{"id":3491,"date":"2009-12-28T03:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T03:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-science-of-avatar-part-i-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T03:08:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T03:08:28","slug":"the-science-of-avatar-part-i-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-science-of-avatar-part-i-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Avatar (Part I) | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally saw <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\">Avatar<\/a>&ndash;the 3D IMAX version&ndash;and it exceeded my expectations; not as a result of the much-hyped new technology, but because this story resonates. Though it takes place on an imagined world called Pandora, many themes speak directly to 21st century planet Earth. I&rsquo;m certainly not about to spoil the plot for those yet to see the film, but would like to emphasize I&rsquo;m particularly appreciative that James Cameron and his crew got so much of the science in this film right.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5710 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d31d7_Picture-42.png\" alt=\"Picture 4\" width=\"599\" height=\"314\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Several details struck me as well-researched and extremely innovative and I will do a post in the coming week on some of the most interesting examples. First, I&rsquo;m curious to learn what aspects of this sci-fi movie appealed most to our readers in the science community. (There are likely posts around the internet about this already, but as I&rsquo;ve been spending much time offline, have not yet checked). So leave your impressions in comments and we&rsquo;ll return to the Science of Avatar next week&hellip;.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZfnJaoWoBbCpklI3HdvKzEz6TRs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d31d7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZfnJaoWoBbCpklI3HdvKzEz6TRs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d31d7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d31d7_lf4a5kyj5-A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally saw Avatar&ndash;the 3D IMAX version&ndash;and it exceeded my expectations; not as a result of the much-hyped new technology, but because this story resonates. Though it takes place on an imagined world called Pandora, many themes speak directly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-science-of-avatar-part-i-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}