{"id":103801,"date":"2009-12-26T15:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T20:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2009-12-26T15:13:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T20:13:36","slug":"the-science-of-avatar-part-i-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/103801","title":{"rendered":"The Science of Avatar (Part I) | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally saw <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\">Avatar<\/a>&#8211;the 3D IMAX version&#8211;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&#8217;m certainly not about to spoil the plot for those yet to see the film, but would like to emphasize I&#8217;m particularly appreciative that James Cameron and his crew got so much of the science in this film right.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5710 alignnone\" title=\"Picture 4\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/files\/2009\/12\/Picture-42.png\" alt=\"Picture 4\" width=\"599\" height=\"314\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<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&#8217;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&#8217;ve been spending much time offline, have not yet checked). So leave your impressions in comments and we&#8217;ll return to the Science of Avatar next week&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZfnJaoWoBbCpklI3HdvKzEz6TRs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZfnJaoWoBbCpklI3HdvKzEz6TRs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZfnJaoWoBbCpklI3HdvKzEz6TRs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZfnJaoWoBbCpklI3HdvKzEz6TRs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/lf4a5kyj5-A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally saw Avatar&#8211;the 3D IMAX version&#8211;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&#8217;m certainly not about to spoil the plot for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}