{"id":110401,"date":"2009-12-21T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12853770.post-8927144533793648848"},"modified":"2009-12-28T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:04:28","slug":"the-biology-of-the-navi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110401","title":{"rendered":"The Biology of the Na&#8217;vi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Na&#8217;vi, <em>Avatar&#8217;s<\/em> humanoids, were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/browbeat\/archive\/2009\/12\/16\/on-na-vi-biology.aspx\">built for looks, not so much for their local environment<\/a>. For example, they have breasts, big eyes and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sternocleidomastoid_muscle\">sternocleidomastoids<\/a> because human moviewatchers like these features, even though the Na&#8217;vi are described as being non-mammalian in other respects.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you look closely, you&#8217;ll see that the Na&#8217;vi have a little muscle running down their necks. We&#8217;ve got them, too\u2014it&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sternocleidomastoid_muscle\">sternocleidomastoid muscle<\/a>\u2014and it&#8217;s a uniquely mammalian feature. Ours make a very distinctive V-shape, and when creature designers want an alien to seem attractive and familiar to its human viewers, they often slap one on. &#8220;Even C3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a classic alien designer trick.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, I wonder if they aren&#8217;t actually plants, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/farscape.wikia.com\/wiki\/Zhaan,_Pa%27u_Zotoh\">the Delvians<\/a> of <em>Farscape<\/em>, another bunch of blue skinned, sexy aliens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More: <\/strong>Mark Morford on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2009\/12\/26\/notes122609.DTL&amp;feed=rss.mmorford\">kinky hotness<\/a> of the Na&#8217;vi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/12853770-8927144533793648848?l=bottlerocketscience.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Na&#8217;vi, Avatar&#8217;s humanoids, were built for looks, not so much for their local environment. For example, they have breasts, big eyes and sternocleidomastoids because human moviewatchers like these features, even though the Na&#8217;vi are described as being non-mammalian in other respects. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll see that the Na&#8217;vi have a little muscle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110401","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}