i have not posted a thread in a while and thought it was maybe about time........
I was having a little think last night , regarding certain comments made by the robot named ash in the 1979 movie '' Alien ''.
He mentions the creature replaces its own cells with elements out of the atmosphere, silica i think .
as i understand it, this process is also responsible for lifeforms becoming fossilized and hard like rock ( space-jockey anybody? )
As to what i was wondering , and i know that the creatures in Alien are not exactly the same as what we see in Prometheus , but the planets conditions regarding certain storms that contain large amounts of silica are the same . i wonder if the silica thing is a failsafe .
I wonder if the jockey on lv426 landed on that moon knowing about its silica storm , if any of his cargo escaped the ship it would eventually become hard and petrified from the constant storm hitting it.
And then i thought about the storm conditions on lv223 and how it might make sense to be making these monsters in a lab that is constantly battered by the same kind of storm , an awesome fail-safe in case of an outbreak in the Engineers dome structures.
Any little beasties that get out will soak up the silica from the storm and become fossilized .
anybody have any thoughts on this ?
Edit: maybe even the dome itself was once an organic lifeform , we see its skull ???
Becoming hard and petrified from the constant battering of a massive silica storm.