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  • Let’s summarize: Unobtainium is a rare mineral with anti-gravitational properties that the U.S. needs to allow the citizens of an environmentally ruined Earth to leave that dried-up rock and colonize other planets.

    Movie Review: Avatar » Scene-Stealers 2010

  • An unobtainable mineral (called Unobtainium, oooh), priceless to the humans, happens to be sitting smack-dab under the hometree of the Na'vi - and unless negotiations go smoothly, the only other option would be to take everything by force.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • The Na'vi's turf is also rich with an energy-yielding mineral called Unobtainium (which is as close as Cameron comes to a joke in this movie).

    The New Yorker 2009

  • Why is it that the term "Unobtainium" has such a low-brow feel to it?

    Cool Stuff: Unobtanium T-Shirt | /Film 2010

  • They are instructed to make efforts to convince the Na'vi to remove themselves from their homeland so as to create a circumstance where by the theft of the region's considerable deposits of "Unobtainium" would be easily facilitated.

    Avatar: An Extension of White Supremacy 2010

  • For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.

    Children's Lit Fabulosity 2010

  • For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.

    Interviews 2009

  • For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.

    WBBT Stop: Elizabeth Knox 2007

  • For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.

    WBBT Stop: Elizabeth Knox 2007

  • For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.

    November 2007 2007

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