We went to watch Avatar in IMAX 3D.
We went to watch Avatar in IMAX 3D. On Feb 28, 2010. Dennis was awfully quiet on the way back, which means it made quite an impression. This is an old email from Mar 1, 2010.

Avatar was a great movie. All the alleged sophisticates who badmouthed the storyline are full of shit.

Our only wish is that Cameron shot it less like Pocahontas and more like Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" ("Неукротимая Планета"). It would require pretty much no changes in the movie whatsoever, and would make everything much cooler ("гораздо круче"), because the local fauna were much scarier then blue grubbers ("корчевщики").

Yesterday, during collective discussions, we came up with a plausible hypothesis surrounding the past and future events.

First of all, note also that all animals, except Navi, although, apparently being the same Phylum, have 6 extremities, either 6 legs ("horses", "wolves", "hammerheads") or 2 legs and 4 wings. Very suspicious and scary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe_in_Avatar#Fauna

The inescapable conclusion is that humans got into big trouble ("серьезно вляпались") this time. There were only 5 previous cases when a Navi could fly the "Last Shadow". Last time it was the heroine great-...-great-grandfather. Since there is nothing obviously preventing the present Navi's themselves riding Gavilandora maxima, the obvious conclusion is that he was also a marine, but from another non-human species (oorah!). He also unified all the tribes by doing so, just like the current events, obviously for the same reason.

Since those species did not come back to settle the score, they were probably neutralized at the source, at least for the time being. This already happened 5 times before so the odds are against H.Sapience.

We don't know for sure who did it. Could be anyone. The planet is big and mostly unexplored. Subsurface is completely unexplored. The rest of the planetary system is completely unexplored. There is no guarantee that the blue aborigines we encounter are the most advanced individuals or even species on the planet. They are suspiciously humanoid, and the chicks are incredibly hot. What are the chances of that? Nil! It looks more like a or a trap or a test.

BTW, there is no doubt that the Earth, Alpha Centauri and other stars, exchange single-cell organisms. It is comforting to know that they naturally evolve to be mostly Bilaterally Symmetric :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateria
Great! This will be very helpful in their understanding of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
BTW, Arecibo Message has a bug. Pluto is listed as a planet. Time to send out a correction, or they'll think we are stupid. We already can detect planets around other stars, and so can they. (also see https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/8Zu2koqWaHy)

Ray Kurzweil's take in his essay "Reflections on Avatar"
http://www.kurzweilai.net/reflections-on-avatar-by-ray-kurzweil/

Notice that even Kurzweil did not understand why the Unobtanium was "no longer needed". The above explains why not. No Humans, no need.

Kurzweil needs to brush up on his zoology and weaponology. There are no birds or tanks in the movie. The "baddies" are not the army, but minimum wage security guards ("вохра"), working for the mining company. There is nothing especially unusual about animals defeating armed people, like grizzlies, elephants, rhinos, warthogs, dogs, even an occasional sperm whale.

Also observing the weapons of the future, for example "Amplified Mobility Platform" (AMP) suit - an MK-6 class combat vehicle. we conclude that either

1. In that future, the race of armor vs weapons was decisively won by weapons (so there is no point in armor anymore) or the current trend that mobility is more important then armor came to the logical conclusion.
That's why the local fauna won. It was more mobile.

or

2. The lessons of the past were forgotten. The AMPs needed to be up-armored, but weren't.

BTW, the reason the weapons needed to be manned (or more correctly "occupied") during the assault at all, was the "interference" around the Mother Tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe_in_Avatar#Fauna

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