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When we recently
read that
Ridley Scott loosely modeled
Prometheus' robot character David (played by
Michael Fassbender) off of
David Bowie, we started poking around for more images of Bowie looking particularly bot-ish. Surprisingly, this was harder than we thought! Does someone automatically look like a robot in a photo just because they
have one permanently-dilated pupil, are possibly on a lot of drugs and staring off into space? And does it count if that person is simultaneously trying to look like an androgynous alien rock star? That's different than a robot. What about when that person simply
looks like Tilda Swinton? In the end, we settled on the images below as being most truly bot-like. So in honor of
Prometheus' release today (are you seeing it tonight? We are, we are!), here are 14 photos of David Bowie looking like springs and smoke might shoot out of his ears if you spilled a glass of water on him.