Surprisingly, it’s the most realistic part of the movie. If you know scientists, if they have a concept for a perfect thing that can’t be found, and then they find it for real, they’re calling it unobtanium for sure.
Even in its supposed actual use (and I’m not convinced), it’s a TEMPORARY Placeholder Name, meant to be replaced by a real word. Keeping it in the final draft, and trying to wave it away with a terrible excuse, is poor writing, poor directing, poor production.
It is truly a dumb decision because it’s got absolutely nothing to do with the film. It’s just lazy justification for being there, they could have chosen anything.
I think it’s a room temperature superconductor which, ok I can see why that’s useful, but if you’re in a future where you have interstellar starships flying on a semi regular basis to another star system I think you’ve probably already invented room temperature superconductors. In fact they must have room temperature superconductors because their starships are powered by fusion drive which needs electromagnetic confinement in order to work. So at least the first ship would have to already have that tech just to get out there in the first place.
Surprisingly, it’s the most realistic part of the movie. If you know scientists, if they have a concept for a perfect thing that can’t be found, and then they find it for real, they’re calling it unobtanium for sure.
Even in its supposed actual use (and I’m not convinced), it’s a TEMPORARY Placeholder Name, meant to be replaced by a real word. Keeping it in the final draft, and trying to wave it away with a terrible excuse, is poor writing, poor directing, poor production.
It is truly a dumb decision because it’s got absolutely nothing to do with the film. It’s just lazy justification for being there, they could have chosen anything.
I think it’s a room temperature superconductor which, ok I can see why that’s useful, but if you’re in a future where you have interstellar starships flying on a semi regular basis to another star system I think you’ve probably already invented room temperature superconductors. In fact they must have room temperature superconductors because their starships are powered by fusion drive which needs electromagnetic confinement in order to work. So at least the first ship would have to already have that tech just to get out there in the first place.
Wow, we agree 100%, but we got there from completely different directions.
If they have any imagination at all they should call it Wompom, because it’s so useful you can do whatever you like with it.