3 Jun 2024

Avatar: Unobtainium

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 3 June 2024
Avatar 
Year : 2009 USA
Director : James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
Movie poster (Fr)

Photo: Archives du 7e Art/DR

Headshot of Professor Nicola Gaston

Professor Nicola Gaston Photo: Elise Manahan/ University of Auckland

The mineral Unobtanium, is the main plot driver in the first Avatar movie, as an unethical corporation seeks to destroy a civilisation to get their hands on it.

McDiarmid Institute co-director and Auckland University associate physics professor, Nicola Gaston talks to Bryan Crump about the similarities between Unobtainium and the theoretical possibilities of solid hydrogen.

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