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Some of you guys are pushing it.. Lay off the gas pedal a bit and keep focused on the movie. Some posts deleted.

larry

This is a truly nuanced debate: individual self-interest versus collective good, and is difficult to address within the context of the current thread, and without arguing politics and history.

Let me rest my case by saying that neither "individual, rational self-interest" or "collectivistic social compacts" solve the problem in their purest forms, but takes a mixture of both approaches.

Peace.

Man, this is turning into the "Time Machine" thread...

Now there's a blast from the past. It's been dormant awhile. See? This is what happens when you cut NASA's budget.

Yeah, I know. We could even magicly clean up our act, reduce our population to a sustainable, no harm/no foul level, and still lose. A giant asteroid impact like the K-T boundary dinosaur killer, or the slumbering mega-volcano underneath Yellowstone might cash in all our chips without any assistance from us, and no advance warnings.

But honestly, if we render this planet uninhabitable for humans, that is quite "dead" enough for me. I realize it's a human-centric viewpoint, but I really don't care about planets I can't live on.

Pandora's a place where one cannot live without a uber-expensive hybrid "avatar" of recombinant human and Na'vi DNA, and the atmosphere is poison. Not really an interesting planet for colonization. Maybe we could "terraform" one of the other moons.

Perhaps this discussion about the N'avi (Native Americans) vs. "civilized" (European) culture needs a reality check:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19864...g-america.html

Intresting read oink, even if I take stuff from cracked.com with a grain of salt.

Quadrotriticale?

My advice is to take EVERTHING with a grain of salt...



Yeah, it's something I picked up in Cabo after my junior year......

way more truth and accuracy in that cracked article than any misinformation.

I wouldn't have linked it otherwise.

A wise man once said that the internet is full of articles by people who can't get published anywhere else.

AVATAR 2 Not Expected Until At Least 2015 - Cameron to shoot 2, 3 and 4 at the same time.

http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/avatar-2-not-expected-until-at-least.html

20-fn*king-15?!?


My liver won't hold together that long....

Wouldnt Avatar2 be the least of your worries then.

I am a fatalist at heart.
We all have to turn in the room key at the front desk eventually...none of us get out of this world alive.

Well, the first one took twelve years to make, this next one (or two or three) will only be six years. That's a 100% efficiency increase.

OK, you have a point....