The lingering question of what David and Peter said to the alien Engineer in Prometheus that made him go berserk were finally answered in the subtitles on the Blu-ray. In his opinion, that put him on the same plane as the Engineer, and gave him the right to immortality.
And now, with Covenant , David is claiming his own version of godhood, by creating his own species and setting it loose on the universe. But what does it all mean? Why is religion such a focus for these movies, but in such an unfocused and generalized way?
Or is Scott dismissing religion as foolishness, given the tragic ends his religious characters come to, and the lack of hope or help they get from their beliefs?
And with this topic, at least, there are no suggestions that these questions might be answered somewhere down the line. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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These are described in detail in the expression language operators page. Prometheus supports several functions to operate on data. These are described in detail in the expression language functions page.
When queries are run, timestamps at which to sample data are selected independently of the actual present time series data. This is mainly to support cases like aggregation sum , avg , and so on , where multiple aggregated time series do not exactly align in time. Because of their independence, Prometheus needs to assign a value at those timestamps for each relevant time series. It does so by simply taking the newest sample before this timestamp. If a target scrape or rule evaluation no longer returns a sample for a time series that was previously present, that time series will be marked as stale.
If a target is removed, its previously returned time series will be marked as stale soon afterwards. If a query is evaluated at a sampling timestamp after a time series is marked stale, then no value is returned for that time series. If new samples are subsequently ingested for that time series, they will be returned as normal.
If no sample is found by default 5 minutes before a sampling timestamp, no value is returned for that time series at this point in time. This effectively means that time series "disappear" from graphs at times where their latest collected sample is older than 5 minutes or after they are marked stale.
Staleness will not be marked for time series that have timestamps included in their scrapes. Only the 5 minute threshold will be applied in that case. If a query needs to operate on a very large amount of data, graphing it might time out or overload the server or browser. He's tasked with explaining what he thinks they've stumbled onto, explaining it as a weapons factory that's wisely built away from wherever it is the Engineers actually live Our Theory: This bit of descriptive dialogue is necessary to solidify the plot, and it's best that Elba's character delivers it.
But it's more of a theory than concrete fact. From the beginning, he is written as a world-weary ship captain who has kind of "seen it all," a cagey veteran who's around for guidance as much as he's around because he's good at piloting a craft. Not that he has run into many alien weapons factories for lack of a better term , but he's experienced enough to know when a hostile opponent is crafting a weapon for retaliation, and we think that's what he witnesses on the distant moon of LV If the moon visited by the Prometheus isn't the Engineers home and it was an accident that led them to be stuck there, why did they have the cave drawings lead there?
The cave drawings are discovered by doctors Shaw and Holloway in key locations around our planet. But are they invitations, or warnings? No clear cut answer is given in Prometheus. They certainly point Dr. Shaw to the distant galaxy, where she finds the Engineers.
But since the moon is a weapons factory basically , that seems to suggest that they were warnings. This isn't the end of Shaw's quest, though. It's possible the answer lies in the film's sequel if Ridley Scott is able to make it, that is. Our Theory: The cave drawings are additional proof that the Engineers have been to our planet multiple times over the years. As the opening scenes of Prometheus show us, the Engineers spread their DNA all over the galaxy, creating life on various planets.
We happen to be an offshoot of that DNA. Scott has said the Engineers often check in on their creations The cave drawings, first and foremost, are ways to show that individuals, over the course of many centuries, encountered Engineers.
But they suggest that Earth's citizens learned something about the weapons being designed to annihilate us, and were saying, "Stay away from this area! From the moment the crew of the Prometheus wakes up out of hypersleep, we're aware of just how little this group of roughnecks knows about the assignment.
Shaw and Holloway are there to try to contact the Engineers, of course, and Meredith Vickers knows all about their plans, but everyone else on board seems happy to take the paycheck-- which is why we still don't understand why Peter Weyland would have to hide that he's on board. When he finally is revealed late in the film, it turns out he's looking for essentially the same thing as Shaw-- so why couldn't they have just been working together the entire time?
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