Relativistic Kill Vehicle

[RD-701]

There could be a disease that is harmless to people but extremely deadly to the Na'vi.

You mean harmless to humans, right? The Na'vi are people. :P

[Palulukan_Taronyu]

You mean harmless to humans, right? The Na'vi are people. :P

Na'vi are not Homosapians hence People. They are very human like but are NOT People.

Even though they say "One of the People".

I do not think James Cameron ever said what they where.....

[Aihwa]

There could be a disease that is harmless to people but extremely deadly to the Na'vi.

The RDA could always do some sort of chemical warfare.

Dem viruses... Dey mutate as fast as ya look at em.


Germ warfare is way too iffy. Its better to use a broad-spectrum agent and just wear protection after the fact than to try and engineer something to attack ONE specific target. It can go south fast. For example, you could use a defoliant on the entire moon (going to be a huge cost however, I doubt its worth the effort) and turn it into a mudball in space, then continue your mining as is. Still have to wear the exo packs, just make sure whatever you use isn't harmful on skin contact.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

this thread....ugh. i need to take a shower after looking at some of the posts,feel so dirty.

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[RD-701]

Na'vi are not Homosapians hence People. They are very human like but are NOT People.

In this case homo sapiens isn't synonymous with 'person'. To deny the Na'vi personhood is (from a theoretical standpoint) no different to doing the same to another human ethnic group.

Dem viruses... Dey mutate as fast as ya look at em.

It would be pretty difficult for a Na'vi-engineered virus to cross over to humans. It'd make more sense for the tobacco mosaic virus to infect humans than it would for a Na'vi virus to infect humans. Na'vi and humans don't even use the same sort of 'DNA', so it is a huge wonder how a human virus (for example) would even operate in a pandoran cell at the very basic theoretical level.
Of course, the other issue would be finding such a virus and/or engineering it in the first place. May be a bit of a problem if Eywa eradicates them, not to mention that some would probably be immune to such a virus.

For example, you could use a defoliant on the entire moon (going to be a huge cost however, I doubt its worth the effort) and turn it into a mudball in space, then continue your mining as is. Still have to wear the exo packs, just make sure whatever you use isn't harmful on skin contact.

Ignoring the cost issue, I would bet that some sort of '****' species would kick in with other flora diminished. Bonus points if it ends up having really nasty effects on humans...

[Aihwa]

I'm still holding with my Osterhagen concept.


If you really need the precious moon goo, and you have no moral qualms, crack the moon open. Free mine in your new asteroid belt.



The only problem there is killing every living thing and messing with the gravity of the entire solar system. Other than that, I think negotiation followed by... more aggressive negotiation (oh euphemisms, is there anything you can't be applied to?) is the cheapest alternative while minimizing loss of life on both sides.

[DeMouse]

Mining in zero G would be much easier than doing it from the surface.

That is the whole idea behind "Planet Cracker" miners in sci-fi.


I don't tihnk the RDA have the resorses to spend cracking the moon though. Not to mention that since it is in such close orbit to the gas Giant alot of it would simply be dragged down to where it is unobtainable.

[RD-701]

There are advantages and disadvantages to vacuum/microgravity mining, disadvantages especially if your technology and techniques aren't very adapted to it.

But fortunately not even unobtanium is worth the absolutely gigantic energy cost of splitting Pandora apart.

[Aihwa]

dragged down to where it is unobtainable.

I see what you did there.

[DeMouse]

I see what you did there.

Glad somone did.