Pandoran Seasons

Started by Hufwe Makto, January 02, 2010, 12:32:46 AM

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Hufwe Makto

That makes things on pandora even more complicated. Our planet is sooooo simple compared to pandora

Roiki

No it isn't, there is plenty of wonderful stuff here. :)
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Ya I'd say our weather patterns are far more complex because we have a multitude of different situations while it seems Pandora largely is the same climactically.
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Hufwe Makto

I meant as a whole. Astronomically, biologically, and culturally. Our planet goes in a circle around the sun while pandora goes in a circle around polyphemus that is going around ACA. Everything on pandora has a neural interface while we have one more digit than hey do... What we see on earth is so everyday, I think pandora is much more interesting.

'Tsamsiyu

It all depends on where James Cameron placed the planet... Polyphemus and Pandora could be anyway in Alpha Centauri, which is a Binary star system as far as we know, as Proxima might not be part of it and drifting away... or something like that.

So in theory Alpha Centauri A (The equivalent of our Sun) could be pretty close... or far, for all we know it could be more (or less for that fact) than 1 AU, Astronomical unit, the distance from Earth to our Sun. If it is less it will certainly by much hotter, but judging by the film it is very close to Polyphemus and it all depends on how close Polyphemus is to Alpha Centauri A.
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Quote from: Hufwe Makto on January 06, 2010, 04:35:30 PM
I was wondering that too. Anyone have an argument? Do the mounains get snow caps? That might eplain some of it.
The real reason is because of plants and that special rock. The plants who are overly active, absorbs water (h2O) from the air and uses it for photosyntesis and creates new H2O. That water leaks away and with huge green plants all over it, it would be possible?
Or you could blame on the special $20 million per kilo rock.

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Quote from: Hufwe Makto on January 06, 2010, 04:06:47 PM
Actually there is rain in the movie. While Jake is doing one of his video logs on the hallelujah mountain base it's raining outside. I doubt that they have a serious hurricane-typhoon-tornado-any-other- storm-system season because there isn't a large ocean for the storms to pick up any real speed due to the fragmented continental plates. I bet it rains a s*** though. Trees as big as hometree need a lot of water if there isn't an underground water resevoir that the trees tap into. The fragmented continenfts would also explain why the weather is so humid looking.
they don't need much water,they get most minerals from unobtanium,which explains why they are always above unobtanium deposits.
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I knew unobtanium had something to do with the movie!
Well, besides that it's just woth $20 million a kilo.

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refined it's 40 million a kilo XD
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kintìomum

Well, let's see what I can remember from the Pandorapedia (the best part of the video game), and excuse me if I repeat several stuff:

Alpha Centauri is a trinary system (at least binary, not totally sure if Mister Cameron added ACC).
All three stars (Alpha Centauri A, or short: ACA, ACB, ACC) revolt around one common gravitational center.
Alpha Centauri A is the "home star" for Polyphemus.
Polyphemus is a Saturn-sized (but due to it's composition almost Jupiter-heavy) gas giant.
Pandora is one of several moons of Polyphemus.
Pandoras axis is tilted at almost 20° (not really sure about the number but I remember it was far more than Earth).
There is no real night on Pandora since there's either ACA in the sky. Or ACB is close enough to be 230-1.200 times as bright as the Moon. Or there's a lot of reflection from ACA/ACB from Polyphemus.
There is a short period (some hours) of almost darkness when Polyphemus eclipses ACA and ACB is in the "right" position.
Pandora is -due to the combination of the strong magnetic fields contained in Unobtanium and the magnetic field of a gas giant- a tectonically very active planet.
The Pandoran atmosphere is denser than Earths and contains much more CO² (lethal levels actually: 19%!)
Pandora is smaller than Earth (75% size) but is significantly more dense resulting in just 20% less gravity.

OK, back to topic:
Err... damn, can't remember the part about seasons...
But I guess all the orbital information will be helpfull figuring out if there are seasons.
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OmegaQ1

well from what i know from biology and other scientific comon sense(sorry if i mispelled that), when you see pandora from space,there are no iced over polar caps or any significant white on the planet to suggest very cold areas, also when seeing pandora from space and throughout the movie you will notice that it pretty much all looks like amazon(or rainforest or jungle or whatever) and,this suggests that it is an averagely warm climate globaly from examples of earths rainforests and other jungles and forests,if there were seasons,say winter, and it got significantly colder in widespread areas of pandora,such huge amounts of plant life would not be able to flourish at it obviously is,though the fact that unobtainium in certain areas and in varying amounts contributes to the growth of the plant life like hometree for example, it is still hard to concieve that it gets really cold anywere on pandora because plants would just not be able to survive the cold,please correct me if im at fault with any of my logic here
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