Rules for a "Becoming Na'vi" program (sorta long =/)

[Txum_kali'weya]

Originally Posted by Zai-en-ken

The people who are selected for the Na'vi program and pass all of the hurdles therein (ideally, only a few people at a time) will live with the Na'vi for the rest of their life in that body.

Are you thinking Eywa would do that? Eywa is not a machine that can be used to transfer consciousness' at a humans whim, nor a pet that would do it for the same reason. I hope she would continue to assault the sky people until they leave for good. Na'vi culture was perfect until the moment they first interacted with tawtute.

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Txum_kali'weya

Are you thinking Eywa would do that? Eywa is not a machine that can be used to transfer consciousness' at a humans whim, nor a pet that would do it for the same reason. I hope she would continue to assault the sky people until they leave for good. Na'vi culture was perfect until the moment they first interacted with tawtute.

Oh ho ho!

Finally someone decides to respond with the alternate viewpoint I was looking for all along.

Thanks for taking a look at it from the other perspective, but you misunderstood; I was creating this imaginary scenario with the assumption that none of that mattered.

When I created this thread, I gave it two "faces". One face was made to attract and appeal to the hopeful "damn I wish I was Na'vi" side, and the other was created to illustrate the realities of how difficult a program like that would be to pull off. If you "read between the lines" and consider the resources needed for interplanetary travel, you might be able to collect all of the different things that would ruin a program like the one I described and form the other "face". Clever, no?

For example, barring the fact that random people wouldn't just be able to "become one of the people", there is a big question mark as to how human DNA would affect the Na'vi gene pool should the two interbreed; any "silent" genetic disorders or missense/nonsense mutations (take some biology courses kids) might become amplified or have a different effect. We haven't even been told if Na'vi and humans have the same nitrogenous nases in their genetic material for crying out loud! (again about the biology courses).

That is just one of the problems with a program such as this. I made this thread so that the users on this forum could decide for themselves whether or not such a program would actually work, what the Na'vi would actually think about it, and whether or not additional rules should be added if they think that it would work.

Well?

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Txum_kali'weya

Are you thinking Eywa would do that? Eywa is not a machine that can be used to transfer consciousness' at a humans whim, nor a pet that would do it for the same reason. I hope she would continue to assault the sky people until they leave for good. Na'vi culture was perfect until the moment they first interacted with tawtute.

I think Eywa would want to try and help the humans - if they could learn to See, then she would help them with that.