Maybe when Burke said "We're getting into a lot of terraforming now" it's just that previously WY had, say 10 terraforming projects that are incredibly profitable (and hence, the foundation of their corporation) and now their business is booming and they've got 100 such projects going on.Galvatron wrote:I'm fine with that, but their website makes it pretty clear that terraforming is a cornerstone of their empire long before Burke's time:
It even makes the dubious claim that they've managed to colonize planets more than 3,000 light years away, yet for some reason it's supposed to take the Nostromo ten months just to travel 37 light years from Zeta Reticuli to Earth at the time of Alien.Terraforming is the second largest sector of Weyland Industries, and continues to earn the greatest profit margin as our most consistently well-performing division.
Prometheus, Alien and Aliens
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Re: Prometheus, Alien and Aliens
"I don't believe in man made global warming because God promised to never again destroy the earth with water. He sent the rainbow as a sign."
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"And BTW the concept of carbon based life is only a hypothesis based on the abiogensis theory, and there is no clear evidence for it."
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- Sean Hannity Forums user Avi
"And BTW the concept of carbon based life is only a hypothesis based on the abiogensis theory, and there is no clear evidence for it."
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Re: Prometheus, Alien and Aliens
*shrug* Maybe the planet in question was especially valuable or they meant 300 LY?Galvatron wrote:It even makes the dubious claim that they've managed to colonize planets more than 3,000 light years away, yet for some reason it's supposed to take the Nostromo ten months just to travel 37 light years from Zeta Reticuli to Earth at the time of Alien.
Or maybe Nostromo, being glorified tug boat towing huge automated refinery just wasn't very fast/flew slow to give refinery time to actually process the cache?
Althought I must say I laughed at 'LIFEBOAT'
