Note on the episode: I was at Maker Faire yesterday and someone was showing off surround vision, which was done by having a screen in the center and then using a projector bounced off a hemespheric mirror (Projector fish-eye lenses being unavailable.), so that the area around the screen and the walls were showing a low resolution film while the screen itself displayed the center view.
The ending really bugged me. They send the humans packing, fine. The humans go home, tell everyone what happened, and then FORCE:space comes back and melts the face of the planet from orbit. Oh hey, look at all this unobtanium! It seems Jake Sully didn't think his clever little plan through. I would have liked some explanation as to why unobtanium is so special, too. Also, for a sci-fi epic, it sure had some weak sci.
I would have liked some explanation as to why unobtanium is so special, too.
They mentioned it briefly. It's basically spice.
Basically, unobtanium is a fancy name they wanted to put in the movie to sound all clever. Unobtanium is a concept, an impossible material. Imagine if you will a frictionless material. That would be unobtanium, as it is impossible. Damn movies and their non knowledge of science jokes. It made me and the rest of my chemistry class froth at the mouth, as before we all saw the film, we had been making jokes about frictionless domes and unobtanium.
Don't be a pussy, Scott. Shave that summabitch. Incidentally, it will not necessarily decrease your maintenance levels, since shaving your noggin' takes some time. I have to shave the dome about every three days, and use this guy: WAY easier than using a face-razor, and results in less nicks.
Another plus? Like Rym said, awesome hats. You saw me at Cat/Steven's wedding. My hat was rockin'.
Even if you're balding, don't "bic" it. Just get a pair of clippers, and cut it real short. It looks less ridiculous, and also gives you a "yeah, I'm bald, so what?" look, as opposed to a "no, really, I just like it this way" looks.
When I watched this movie I was so pissed. I had been making a setting for a BW campaign coming up where they, the PCs, were going to be from a civilization that discovered a mineral that allowed levitation, thus airships. They were going to be part of a dispatch to exploit other states for, among other things, that mineral. I was back to square one because that would have been too similar.
Anyways, I know that movie isn't too intellectual, but from it I think, even if unintentionally, it brought up two questions:
A. Is it right for the continued expansion (i.e. survival) of civilization to forcibly take goods? If the absence of unobtainium would condemn humanity and the navi (though they seem to desire this) to their current locale, stagnation, would it be acceptable to take it?
B. My discomfort with Jake being a navi rose when he called humans 'sky people' and peaked when he hissed and the colonel. Isn't when he switches to his navi body the ultimate denial, rejection, and alteration of self? Isn't it analogous to the idea that altering one's memories to better oneself is acceptable or those people who say that they are actually Cloud Strife in spirit, though not in body? This relates to Theseus's ship because its a question of whether or not the medium of our sentience affects our senses, perceptions, and thoughts.
I think the identity of the mind is inseparable from the body.
Even if you're balding, don't "bic" it. Just get a pair of clippers, and cut it real short. It looks less ridiculous, and also gives you a "yeah, I'm bald, so what?" look, as opposed to a "no, really, I justlikeit this way" looks.
Speaking of Michael Jackson 3D, Captain EO is back at Disneyland for a limited time only. Anyone in Southern California should definitely go see it while it's still there, and they haven't released any info as to when it's going to close again.
Came across this while looking for bikes. Apparently, Cannondale decided to take the chain and a hub derailleur, close it up in a carbon fiber chassis, and mount the entire sealed system to the cranks as a solo fork. It's not chainless, per se, but it blew my mind.
Came across thiswhile looking for bikes. Apparently, Cannondale decided to take the chain and a hub derailleur, close it up in a carbon fiber chassis, and mount the entire sealed system to the cranks as a solo fork. It's not chainless, per se, but it blew my mind.
That's really annoying because they don't show a full photo of the bike from the side!
You look better with hair, dude. Bald, you look mad scientist-y. a tight shave would be great.
For me the "nothing happened" complaint is almost as unacceptable a complaint as when a person says a movie has "no plot." So what you mean is that you want a faster paced move, but it was never promised that the story would move along at a steady pace.
So what you mean is that you want a faster paced move, but it was never promised that the story would move along at a steady pace.
It wasn't just the pace, but the amount of movement. You can go five miles an hour is the same pace as ten miles in two hours. However, the two hour movie will have twice as many plot points. Avatar not only had a portion where it moved slowly, but also simply did not have enough things going on. Simplicity of plot is not my thing when I'm used to enjoying very complex and more intellectually and morally challenging works.
I don't think Avatar is the kind of movie you watch when you want complexity and intellectual stimulation. Personally I enjoyed Avatar for what it was.
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It seems Jake Sully didn't think his clever little plan through. I would have liked some explanation as to why unobtanium is so special, too. Also, for a sci-fi epic, it sure had some weak sci.
Incidentally, it will not necessarily decrease your maintenance levels, since shaving your noggin' takes some time. I have to shave the dome about every three days, and use this guy:
WAY easier than using a face-razor, and results in less nicks.
Another plus? Like Rym said, awesome hats. You saw me at Cat/Steven's wedding. My hat was rockin'.
Anyways, I know that movie isn't too intellectual, but from it I think, even if unintentionally, it brought up two questions:
A. Is it right for the continued expansion (i.e. survival) of civilization to forcibly take goods? If the absence of unobtainium would condemn humanity and the navi (though they seem to desire this) to their current locale, stagnation, would it be acceptable to take it?
B. My discomfort with Jake being a navi rose when he called humans 'sky people' and peaked when he hissed and the colonel. Isn't when he switches to his navi body the ultimate denial, rejection, and alteration of self? Isn't it analogous to the idea that altering one's memories to better oneself is acceptable or those people who say that they are actually Cloud Strife in spirit, though not in body? This relates to Theseus's ship because its a question of whether or not the medium of our sentience affects our senses, perceptions, and thoughts.
I think the identity of the mind is inseparable from the body.
For me the "nothing happened" complaint is almost as unacceptable a complaint as when a person says a movie has "no plot." So what you mean is that you want a faster paced move, but it was never promised that the story would move along at a steady pace.
/All too easy.