Black goo reveal

One has to be careful with definitions here, because it's alien technology. The word "virus", as used in a biological sense, is not appropriate because - apart from anything else - it does not function in the same way as a virus, i.e. use a cell's inbuilt machinery for the purpose of replicating itself. Also, if the introductory scene is to believed, the black stuff is working at a subatomic level (it's much smaller than the chemical bonds that hold DNA together). DNA is little more than a code, a series of instructions. I'd like to think that the black stuff is similar, a coding mechanism, working at a level of physics that we don't yet understand. The implications are that the Engineers designed the code, but that's by no means certain. Is it the same code that we saw by the waterfall 500 million years ago? I doubt it. If they are able to engineer, that's what they will do. Did the Engineers come up with the original code, or did they find it? Unknown.

Well yes thats about right, Fox have released clues about the Goo that now well make my theories as well obsolete yet my theory is more plausible and has little or no plot holes. The new clues seem to conclude with Snorkys post and to me, well now makes things add up even less. My theory in a nutshell was the Goo breaks down DNA and strips parts out and then dissolves other useless matter, the DNA then reforms and comes into contact with other Organisms and mutates it so that it carries traits from the seeded/broken down DNA from the Goo. Basically Engineer broke down into DNA containing substance that mutated basic bacteria etc to then cause them to evolve into more complex life that then lead to us and why we share and have Engineer DNA. The stuff in the Urns was simply broken down Xeno DNA material, and where the Engineers diluted into the Water, the Xenos was collected into the Urns and thus that temple complex with the Xeno Mural was a Factory/Vat that was used to store and break down Xeno DNA and store it in the Urns. Why well because the Xeno Weapon was difficult to handle and store and transport as evident in Alien-Alien R and the Derelict on LV 426. Thus they attempted to re-weaponize the Xeno via the same process that they used to seed life with the Sacrifice of the Engineer. But thats not the case, Fox are laying clues that the substance is the same, and that ingesting results in DNA breakdown, depending on the amount consumed determines the time this process takes. The other method is inhale, in which the end result is recoding of the DNA to lead to a hybrid. Well that leaves so many plot holes... 1) Why does life on Earth not have Xeno DNA and Traits? 2) Why does Holloway infect Shaw with Xeno DNA? 3) How does that worm get into his Eye if all the process is, is to break down his DNA? 4) How come no one else was infected if inhaled? 5) Fifield and the Worms clearly came into contact with their skin with the Black Goo thus it infected them my coming into contact genetically and not inhaled? Not forgetting that Fifield had his mask on so would not inhale the substance, he slipped over into it after the Acid off the Hammerpede got onto his mask and thus some on his face. There is a whole host of other plot holes the new Fox Virals unravel as well.

Actually, i don't feel it is airbourn, as the whole crew would have been infected.

It's ultimate resemblance is poetically oil. What is oil? other than a by product of death like Wine is rotting Oh here's another clue [img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsipt3w3Vx1qzix81o1_500.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.growroom.net/board/uploads/1223547198/gallery_41239_2293_14838.jpg[/img] [img]http://cannabisforhealth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CannOilExtract.jpeg[/img]

@LV-420 this changes my whole theory, it wasn't a sacrifice, the engineer was actually testing out some Brown Betty ( a recipie he got from watching fringe, in an earlier time displacement test ) he then suffered a mishap by taking the xenovirus instead of the cannabis!!! What a mistake