'Alien Ring'

[HenryEllis]

so your point being........??

im sorry i was not aware that the ship in aliens is a different one to the featured craft in alien...........??

Correct it is the same ship, with 50+ years passing between the first and second movie.  Within that time, volcanic activity had ruptured a hole in "the hammer" making it possible for Newt's family to get inside at the location they did.

[Eagle-Fire]

so your point being........??

im sorry i was not aware that the ship in aliens is a different one to the featured craft in alien...........??

Correct it is the same ship, with 50+ years passing between the first and second movie.  Within that time, volcanic activity had ruptured a hole in "the hammer" making it possible for Newt's family to get inside at the location they did.

oh......well i........guess your........correct?

[HenryEllis]

Haha all good dude. 

[RustiSwordz]

I think it is the same ship and the same planet. I suspect the huge dust cloud is in fact a result of Engineer terraforming technology and the reason the derelict look fossilised in Alien is that the terraformig tech somehow acellerates the natural process.

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

I think it is the same ship and the same planet. I suspect the huge dust cloud is in fact a result of Engineer terraforming technology and the reason the derelict look fossilised in Alien is that the terraformig tech somehow acellerates the natural process.

I think that people all thought that the derelict looked like something organic rather than a fossil, but the space jockey looked fossilised in the loose sense of the word

[Eagle-Fire]

it is the same ship!!!!!!!!!! same planet!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

it is the same ship!!!!!!!!!! same planet!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

It must then be same ship but different design

[Eagle-Fire]

it is the same ship!!!!!!!!!! same planet!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

It must then be same ship but different design

in alien the ship has just lost its skin , same as the jockey........the lack of micro orginisms in the dead air stop the craft and pilot from rotting away......they just become dried out and hard like bone 

[nendo]

Don't forget alot of the design aspects of this film is by choice. So even though there is a difference between prometheus and Alien. The likly reason behind it is down to Ridleys choice in art direction for the film.

I'm not saying its the same ship. I'm saying alot of the design in this film is by choice.

[RustiSwordz]

I think it is the same ship and the same planet. I suspect the huge dust cloud is in fact a result of Engineer terraforming technology and the reason the derelict look fossilised in Alien is that the terraformig tech somehow acellerates the natural process.

I think that people all thought that the derelict looked like something organic rather than a fossil, but the space jockey looked fossilised in the loose sense of the word

Yes the terreforming speeds up the fossilization process onto decades instead of centuries. The SJ technology, their biomechanics when the ship 'dies' the organic part rots away leaving the bare bone structure which then fozzilizes.

[Deuterium]

Yes the terreforming speeds up the fossilization process onto decades instead of centuries. The SJ technology, their biomechanics when the ship 'dies' the organic part rots away leaving the bare bone structure which then fozzilizes.

Funny, I don't recall the Nostromo crew having to chip away tons of sedimentary rock to expose the Space Jockey.

Hmmm, now why might that be ?

[First Blood]

To reiterate Deuterium's point on the first page. The Jockey wasn't fossilized. He was mummified.

[RustiSwordz]

Yes the terreforming speeds up the fossilization process onto decades instead of centuries. The SJ technology, their biomechanics when the ship 'dies' the organic part rots away leaving the bare bone structure which then fozzilizes.

Funny, I don't recall the Nostromo crew having to chip away tons of sedimentary rock to expose the Space Jockey.

Hmmm, now why might that be ?

Dont hmmmmm me please. Thanks Im just a fan like the rest of you making a guess. Im not a scientist.

[Valaquen]

To reiterate Deuterium's point on the first page. The Jockey wasn't fossilized. He was mummified.

Captain Dallas makes a mistake and everyone leaps on board. Silly guy shouldn't be running no shuttle, either... 

[OpenMaw]

To reiterate Deuterium's point on the first page. The Jockey wasn't fossilized. He was mummified.

Captain Dallas makes a mistake and everyone leaps on board. Silly guy shouldn't be running no shuttle, either... 

"Damnit Lambert, i'm a captain not a scientist!"