Unobtainium - Is James Cameron Ever Going To Tell Us What It Is?
Come on Mr. Cameron, we’re not going to stop asking until you give us an answer. What exactly is Unobtanium used for? We don’t care if you didn’t have any idea when you wrote the Avatar script; just make one up for us now. After handing you a billion bucks at the box office, it’s the least you can do to satisfy our inquiring minds. Or if you prefer, just pick from one of the great assumptions already out there on the web:
It’s a powerful hallucinogenic drug that everyone on earth is addicted to.
It’s an aphrodisiac 1000 times more powerful than Viagra.
It’s the base of a miracle cosmetic that makes any woman look like Catherine Zeta Jones or Rihanna.
It’s a powerful energy resource.
I’m leaning towards #4 after reading this passage from a synopsis of the film over at IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/synopsis
“After discussing Pandora's much-desired natural resource, the mineral Unobtanium, which can save Earth from its present energy crisis…“
By process of elimination, energy is also the most logical explanation. You make the first three items in a lab. Only an energy resource is mined like they were doing in the movie (by the way, doesn’t that make it canobtainium?)
Unfortunately, there is one rub with the energy tact. You see, compared to the price of other energy sources, including green energy, $20 million per kilo implies Unobtanium has an energy density about 100 times that of weapons grade Uranium, even after discounting for 144 years of inflation. That means one kilo of Unobtainium has the explosive power of the largest atomic bombs, and the amount of Unobtainium the na’vi are living on top of has enough power to blow them and all of Pandora into a cloud of cosmic dust (and you thought Colonel Quaritch was the biggest threat to their existence). It would appear that, just like Mother Nature back on Earth, Mother Eywa has a kind of warped sense of humor that sometimes makes her behave like a Mother F*&%$.
Come on Mr. Cameron, we’re not going to stop asking until you give us an answer. What exactly is Unobtanium used for? We don’t care if you didn’t have any idea when you wrote the Avatar script; just make one up for us now. After handing you a billion bucks at the box office, it’s the least you can do to satisfy our inquiring minds. Or if you prefer, just pick from one of the great assumptions already out there on the web:
It’s a powerful hallucinogenic drug that everyone on earth is addicted to.
It’s an aphrodisiac 1000 times more powerful than Viagra.
It’s the base of a miracle cosmetic that makes any woman look like Catherine Zeta Jones or Rihanna.
It’s a powerful energy resource.
I’m leaning towards #4 after reading this passage from a synopsis of the film over at IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/synopsis
“After discussing Pandora's much-desired natural resource, the mineral Unobtanium, which can save Earth from its present energy crisis…“
By process of elimination, energy is also the most logical explanation. You make the first three items in a lab. Only an energy resource is mined like they were doing in the movie (by the way, doesn’t that make it canobtainium?)
Unfortunately, there is one rub with the energy tact. You see, compared to the price of other energy sources, including green energy, $20 million per kilo implies Unobtanium has an energy density about 100 times that of weapons grade Uranium, even after discounting for 144 years of inflation. That means one kilo of Unobtainium has the explosive power of the largest atomic bombs, and the amount of Unobtainium the na’vi are living on top of has enough power to blow them and all of Pandora into a cloud of cosmic dust (and you thought Colonel Quaritch was the biggest threat to their existence). It would appear that, just like Mother Nature back on Earth, Mother Eywa has a kind of warped sense of humor that sometimes makes her behave like a Mother F*&%$.
