Floating mountains?
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wielderofspoons — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 03:13 PM)
I think explaining anything about something mysterious was always going to cause some trouble.
I must also ask, as with the Han or Greedo shooting first matter: whether or not the change works, was it really necessary?
I mean, it's a little odd that midichlorians are never mentioned in the entire OT but no-one ever complained about not knowing exactly how the Force works. -
carpediem2020 — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 02:15 AM)
The floating mountains were a ripoff from a popular game called World of Warcraft. In the game, there is a large area called NAGRAND that also has floating mountains.
James Cameron plays World of Warcraft, and many of the things from this game were in the movie AVATAR. -
perrrob — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 06:25 AM)
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In the game, there is a large area called NAGRAND that also has floating mountains.
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Really? interesting I certainly have heard of
World of Warcraft
but Role Playing games have never been my thing as I much prefer strategy games.Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself. - George Carlin
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ibrarules — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 08:00 AM)
There's hardly anything creative or remotely unique in WoW. Floating mountains is a mainstay in fantasy. Why would you expect him to have grabbed the idea specifically from WoW. He seems too old and certainly not the type to play it to me at least
and even more certainly had come across the concept way before wow since he was a voracious fantasy/sci-fi reader in his youth -
DreTam2000 — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 04:31 AM)
Absolute nonsense. There's floating mountains in
Final Fantasy 6
, a game that predates
World of Warcraft
by over a decade. Nevermind that it is considered by many to be the greatest game of all time.
Floating mountains do not begin with WoW (or FF6, for that matter).
I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way -
LukeLovesFilm28 — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 03:53 PM)
If you were paying attention, you would know that only Unobtainium can make things float like that on Pandora. Those floating mountains were probably rich in the metal.
Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin. -
CGSailor — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 03:50 PM)
Not directly but inferred at several points.
Also in other published yet canon materials it is directly stated.
Unobtanium is a superconductor like no other.
The flux vortex is an extremely powerful magnetic field.
The combination of the flux vortex at the site of the floating mountains and rich isolated deposits of the unobtanium meant that as the land eroded, the deposits remained suspended as the rest of the ground was eroded away, thus the floating mountains were formed.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water! -
CGSailor — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 09:01 PM)
How was the land eroding? I don't remember anything about that from the movie. Was Pandora shrinking?
Seriously?
Just normal geological activity, nothing special. Nothing that needed specific mentioning in the film.
The same processes that erode mountains and create canyons here on earth. Rain, rivers, tectonics. etc
The ground level was much higher there in the ancient past. Over eons of time the ground was eroded away exceot for the Unobtanium deposits, leaving them floating in midair as the rest of the ground around them eroded away.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water! -
wielderofspoons — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 07:34 AM)
The ground level was much higher there in the ancient past. Over eons of time the ground was eroded away exceot for the Unobtanium deposits, leaving them floating in midair as the rest of the ground around them eroded away.
That's at odds with what sommdude posted above:
On Pandora, the magnetic effect causes huge outcroppings of unobtanium to rip loose from the surface and float in magnetic vortices.
Your explanation has the ground leaving the unobtanium, his explanation has the unobtanium leaving the ground. Which is right? -
sommdude — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 09:52 AM)
I copied and pasted my post straight from the official wiki
http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki
I'm a Gunslinger. I deal in hard calibers. -
CGSailor — 9 years ago(October 31, 2016 09:21 PM)
That isnt official crap.
Its a fan maintained site where anyone can contribute.
The article you're quoting was written by some other guy just like yourself off the internet. Maybe even YOU, yourself.
The only thing "officially" about your link is that it is officially a fan site.
My information comes from ACTUAL Officially licensed material.
The official publication,
Avatar: An Activist's survival guide
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My information was not quite right but close, I was going from several years old memory. The difference is rather than erosion, it was formed when Pandora was still molten and cooled with the unobtanium trapped in the magnetic fields.
But here ya go straight from an OFFICIAL source
Not your Officially a fan made source. LOL
https://flic.kr/p/MPaCp6
https://flic.kr/p/NDpcfv
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water! -
sommdude — 9 years ago(November 01, 2016 12:41 PM)
You do realize that the OFFICIAL picture of the OFFICIAL book that you OFFICIALY posted proves my point and not yours
It states that "their mutual repultion finally pushed a large chunk on unobtainium containing matter away to hang in the air"
not to mention the OFFICAL james cameron has OFFICIALY stated that Well the floating mountains. A physicist friend of mine calculated that for a pure superconducting mountain,
to break it off and float
it would require a magnetic field so strong that it would rip the hemoglobin out of your blood
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2010/02/09/james-cameron-reveals-how-pandoras-floating-mountains-would-kill-you/
So you can OFFICIALY go F yourself
I'm a Gunslinger. I deal in hard calibers. -
leybell — 9 years ago(September 11, 2016 06:40 PM)
Good thing those roots and vines held them. Floating island is a dessert I never made although it looks good on cooking shows, but Floating mountains might just tempt me since it would probably use chocolate and coffee to give it a soily, minerally appearance.