Pyramid Atmosphere

It's been left on all this time, since nobody was alive or awake to switch it off. There are other living organisms in the structure, such as the earthworm like organisms (that later get infected with the black goo and turn into the hammerpedes).

I had not thought of the atmosphere being hospitable all the time, Hmm so then something must have notified the Ampule room..that intruders were at work.. and started the Urns to oozing goo.

I saw Holoway as someone who often enjoyed to breathe his own methane expulsions, so a little CO2 would hardly affect him?

@indyjohn, Yeah that could be right, i think it might have been the humans emotion because they're excited and amazed at what they're seeing ,also an urn near david doesn't leak because hes got no emotion? Or it could be just the 2,000 year old air being released that notifys it that somethings near?. Good point

Shaw said they'd affected the atmosphere. May have been a rapid decay due to oxygen coming in to the room. I think someone also theorized that the goo was coded for human DNA and went nuts when the crew entered. Something that the SJs may not have counted on when they were experimenting with it as a military weapon and why it infected them 2000 years prior.

That's a very interesting hypothesis, Indy John. I think it's a good possibility that someone else was watching when the Prometheus crew arrived. When they didn't seem to be making any more progress, one of the probes they called pups detected a life form a way off from the rest of the areas. They never showed what the life-form detected was. David volunteered to find that probe, which was assumed to be malfunctioning, and that was what led him to both the cargo hold and the sleeping engineer. It seemes very unlikely to me that this place would have been left totally unguarded.

"..also an urn near david doesn't leak .." An emotional trigger,,was not something that I thought about... Something physical seemed logical...but adding an amost psychic element to the storyline.. could really advance the storyline..

"..They never showed what the life-form detected was.." I always assume it was the Last Engineer..that the Pups detected,,,,but could not advance through the closed doors.. Just think about that: Pups would need to detect a lifeform a couple of rooms ..in the orrey,,,,but that seems a rather long range.. Another life form triggering the pups,,,,That would be very interesting..

"..They never showed what the life-form detected was.." I always thought it was one of the hammerpedes skulking around.

It could have been one of the hammerpedes, but it's a full 1 km away, and the hammerpede would have had to leave the liquid it evolved within, and crawl all the way there and back when it reached the door it couldn't have opened.

Reading comments about the Juggernaut being apart from the Pryamids,,caused me to review the scanning scenes,, If you keep your eyes open there is complex structure underneath and apart from the actual Beehive shaped structure. It leads me to the question why the Prometheus landed so far away from the Pyramid?,,(the one that is eather the first...or last in line,). Why not land in the between a couple of the structures to better compare the them. At least why land closer to the selected Pyramid..walking distance? Both questions sort of have a similar mystery: By landing between..or at least closer to pyramids,,it could be likely the Prometheus..would have landed on top of the Juggernaut!. That would have complicated the story...or at least the Last Engineer's continued life... Somebody on the Prometheus knew something of this moon,,and influenced that actual landing site....