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Khuutra on 04 May 2010
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twesterm said:
Khuutra said:

Now this isn't true. The one thing that Cameron did was figure out the logistics of the military-industrial operation.

It costs an enormous amount of money to transport anything from Earth to Pandora - I think it's in the rannge of hundreds of thousand of dollars per pound. All the machinery you see outside of the drop ship is manufactured on-site using ra materials mined from Pandora. The oly things they bring are stuff they absolutely have to, like microchips that can't be produced in that environment, or explosives that would be necessary for mining.

They didn't use orbital bombardment because they didn't bing the necessary weapons payload for i, because doing so would have been prohibitively expensive. That part made perfect sense.

That makes sense except in the final battle they have that giant flying ship and like 100 little ships.  They could have built 10 tiny ships and 1 medium ship that can all fly high and then used the rest of that space for weapon materials.

They make it painfully obvious during the movie that the mineral is worth the cost so, again, evil corporation would do everything they could to protect their investment.  They would not fight fair therefore they would make weapons the Navi would never see coming.

It's much cheaper in every sense to make 10 missiles that fire from a remote location than 100 of those little flying machines.  Hell, instead of paying to transport and sustain those 100's of military personal, they could have used all those resources to transport weapons and weapon materials.  I think it's a safe assumption to assume that 1 missle costs less to transport than 1 human.

The ships were manufactured on site except for the big one! And they didn't have facilities to produce the chemicals necessary for making weapons!

And actually, it's pretty clar by the end that mining the unobtainium is no longer cost-effective.

And no, it's not a safe assumptin at all - how much do you think one of those missiles weighs? As a guess.