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03-05-2011, 03:34 PM
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Oh I'm sorry; I meant they weren't designed to be mammals from the start.
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03-07-2011, 04:09 AM
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I have a question that I've been meaning to ask the forum for a while, which is kinda related to this topic.
If you were one of the humans who stayed behind on Pandora, what would you miss about Earth? Even if you loved everything about Pandora and were happy, there would have to be *some* things you would get homesick for now and then. It could be big things, it could be little things, it could be things you don't even like that much but make you nostalgic. Any ideas?
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All Avatar writings ------------------- Selected writings: You came back How do you make up after you've done the unforgivable? Jake and Neytiri have a conversation in the wake of Hometree's destruction, during their first real moment alone following his return as Toruk Makto. The Last Train Home Fourteen years after the war, a lone spaceship appears in the sky. The former members of the Avatar program watch its approach – expecting the worst, fearing for their adopted home. Then the ship lands. And suddenly, nothing makes sense anymore. Five seconds too late This is a different kind of Jake/Neytiri romance, the story that would've unfolded had she been delayed for just five seconds while trying to reach him following the fight with Quaritch.
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03-07-2011, 05:38 AM
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03-07-2011, 10:30 AM
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i would miss:
-playing my guitar (if i didn't bring it with me) -going to concerts -watching new movies, listening to new music
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03-07-2011, 11:00 AM
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It's not as if the humans don't have vehicles left. There are a few Samsons and possibly Scorpions that can be seen on the tarmac as most of the RDA personnel were herded onto the shuttle. Nevertheless, flying in a VTOL machine is nothing compared to flying on an ikran. (Although I had the strangest vision of a group of ikran and Scorpions flying in formation together O.o)
Anyways, time to comment on some of the more technical discussions. If I remember correctly, aircraft of Pandora are made of polymer, so magnetic field wouldn't affect their flight characteristics much. HNM, you have to realize that any conductor going through such a concentrated flux will not behave well for flight due to Lenz's Law. Try it yourself. Moving a piece of metal, any metal, through a sufficiently strong magnetic field would feel like moving it through syrup. As for avionics, I think we can give JC the benefit of doubt and say that the electrical wiring and hardware are sufficiently shielded so that they won't blow when flying through those mountains. Perhaps some kind of active shielding is done to ensure the survival of the circuitry and other electronics. As for Neytiri's breast, I've looked at them while she was running, and it seems that they don't wobble when she is performing aggressive maneuvers during the battle and when running. This leads me to believe that her breasts may constitute a significant portion of her pectoral muscles. As for why she even has breasts, I'm inclined to believe that it's a concession that JC made to science and probability to ensure that we can empathize with the Na'vi species. People, this is science fiction, not a documentary. The point of this isn't to have the highest scientifically probably results. There are many more things I would like to discuss, but I'll put them into a later post, since I'm exhausted right now.
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03-07-2011, 07:12 PM
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