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*** My guess is the same company that makes the clothes all the other staff wear. It costs a TON to make an avatar, paying 50 bucks to throw in an XXXXXXL shirt and cargo pants from a clothier isn't that big of a deal by comparison.
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So, when you're in the machine, you go to sleep and your Avatar wakes up. And when your Avatar goes to sleep, your human body wakes back up. I know sleep itself is a Headscratcher for the real world, but...do any of the Avatar drivers actually get to sleep? You'd think they'd be exhausted, mentally, from basically being awake all the time.
So, when you're in the machine, you go to sleep and your Avatar wakes up. And when your Avatar goes to sleep, your human body wakes back up. I know sleep itself is a Headscratcher for the real world, but...do any of the Avatar drivers actually get to sleep? You'd think they'd be exhausted, mentally, from basically being awake all the time.
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** Without proper satellite coverage, signal towers or another means for triangulation, the only way to trace the signal would be via its intensity. Good luck playing electronic Marco Polo over countless kilometers of DeathWorld jungle.
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* It seems as if the Na'Vi won't talk to someone unless they are actually in Avatar form. Grace's photos of her school, when human-Avatar relations were at their highest, from the extended edition only show photos of her in Avatar form around her students, meaning that the Na'Vi, either for xenophobia or some other reason, won't talk to humans unless they're in Avatar form. It might have been the RDA's only way of trying to get the Na'Vi to the negotiating table, since the Na'Vi ignore or shoot humans on principle.
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** Unless the flux is giving off radiation at the same frequency as the signal to and from the avatars, it shouldn't cause interference, although it still might interfere with the equipment broadcasting the signal.
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* On the subject of the avatar sending some sort of signal back to the pilot, why couldn't that signal be traced to find Jake after he got separated from the rest of the group? If it can't be traced (and unless it's not EM based, there's no reason it can't be) why don't the avatars have some kind of implanted transmitter (like the kind scientists use to track wild animals)?
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** Different principles? There's no circuit to cause induction.
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* Another point on transmission: why doesn't the same flux along the floating mountains affect the signals to/from the avatars? (Besides some bullshit about the superiority of biotech)?
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** There are a couple clear reasons: people don't only wear clothes for warmth and modesty, but also for pockets. Given that the avatars were out doing research, they wouldn't want to carry all their equipment in their bare hands. Also, given that the avatars are not as familiar with the local landscape as the Na'vi, they would want clothes to protect themselves from the small cuts and scrapes and such in the jungle. Finally, because the avatars' express purpose is to act as a cultural bridge, they should meet the Na'vi halfway - Na'vi bodies, Human customs.
** There are a couple clear reasons: people don't only wear clothes for warmth and modesty, but also for pockets. Given that the avatars were out doing research, they wouldn't want to carry all their equipment in their bare hands. Also, given that the avatars are not as familiar with the local landscape as the Na'vi, they would want clothes to protect themselves from the small cuts and scrapes and such in the jungle. Finally, because the avatars' express purpose is to act as a cultural bridge, they should meet the Na'vi halfway - Na'vi bodies, Human customs.
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*** There's lag involved in the human nervous system too, at well below c. Problem?
** As for quantum entanglement, don't be silly. If they were using that, why do the avatar controllers need to be on Pandora at all? ?
*** Because they actually do in-person work? /facepalm
** As for quantum entanglement, don't be silly. If they were using that, why do the avatar controllers need to be on Pandora at all
*** Because they actually do in-person work? /facepalm
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** The MUST be lag involved, no matter what you do. It should mostly be reasonably small, but I agree that given some of the things that we see the avatars doing it would definitely become an issue. It takes a dozen milliseconds to send a command, and the same for the controller to see what happened. Transfer that to swinging on vines and such, and you see the problem. Even with that tiny bit of lag, it would effect you. It'd be like being drunk. Your body does things before you see them do it. And that's fine when you are walking and talking, but when you are doing the Tarzan act it starts to become a liability. Something that takes such an extreme amount of timing and motion control is just not feasible through that kind of connection.
** As for quantum entanglement, don't be silly. If they were using that, why do the avatar controllers need to be on Pandora at all ?
** As for quantum entanglement, don't be silly. If they were using that, why do the avatar controllers need to be on Pandora at all ?
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** I bet it was a Stanford's XL or XXL T-Shirt that Grace was using as nigthgown.
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*** In the first chopper landing jake can be seen pulling it off the mount, and the mounting pivot is visible beneath the barrel the rest of the time he has it
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** They aren't. The only interaction between them is either in the lab near the start (which is depressurised with the airlock open and the humans in exopacks) or outside (again, humans with exopacks).
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*** Please read every other point made that are above yours.
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*** Avatars are expensive to create already. Why would you want to have to buy enough material to make full clothes if you were just going to use it for a few Avatars? Also, judging by the vegetation and the Na'vi's dress, Pandora seems to be a rather warm planet.
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*** The clothes are specifically designed for Avatar-scale. The machine gun is an M60 with a drum magazine and a handguard/heatshield, which is about the right size for a Na'vi to use as a rifle.
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*There is no lag because the distances involved are very small, considering any signal would be lightspeed at a minimum and higher if quantum entanglement-based (which I consider more likely).
