January 24, 2013malex234 , again thanks for providing the infographic materials, especially that final paragraph regarding David and the potential source of the scientific data supporting them . Also Malek, this time I get your point and agree with you. Thanks for letting us know when you are kidding or not, it really makes your posts way more legible. The folks at Fox obviously hired some writers and asked them to make up some sci fi captions for these pics that would explain what the black goo might do. The results are what we are reading attached to the pictures.
By the way a better translation from French to English of that last paragraph describing where David may have obtained the data is as follows:
"To conclude, we can assume that David recovered his data either in the control room of the ship (when it activates the Starmap), or during a previous trip during the Prometheus mission. When we see his mastery of the written and spoken language of the Engineers and his knowledge in dealing with unfamiliar materials (handling and opening ampoules, use of the term "maturation" in his report to Weyland), it leaves more questions unanswered."
I translated this using a combination of google translate, which gives you additional translation options for specific phrases or words, combined with intuitive translation techniques that I have used in the past in translating scientific articles from both German or French. It is very important to have as accurate a translation as possible as this section describes the origin of this data. From this newer translation it is clear that David obtained knowledge recorded directly from the Engineers using their experimental data -and this gets us past the logical problem of David not having time to conduct experiments nor the subjects, etc... By using their scientific data, his wild experiment using Holloway makes more sense as merely a conformation experiment, to experimental work previously conducted by the Engineers, who used statistically valid sample sized groups and presumably proper experimental techniques since they are more technologically advanced than us scientifically. It would fall under plausibility that he could find the time and privacy later in 'Paradise', i.e. Prometheus 2, while Shaw slept during the trip to Paradise and while he piloted the ship after she finely reattaches his head to his body. It would make sense that he would attempt to contact the company if an effort to see if the Engineer's ship that they borrowed could possibly be deterred by company ships. He could very easily slow down the ship without Shaw being aware since she is completely in the dark and dependent on him to pilot the ship and translate all of the written or verbal commands that he would need to get them there. It might be true that David again decides to follow his own addenda, the goal of which differs as already stated from Dr Shaw. Remember he doesn't agree on her need to ask the Engineers why they decided to destroy us 2000 years ago after they created us in the first place. He might decide to redirect the ship to earth in an effort to save both he and Dr Shaw as a matter of simple survival and possibly through a rare aspect of genuine caring for her. Consider that he has already displayed both constructive and destructive behaviors toward Elisabeth Shaw. He saved her from the storm but then turns around and attempts to use her as a Guinea pig for his pregnancy during contamination by black goo experiment. So it would be totally in character for him to lie to her to save her from herself from his perspective.
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