"Avatar 2? Sounds like a pretty short movie. They come back and nuke the giant smurfs from orbit. Game over, man."
Not really. The earliest Earth could get the news and have a fleet return is 13 years. After the initial landing of security forces, the remaining ships are supplies and personnel, and are set up ona rotating basis. Essentially a ship spends 6 3/4 years in transit, one year in layover (on Earth/Pandora) and then goes back. It'll be nearly 7 years before they even notice one of their ships comes back off-schedule, and they'll still have dispatched all the return trips with nothing but supplies and smallarms.
The Na'vi and their human sympathizers are presently in control of a MASSIVE amount of hardware. After the defeat at hometree, other bases simply surrendered and were sent home on the ship. The Na'vi will then simply waylay the incoming ships, take the intended supplies, and send them back emptyhanded. Until that first one arrives on Earth to discuss their terms of trade. The supplementary material makes this clearer, but Avatar's Earth would go dark in 20 years without Unobtanium; finding Pandora in the first place literally saved Earth's ass.
At this point the humans have to decide "Is it worth what little resources we have left to mobilize a fleet against an entrenched people that have undoubtedly assimilated and (given all the scientists that stayed behind) likely improved on our tech by now, or will we play nice and trade for Unobtanium?" As it stands currently, Earth is STRIPPED of resources, and Unobtanium is about the only hope the human race has.
War with an uncertain outcome, or a trade agreement of some sort? My guess is the next movie in the series will be about 50 years after the first, mired in some events once Mother Earth gets back on her feet enough to decide if they want to attack or not.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
To, you know who you are.
Your first comment did not get posted for two reasons.
1) I don't see where it says this site's a debate forum.
2) You instantly began whining about how your attitude problem is a "response" to oppressions.
You have never been "oppressed" by anyone. I'm a Shintoist and not afraid to talk about it to anyone who asks. I've never felt the need to "hide" anywhere, and I've sure never felt the need to compare my life to that of a homosexual's. If there was some.. light.. whiff of oppression from Christians I would have noticed it at some point. But there's none. And I think that's because when I speak to someone of another religion, I don't come into it with a chip on my shoulder. I approach in a light of tolerance and understanding, and my basic respect and human compassion has almost always led to a positive outcome.
There's some intolerant pricks, but they're in a stunning minority. From atheists (and, to a lesser extent, anyone who calls themselves a "witch")? A nonstop parade of spoiled little brats who aren't Atheists because it's the choice they made, because they hate Christians. A bunch of adolescents (of all physical ages) who walk around looking for reasons to be offended, a blur of faux-intellectuals believing they have something new to say. Your comment was marked as spam because that's what it is. More of the same.
I check my junk-mail a few weeks later, and skimming the first few lines has been humorous. When your weren't instantly given your say on someone else's site you progressively got your panties into a tighter and tighter wad until you started resorting to insults. Here's a tip: this is my blog. That means I'll say what I want to say, publish what I want to publish, and respond to or ignore who I want to. There are thousands of places on the internet where you can get together with the rest of the whiny suburban kids, grab each other's bottoms and talk about how "stupid" a bunch of decent caring people are.
Go to one of them, this isn't one of those places. Make sure to cry about how I'm "oppressing" you and beg people to hack the blog and harass me as some form of revenge for the horrible wrong I've done to you.
1) I don't see where it says this site's a debate forum.
2) You instantly began whining about how your attitude problem is a "response" to oppressions.
You have never been "oppressed" by anyone. I'm a Shintoist and not afraid to talk about it to anyone who asks. I've never felt the need to "hide" anywhere, and I've sure never felt the need to compare my life to that of a homosexual's. If there was some.. light.. whiff of oppression from Christians I would have noticed it at some point. But there's none. And I think that's because when I speak to someone of another religion, I don't come into it with a chip on my shoulder. I approach in a light of tolerance and understanding, and my basic respect and human compassion has almost always led to a positive outcome.
There's some intolerant pricks, but they're in a stunning minority. From atheists (and, to a lesser extent, anyone who calls themselves a "witch")? A nonstop parade of spoiled little brats who aren't Atheists because it's the choice they made, because they hate Christians. A bunch of adolescents (of all physical ages) who walk around looking for reasons to be offended, a blur of faux-intellectuals believing they have something new to say. Your comment was marked as spam because that's what it is. More of the same.
I check my junk-mail a few weeks later, and skimming the first few lines has been humorous. When your weren't instantly given your say on someone else's site you progressively got your panties into a tighter and tighter wad until you started resorting to insults. Here's a tip: this is my blog. That means I'll say what I want to say, publish what I want to publish, and respond to or ignore who I want to. There are thousands of places on the internet where you can get together with the rest of the whiny suburban kids, grab each other's bottoms and talk about how "stupid" a bunch of decent caring people are.
Go to one of them, this isn't one of those places. Make sure to cry about how I'm "oppressing" you and beg people to hack the blog and harass me as some form of revenge for the horrible wrong I've done to you.
Monday, May 9, 2011
More Atheists misbehaving
Had a friend today ask me to write his grievance at work. What was the subject? His boss occasionally leaves a bible on his desk. He brought up this article. Why do Americans "still" not like Atheists?
It's quite simple. When most Christians I've met find out someone is non-Christian, they sigh and go on with their day. They "know" they are "right", and pity the nonChristian, but they tend to respect and leave alone. Although they can make a nice hysterical mob, as do all other assorted isms. When an Atheist finds out someone has faith, they instantly think of that person as something unintelligent and possibly dangerous, like an ape. Atheists don't wait until they get in large groups to spray urine all over those who believe differently, they tend to be annoying on an individual basis.
The fact that this writer tries to compare their "plight" to that of Jews and blacks and yet doesn't understand why people find them annoying is funny. Get back to me when black people willingly choose their skin color or when atheists are being shipped to the gas chamber and then this can be said without being stunningly idiotic. He probably thinks he was very incisive and drew a wonderful comparison there. Intellectual hubris at it's finest.
Does every atheist act like a 5 year old when he finds out someone has faith? I hear not, but I haven't ever met one. Go to any message board for a fine microcosm. Most Christians, Jews, Muslims, Shintoists and so on might chime in but mostly don't care enough to make a big deal out of it. There's always a fine and large cast of Atheists willing to stand up and be a prick the instant someone even mentions God, or worse, even DARES to suggest they celebrate Christmas.
Protip: If you want America to like Atheists, it has to start with you. Quit being such a babydick about others having faith in something that is immeasurable and therefore cannot be proved or disproved. Quit leaping up to insult others while screaming "We ATHEISTS do it right, we say get along peacefully, live and let live, you stupid inbred sisterfucking redneck orangutan!"
It's quite simple. When most Christians I've met find out someone is non-Christian, they sigh and go on with their day. They "know" they are "right", and pity the nonChristian, but they tend to respect and leave alone. Although they can make a nice hysterical mob, as do all other assorted isms. When an Atheist finds out someone has faith, they instantly think of that person as something unintelligent and possibly dangerous, like an ape. Atheists don't wait until they get in large groups to spray urine all over those who believe differently, they tend to be annoying on an individual basis.
The fact that this writer tries to compare their "plight" to that of Jews and blacks and yet doesn't understand why people find them annoying is funny. Get back to me when black people willingly choose their skin color or when atheists are being shipped to the gas chamber and then this can be said without being stunningly idiotic. He probably thinks he was very incisive and drew a wonderful comparison there. Intellectual hubris at it's finest.
Does every atheist act like a 5 year old when he finds out someone has faith? I hear not, but I haven't ever met one. Go to any message board for a fine microcosm. Most Christians, Jews, Muslims, Shintoists and so on might chime in but mostly don't care enough to make a big deal out of it. There's always a fine and large cast of Atheists willing to stand up and be a prick the instant someone even mentions God, or worse, even DARES to suggest they celebrate Christmas.
Protip: If you want America to like Atheists, it has to start with you. Quit being such a babydick about others having faith in something that is immeasurable and therefore cannot be proved or disproved. Quit leaping up to insult others while screaming "We ATHEISTS do it right, we say get along peacefully, live and let live, you stupid inbred sisterfucking redneck orangutan!"
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