[Movie] PROMETHEUS

I don't know anything about Alien, haven't seen it in over 10 years and I never liked it. Didn't get it. But this trailer intrigued me. Y'alls interest has me pumped. I read all of y'alls comments, spoilers and all, it doesn't matter I have no clue what anybodies name is, what anything means, nothing. Plan on watching 1 & 2 soon, maybe this weekend. Anyways, continue...

 

Well, it will be until the sequel to Blader Runner comes out!

 

First 13min screened and reviewed.

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I am beginning to be more and more anxious to see this one . . .

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Thanks for the read Pericles. It sounds great. This is nit picking but I am disappointed that the film is set relatively close in the future. Given the level of technology and also how long it takes to travel through space it seem like setting it much further in the future would give it more grounding.

 

I don't remember exactly but did they ever mention a year in the first 2 films?

 

No. And in fact, the implication was that they were NOT set 'in the far far future' - not so much specifically as by the production design:

The clothes characters wore were ALMOST indistinguishable from clothing worn today.

The weaponry used by the military, while clearly 'advanced', were still grounded in technology and capabilities existing right now - ie no 'ray guns' or anything clearly beyond the realm of current physical possibility.

"interstellar travel' used hyper-sleep, and the actual amount of time spent on these journeys is never specified.

Ripley is said to have drifted in her own hyper-sleep for fifty years, and even in that amount of time, there was still very little actual technological progress from her own time to the fifty-years-in-the-future time of Aliens.

So while it is probably a bit far-fetched to set Prometheus as soon as 70 years from right now, one could probably very easily say the same thing about our technology today by looking backwards 70 years, so ehhhhhh.. it's probably not going to bother me about the alleged year of the setting.

I wouldn't worry about it.

 

I didn't think so, not much of a concern on my part.

 

The only piece of technology from the films that seems incredibly improbable to pop up in the next several decades is the ability to travel between solar systems. Even with hypersleep. The distance is astounding.

The closest star to us is roughly 25,000,000,000,000 mi away. The top interstellar speed we've achieved so far (without gravity slingshot assists) is about 38,000 mph.

Let's bump that up to 50,000 mph for easier math and say that we're even better at it today. It would be 438,000,000 miles per year, and still take 571 centuries to get there.

That's a HUUUUUGE gap to close.

 

When you put it like that . . . . . .
BUT
What was the Maximum speed humanity could attain 70 yrs ago?
What is that . . . 1942? Had we even broken the sound barrier?

The jump from 700 MPH to 38,000 . . not bad

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New Images

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http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2012/04/11/discover-prometheus-with-these-new-exclusive-images/

 

I had a dream about this movie last night -- it was really cool.

 

Just to be nit picky humans had long before 1947 broken the sound barrier. When you crack a whip the "CRACK" sound is actually the tip of the whip breaking the sound barrier. It was always possible theoretically possible to have humans traveling faster than sound just not technically possible until 1947.

Breaking the speed of light is something that has never been observed. Traveling to other stars in a time span of only a few years (relative Earth Time) would be an achievement far far beyond breaking the sound barrier.

 

Just read that HR Giger helped on some of the sets again. Should be pretty cool.

 

You know. . . . If I were a telepath
Giger and Steven King are two minds I don't think I would ever try to read

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