyed by writers: Thou shalt not exceed the speed of light. Besides the enormous amount of energy it would require, there's that pesky Einsteinian law that states that mass approaches infinity as one approaches light speed (IF it could be done). Unless we can find a way around that, we aren't going anywhere. But, this is only the 21st century. Let's face it, one of the most important "rules" of sci fi is that you must suspend disbelief.
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My cellphone let me down I do apologize.
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The first scientific error I noticed was when David was quietly observing Shaw's dreams/memories of speaking with her father about belief in an afterlife. Why does she appear as a little girl in her memories? Would she not remember things from a first person perspective from the inside looking out into the world as opposed to that of third observer? How is David able to observe these memories from a "fly-on-the-wall" perspective when no such memory exists unless there were a third person there?
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Carbon dating a non-terrestial being. The accuracy of carbon dating depends on the ratio of Carbon 12 to that of Carbon 14 on earth. The environment the engineers exist in may be depleted or even super saturated with Carbon 14 with respect to earth. Possibly, the decapitated engineer was in a remarkable state of preservation because it was killed as the Prometheus landed. It only appeared to be 2000 years old due to low levels of environmental Carbon 14.

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