Nah. Even if you had the ability to shatter a planet (it would take a lot more mass hitting the planet than that of every automobile ever made) it would just clump back together after a while because, ya know, gravity. And now you’ve sloshed everything around in a molten mess so it’s even harder to process.
Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Given that they could accelerate masses to relativistic speeds. It never made sense to me why they bothered to do anything other than shatter the planet (a Chevy engine block could do that job at those speeds) and then collect the now more readily available unobtainium from the vacuum of space with no fighting required or any loses of any kind.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They also want to colonise the planet. Can’t really do that if it’s in pieces.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A planet with air they can’t breathe and with life forms that want them dead…
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Eyup. Pretty much. There was something about Pandora being the only planet with life they found, and since Earth cannot sustain life anymore…
This was explained in the second movie.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But the moon itself supports life just fine (we contaminated it back when we landed on the moon); we have grown plants on the moon successfully. Are the sci-fi writers explicitly ignoring what we have known for decades to justify a poorly thought out plan to do a search and replace movie?