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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.
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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.
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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
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Why is it that the term "Unobtainium" has such a low-brow feel to it?
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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.
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For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.
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For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.
Interviews 2009
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For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.
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For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.
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For AAOK I wrote a time travel story called 'Unobtainium'.
November 2007 2007
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