Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise

• 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?

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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      • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, but the last ship/vessel designated “O’Neil” was exploded to stop the Replicators. :P

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