<story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eries</author><text>I was expecting the &quot;The Holocaust We Will Not See&quot; to be the one that will obviously take place after the film ends. The native people have driven the imperialists off their planet. But, the imperialists have space weapons and the natives do not. Plus, the imperialists only want inert matter that exists underground. And, they are so evil they have no respect for life in any form.&lt;p&gt;I assume a kinetic bombardment is imminent: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kf</author><text>I thought about that and assumed it was a plot hole in the movie. A neutron bomb seemed like such an obvious solution.&lt;p&gt;The scriptment fills in some of the gaps though. First, corporations are banned from using weapons of mass destruction in space. Second, the planetary consciousness convinces the humans to leave and not return by threatening them with a virus that will kill all of them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See</title><url>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/01/11/the-holocaust-we-will-not-see/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eries</author><text>I was expecting the &quot;The Holocaust We Will Not See&quot; to be the one that will obviously take place after the film ends. The native people have driven the imperialists off their planet. But, the imperialists have space weapons and the natives do not. Plus, the imperialists only want inert matter that exists underground. And, they are so evil they have no respect for life in any form.&lt;p&gt;I assume a kinetic bombardment is imminent: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seldo</author><text>[Warning: spoiler-heavy]&lt;p&gt;I have to say the exact same thing occurred to me at the end of the movie. &quot;And so the aliens returned to their dying world.&quot; ...yeah, to get more ammo.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the counter-argument might be that the Na&apos;vi managed to defeat a heavily-armed base using a skeleton force, before most of the tribes had even turned up, so by the time they got back Pandora could be too well-prepared to resist for them to be successful. Kinetic bombardment is all very well, but you need to get down to the surface to pick the stuff up -- unless you completely destroy every living thing on the planet, in which case you develop a very serious logistical problem (they were growing their own food on the surface).</text></comment>