A little oasis for kicking around ideas about the technology behind the Nostromo, as depicted in the film and in comments made by the people who conceived the vehicle for the movie. This is not a deck plan/blueprints thread; Graham's
Alien: The Blueprints (go buy it!) set the bar for that.
We'll see how it goes...
QUESTION 1: Can the crew enter the refinery complex through the retractable umbilical seen as the Nostromo disengages from the platform?
QUESTION 3: Where does the crew sleep while out of hypersleep?
QUESTION 4: How long does the crew normally spend out of hypersleep?
QUESTION 5: Are those "diapers" the crew wear in hypersleep?
QUESTION 6: What observable effects does hypersleep have on the crew?
QUESTION 8: What is the location of the airlock from which Kane's body is ejected?
QUESTION 9: Is the starboard bow pylon on the forward hull a docking tube?
QUESTION 12: How was Kane moved to the Autodoc (from the airlock)?
QUESTION 15: (added November 5, 2015) I was just re-reading one of Alien: Isolation's Nostromo Logs, and looking at the movie again and something caught my eye.
In Nostromo Log 008, Lambert states that Antarctica Traffic Control will get their call on October 22nd, give or take a few hours. When I looked at the movie, the readout shown as Mother awakens and reviews the flight plan indicates the actual time is "3 JUN" the ship's flight time is "5 NOV".
Add to the mix the flight plan from the 20th anniversary video set: they departed Thedus on 12 June.
Not sure what it all might mean, but if the bunch at Creative Assembly wrote that date in the Log based on either (or both) of the film and special feature dates, it would be interesting to draw extrapolations.