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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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Given that they could accelerate masses to relativistic speeds. It never made sense to me why they bothered to do anything other than shatter the planet (a Chevy engine block could do that job at those speeds) and then collect the now more readily available unobtainium from the vacuum of space with no fighting required or any loses of any kind.
They also want to colonise the planet. Can't really do that if it's in pieces.
A planet with air they can’t breathe and with life forms that want them dead…
Eyup. Pretty much. There was something about Pandora being the only planet with life they found, and since Earth cannot sustain life anymore...
This was explained in the second movie.
But the moon itself supports life just fine (we contaminated it back when we landed on the moon); we have grown plants on the moon successfully. Are the sci-fi writers explicitly ignoring what we have known for decades to justify a poorly thought out plan to do a search and replace movie?
The Moon isn't a pressurised environment with a full ecosystem. And considering how developed and gridlocked Earth is, and that interstellar travel is possible, why do you assume the moon hasn't already been colonised?
Or Mars? Or Titan?
An artificial ecosystem doesn't, and will never, compare to an organically evolved one.
Honestly, a swarm of O’Neil cylinders would have more surface area than the planet Earth and need less mass than one of Mars’ moons. That would be vastly superior to even a duplicate Earth of nothing but nature preserves
Yes, but the last ship/vessel designated "O'Neil" was exploded to stop the Replicators. :P
Nah. Even if you had the ability to shatter a planet (it would take a lot more mass hitting the planet than that of every automobile ever made) it would just clump back together after a while because, ya know, gravity. And now you’ve sloshed everything around in a molten mess so it’s even harder to process.