Prometheus: flashlights, knives and other found items

[cavx]

I don't understand the fanny pack toilet paper thing. A fanny pack just holds stuff, and you can pull the roll out of the fanny pack. What am I not getting?

What good is a roll of toilet paper in a 'fanny pack' when your in a space suit anyway?

Makes me want to substitute some words in that ping,life form line.

 

[red4]

But why a fanny pack? Why not a backpack? And who says the toilet paper will be used for cleaning butts? What if you use it to wipe your helmet or boots?

 

[cavx]

But why a fanny pack? Why not a backpack? And who says the toilet paper will be used for cleaning butts? What if you use it to wipe your helmet or boots?

Sorry red4 [maybe I've had too much red wine tonight], you're in a space suit, what good is wiping your helmet? If it condensates, too bad, wipe all you like, it ain't gonna get any clearer.

Time for my sub'd line...
Fanny pack. Toilet paper? WTF man?

 

[red4]

I mean wiping the outside of the helmet, like if you get alien splooge on it and you can't see. You'll want to wipe it off.

 

[Father]

I mean wiping the outside of the helmet, like if you get alien splooge on it and you can't see. You'll want to wipe it off.

I think if you're getting splooged by aliens, the least of your worries are what's available to wipe it off.

If you're in a space suit, you shouldn't be getting condensation on the outside of your helmet. Wouldn't that imply there's an atmosphere in space?

 

[red4]

I never said anything about condensation.
As for the alien splooge, it's just an example. Toilet paper, or some other wiping tool, sounds like a perfectly rational and viable piece of equipment to carry on a space suit, or similar suit. Stuff gets dirty, and sometimes that stuff is easy to wipe off, so it's good to have towelettes or tissue paper or toilet paper handy.

 

[Copper9]

I mean wiping the outside of the helmet, like if you get alien splooge on it and you can't see. You'll want to wipe it off.

My point exactly.
If you're in a space suit and need to wipe your helmet (or anything), you're going to want the best piece of equipment to do that. Toilet paper, while technically a cleaning medium, is the absolute minimum, barely functional thing you could possible choose to carry. -Much like the child's pocket knife they chose to clip to the space suits utility belt.

If I'm in a space suit and I need a knife, I don't want a puny 3 inch blade, that needs two hands and a fingernail to open.
In the words of Crocodile Dundee, "That ain't a knife. -This, is a knife..."

 

[Copper9]

Seriously though, look at the gloves of the space suit.
It would be a patience exercise just to get the pocket knife open while wearing them.

 

[red4]

I'm going to test that theory with a pair of these:

I have several pocket knives. Brb, experiment time.

EDIT: I'm back. I skipped over wearing just the one pair of gloves. I wore that pair, as well as a slightly smaller pair underneath. That's 2 layers of leather. I tested 2 knives, and was able to open and close them very easily with 2 hands.

I'd like to add that they most likely carried that knife for scientific or utilitarian purposes, such as cutting cords, or scraping residue off of artifacts. It wasn't meant to ward off monsters.

 

[Copper9]

I'd like to add that they most likely carried that knife for scientific or utilitarian purposes, such as cutting cords, or scraping residue off of artifacts. It wasn't meant to ward off monsters.

See -And look what happened to them.



I bet this guy wished he had a knife he could open with one hand...

 

[red4]

Except he was one of the scientists, not one of the mercs. Anyway, he always wanted a broken arm. That's why he was on that planet in the first place.

 

[Father]

You guys keep saying "space" suits. They're not in SPACE. They're on a planet. I think it would be more appropriate to call it an environmental suit or something like that. Then it might make sense that the head bubble would get crud on it that would need to be wiped off.

Seriously though, look at the gloves of the space suit.
It would be a patience exercise just to get the pocket knife open while wearing them.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19949348/hostedimages/knife3.jpg

They look like Airsoft gloves...



Again... depends on the knife. Could be an auto-knife. Could be one with a thumb stud or hole.

 

[red4]

You guys keep saying "space" suits. They're not in SPACE. They're on a planet. I think it would be more appropriate to call it an environmental suit or something like that. Then it might make sense that the head bubble would get crud on it that would need to be wiped off.



They look like Airsoft gloves...

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Again... depends on the knife. Could be an auto-knife. Could be one with a thumb stud or hole.

They're not on a planet. They're on a moon. Also, in my replies, I acknowledged that they're not wearing space suits when I said "or similar".
The knife in question - the one in the movie - has a thumb stud, which sticks out both sides of the blade.

 

[greylocke]

That blanket looks very similar to one of the fleece throws I keep in my truck. I think I got it at big lots for $5.00

 

[Father]

They're not on a planet. They're on a moon. Also, in my replies, I acknowledged that they're not wearing space suits when I said "or similar".
The knife in question - the one in the movie - has a thumb stud, which sticks out both sides of the blade.

Ok... planet or moon... either way it's not space. The moon had an "environment": it clouded up and rained shards of metal. You're not going to wipe that off your head bubble with toilet paper.

 

[red4]

They could wipe their helmets off once they entered the calmness of the Engineer facility, or the ship they arrived in.