Comments on: The Science of Avatar (Part II)

By: Blog de Astronomia do astroPT » A Ciência de Avatar

Blog de Astronomia do astroPT » A Ciência de Avatar — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:34:28 +0000

[...] de vista científico: – Popular Mechanics. – Space.Com – Discovery News. – Discovery Magazine: 1, 2. – MSNBC. – [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:39:41 +0000

Mark wrote: “My understanding is that our moon rotates around our Earth but does not spin on it’s own axis, so the same side of the moon faces Earth all the time.”

Actually the moon does spin, what happens is that “it rotates about its axis in about the same time it takes to orbit the Earth. This results in it keeping nearly the same face turned towards the Earth at all times.” (I just took it from Wikipedia…)

By: Tynesha

Tynesha — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:30:52 +0000

I’m not as into the Sciences as most of you guys but I also thought to myself that a great deal of thought went into this movie. The most touching part for me though, was the way in which they became one with eachother and the animals and the plants and such. I thought is was beautiful!!! Especially when they bonded with the animals and how the Toruk would only fly with that person whome they first became one with. there were so many innuendoes and hidden messages in this movie. I loved every minute of it!!

By: Genetics News » More Pandoran Biology

Genetics News » More Pandoran Biology — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:34:50 +0000

[...] At The Intersection Sheril Kirshenbaum shares what she enjoyed about the movie’s science Sigourney Weaver’s portrayal of a research scientist was [...]

By: Avatar « Lost in my Mind, Exploring this World

Avatar « Lost in my Mind, Exploring this World — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:48:45 +0000

[...] eyes, and breathing orifices on the underside of the body, particularly when much of the world uses realistic science to make fantastic landscapes (those floating mountains are not magical in the least). I do, [...]

By: Phenomenal

Phenomenal — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:27:37 +0000

Inspirations for the floating mountains from real life rock formations and mountains around the world + various design interviews:

http://io9.com/5444960/avatars-designers-speak-floating-mountains-amp-suits-and-the-dragon

@ Mark: Agree, this puzzles me until the exact details of the orbit are expounded. James Cameron is fully aware of this detail however, hence the biolumenescent evolution of the plants during long nights. The system is created in Alpha Centauri which has 3 types of stars and the fictional planet Polyphemus has a number of moons, including Pandora which itself is made of a lot of the strange material Unobtanium.

By: Scientists in Avatar « easternblot.net

Scientists in Avatar « easternblot.net — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:06:20 +0000

[...] More on Avatar’s scientists from Sheril at The Intersection. Interesting post about real “Avatar”-like studies at Stanford: Beyond Sigourney Weaver’s tank top January 12th, 2010 | Category: movies [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:36:07 +0000

I thought this movie was all in all pretty good, but one thing kept bugging me. Please correct me if I’m wrong. My understanding is that our moon rotates around our Earth but does not spin on it’s own axis, so the same side of the moon faces Earth all the time. So if this is the case with our moon, how is there day and night on Pandora if it itself is a moon. I mean shouldn’t it not spin on its own axis like our moon, but instead just rotate around the gas giant with the same side always facing it?

By: you call this science?

you call this science? — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:31:08 +0000

Really, I just want to know why the Na’vi lack rectums. And why do the women have nipples only when they’re outside of close focus?

And more importantly, what happens when the corporation returns in 12 years and razes the planet?

By: Phenomenal

Phenomenal — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:45:52 +0000

http://www.learnnavi.org

Will interest anyone cocerning the linguistics of this language!