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| Mar 15, 2017 at 13:46 | comment | added | Luaan | @PaulD.Waite Also note that the Engineers wear no life support equipment, and they're shown to breathe similar atmosphere as we do, which suggests the atmosphere was already oxygenated. As far as we can tell, molecular oxygen (which is quite reactive) only started accumulating on Earth after life "discovered" photosynthesis, and even then only after all the oxygen sinks (like the iron dissolved in the oceans) were filled. The green plants seen among the rocks are on land, which on Earth required the ozone layer, which again requires plenty of oxygen. And they are green :P | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 22:36 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Lèsemajesté: ah, I hadn’t spotted that. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 22:29 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | @PaulD.Waite: In the opening scene of the movie, you see a flyover of the landscape, and there is clearly green vegetation covering the otherwise black/grey landscape. | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 10:05 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @anakata: oh I gotcha. Yeah, could be. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 21:33 | comment | added | jsedano | @PaulD.Waite I mean, since the xenomorphs are somewhat created by the engineers, maybe if they plant the seed in a hostile planet, the seed will endure and ultimately create a creature able to live in that hostile place. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 18:06 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @anakata: true. The implication was that the seeding we saw at the start of the movie was the Engineers seeding human life on earth though, so unless we evolved from xenomorphs, then there was some life there already, or the Engineers seeded that too. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:35 | comment | added | jsedano | @PaulD.Waite Funny enough I was going to say that, but then I remember that the xenomorphs can survive almost anywhere, maybe if they seed a hostile planet with no previous life, life will find a way... so maybe they can seed a planet from scratch, but without more information, this is merely speculative | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:33 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @anakata: I see your point. The intelligent life would probably be in trouble if there wasn’t some unintelligent life around to provide food and ensure the ecosystem works. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:27 | comment | added | jsedano | @PaulD.Waite IMHO I think the sentence "devoted of the seeding of Intelligent life" point in the direction of that life was already on the planet, because it specifies intelligent life. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:24 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @anakata: sure, the planet must be able to host life (as, from what we see, all they do is introduce life, rather than altering the planet to be able to support life). However, I don’t think the film, or even the menu text you quote, suggests that life already exists on the planet. We don’t see anything that rules it out, but we don’t see anything suggesting it either. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:23 | comment | added | jsedano | @CaptainTendo It's difficult to know what the intentions of the engineers... maybe we will know in the sequels! | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:20 | comment | added | jsedano | @PaulD.Waite yes it was, and no, we do not see any other planet, but since it says a sacred ritual devoted to the seeding of Intelligent life. I have the impression that the planet they seeding must already have life or be able to host life. | |
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:16 | comment | added | CaptainTendo | Thanks for the answer and thanks for pointing out the error I've made with the wrongly formulated statement, but besides this, this still boggles my mind. If the history of Earth isn't identical to Engies homeworld, the only way DNa could have became so simmilar is if the process was observed or governed by some sort of catalyst. Actually, when I think about it, maybe the Black Goo is a tech that filters which genetic changes should be kept from the primitive form to the point of engineer-looking species. A super advanced form of farming and artificial selection, maybe? | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 15:08 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | "life was already present on the planet they were seeding" - was it? Did we see any on the planet at the start of the movie? | |
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 14:47 | history | answered | jsedano | CC BY-SA 3.0 |