rodneyfaile
Sr Member
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Prometheus (Post-release)
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I just wish the characters were as thoughtful about the weightier aspects of the story as the people on this forum are!
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
Well, if there is more than one ship full of black goo, I take it that they seeded life on other planets in addition to earth, and there are ships of black goo aimed at them too.
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It's a nice Prometheus print, granted not exactly from the movie but still cool concept art as mentioned.
"Ampule Chamber"
Comic-Con 2012 exclusive
79 piece edition
$89.00
limit 1 per customer
Prometheus Concept Art by concept artist David Levy
Giclee print on watercolour paper
13″ x 19″ (paper size)
"This piece is for Comic-Con ATTENDEE pre-order for pickup only beginning Monday June 25th and ending Wednesday July 4th. Orders must be picked up at our booth (#5629) at the San Diego Comic-Con. Orders not picked up will be refunded and will not be shipped. Please bring your receipt to the booth when picking up. If you wish to have a friend pick up for you, that is not a problem, just make sure your friend has your receipt. Non-Attendee pre-orders will begin on Wednesday July 11th.
Payment is processed at the time the order is placed. Residents of California will be charged sales tax."
It's a nice Prometheus print, granted not exactly from the movie but still cool concept art as mentioned.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Then how do you explain our similar DNA to nearly all living things on Earth? Heck, we are 99.x % in similarity to DNA from apes.
I'm sure I watched a docu that suggested our dna is almost the same as a frog.
I dont really know what I'm talking about here but I look at it as if all living things on this planet share the same dna but with small parts of that dna switched on or off to make us what we are :confused
CB2001
Master Member
Well, David stated "in order to create, one must destroy." It could be that the Engineers originally started with the dinosaurs, but saw they didn't do much, destroyed them (which explains why they're extinct) and then created us.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Has anyone found dino DNA traces? Surely, they know enough about dinosaurs to be able to link them to crocodiles and birds. Seeing as we share the same building blocks as those species, then we pretty likely share with dinos as well. All living things found in this planet that has DNA is related.
Well, bursts of evolution of new species is sometimes kick-started through the extinction of others. If things don't seem to be going the right way, all you need to do is throw an asteroid at the planet or go hunting a bit and spare those critters that are more in your favor. Or... just send the xenos to wipe out the dominant species if you want a lesser species to evolve into the dominant one and then simply come down to collect the new eggs formed by the victims of the xeno.
Kit Rae
Sr Member
The DNA structure of all species on Earth are the same - two spiral chains coiled round the same axis - so I suppose that would include dinosaurs, but we don't have any dinosaur DNA to say for sure.
Even though humans and chimps share around 96% of the same DNA, there are still tens of millions of the billions of DNA molecules that are different. If you look at just the sequences we sort of understand the function of, and think are significant to the differences in our biology, we are only about 1% different. We now know that junk DNA is not junk at all, so there may be a lot more going on than just that 1% difference...
I think Shaw was just saying in the film that we are the same in terms of the basic single-nucleotide similarities in our genetic code. Just the fact that the Engineers have similar DNA molecules would have really been enough to make the point in the film. They did not even need the CSI/Law and Order DNA match graphic, but it's something people are familiar with.
Even though humans and chimps share around 96% of the same DNA, there are still tens of millions of the billions of DNA molecules that are different. If you look at just the sequences we sort of understand the function of, and think are significant to the differences in our biology, we are only about 1% different. We now know that junk DNA is not junk at all, so there may be a lot more going on than just that 1% difference...
I think Shaw was just saying in the film that we are the same in terms of the basic single-nucleotide similarities in our genetic code. Just the fact that the Engineers have similar DNA molecules would have really been enough to make the point in the film. They did not even need the CSI/Law and Order DNA match graphic, but it's something people are familiar with.
We do have some fragmentary dinosaur DNA, last I heard. As Leigh noted - some bones are so big, they're not mineralised all the way through - they're still bone in places. And yes, we share a lot of DNA with ALGAE, never mind dinos, chimps or other advanced lifeforms. 
SSGT Kitten
Active Member
Um, I don't think I need space aliens from a movie to justify the similarity of DNA on real world earth.
Life is all relatively similiar on Earth now: I'm not familiar with anything that isn't carbon-based, DNA/RNA driven. Saying the engineers just modified that with a mutagen to create our current man isn't too far of a sci-fi stretch.Charlie
Kit Rae
Sr Member
Regarding your dinosaurs, I watched another docu a little while ago where they found soft tissue in the marrow of a dino bone fossil! after all this time it was some how preserved & iirc they were intending to test it for dna, interesting stuff for sure
If dino a DNA molecule has actually been extracted and sequenced, someone please point me to the article or report, because I would love to read that.
I remember the fragments of hemoglobin Schweitzer found in a T Rex bone way back, but that went nowhere, and she was supposedly trying to extract DNA fragments again not too long ago, but I have not seen anything saying this has been done, just some stuff about extracting protiens a couple of years ago. Every few years some scientist claims to have found evidence of DNA, but none of it ever seems to pan out definitively that I have seen.
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