
Cerulean Blue
MemberFacehuggerNov-16-2012 1:39 PMSo short people come from little green men & tall people come from big pressure-suited engineers? Just Kidding!
I am 5'9" 190 lbs.
My little brother is 6'3" 240lbs.
Go figure?

Batchpool
MemberFacehuggerNov-16-2012 2:25 PMOne of these day’s someone is going to unearth that missing stone tablet of the 11th commandment Moses lost that says “Thou shalt not commit xenocopulation”.

BigDave
MemberDeaconNov-16-2012 3:23 PM@Cerulean Blue
I am sorry your misinformed once again.... there is no such thing as little green men or even zoom zoom...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl2ke-DL2XE]Little Green Men[/url]
It is in fact the tall people who are from Green Men...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ilBsr9n3o]Green Giants[/url]
AS FOR SNOOKI...
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyVmz5shxOA]SNOOKI[/url]
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BigDave
MemberDeaconNov-16-2012 3:41 PMBeing Serious its all about the mixing of the gene pool...
There are some ideas such as that Giants who was Sons of Gods who mated with Human Women created a giant race and that through interbreeding thats where tall people come from.
There are others who claim other kind of genetic manipulation by other beings but it could all just be basic evolution and genetics.
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Necronom 4
MemberNeomorphNov-16-2012 6:45 PMDryson. Quote "With each new generation of human that was born the brain size in the human increased as the DNA from both sets of parents added new levels of intelligence that created new strands of DNA."
You#ve obviously not come across the "humans" where i live!
The poster was good though!

Indy John
MemberOvomorphNov-20-2012 1:37 PMI have reqad the start of the thread and found the concept of interest and has some scientific value.
What if the Engineers took humans off planet for breeding purposes. Then introduce the 'new breed' at various timed of worlsd history to jump start human developemnt.
It was the perfect time to introduce the correct height for the next generations of humans to lead the earth.
Taking this approach a little further along at some point the physical appearance may not be as important as the development of the mind and all of it's scientific data to really ACCELERATE human development.
Taking all this in consideration it curious to note that all of the Engineers we see portrayed in the movie are markedly taller than the humans potayed on screen.
So why is size so important to Engineers? It didn't help the Last Engineer in the throwdown with the facehugger.
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javablue
MemberOvomorphDec-23-2012 12:53 PM[i]Do I know this for certain? No. But it's what I choose to believe which is based in solid scientific findings.[/i]
Based on pseudoscience. And that's being polite...

Anunnaki50
MemberOvomorphDec-23-2012 4:12 PMThats why I like to bring up the Sumerian Anunnaki possibility we are possibly a hybrid species of both a tall human-esque people and a hominid. I mean the Engineers are essentially the Nephilim or the Anakim of the Old Testament in the Bible. Have you guys heard of Sir Frances Crick, he believed that life cannot become an accident and that it has to be either introduced or engineered by some panspermian method.
The Anunnaki were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, mighty men of high reno

javablue
MemberOvomorphDec-23-2012 5:00 PMPanspermia has nothing to do with being engineered. It just means bacteria or something may have hitchhiked on an asteroid that subsequently hit earth. It doesn't solve the question of how life started in the universe.

Indy John
MemberOvomorphDec-23-2012 5:24 PMI had not heard of Sir Frances Crick so I thank you for the mention.
I used wiki to sort of fill me in and found it quite interesting. It was a fairly easy to read article. I was very surprised at all of the research during the 40's that led to greater information on DNA and related subjects.
For the more scientific site members DNA/RNA/Double Helix sort of ties into our film especially the beginning scenes.
I don't know how this helps in our understanding of the movie but will read in interest on future posts in this thread.
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Anunnaki50
MemberOvomorphDec-24-2012 12:13 AMIts still cool if or how a meteroite can contain the essential elements like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, etc... What if though in some sort of fashion life was deliberately brought her? Its fun to think about how it all got started.
The Anunnaki were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, mighty men of high reno

caenorhabhditis
MemberOvomorphDec-24-2012 3:39 AMnone of these things are impossible but ask yourself which are more likely the panspermia innoculation scenario is possible to prove it youd need evidence of fossilized archaebacteria going back right to the time the planet settled, there are theories of how life can originate in certain conditions from inanimate chemicals i beleive it revolves around the formation/exposure of amino acids to electrical current from storms i'll come back with clearer detail in a moment...... (scuttles of to find a copy of New Scientist)
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caenorhabhditis
MemberOvomorphDec-24-2012 3:48 AMok this is from wiki because it turns out theres a whole bunch of variations on the hypothesis
so theres the "RNA world hypothesis" for the formation of ribonucleic acids a precursor to DNA and theres also;
...a different version of the same hypothesis is "Pre-RNA world", where a different nucleic acid is proposed to pre-date RNA. A candidate nucleic acid is peptide nucleic acid (PNA), which uses simple peptide bonds to link nucleobases. PNA is more stable than RNA, but its ability to be generated under prebiological conditions has yet to be demonstrated experimentally.
Threose nucleic acid (TNA) has also been proposed as a starting point, as has glycol nucleic acid (GNA), and like PNA, also lack experimental evidence for their respective abiogenesis.
An alternative—or complementary— theory of RNA origin is proposed in the PAH world hypothesis, whereby polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) mediate the synthesis of RNA molecules.PAHs are the most common and abundant of the known polyatomic molecules in the visible Universe, and are a likely constituent of the primordial sea. PAHs, along with fullerenes (also implicated in the origin of life), have been recently detected in nebulae.
The iron-sulfur world theory proposes that simple metabolic processes developed before genetic materials did, and these energy-producing cycles catalyzed the production of genes.
Yet another alternative theory to the RNA world hypothesis is the panspermia hypothesis. It discusses the possibility that the earliest life on this planet was carried here from somewhere else in the galaxy, possibly on meteorites similar to the Murchison meteorite. This does not invalidate the concept of an RNA world, but posits that this world was not Earth but rather another, probably older, planet.
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caenorhabhditis
MemberOvomorphDec-24-2012 3:54 AMso basically what theyre saying is that it is possible for a bunch of chemicals in the right circumstances to become enzymes and catalyse further changes which escalate to create DNA like molecules
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Anunnaki50
MemberOvomorphDec-24-2012 3:56 AMSome theorists say that Earth could have been another planet called by the Sumerians Tiamat which was supposed to be older that was about 4.3 billion years ago alledgedly.
The Anunnaki were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, mighty men of high reno