Where did the worm that appeared in the black goo chamber come from?
My (admittedly poor) recollection of the scene is this:
- The camera is doing a visual close-up of the soil. I forget if this was the part showing small, flowing rivulets of black goo.
- The soil is visually barren (except for the goo if that is indeed this part).
- One of the human characters walks across the soil.
- As they lift their boot, a worm appears. I remember it as a centipede rather than a worm, but that's not too important.
So, was the worm in the soil and was exposed by the person walking over it? If so, why hadn't it become mutated at some point in the past? Or was it transferred from the person's boot, perhaps picked up from outside and stuck in the groves?
Best Answer
"We've changed the atmosphere of the room" - Dr. Shaw
Presumably the door acted as an air lock. Maybe the room was sealed off to halt the biological processes of EVERYTHING in the room (which is why the head is perfectly preserved), and the worms where already in the soil. By breaking the seal for the room, the biological processes are able to continue - maybe there was some sort of cryogenic freezing happening because of the room being sealed.
Once the seal is broken, and the biological processes have started again, the "black goo" begins to ... "unthaw" (for want of a better word), the worms begin to crawl around in the room.
At least, that was my interpretation of it.
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Answer 2
My take is that the black DNA-altering ooze transforms whatever it contacts into a gnarlier version of the original, e.g., the worms in the soil in the room give rise to the swimming alien worms of unusual size in the black liquid on the floor. The concept of the sealed door to the room halting all biological processes until it is opened makes sense to me.
Answer 3
The eggs were on the boots of the Engineer that had been working in the facility. They had come from another, living world to the military installation from the Prometheus movie. These eggs were able to hatch and spawn worms while the room was previously open (before the outbreak at the facility and the Engineer being decapitated while sealing the room and freezing everything within in a localized stasis field) The purpose of the green gem shown briefly at the base of the head statue was to generate the stasis field once the door was sealed. Once the crew of the Prometheus broke the stasis by opening the door the worms resumed their worming.
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