It was discussed quite awhile ago but maybe there is something new that can be added.

kjohnson26 said:

It was discussed quite awhile ago but maybe there is something new that can be added.

Is the body wearing some type of space-suit or is that its exterior appearance? If its a suit is there necessarily a body in it, maybe it is like a rigid suit used at very high pressures? If the standing objects in the photo of what appears to be in a SJ ship are suits then it would appear that the suits are very rigid when not occupied. Or maybe they are statues.

Is there anything else to indicate that the SJ "head/helmet" is definitively one or the other?

Is there a more humanoid skull inside the "head/helmet"? If the SJ "head/helmet" is actually only a helmet without a skull inside and the SJ "body" is only a rigid suit then this is not necessarily evidence of a dead SJ. 

That makes sense, it could be a discarded suit, although, would they just drop a suit on the floor? Maybe. Maybe there was a fight or a crisis that caused a suit to be dropped. C'mon June, hurry! I'm at max geek level here.

It's already been discussed and dissected. 

ForgottenLegacy said:

kjohnson26 said:

It was discussed quite awhile ago but maybe there is something new that can be added.

Is the body wearing some type of space-suit or is that its exterior appearance? If its a suit is there necessarily a body in it, maybe it is like a rigid suit used at very high pressures? If the standing objects in the photo of what appears to be in a SJ ship are suits then it would appear that the suits are very rigid when not occupied. Or maybe they are statues.

Is there anything else to indicate that the SJ "head/helmet" is definitively one or the other?

Is there a more humanoid skull inside the "head/helmet"? If the SJ "head/helmet" is actually only a helmet without a skull inside and the SJ "body" is only a rigid suit then this is not necessarily evidence of a dead SJ. 

That makes sense, it could be a discarded suit, although, would they just drop a suit on the floor? Maybe. Maybe there was a fight or a crisis that caused a suit to be dropped. C'mon June, hurry! I'm at max geek level here.

It's already been discussed and dissected. 

It's a headless SJ. In the same screen shot, you can see the crew examining the head, which is a few feet away. It's also presumed to be the same head that you see on an table back on Prometheus.

That assumes the found "head/helmet" is a head and that the "body" is actually a body. There was talk earlier about the "head/helmet" might actually be a helmet with or without a head inside. It was assumed that the large prone figure was a body. I was just trying to make some discussion about the possibility of the prone body being simply an empty rigid SJ suit since the two SJ figures in the other photo could be rigid SJ suits instead of statues.

It's one of the suits we saw back in January behind Noomi in that photoshopped publicity still. Fifield bumbled into it after a hand rolled from his special reserve, knocking it over to the floor and dislodging the helmet. Ford and Shaw found him shaking it by the shoulders 10 minutes later asking if the dude was ok.

ForgottenLegacy said:

Here you go

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Zwu3MxhUwlM/TwRxdyNRHhI/AAAAAAAABWE/KQqiyEN35vA/s1600/dead+jockey.jpg

Thanks FL. I've scanned that photo so many times but never took the time to brighten it.

The few frames of the jockey in the chair show the suit disassembling, the rib cage unfolding and plates on it's upper arm disappearing bit-by-bit. That would suggest that the construction of the suit is not simply like that of a medieval knight or astronaut. I would suggest that the chair is pivotal to the suit and it is constructured/deconstructed around the occupant only in the chair.

I'm sure it is a suit, but generally "astronaut" suits and the like tend to have the outward appearance of whoever is on the inside. If that's true-does the suit and in particular the mask look a little strange for a humanoid-at least one that looks like the giant head?

The ribcage restraint is also interesting. Is it holding the occupant in or preventing something from leaving?

Is the ribcage restraint on the SJ seen in the trailer part of the chair or part of the suit? The Chair/Cannon rising sequence doesn't obviously show the ribcage restraint but it could be retracted into the chair itself. 

In the trailer it looks like the suit is being 'sucked' back into the chair. The shoulder plates, rib-cage and upper arm platelets are all moving towards the chair.

GabusMaximus said:

I think the suit expands to the proper size seen in Alien. The footage in the trailer must be in reverse.

Must?

 

LOL.