unobtainium

• “For example, during the development and service period of the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, engineers working for Lockheed Corporation at the Skunk Works used the term unobtainium as a dysphemism for titanium.”

  Two New Extended Clips from AVATAR – Collider.com

• “Look, HG Wells had Cavorite, and the 'unobtainium' is clearly Cavorite in disguise.”

  Will You Go See Avatar?

• “The techno-geek community was dealing in unobtainium long before James Cameron heard of it.”

  Think Progress » Paranoid Beck would embarrass her, Palin focused on googling NYC landmarks right before their interview.

• “The precious ore, "unobtainium" - nice pun Cameron - so sought after isn't even given enough of a back-story for audiences to understand why it may be so precious.”

  Iowa State Daily

• “In it, we see the mad preppy corporate guy, head of the mining operation who employs a small army of former marines for security and directs them to attack the Na'vi people because his company wants the blang - a mineral called unobtainium - that's underneath the soil in”

  The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective

• “Tell them that diplomacy and aid work better than bombs, and that we do not need unobtainium, which is called that for a reason, although we know it as "oil".”

  An Avatar Awakening

• “The action unfolds in the year 2154 on the distant planet Pandora which is in the process of being invaded by SecFor (as in Security Force, get it?), a U.S. military-industrial complex/corporate conglomerate with designs on a rare mineral called unobtainium (as in not obtainable, get it?).”

  NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories

• “Humans are invading/colonizing Pandora to mine a valuable mineral called unobtainium (seriously, unobtainium?) that would solve the energy crisis on Earth.”

  NYT > Technology

• “Like the rest of the human visitors who've made camp on Pandora, he has signed on with a corporation that's intent on extracting a valuable if mysterious substance from the moon called unobtainium, a great whatsit that is an emblem of humanity's greed and folly.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “For using the name "unobtainium," Cameron is being sued by ninja from the guys who made The Core, but I hear their wire-fu isn't too good either.”

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