No. I’m too into human babes and I didn’t see any TVs or internet there so…
Eventually I’d want to watch TV.
And I agree that, Aliens jokes aside, the only realistic fate of that world is firebombing from orbit where you don’t have to worry about flying dragons, alien rhinos and arrows.
I’d miss nipples. Even my own.
It might be, but I think it more plausible that the stuff is created. If it were produced via purely geological processes, it should be synthesizable by humans.
And if something or someone else can create it, then humans can duplicate it eventually. Just a matter of time.
They also have two eyes instead of four and apparently breathe through their noses as opposed to the chest-mounted air intakes all the other species have.
There were a few throw-away lines that implied that civilization on Earth only stays stable because of the plentiful cheap fusion power made possible by unobtainium. Which, of course, raises the question of why it’s a (massive) corporation running the mining operation rather than the government, but whatever.
Pluses:
Beautiful nature utopia with the froo froo stuff having actual scientific basis
Flying!!!
Super dexterity
Aliens a decent mix of exotic but still pleasantly humanoid
Different flavors of tribes to chose from!
Pony tail sex!
Minuses:
No technological progress? Not sure this is much of a minus. They seem to have just enough technology to meet all of their needs.
Some of them are dicks. Culture is somewhat rigid.
No cultural progress/change? We don’t really know if this is true or not.
No access to internet/media. I think this would be the biggest minus for me. I’d really miss my cultural artifacts. OTOH if I could bring a solar powered iPad with 1000TB flash drive with all of Earth’s literature, movies, television series, references, etc, it might not be so bad. Especially because I’d be so busy FLYING DINOSAURS and having PONY TAIL SEX I’d barely have time to catch up on the next season of Lost.
Questions:
Do I have to worry about fights with the Earth interlopers?
What are the Na’vi’s feelings about homosexuality?
Am I an actual Na’vi or a human avatar?
If it were just the 6 year mission rotation, then absolutely. If it were a permanent assignment, maybe. If I got the special permanent download into a NaVi body and tribe membership, a strong maybe.
tl;dw what’s the gist?
They don’t explain the eyes, but the movie explained the limbs. If you look at the “monkey” creatures, their arms have fused at the elbows such that they have two biceps but four forearms. It’s implied that the NaVi have further fused their forearms.
I like technology and modern comforts so I’d stay on Earth - unless future Earth is sufficiently hellish. If it’s something like the hellscape from The Matrix though, then Pandora starts to look better.
As for mining, how about just mining someplace where the natives aren’t? Instead of just deciding it’s easier to shoot the locals that look for another deposit.
That’s considered a mystery in-universe I understand; they and possibly the planet being artificial is one speculation as to why. Which is an argument I’ve heard for not massacring the Na’vi or bombarding the planet from orbit; what if you do that and in a century or so the Avatarverse versions of the First Ones show up and rip off Earth’s crust in retaliation for ruining their experiment?
On Earth, you have creatures with four, six, eight, or even dozens and dozens of limbs. Or none at all.
I’d only move there if I could (A) adopt a wolf and dance with it.
And (B) Rape and pillage the environment.
On Earth, though, every terrestrial vertebrate follows the same basic template of four limbs, with occasional exceptions where limbs have been subtracted (but skeletally you can still see where they “should” have been). If any species showed up in our world bigger than a newt and boasting more than the standard template, wouldn’t scientists be all atwitter wondering where it came from?
They pull in natives from throughout the tri-county area so perhaps the entire world is at least partially populated. Or populated enough that you’ll always have some cranky blue people throwing rocks at your backhoe.
Also, the richest supply of unobtanium was located underneath the special Keebler elf tree.
This didn’t seem to be a concern in the movie when they were slaughtering piles of the natives and bulldozing their homes. The problem wasn’t lack of motive but shabby tactics and underestimating dragons and spears versus your helicopters and knife-fighting robot suits.
Heh! Keebler elves would have helped the movie make more sense.
And been far tastier.
If you watch carefully, you do see Navi nipples in the film.
Back To The OP
No, I wouldn’t want to live there. Society is stagnant, as has been said. The humans will be back and better armed or possibly nuking the planet from orbit, as has also been said.
Looking back, I realize that I was raised by a hippie and a beatnik (Dad worked for the Department Of Defense, but he was seemingly happiest when scuba diving or playing the recorder in a coffee housee). However, even I realize that the tactics on both sides were awful. The Navi should have gone with years of quiet, from the edges, guerrilla fighting rather than an all out frontal assault. The humans should have gone with orbital bombing or a bioweapon.
One of the things I was going to suggest was that, if you looked at a Navi skeleton, you might find vestigial traces of their third pair of limbs.
Sure, but that’s because we have a pretty good idea of what sort of life forms we should expect to find on Earth. We don’t have that for Pandora, where we only see about a dozen different life forms from the entire biosphere. From the movie alone, we can’t say that four limbed species are unusual for the planet, just that there don’t seem to be many in the extremely small planetary area shown in the film.