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[Jude]

Did anyone else hear the "muscles enhanced with naturally occurring carbon-fibres" part? I'm sure that was what you'd be arguing about the most.

As a biker, that cracked me up (and made me suspect they were mocking themselves a little bit) because CF is known for being one of the most break-prone and fragile materials you can make a bike out of.

Anyway beyond the fact that there were aliens that looked just like humans, that had DNA, and that they had flying mountains, there weren't too many wall bangers. Oh yeah, the symbiotic relationship with multiple plant and animal species was pretty evolutionarily suspicious, but I liked the idea of information processing on the level of trees instead of cells.

The message of the whole thing could have been less heavy handed, sure, but this shit happens in real life all the damn time, except that the bad guys always win. Not that people who watch it are going to take that away from it, or anything. I'm just gonna go stew about how it's the one year anniversary of the Gaza massacre and nobody gives a shit but they love to root for the blue aliens

oh yeah and 3D was pretty bamf, I caught myself trying to look around the characters to see what was behind them, a lot of times

also i would totally bang the helicopter pilot girl (the one that busts them out of jail and dies in the final battle)

[Cthulhu]

Tell me about it.  There are millions of mineral-rich planets in the Imperium, we can afford to glass one out of principle.

They may have been referring to carbon nanotubes, which are one of the strongest materials known.  A fishing line of carbon nanotube can hold over a thousand pounds.

[deadlycairn]

Yeh, but aren't we having difficulty making carbon-nanotubes? In which case, what's the chance the aliens have muscles made out of em? Never mind the Unobtainium, lets harvest the aliens for their muscles

[Cthulhu]

I am waving my hands wildly at everything.  All technology related plot gaps are fixed.

[Aqizzar]

Never mind the Unobtainium, lets harvest the aliens for their muscles

The Dwarf Fortress Forum, what home was always meant to be.

[Nilocy]

The biggest issue with carbon nanotubes is that they're more dangerous than asbestos when it comes to inhillation. They make your lungs bleed.

[Neruz]

The biggest issue with carbon nanotubes is that they're more dangerous than asbestos when it comes to inhillation. They make your lungs bleed.

It would be reasonable to assume that a creature that had naturally occuring carbon fibres reinforcing their skeletal and musclature structure would probably not suffer from this issue.

[Nilocy]

Well... they're probably not nanotubes and not breathing their bones in

Also, I loved the reference to unobtanium... that amazing material that everyone is fucking after. They basically took the piss outta themselves there

[deadlycairn]

It would absolutelutely ruin the +Na'vi tallow biscuits+ though 

[Neruz]

Well... they're probably not nanotubes and not breathing their bones in

Also, I loved the reference to unobtanium... that amazing material that everyone is fucking after. They basically took the piss outta themselves there

They were pointing out that it's science fiction and that you should just sit back and enjoy the show rather than nitpicking at every little detail


It was basically a subtle MST3K Mantra

[Duke 2.0]

The biggest issue with carbon nanotubes is that they're more dangerous than asbestos when it comes to inhillation. They make your lungs bleed.

It would be reasonable to assume that a creature that had naturally occuring carbon fibres reinforcing their skeletal and musclature structure would probably not suffer from this issue.

Never mind the Unobtainium, lets harvest the aliens for their muscles

 Clearly there is a market for harvesting the smurfkittens for their bones.

[kilakan]

The biggest issue with carbon nanotubes is that they're more dangerous than asbestos when it comes to inhillation. They make your lungs bleed.

It would be reasonable to assume that a creature that had naturally occuring carbon fibres reinforcing their skeletal and musclature structure would probably not suffer from this issue.

Never mind the Unobtainium, lets harvest the aliens for their muscles

 Clearly there is a market for harvesting the smurfkittens for their bones.

you know someone had the same idea with the original smurfs from the television, and that's why there was only ever one girl......  The rest got put into a DF-like.... "fun-pit"

[Zironic]

I just thought, If they were really smart, they would have pushed one of the floating mountains into the freakin' home tree. Also, The na'vi should have killed the human survivors so it takes 10 years before anyone on earth finds out, assuming communication can only travel the speed of light.

[penguinofhonor]

Why the hell would we depend on viruses? Hell, our viruses can't infect most life on our own planet. We would send over germs, fungi and bacteria that would eat them alive.

But you were the one that said "virus bomb". And the common cold is a virus, so really it shouldn't have worked in War of the Worlds.

[Neruz]

It seems somewhat unlikely that terrestial microbes would be able to infect the Na'vi, considering that the atmosphere was toxic.