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Elements of Pandora:
Pandora’s environment contains floating mountains, dense rainforests, dragons, ferocious six-legged animals, and a holy soul tree. Avatar emphasizes the differences between the survivability of humans and the Na’vi on Pandora and concludes that human life is not able to survive on Pandora.
On James Cameron’s Avatar (website), the Pandora page explains all things about Pandora ranging from its geography, natural resources, day-night cycle, location, and atmosphere (“James Cameron’s Avatar: Pandora” par. 6). The moon of Pandora contains an atmosphere made up of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, xenon, methane, and hydrogen sulfide. These circumstances make it impossible for humans to breathe in Pandora. Pandora’s atmosphere specifically contains a heavy mixture of 18% carbon, 5.5% xenon, and 1% hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas that can cause death within four minutes (par. 6). Humans are able to survive on Earth because of the five factors of its atmosphere, climate, water, light, and sun (“Bob the Alien: Why is there Life on Earth” par.1). Earth’s atmosphere contains a mixture that is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases (“Windows 2 Universe: Earth’s Atmosphere” par. 1). Pandora differs from Earth because it contains 20% lower gravity and a denser air mass, resulting in lighter impacts and lower body weights.
Avatar’s Pandora shows correlations with Earth as both worlds strongly relate to their environment. Earth is overrun with technology, making its relation to the environment far less dramatic than life on Pandora. Pandora’s lack of technology allows the Na’vi to solely depend on their environment for existence. Both worlds use the environment for water, food, and other resources. Before Earth’s advances in technology, it would relate to Pandora in the other uses of clothes, shelter and weapons (without machinery). Although human life on Pandora would be impossible, human and Na’vi connections are apparent in the film.
Use of Technology
One of things that was used in the film was Stereoscopic 3D Fusion Camera. James Cameron used two cameras to mimic the vision of human eyes that allowed them to film the movie in a more realistic 3-D. In order to create the Na’vi the film used prosthetics the ears to legs. Technology is giving a positive connotation because technology makes or breaks a movie. Without the technology today Avatar would not have been as successful because the technology is what makes the movie and how you can create a planet full of Na’vi (avatars) with the genetic engineering.
In Popular Mechanics, ‘How James Cameron's Innovative New 3D Tech Created Avatar’ explains the different types of technologies used to create the planet of Pandora to how the Na’vi were created. It goes into depth with the technologies and how each one creates the setting and characters. It talks about how the characters are created with their bodies to how they move. It goes into depth as well with the specific types of technologies (machines and mechanics) used to create the settings of Pandora and the Na’vi characters.
Cameron’s vision for the movie required extremely advanced versions of technology to complete the communication from his mind into the film. Without advances in technology, Cameron’s vision may have never been fulfilled. The Internet, new softwares, discoveries of new planets, and more advanced information about foreign solar systems finally allowed Avatar to be made accurately. Avatar also shows a possibility of having life on other planets besides Earth and furthering human existence. Avatar was not accurate in most of its portrayal. It was not accurate with having the planet of Pandora especially having life on it. It was accurate with the amount of time it takes to get to a planet with it taking 6 years to get there it just depends on how far from the sun it is.
In reality, scientists will be able to discover habitable moons like Pandora with the James Webb Space Telescope. In the real world superconductors can float in the presence of a magnetic field whereas on Pandora it is loaded with unobtanium can float in magnetic pockets that are on the moons surface. Every living organism on Pandora is bioluminescent which means it can produce light. Bioluminescence can be seen on Earth with fireflies and sea algae etc. (Choi 1).
Pandora’s environment contains floating mountains, dense rainforests, dragons, ferocious six-legged animals, and a holy soul tree. Avatar emphasizes the differences between the survivability of humans and the Na’vi on Pandora and concludes that human life is not able to survive on Pandora.
On James Cameron’s Avatar (website), the Pandora page explains all things about Pandora ranging from its geography, natural resources, day-night cycle, location, and atmosphere (“James Cameron’s Avatar: Pandora” par. 6). The moon of Pandora contains an atmosphere made up of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, xenon, methane, and hydrogen sulfide. These circumstances make it impossible for humans to breathe in Pandora. Pandora’s atmosphere specifically contains a heavy mixture of 18% carbon, 5.5% xenon, and 1% hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas that can cause death within four minutes (par. 6). Humans are able to survive on Earth because of the five factors of its atmosphere, climate, water, light, and sun (“Bob the Alien: Why is there Life on Earth” par.1). Earth’s atmosphere contains a mixture that is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases (“Windows 2 Universe: Earth’s Atmosphere” par. 1). Pandora differs from Earth because it contains 20% lower gravity and a denser air mass, resulting in lighter impacts and lower body weights.
Avatar’s Pandora shows correlations with Earth as both worlds strongly relate to their environment. Earth is overrun with technology, making its relation to the environment far less dramatic than life on Pandora. Pandora’s lack of technology allows the Na’vi to solely depend on their environment for existence. Both worlds use the environment for water, food, and other resources. Before Earth’s advances in technology, it would relate to Pandora in the other uses of clothes, shelter and weapons (without machinery). Although human life on Pandora would be impossible, human and Na’vi connections are apparent in the film.
Use of Technology
One of things that was used in the film was Stereoscopic 3D Fusion Camera. James Cameron used two cameras to mimic the vision of human eyes that allowed them to film the movie in a more realistic 3-D. In order to create the Na’vi the film used prosthetics the ears to legs. Technology is giving a positive connotation because technology makes or breaks a movie. Without the technology today Avatar would not have been as successful because the technology is what makes the movie and how you can create a planet full of Na’vi (avatars) with the genetic engineering.
In Popular Mechanics, ‘How James Cameron's Innovative New 3D Tech Created Avatar’ explains the different types of technologies used to create the planet of Pandora to how the Na’vi were created. It goes into depth with the technologies and how each one creates the setting and characters. It talks about how the characters are created with their bodies to how they move. It goes into depth as well with the specific types of technologies (machines and mechanics) used to create the settings of Pandora and the Na’vi characters.
Cameron’s vision for the movie required extremely advanced versions of technology to complete the communication from his mind into the film. Without advances in technology, Cameron’s vision may have never been fulfilled. The Internet, new softwares, discoveries of new planets, and more advanced information about foreign solar systems finally allowed Avatar to be made accurately. Avatar also shows a possibility of having life on other planets besides Earth and furthering human existence. Avatar was not accurate in most of its portrayal. It was not accurate with having the planet of Pandora especially having life on it. It was accurate with the amount of time it takes to get to a planet with it taking 6 years to get there it just depends on how far from the sun it is.
In reality, scientists will be able to discover habitable moons like Pandora with the James Webb Space Telescope. In the real world superconductors can float in the presence of a magnetic field whereas on Pandora it is loaded with unobtanium can float in magnetic pockets that are on the moons surface. Every living organism on Pandora is bioluminescent which means it can produce light. Bioluminescence can be seen on Earth with fireflies and sea algae etc. (Choi 1).
James Webb Space Telescope