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"Avatar" 2; Some cool creatures this time
Topic Started: Jul 8 2010, 11:48 PM (4,327 Views)
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The Na'vi are pretty crappy compared to the South American Indians in their prime, I'd say they are faaaaar from perfect and the only reason they haven't been devoured to the point of extinction is that their treeputer god deems them amusing, and I find this mentally painful beyond measure when I think about how their entire world is united and small enough to make use of its unity.

I thought the unobtanium was important for a potential survival strategy of humanity? I'm surprised that the corp. didn't just napalm the shit out of the jungle, ancient government policies probably prevented them from doing so I guess...

Also sure you can, just call them primitive jerks.
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But Americans (the public this movie was made for) don't care. We like to think that nature is still obtainable, that we still have a chance to form a peaceful equilibrium with nature while staying clean, happy, and fat. This is our way to do so.

You make them jerks, and no one will buy it.
Edited by Practically Uninformed, Jul 29 2010, 10:07 AM.
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Jul 29 2010, 10:02 AM
The Na'vi are pretty crappy compared to the South American Indians in their prime, I'd say they are faaaaar from perfect and the only reason they haven't been devoured to the point of extinction is that their treeputer god deems them amusing, and I find this mentally painful beyond measure when I think about how their entire world is united and small enough to make use of its unity.

I thought the unobtanium was important for a potential survival strategy of humanity? I'm surprised that the corp. didn't just napalm the shit out of the jungle, ancient government policies probably prevented them from doing so I guess...

Also sure you can, just call them primitive jerks.
Apparently the govrnments wanted them to not kill loads of Na'vi.
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Hahaha, oh, I didn't know you meant WITHIN the franchise, no, I don't think it would be profitable to make the jerks.

Now to think up a way to allow people to live with nature while staying clean, happy, and fat.

Photosynthetic tattoos? Filtration worms in your stomach? Hyperactive immunities?

Essentially I'm thinking about how coexisting with nature while attempting to stay fat would likely result in high levels of parasites. Removing the need to eat large amounts of food (photosynthetic tattoos, possibly inserting a symbiotic algae or if you want to be fancy that radiosynthetic fungus, would allow one to produce sugars and convert that into fats -or get DIABEETUS-).

Of course I doubt people actually would want to be fat, so SEXY INJECTIONS of brown fat might be common, perhaps a virus that attacks white fat cells and triggers them to become brown fat. Wouldn't that be sweet for the brain eh?
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...you know what I mean.
Keeping up our current quality of life, while somehow being detatched from it.
Not having to go for days, sometimes weeks, hungry, tired, stressed, and very dirty.
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Oh, that's actually kind of easy, first you induce sterility amongst the world population through poison, then you make it a requirement to have a license to reproduce. If anyone seriously argues that reproduction is natural and should be available to any and all people regardless of their ability to pass as good parents then just murder them, I mean murder is just as natural as reproduction so they can't complain.

Once the prohibition of reproduction is induced the population will go down and food trouble will be less of a problem, this will cause industrial animal farming to be viewed as rather wasteful and unnecessary, resulting in less animal farming in general which will lower the green house gas emissions of such factories.

With such low birth rates we'd be able to focus more on the comfort and longevity of the individual rather than the continuation, stability, and control of the whole. Ultimately that would probably result in people being just as comfortable chilling in the woods as they would be chilling in their own homes, along with all the conveniences of a home -handhelds are lovely things, especially now since you can access the internet with them-.

Farming and distribution of food would continue of course along with production of luxury goods.

To be honest I don't understand people's desire to be that close to nature, I mean, I love it. A lot. I'd love to camp out for weeks on end in the hills and eat bland fish and strange berries. But I also love that humans have create a nest, a habitat, a safe zone, in which lions and tigers and bears can't eat me. Or where I can't get infested with worms because I didn't boil my water. Or where my home doesn't leak when it rains, or get cold when it snows, or is too hot when there's sun, and electricity. My gods electricity is amazing, I don't think these people realize how wonderful it truly is.


----oh, you give the folks with licenses the antidote. Prison time for people who produce or distribute the antidote for and to people without a license.


------2----- oh, also, http://www.pown.it/1802
Edited by colddigger, Jul 29 2010, 11:52 AM.
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