Quote from: Deuterium on Apr 19, 2012, 06:08:26 PMOh crap when the lady face planted the pillar I nearly died. That is exactly what I needed to start off my day. Cheers mate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri8NtFGO2-0#
Quote from: Deuterium on Apr 19, 2012, 06:46:47 PMQuote from: LarsVader on Apr 19, 2012, 06:17:37 PM
But what really makes me wonder is the captains wheel on the Prometheus.
How do they get the elves, unicorns and pixie dust underneath a standing captain on a glass-bottom bridge?
Don't be silly. The elves, unicorns and pixie dust do not physically hold objects to the floor...they create the magical field that permeates the ship, creating the artificial gravity. Geez, everyone knows this.
But what powers the Prometheus engines, you ask?
Quote from: LarsVader on Apr 19, 2012, 06:17:37 PM
But what really makes me wonder is the captains wheel on the Prometheus.
How do they get the elves, unicorns and pixie dust underneath a standing captain on a glass-bottom bridge?
Quote from: Deuterium on Apr 19, 2012, 06:08:26 PMLet it go, Deut You'll enjoy yourself.
I realize it is a pretty standard conceit, within sci-fi films, that futuristic spacecraft have magical anti-gravity systems (powered by elves, unicorns and pixie dust, most likely). However, the Prometheus designers might have given some thought to having the furnishings physically bolted down. Call me crazy, but I understand this is even done on most scientific and military ocean vessels
Quote from: Deuterium on Apr 19, 2012, 06:08:26 PMI also wondered about zeroG issues with the furnitures, but the Nostromo was also clutterd with stuff.Quote from: LarsVader on Apr 19, 2012, 05:29:05 PM
Now you too can live all PROMETHEUS style!
http://luxxbox.com/luxxbox/furniture/brainwash
http://luxxbox.com/luxxbox/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/brainwash_product_4.jpg
Good find, Lars.
A brief note on the set pic...
I realize it is a pretty standard conceit, within sci-fi films, that futuristic spacecraft have magical anti-gravity systems (powered by elves, unicorns and pixie dust, most likely). However, the Prometheus designers might have given some thought to having the furnishings physically bolted down. Call me crazy, but I understand this is even done on most scientific and military ocean vessels
However, most cruise ships do not subscribe to this long standing tradition...and choose to be rebels of the sea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri8NtFGO2-0#
Quote from: LarsVader on Apr 19, 2012, 05:29:05 PM
Now you too can live all PROMETHEUS style!
http://luxxbox.com/luxxbox/furniture/brainwash
http://luxxbox.com/luxxbox/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/brainwash_product_4.jpg
Quote from: MrSpaceJockey on Apr 12, 2012, 09:10:36 PM
Holy shit. I loved the shot of the landed Prometheus. And the interiors are fantastic. Though I admit, the chandeliers took me off guard.
Quote from: Ash 937 on Apr 13, 2012, 07:21:21 AMQuote from: Space Sweeper on Apr 13, 2012, 12:55:33 AM
I would expect the monitor inside the cocktail table to resemble something a little less high-tech. Alien used simple, green-screen monitors that looked like they were from the 1980's and it takes place after Prometheus. The cocktail table should resemble something more like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlDqw8oZS1w#ws
Quote from: Zenzucht on Apr 12, 2012, 09:41:48 PMThat someone was me.Quote from: MrSpaceJockey on Apr 12, 2012, 09:28:55 PMQuote from: Eva on Apr 12, 2012, 09:25:50 PM
... this might have been noted by others before, but doesn't the transparant tubes in the 'lab' shot mounted on the wall, remind of similar tubes in Ashs lab enviroment on The Nostromo?
Great find! The lab definitely reminded me of Ash's little station on the Nostromo, but I didn't know it could be that specific. Though the size looks different.
A loooong time ago, someone, somewhere, discussed it here
Quote from: St_Eddie on Dec 21, 2011, 02:44:28 PM
Look to the right of Fassbender, at the pink coloured objects behind him. They're the same design as seen in the science lab onboard the Nostromo.
Could somebody take a screengrab from Alien to show what I'm referring to? The objects are visible during the panning shot at the start of chapter 12 (theatrical cut). Thanks.
Quote from: RoaryUK on Apr 13, 2012, 11:21:08 AM
I had to submit a load of duff info just to play this game, careful what you put on there if outside the USA guys.
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Apr 13, 2012, 08:31:42 AMWe see one room in Gateway, and the inquest isn't held by Weyland-Yutani; there are different insurance companies there, and maybe a couple of government lobbyists. It's a legal proceeding. WY are there for obvious reasons. But that's not the point (and who said the hearing was state of the art?) -- We have to accept that, even today, technological consistency can't really be found when you go from city to city, country to country. Recently I was shocked when I went to my fiance's clinic - it looked like something out of the Soviet era, and it's barely a mile away from my own clinic. I take experiences like this into account when I'm faced with things like Prometheus-Gateway, etc. Likewise, I've sat in university lecture halls with top of the line equipment, and conversely in a small court room with a battered old projector. In the same year, too. I really don't think it's that far-fetched.
In fairness, it's one thing to differ from technology represented aboard an old tug and quite another to differ from that used on Gateway Station - and used at an apparently state-of-the-art hearing by Weyland-Yutani, themselves.