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Avatar; New Trailer new creatures!
Topic Started: Nov 7 2009, 02:27 PM (1,818 Views)
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Hey people!

Some of you shouldn't noticed the new trailer of AVATAR!!

Take a look!! http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/
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Yes, the toys have been released. I went to Target and they toys were being sold...If I were still I child, I would have whined and screamed till I got one LOL !



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"Unobtanium is a highly valuable mineral found on the moon Pandora which humans mine to save the earth from his energy crisis. It is a room temperature super-conductor for energy, which makes it very valuable: it's worth $20 Million per kilogram on Earth. However, it's very expensive to mine on Pandora because humans can't breathe the air on the planet.
Unobtanium has a unique magnetic field and properties of superconductivity, causing it to levitate. On Pandora, the magnetic effect causes huge outcroppings of Unobtainium to rip loose from the surface and float in the magnetic vortices. These huge islands, named Montes Volans, are called Thundering Rocks by the Pandorans."

HOW!!! How I never thought on that!!! So simple!!! (tavotrio have floating islands too, I never get a got reazon to make them float... years thinking about that!!!)

This wing design is realy amasing!
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Unobtainium = Applied Phlebotinum

Those wings are interesting, incorporating the vaned characteristics of feathers without making actual feathers. And it looks like they have a secondary flight surface as well

One of my favorite things about Pandoran life is the color. Everything is so bright! Don't be surprised if some of it doesn't bleed into my own work...

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If you do it now the only thing you will get is arrested, huh. ;)
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Those wings are interesting, incorporating the vaned characteristics of feathers without making actual feathers.
Precisely!

I realy like the bioluminescence, my Tavotrios had it too, but didn't thought in let it be so bright!! Or on plants!
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Is that actual bioluminescence or just bright coloration?
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Oh and it's possible the Na'vi lost their limbs. After all Not all mammals have 4 limbs.
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Is that actual bioluminescence or just bright coloration?
The bright spots are bioluminescence
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Bioluminescence... how i love convergent evolution.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Ah. I can see it now.
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Good. Erm, why can't it be see-through with tints of bioluminescence? That would be cool.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Yes, even the flora on this planet is bioluminescent !



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They must have amazing views from spaceships.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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What purpose(s) do you guys think bioluminescent plants could serve? I mean, it's certainly beautiful (I'm including some in my next nereid biome, coincidentally), but plants are traditionally in the business of absorbing light, not projecting it. So what are some uses that you can see bioluminescence serving in flora?
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Possibly attracting 'insects' to further pollinate it...also they have a different bio-chemistry, so we can't go by Earth standards ;)



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Pretending to be an animal to warn animals away? Maybe it's a by-product of their form of photosynthesis.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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