Humanties Technological Level.

[Imperius Dictatio]

Out of curiosity how many of you were dissapointed with the level of technology shown in the movie?
Also in the ****ty application of technology we actually see?

For example....They have the technology to create an Avatar....An honest to God, Artificial human-hybrid alien.... Which it's original use was supposed to be MINING.

And they couldnt pony up to give the RDA's Pandora Personnel Gene-Treatments that would allow them to breathe the planets air?

Also why the hell do humans use Anti-Matter for ground side power generation on earth?
In an energy crisis? ****ing hell! They have acsess to space! Park some giant ****ing mirrors up in orbit and send that juicy, free and nearly limitless supply of energy down!

Earths suffering from over population? You have Mars! Terraform it! Or settle on the moon!
Or start pumping out Islands!

This goes back to to the Avatar thing.
If they have the abilty to merge human and alien DNA and flash-grow the critter in a few years whats from stopping them on re-populating earth with plants and animals again?
Seriously with that level of tech you could gene-engineer a ****ing bacteria to start eating away at the pollution and convert it into something harmless.


And furthermore where the hell is all the good technology? Hells Bells you want to know how small computers should be and just how widespread they would be? Not to mention just how frigging powerful.

Also what about cybernetics and nanotech?!

Argh!
Damn you Hollywood and your stagnant view of the future!

[tm20]

-they did colonise the moon and mars.
-i dont think the Avatars were meant for mining but to make it easier to do field work on Pandora
-for others questions you should read the activist's survival guide (interesting stuff) and maybe even the science of Avatar (i haven't read this but it's by an author who writes alot of science stuff so it would have alot of legitimate facts about the world in 2154, the technology and whatever you want to know about)

[Imperius Dictatio]

1. Never heard any mention of this. More details?
2. I remember reading that the idea was to use them for mining given they could breath the air. The trouble was the things were so damned expensive that it was unfeasible, so they turned the program into a large science project.
3. Well of course a lot of the human tech shown in the setting is feasible. Most of the more advanced stuff shown is probably 15-20 years off.
For a setting placed nearly 140 years in the future it's not impressive at all.

[tm20]

the stuff about the moon and mars is in the activists survival guide. or you maybe able to read more at Avatar wiki

[Imperius Dictatio]

The only mention of Mars is that it's heavily colonized and is a vacation spot....Seriously if they could 'Heavily Colonize' a lifeless hunk of red rock they cant fix up earth?

[mIDNASsYSoP]

I got the same thinking already a few months earlier: They are not only able to create a Na'vi / Human hybrid, they even are able to remotely control it over a wide area! But they are still using ballistic weapons.

The Computers are maybe more powerful and advanced there, we didn't see a benchmark - program running somewhere but these displays are looking good.

[Scott]

The only mention of Mars is that it's heavily colonized and is a vacation spot....Seriously if they could 'Heavily Colonize' a lifeless hunk of red rock they cant fix up earth?

It's not a question of fixing up, it's the tremendous demand for extremely limited resources that has humanity on the brink. Lack of conservation and continent wide urban sprawl has left manufacturing food(a protein paste like substance) the only way to feed the billions of humans on the planet. So on top of an already huge energy crisis, you can add food production to the list to why Earth needs Pandora's energy resources so badly.

My guess is the wealthy still eat real food and take fancy vacations to Mars.

[mIDNASsYSoP]

Why they don't build Photovoltaic - Parks or something similar? We can already feed civil houses here in GER with this Tech for a reasonable price and we now just get a "Wirkungsgrad" (don't know what is that in english - efficiency level?) of 17% - 100 years later, we should be able to bring maybe 30% or more!

I think, I look too much Star Trek, there, the future is shown so bright, you should wear shades....

[Scott]

Why they don't build Photovoltaic - Parks or something similar? We can already feed civil houses here in GER with this Tech for a reasonable price and we now just get a "Wirkungsgrad" (don't know what is that in english - efficiency level?) of 17% - 100 years later, we should be able to bring maybe 30% or more!

I think, I look too much Star Trek, there, the future is shown so bright, you should wear shades....

You are absolutely correct. I guess from a fiction stand point it was too little, too late. Lastly, for us to travel to other nearby stars like Alpha Centauri, we will need to be culturally and technologically more like Star Trek then how humans are portrayed in Avatar.

[Tsyal Makto]

Selective technological advancement, think the Fallout universe. Some technologies advance, others stagnate. They have the ability to travel at 0.7c, but at the same time still fly pretty conventional aircraft. Just like the Fallout universe was pumping out T-51b suits, while still typing on CRT computers.