Corrected entry: Temp when the ship is on the surface is listed for the atmosphere as 2.724 K which is -454.7628 F. How in the world do all those clouds and presumably flowing water exist with the rest of the atmosphere stated as 72% N, 21% O, and traces of Argon if it's that cold?
Phixius
21st Oct 2014
Prometheus (2012)
27th Jan 2014
Prometheus (2012)
Factual error: In the scene showing the two left-behind crewmen as they discover the snake-like alien, one of them reports to the ship that the creature is "30-40 inches long." The scientific community worldwide has been using the metric system for decades and it would seem highly unlikely a trained member of a starship crew would revert to such an ancient system of measurement.
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Suggested correction: It would be terribly unlikely for a trained member of a starship crew to do that. As it happens, he's not a trained member of a starship crew, he's just a hired mercenary.
Neither Millburn nor Fifield are mecenaries. Millburn is a biologist and Fifield is a geologist.
17th Feb 2013
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Shaw and Ford struggle to lift the engineer's helmet off the head asking David over claiming "it's too heavy to lift". Earlier in the movie, Shaw had no problems carrying the helmet, still with the head in it, in a bag, with one arm and still held on to it in the storm.
Correction: Shaw and Ford carried the head together, hanging straight down between them in a bag with handles. That's a far cry from reaching out across the table, reducing the lifting power of their arms by extending them, and single-handedly removing the helmet which has no readily apparent gripping points.
22nd Jul 2013
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: To enter the central sector of the alien spaceship, David, the android, cleverly types some signal that causes the door to open. We see him climb a silver metallic ladder to reach the necessary keys to make this happen. Where did this ladder come from? The crew did not bring it, and it was not shown prior to David using it.
23rd Jun 2012
Prometheus (2012)
Corrected entry: Upon reentry, a crew member comments that the atmosphere is like "breathing through an exhaust pipe, CO2 is over 3%, two minutes without a suit and you're dead." However, human beings can live in an environment of over 5% CO2, with only mild discomfort in the 3% range.
Correction: They're just rattling off a list of details about the atmosphere, concluding with the fact that it will kill you. Its lethal toxicity is not to do with the CO2 levels.
"Not to do with the CO2 levels"? Read the quote. They're saying you'll die in minutes from exposure to 3% CO2. That would make mouth-to-mouth resuscitation an impossibility as we exhale about 4% CO2. Even if they meant carbon monoxide - ie. What comes out of an exhaust pipe - you'd still have have to be WELL over 3% concentration for it to be lethal within minutes.
The quote does say the atmosphere is over 3%, not at 3%. Could be 6%.
It's unlikely after saying 71% nitrogen and 21% oxygen that "over 3%" would mean double the amount. Over 3% would mean less than 4%. But I would like to know what studies shows humans surviving over 5% CO2 levels to see what the rest of the air is made up of.
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Correction: Those clouds don't have to be made of water vapor; they could be dust or some other gas condensing in the extreme cold. Since the water is only "presumably flowing" and not "absolutely flowing", that observation is irrelevant.
Phixius ★
The only gas present at that temperature would be helium. Frozen water would sublime as in freeze-drying. If the structure is open, there could be no breathable atmosphere or liquid and the human party would initially freeze and then be freeze-dried.
Drcthru