So if they're on the island of Skye in 2089...

Have gotten the Prometheus Art book yet? FYI should help with this topic. [img]http://i1157.photobucket.com/albums/p582/mr_lincolnlog/KnowYourXenosign-2.jpg[/img]

No, I haven't. Does it explain in there?

It is so goddam hard to make futurology... Imagine yourself trying to figure out what the trends will be in the next 10 years. Imagine what kind of vehicles people will have 200 years from now... Very few people ever got it right. :S

True, but that's why they hire consultants, no? I guess it would have been easier just to go with what everyone knows for such a short scene as it is. It becomes peripheral to the actual story telling. This was one of those things I noticed second time around... next one's a doozy!

And in what way would consultants know what people would wear in 2089? That's futurology. As I said, very FEW people EVER got it right. - the guy who foresaw what we call the internet - Davinci [this one being the most remarkable] - Julius Verne who else?

Well yeah, if they'd been zooming around in rocket boots, it might have been kinda distracting......but surely, [i]everyone[/i] will be wearing rocket boots in 2089.

An interesting photo from the Scott expedition to Antarctica, circa 1910 (100 years ago) http://www.allartnews.com/photographic-exhibition-marks-centenary-of-scotts-voyage-to-south-pole/ They don't look much that different from what we have today, nor the 2089 stuff.

@donb i was thinking the same thing, how high tech of a jacket do you need to keep from getting cold for a half hour?

Shaw/Holloway are CLEARLY on a tight budget, as illustrated by the cloth and stitch clothing they can afford. We've even seen footage of Shaw harrassing Weyland for funding. :) A coat by any other name.... and lol that.

Better dressed than anyone who would have been in Scotland 35,000 years ago. Was that supposed to be inbetween glaciations of Northern Scotland? The jackets that (sensible, sober) people wear these days to go hill walking in Scotland are perfectly fine, warm, water proof, so there may not be much need for them to look very different, although the lining and material may be very much improved in the same way that in Scott's day they didn't have gore tex, but the clothes in the picture still look similar to what I've worn walking in 3ft deep snow.

As fror the coats them selves, it's reasonable to assume they are perfect the way they were shown. Better than being wraped in animal furs. But then again, maybe that kind of clothing fashion is way off. As for improbabilities: I'm not even able to imagine a ship's systems like Prometheus in the 2090's running on WINDOWS 8... just saying [though a goof, it has it's humour in it]

I would have liked to see a self drying jacket like in Back to the Future or maybe the Nike shoows that self tie around your foot. [img]http://kvisit.com/Sy9SAAg[/img]

dopelganger: ahahah I remember those. Self tying snikkers was a great idea [yeah I'm lazy]

it's all fun and games until someone puts on the wrong size shoe and it crushes their foot to death.