Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoEyup. 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 4 weeks 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?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The Moon isn’t a pressurised environment with a full ecosystem. And considering how developed and gridlocked Earth is, and that interstellar travel is possible, why do you assume the moon hasn’t already been colonised?
Or Mars? Or Titan?
An artificial ecosystem doesn’t, and will never, compare to an organically evolved one.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Honestly, a swarm of O’Neil cylinders would have more surface area than the planet Earth and need less mass than one of Mars’ moons. That would be vastly superior to even a duplicate Earth of nothing but nature preserves
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, but the last ship/vessel designated “O’Neil” was exploded to stop the Replicators. :P