Pandora... Maybe not so peacefull?

[Tsyal Makto]

1. Check your tone. Again.

2. Yes, it is a matter of Eywa (in a way, or it might be a certain species of plant that creates natural antibacterials, not sure, likely a bit of both), but no, I would not call it bull****. How do we know Terran darwiniamisn is a universal law? How do we know life on Pandora didn't evolve through cooperation? Or at least some other evolutionary mechanic than is present on Earth? Or maybe Eywa was initially a product of darwiniamisn, but that changed when she achieved consciousness? Just thinking out loud, here.

Again, it's all speculation at the moment, we can only wait for JC to put the next canonical material out for something definitive. Rest assured, though, I'm sure it will be fairly scientific. JC called in scientists to help create a believable world the first time around, I'm sure he'll do it again. Obviously they'll be some artistic license, but JC likes his projects to have science as a major cornerstone.

[Sanjwale]

I lolled

ohh and I think that pandora has diseases. only difference is that the na'vi are always outside and don't have trouble with it. problem about is that whe are taking to much medicine that the diseases are getting immune.

[DeMouse]

I lolled

ohh and I think that pandora has diseases. only difference is that the na'vi are always outside and don't have trouble with it. problem about is that whe are taking to much medicine that the diseases are getting immune.

What you mean like Smallpox? Polio? Bubonic Plague? Malaria?

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

^ Given all the canon and near-cannon (Project 880), tm20 is right.

i will third Tm and Tsyal. and i'm pretty sure the Avatar novel will continue that canon. love Pandora.

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[prowler]

/rage quit

Lol'd

[Aihwa]

lol, That cracked me up.

And now we are back to the "Pandora is too perfect to use as a basis for juding any planet we might realisticly find" argument.

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Can somone please explain to me WHY pandora doesn't have any diseses? Because if its that Eywa interferance bull**** again then i'm gong to have to stick with my idea that there is only one naturally occuring species on Pandora... Two I guess since humans showed up.

Kuni's wheel of fish is always relevant.

And it has no diseas because the writers said so. Same situation with the Ewoks vs. the Empire in Star Wars VI. It makes no sense, but that's what they wrote.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

it has no diseas because the writers said so. It makes no sense, but that's what they wrote.

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[prowler]

Lol again

[Theorist]

I mean there don't have to be diseases. Look at FAIDs vs AIDs. Scientists found out that a rather large percent of lions actually have FAIDs but they survive, because FAIDs isn't dangerous too them, unlike AIDs to a human. Technically speaking, FAIDs is then more successful than AIDs because it doesn't kill its host, so it can propagate longer.

dis·ease
   [dih-zeez] Show IPA noun, verb, -eased, -eas·ing.
noun
1.
a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
2.
any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.
3.
any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society: His fascination with executions is a disease.
4.
decomposition of a material under special circumstances: tin disease.

So, if there are 'diseases' on Pandora similar to FAIDs, and they just coexist with other organisms, and reproduce and spread without harming their hosts, then they technically aren't diseases, cause it's not harming them.

It's a long shot, but given that Alpha Centauri is older than our solar system, and that Pandora does seem more balanced naturally, (to have reached a more stable equilibrium) it's possible there are no diseases, because all of them have become non-harmful.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

It makes no sense, but that's what they wrote.

i think JC has something to say to you....

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