tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post5421625348958912477..comments2024-02-19T00:39:49.642-08:00Comments on We Alone on Earth: AvatarMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-37826043589109657682010-01-28T13:37:01.047-08:002010-01-28T13:37:01.047-08:00Thinking about it, agriculture would be very diffi...Thinking about it, agriculture would be very difficult in a region still home to megafauna, and conversely, we wouldn't need agriculture till all the megafauna had been eliminated. Pandoran predators are just one component in a resilient and tough network capable of repelling any external change, including spacecraft.Michael BFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757274897589421838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-88482147099584685852010-01-27T20:55:37.672-08:002010-01-27T20:55:37.672-08:00Pandora does not need to integrate technology beca...Pandora does not need to integrate technology because it has already attained the balance that we continue to seek in technological progress.<br /><br />The people are effectively immortal via the planetary neural network. They have a real life bona-fide God to worship, not some hollow social construct.<br /><br />The Na'vi show see little evidence of disease or parasitism or other such Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-3740733599242732882010-01-27T20:53:48.323-08:002010-01-27T20:53:48.323-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-2212946302582894662010-01-26T13:40:43.970-08:002010-01-26T13:40:43.970-08:00ah, I've finally gotten around to seeing the m...ah, I've finally gotten around to seeing the movie, and I'd say all the tech makes perfect sense & Evan was totally right about the high temperature superconductor thing. <br /><br />Avatar is ... a lot like the Alpha Centauri video game actually. <br /><br />Unobtanium is a room temperature superconductor that exists to facilitate the planet scale neural network that is Pandora'sMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-9506183034899120012010-01-12T06:54:58.492-08:002010-01-12T06:54:58.492-08:00http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avata...http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.htmlMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-2203445658675028092010-01-10T22:21:52.730-08:002010-01-10T22:21:52.730-08:00Great sci-fi doesn't explain, it implies. Now...Great sci-fi doesn't explain, it implies. Now, I totally missed that unobtainium is a room temperature superconductor. I thought it was plain antigravity, which makes absolutely no sense, but who's keeping score.<br /><br />Evan has a interesting point about how the Avatar link worked. As best as I could tell, there was a unitary consciousness that was some how transferred between Michael BFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757274897589421838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-21003345849751521692010-01-10T19:24:52.129-08:002010-01-10T19:24:52.129-08:00Well I think it's worse since superconductors ...Well I think it's worse since superconductors do exist and are an outlet for real science to explain some of the physical effects seen on pandora such as the Hallelujah Mountains.<br /><br />Red matters functions to explain the formation of stable artificial singularities, which is harder to explain away with real science in a concise manner. Plus I feel Star Trek didn't really care as Evannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-39154183428633727592010-01-10T18:56:22.481-08:002010-01-10T18:56:22.481-08:00ah, so is this better/worse/comparable to "re...ah, so is this better/worse/comparable to "red matter" from last year ?Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-78317621481919885152010-01-10T18:17:52.957-08:002010-01-10T18:17:52.957-08:00And it bothers me that they used that out when the...And it bothers me that they used that out when they could have given a cool explanation.Evannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-60898441986338127712010-01-10T09:54:00.212-08:002010-01-10T09:54:00.212-08:00I mean, "Unobtainium" is just a generic ...I mean, "Unobtainium" is just a generic sci-fi plot device, its very name implies an object to which little thought or explanation should be given...<br /><br />I still haven't seen avatar though...Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279969393617122722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255765354647516808.post-18696377649059669432010-01-10T09:09:41.595-08:002010-01-10T09:09:41.595-08:00I was more intrigued by the technology behind the ...I was more intrigued by the technology behind the Avatar Program itself. The link between a controller and their Avatar body is completely remote and yet there appears to be no lag time for a sensory signal to be sent back to the controller, processed, and then returned to the Avatar. This almost suggests that the Avatar body contains some of the conscious processes of the controller and is Evannoreply@blogger.com