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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
Still don't know why its worth 20 million a kilo.
Perhaps it induces original ideas in scriptwriters.  |
C'mon, Peter....think!!!
How much would you pay for a room temp, naturally occurring superconductor, if you had to build a fleet of starships and fly 4.4 light years to where it was found, then brave the hostility of some verdant paradise to get to it. Especially when your own planet is on its way to down the plug hole because you've raped it till there was almost nothing left. And the stuff you were after is an integral part of all your high tech, from starships to power generation.
I think you approached Avatar in the wrong way and you generated a self fulfilling disappointment in the movie. You were expecting too much and it wasn't the sort of movie that works like that. It's telling a story, based on tried and true mythos that's been repeated over and over again. But it did so in a different setting and did it rather well. It wasn't a movie to take away trying to figure out the subplots and intrigue...it was made to tell a story that most people on this planet have forgot in "living" their lives...that we're all interconnected, with everything, and if we let our own apathy, carelessness and the greed, lust for power and stupidity of a few rule the day then we're all going to go to hell in a hand basket. Sooner than we think. But there is hope. Which path do we take??
Had to take the b***** glasses off!
