Floating mountains?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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spmoura — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 09:30 AM)
Obviously you weren't pain attention. Pandora's gravity is much lower than Earth's. According to published material, a sixth to be more precise. That's why there can be huge six legged animals there, huge gigantic trees and also floating mountains. In this case there's also the mag-lev effect involved.
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perrrob — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 09:41 AM)
Ok, then we are now in the realm of fiction in the world we know, there are no animals weighing more than a few pounds that have more than 4 limbs.
I just don't see what usefulness these two extra limbs would have they would be a hindrance more than anything else.
In the end, it's just a movie anyway along with the glowing blue plants, I guess it makes it all look more alien.Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself. - George Carlin
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spmoura — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 09:47 AM)
Ok, then we are now in the realm of fiction in the world we know, there are no animals weighing more than a few pounds that have more than 4 limbs.
Well, what do you know, yet again you are wrong. The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) can weight up to 1600 pounds. And it has 10 limbs.
Some people's stupidity really does amaze me.