different scenerio from what happend inside the base and the juggarnaut

in addition, I personally believe there are two factions of engineer. The evidence being: The Disc shaped craft used by the whites does not have an FTL propulsion system it seems to operate by some other means of physics. The derelict juggernaut clearly uses FTL propulsion. This implies two things to me: The Whites (engineers in the opening scene) are older and more advanced than the blues (engineers on LV223). That the engineers on LV223 in some way are under control of these pure engineers. This is referenced by the suits infused in their skin, in comparison the white's in the opening scene are pure, cloaked or naked with nothing infused in their skin and are more advanced this implies the suits are not beneficial.

According to the prometheus book, 'the art of the film' . The writing on the wall is actually a mixture of ancient persian and pre-sumerian middle eastern. Apparently it can be spoken too. (reference Prometheus, art of the film pg143)

[quote]The reason the engineers are piled is because the infection effects all of them equally and rapidly and there only hope is the containment stone. none of those dead at the door make it and consequently their heads explode much like the severed head that scares Vickers and the human science team, because they barely contain it before it bursts.[/quote] [b]PERFECT![/b] I don't want to boast, but that is what any spectator with a functioning brain could have easily inferred. Ridley Scott offers no expository dialogue, no flashbacks - just eerie images for us to connect the dots. I'm totally baffled by all the people who say the film is incomprehensible. It is not. It is just ambiguous and subtle.