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MemberOvomorphJune 13, 2012 What I gleaned from watching Prometheus was that the Engineers were seeking the fountain of youth. Playing with their own DNA to make themselves immortal. The elixir that the sacrificial Engineer ingested was not meant to give birth to the Cambrian period on earth, but to see if the genetic manipulation they developed would reconstruct not just a dead cell but DNA as well, as we know carcinogens can disrupt a cell at a genetic level which is in essence cancer. Doing it on earth was simply a quarantine precaution like LV-223, which is why the lone Engineer was left behind so hastily.
To be able to reconstruct a broken strand of DNA is itself immortality or at least an exorbitant life span. When Shaw and Ford stimulated the head with a few mili-amps they activated the cell regeneration effect that was a part of the Engineer's experiments. Their ignorance as to the proper catalyst for cell regeneration caused the head to overload and explode.
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