Has this casting info been confirmed outside of imdb? imdb is not always completely reliable when it comes to movies still in production (sometimes they include code names used by productions to prevent spoilers). This made me think at first that maybe Pearce would be an android replica, except that Michael Fassbender…

The description of "All of an Instant" reminded me a little of the very weird 1974 novel The Fall of Chronopolis by Barrington J. Bayley...and for those who like weird sci fi, his short story collection The Knight of Limits is also recommended. An amazon reviewer's plot summary for "Fall of Chronopolis":

The correct memetic phrase here is Christ, what an asshole.

So if this takes place in 2023, and Prometheus takes place in 2085 according to Ridley Scott's comment here, will Guy Pearce be in old-man makeup throughout the movie (why not hire an actual older actor?), or have they already discovered how to hold back aging? Maybe he gets rejuvenated part way through the movie?

How could Pearce's character in Prometheus be an ancestor of Henriksen's character in AvP? Prometheus is set in the future, AvP was set in the present day.

Why do you doubt it? He obviously hates those movies, see the clip here for example, or this interview where he says 'Yeah, the thing about "Alien vs. Predator" is, I know it's commerce, but what a pity.' I'm sure he'd be happy to mess with the continuity of those movies in any way that the studio wouldn't object to.

This guy is a very good candidate for the Nobel Prize in 2012 or 2013 (depending on how long it takes for the LHC to confirm the Higgs discovery)...anyway it was interesting to hear him talk, I hadn't seen an interview with him before.

I suppose you could be right if the Weyland in Scott's movie is part of an already-established Weyland corporation, but the reference to his being an "entrepreneur" made me think he'd be presented more as the initial founder who the later company would be named after.

It gladdens my heart that this will help undermine any lingering claims that the Alien vs. Predator franchise should be included as part of "official" Alien universe canon (those movies featured their own version of Weyland)

It would be good to see more movies and such with weird prehistoric mammals, but pterosaurs weren't "between dinosaurs and man", they were a type of hairy reptile that died out at the same time as the dinosaurs.

It actually looks similar to the other Anurognathid pterosaurs, an odd-looking bunch that may have branched off from other more common pterosaur groups fairly early on in pterosaur evolution.

Nah, only hair imprints. And even if hair survived that long by being preserved in amber or something, DNA molecules break down in much less time. Also, the closest living relative of a pterosaur would be way more distant than an elephant is from a wooly mammoth (even more distant than the distance between a T. Rex…

I believe you, I believe you! Though it seems to me that in the oldest art people were typically more interested in depicting animals than humans, and when they depicted humans it was more likely to be women (all those "venus" ladies) than men...but yeah, when they did depict men a giant phallus was rarely absent (and…

That guy may not actually be very ancient, the wikipedia article mentions 'since the first descriptions of the figure do not appear until the mid-18th century, many scholars conclude that it is not significantly older than that.' And also: 'Medieval writings refer to this location as "Trendle Hill", but make no…

That image shows the tracks made in a bubble chamber by various high-energy particles created in a collision between other particles in a particle accelerator. The article I linked to shows that specific image with the caption "Famous postcard view of a neutrino interaction in BEBC (the Big European Bubble Chamber)…

They're not going to physically force it on you, but they're going to say "unless you go through with this we won't give you the abortion you want". As another commenter above said, it's kind of like someone's boss saying "give me a blowjob if you want to keep your job"—of course they are free to reject the offer, but…

The problem with your statement is that the overwhelming majority of abortions (around 99%) are not because of rape, but for other reasons like 'not ready for a baby', 'wants to wait longer', etc.

I don't think many of the metals and other materials are in danger of running out within the next few centuries, and unlike with oil, such materials can also be recycled without too much loss. If we're talking a timescale of many centuries, if civilization lasts that long and robots develop the kind of ability to…