We're no astronauts, but we're guessing that the first thing you're taught when training to be one is that you should never, under any circumstances, take your helmet off when in an alien environment. Mankind is yet to step foot on another planet other than our own so far, but when we do eventually make the leap to landing on Mars, our guess is that NASA's first piece of advice will be the above. Yet, for all the technological advancement that humans seem to have achieved in Prometheus, they're seemingly not too bothered about whipping off their helmets to get a breath of fresh, extraterrestrial oxygen to fill their lungs. Now, if there was actually any scientific reason for the crew to actually remove their helmets in the film, that would be fine, but there wasn't. The moment the crew discover that the air is breathable inside the building they've discovered, they instantly yank off their fish-bowl helmets. For literally no reason. They know the atmosphere is breathable sure, but so are their fancy suits. We're not sure where Peter Weyland found his group of eggheads, but they certainly lacked any common sense. Please guys, think before you leap.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
