What life form was the survey probe picking up in Prometheus?
Early in the film the Fifield's 'Pups' (The red survey balls) are released to map the structure. After they have done the mapping one of them stops at the end of a passage.
We later discover this is the entrance to the Alien Spaceship, or perhaps a door within the spaceship.
Later when Milburn and Fifield are stranded in the pyramid structure after becoming lost trying to find the way out, Janek (back on the ship) notices that this pup is "pinging" a life form. But not consistently so they suspect it was a glitch in the pup.
Is this pup picking up the engineer in the stasis pod? If so what accounts for the inconsistent nature of detection? If not, what Life-form is the pup detecting?
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Is this pup picking up the engineer in the stasis pod?
Yes, certainly the pup picking up the engineer in the stasis pod.
Reason for the inconsistent nature of detection:
To stay alive, you need to maintain some level of metabolism, and a heartbeat on every hour makes some sense. Suspended animation isn't a complete freezing of the body.
Notice that at times there is a light in the stasis pod that comes on for a short while and then goes.That may be simply due to the slowing down of the metabolism in stasis.
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What was the ping in Prometheus?
We later discover this is the entrance to the Alien Spaceship, or perhaps a door within the spaceship. Later when Milburn and Fifield are stranded in the pyramid structure after becoming lost trying to find the way out, Janek (back on the ship) notices that this pup is "pinging" a life form.Why did the robot in Prometheus infect?
David infected Holloway because he is also jealous, yeees, jealous cos he is "feeling" something about Elizabeth Shaw. We see David taking care of the ship, but we also see him "spying" Elizabeht Shaw\xb4s dreams (we sense that he gave special attenton to the doctor) He protect her more than Holloway.What were the engineers doing in Prometheus?
The Engineers were either planning to carry their deadly cargo to Earth to eradicate humans because of an event that drove the two species apart (see: Creation Gone Wrong) or as part of a plan because humans were merely an element or a step in the process of evolution or of deliberately creating xenomorph lifeforms.Monitoring, the Prometheus Way
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