Looks like James Cameron is trying to solve the overpopulation problem.
Slaanesh approves of twincest and tentacles!!!
lol… I guess that makes sense from a morbid point of view.
What always bothered me about that movie… [spoiler]…is why they didn’t just drop something from orbit to destroy that tree of life. They could clearly see it from satellite photos, so just nudge some space rock at it. Worked for getting rid of the dinosaurs. Since humans had to wear protective gear to walk around the planet, a little mass extinction event isn’t going to be an issue.
Same goes for those “massive gathering of people” in a single location. Modern armies don’t do that these days, because you can kill them all with one big bomb from the sky. Kinda sucks to lose 99% of your military in one single weapon strike. :P[/spoiler]
If only the future of mankind was cooler in that movie, like being genetically engineered and cybernetic enhanced genocidal maniacs in form fitting powered armor who worship technology as a religion. 
Edit: For great spoiler tag
[spoiler]There actually is a decent explanation. It’s just that the movie doesn’t even bring it up. The humans are trying to mine this unobtainium. The various holy sites were on top of huge troves of it. Nuking the site from orbit would greatly complicate mining operations.
Of course, nuking the enemy army from orbit is another matter. And sterilizng the surface (say using an indiscriminate herbicide) is another option, which has the added bonus of defeating the “The planet itself will resist you” strategy by wiping out the food chain. You could construct a reason why this was not an option, but the movie was already verging on being too long anyway, so it makes sense that it got glossed over.
For example: take into account political and economic constraints more carefully. They establish it’s not a military operation, just a private mercenary company. Perhaps human society doesn’t let PMC corporations use WMD or orbital-strike-capable vessels, and they don’t want to bring in actual military troops because that would bring more public scrutiny due to the Freedom of Information Act, and less profit since it would be jointly government-run. Perhaps the government has already passed laws expressly forbidding the use of WMD against the natives.
Alternatively, look at the cost: If you want to use WMD that don’t also destroy the landscape - poisoning the entire biosphere with enough herbicide to kill everything means you need vast quantities of the stuff over several years’ time (to prevent it from growing back overnight). That’s a huge expense; if you’re using this plan you can’t land on the planet (too toxic for your troops) so you have to ship whatever exfoliant to Pandora. And using nukes would make the mining itself cost too much by messing with the plate tectonics and/or destroy too much unobtainium (which is the whole reason they’re there).[/spoiler]
That makes sense I suppose. Humans should have just built a transforming planet eating robot. Would have cut the movie down to 2:30 minutes.
I can’t find the bloody link at the moment, but I glanced at a survey in passing. It didn’t hit me until a few moments ago but only 70 percent of Americans think the right to FREE SPEECH is essential… I’m not even sure if “what the fuck!?!” would cover this.
Frankly, I’m surprised and encouraged that it’s that high. I would have expected something more in the area of 40%.
I cry at the state of our education… 
… see, I’m actually crying.
This started in the random comment thread but…
Defenestration. I don’t see the word once in years and now, BAM, three times in mere hours. Really,WTF. Is someone trying to tell me something?!?
I’m in complete agreement. The sad thing is that because people like that seem to be able to push through paperwork better than I can, they would have a more impressive resume.
Actually I would like to point out that there are millions of words i English language, so questioning the state of education just because people don’t know one word is kind of myopic. Its a shame but education system is just that, a system, if all the involved parties don’t apply it properly, then it’ll falter.
One comment that I’d like to make is how many schools are actually interested in the “true” goal of education- "prepare a person for life"rather than just providing good grades or best teachers and stuff like that.
It’s not the “ignorance” of a definition, that I can understand for quite a few terms. But since Women’s Suffrage was a major event in American history, very few people should be ignorant of it. However, seeing as how most schools do “revisionist” history instead of actual history, I was not surprised at such ignorance. Saddened, but not surprised.
I’m sure if someone went around asking people to revoke the edicts and followings of the Emancipation Proclamation, they’d sign a petition. If you said, “make slavery legal again,” you get angry answers… but Emancipation Proclamation? Blank stares.
What’s that saying? Ignorance is bliss?
Considering how many people couldn’t give you a cliff notes version of three key American events… how the hell can anyone say that the education system in the US is good? I’ve actually had someone call me an elitist because I disparage the “wonderful system”. Fuck elitism, I just want people to actually know the Bill of Rights, or the ramifications of the Civil War beyond “it ended slavery”, or hell, I’ll deal with people simply knowing who the hell the current vice president is…
exactly
Exactly, and people cry at loss of jobs, sub prime crisis and so on.
I would say its not just the fault of the system, everyone involved has a question to answer in this regards. Its kinda of disheartening, people of the utmost caliber can’t make and apply good policies, and we know how “committed” students are towards education. Its a problem globally, and US isn’t the worst, its bad, but probably not as bad as its sometimes made.
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it, they were under the heel of the French, uh, you know, Napoleon the third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil, they said, we will serve you, if you get us free from the French, true story. And so the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal.’ And they kicked the French out, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free, and ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other, desperately poor.”
- Pat Robertson on the recent earthquake in Haiti
Naw… not making it up…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5TE99sAbwM
Poor Christy… she looks like she wants to run out of there.
And yes Pat: half of the island is a lush and beautiful land, while the other is a terrible dry wasteland… but a Curse of God has nothing to do with it. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_shadow]SCIENCE HAS GIVEN A MORE LOGICAL ANSWER[/url]!!! Happens here in the US. See California: one side lush with forests, the other desert.
This can only be summarized as " japan , is there any vice you can’t chibi-ize’?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHdRcAnB … re=related
It appears to be some sort of horse race track with moving plastic models on astroturf-also people apparently really bet on it.
I cant figure out who made this though ; if the internet sleuths or the few who have ventured to Japan land know please tell us.
Also my eyesight is nowhere good enough to tell, but do the horses on the screen match up to the ones on the track?
brightened my day finding this :lol: