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Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphJun-24-2012 10:31 AMAll I can say is that some of the people on this site needed to be involved in the making of Prometheus, it would have been a film that utterly redefined intelligent science fiction. My question is two fold. First if we accept that STASIS technology suspends cellular decay/metabolism allowing crews and possibly perishables to survive long space, or temporal voyages intact, would it not also pause the gestation of an alien embryonic form in it's host organism? The other sarcophagi in the ship appeared to have holes blown in their covers suggesting that their contents were disturbed by an infestation. This can either be interpreted as the process doesn't affect gestation, or like Alien 3 the hosts were infected by the intrusion of an organism into the sarcophagus. I was merely wondering which theory is popular? I did note that the engineer technology apparently involved the attachment of various tubules to himself at different points which detached forcibly when David terminated the stasis, so perhaps their method is different than the one used by Weyland Corporation. Also before anyone flames me for duplicating a thread, I did put various Aliens affected by stasis, stasis/alien combinations and nothing came up.
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Cypher
Co-AdminMemberOvomorphJun-24-2012 10:34 AMThat's something I've said from the first day I joined this site, and in my review of the movie too ;-)
Another question I had was how does David COMMUNICATE with Weyland if the old man is still asleep? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, unless I missed something..................... Which I really don't think I did but you never know...............
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Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphJun-24-2012 10:44 AM Hello Cypher, I'm unable to formulate a reply to your query at this time....
In all honesty I think that Weyland has been leapfrogging across time extending his life span. I think that periodically he has been raised out of stasis, at least to a point where he can receive updates, and give instructions to those charged with his care. Oddly with all the technology and data mapping available to these citizens of Earth, I'm just happy that they didn't add cloning technology to the mix. Otherwise Weyland might not have needed an engineer to supply him with additional life. Sits back for a moment....oh no....no, no, no, NO!
Richie
MemberOvomorphJun-24-2012 10:49 AMI would definetly be intrested in knowing about a device that can preserve you for 2000 years with little or no effect....Right there is immortality of whihc weyland was looking for....The implications are many here. BTW, having a place to rest undisturbed is of primary emphasized importance too
@cypher..most worthy point made..Even Vickers wants to know what the old man said....Whihc means she does not have access to him...DELIBERATELY. I can only conclude that David who can read and monitor dreams may also interact with them too...something a human cannot do. Sort of machine to machine talking
Cypher
Co-AdminMemberOvomorphJun-24-2012 10:51 AMDammit NO ONE can answer a lot of the questions this thing prompted! I wanted ANSWERS not moar QUESTIONS!!! Well, yes actually I wanted both answers to old and questions anew....... If that makes sense. Blame the time and the coffee if it doesn't :-D
But it looked like wearing that helmet may have given David access to Weyland's dream state, and I know for a fact people can talk to me and have a rip-roaring conversation with me whilst I'm asleep............................ So maybe it isn't that far-fetched.
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MemberTrilobiteJun-24-2012 10:55 AMI suspect that maybe David was able to communicate with Weyland by allowing the brain to wake up, but not the rest of his body - so to speak.
Regards the gestation issue, only thing I can theorize is that the Xenomorph has been engineered to not be affected by stasis, or it may be a unforeseen side effect of the creatures insanely high metabolism.
Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphJun-24-2012 11:05 AM@Snorkelbottom, if that's the case rather not ready to visit the homeworld of the engineers sitting on top of a payload of rapidly evolving mutagenic ampules. Very hard to be interpretted as friendly when you bring those to a party. Oh this occurred to me, if they were on Lv-223 for two days before the films credits rolled, Shaw had time to repair David and also time for the little Deacon to sniff them out and get aboard before she launched on New Years Day, which incidentally is my birthday.
Gavin
MemberTrilobiteJun-24-2012 11:09 AMNot necessarily true Ghost, check [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/7023]this thread[/url] for an indepth look as to the nature of and ramifications of the contents of the ampules.
Batchpool
MemberFacehuggerJun-27-2012 12:48 PM@ Ghost
Throughout all Alien films no alien embryo has ever been put in stasis, unless I’ve missed something somewhere. If you bear this in mind and watch Alien, and the conversations between Ripley, Dallas and Ash about the facehugger, I think will see their characters in a different light and realise why Ripley was for blowing the space hugger into space and not being returned home for study. Also, imo Ash knew that putting Kane into stasis would be pointless.
@Cypher
I don’t know if you are familiar with Dark Star, but there is a scene where the crew need to talk to the technically dead Captain Doolittle, but whose remains are in stasis. I think that could possibly answer your David enquiry. I think the Way Peter Weyland talks to David is a development from what we see in Dark Star.
In general I think Prometheus is an extension of some of the ideas from both Alien and Dark Star.
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