AVATAR 2

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Anyone excited for Avatar 2? Personally, I am. They say that James Cameron will be filming parts of it in the deepest oceanic parts of the Earth. Why? B/c Avatar 1 was very Chinese in origin (see below). So, maybe James Cameron wants to explore the idea that China has a "Great Wall" undersea to guard its coasts against submarines...



Anyways, did you know that the highest grossing Hollywood films ever made in the history of cinema came from ideas that originated in China? For example:


1. STAR WARS Episodes I-VI is actually the Western adaptation of Legend & Return of the Condor Heroes (1959/1961). Where is the proof? If we substitute "Condor Heroes" for "Jedi Heroes", we get STAR WARS Ep I-VI. The original two-part story spans a total of 100 on-screen hours. To adapt it into about 12 hours of STAR WARS many things had to be cut and reshuffled. But the original ideas are there in Condor Heroes, all of it! Btw, even the name Han Solo came from the word Han Chinese.


2. STAR WARS Episodes VII-IX is/will be the Western adaptation of Heaven Sword & Dragon Saber (1963). Since this is the sequel to Legend/Return of the Condor Heroes, Disney is just continuing LucasArts' tradition of adapting the Condor Trilogy.


Read more about STAR WARS' Chinese "origin"/inspiration here: http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthre...-biggest-films



3. Avatar. Just simply look at the things James Cameron cooked up:


i. A Chinese dragon is shown on the Avatar main Flying Dragon Attack Ship:
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ii. The natives on Pandora sport a long pony tail that is reminiscient of a hairstyle that was once popular in China:
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iii. Parts of Pandora were actually digitally altered scenes from Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China [well, not really, but they might have as well filmed this National Forest Park and photoshopped the rest...]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangj...al_Forest_Park

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
outdoor elevator
In 1982 it was recognized as China's first national forest park with an area of 4,810 ha (11,900 acres).[1] Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is part of a much larger 397.5 km2 (153.5 sq mi) Wulingyuan Scenic Area. In 1992, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2] It was then approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as Zhangjiajie Sandstone Peak Forest National Geopark (3,600 square kilometres (1,400 sq mi)) in 2001. In 2004, Zhangjiajie Geopark was listed as a UNESCO Global Geopark.
The most notable geographic features of the park are the pillar-like formations that are seen throughout the park. Although resembling karst terrain, this area is not underlain by limestones and is not the product of chemical dissolution, which is characteristic of limestone karst. They are the result of many years of physical, rather than chemical, erosion. Much of the weathering which forms these pillars are the result of expanding ice in the winter and the plants which grow on them. The weather is moist year round, and as a result, the foliage is very dense. The weathered material is carried away primarily by streams. These formations are a distinct hallmark of Chinese landscape, and can be found in many ancient Chinese paintings.
One of the park's quartz-sandstone pillars, the 1,080-metre (3,540 ft) Southern Sky Column, had been officially renamed "Avatar Hallelujah Mountain" (阿凡达-哈利路亚山, pinyin: Āfándá hālìlùyà shān) in honor of the eponymous film in January 2010.[3] According to park officials, photographs from Zhangjiajie inspired the floating Hallelujah Mountains seen in the film.[4] The film's director and production designers said that they drew inspiration for the floating rocks from mountains from around the world, including those in the Hunan province.[5][6]
In May 2016, the park is expected to have the longest glass bridge in the entire world.[7]

In the film, Avatar:
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Avatar Hallelujah Mountains in China:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_2#Sequels

In 2006, Cameron stated that if Avatar was successful, he hoped to make two sequels to the film.[301] In 2010, he said the film's widespread success confirmed that he would.[302] He included certain scenes in the first film for future story follow-ups.[301][303] Cameron planned to shoot the sequels back-to-back and to begin work "once the novel is nailed down".[304] He stated that the sequels would widen the universe while exploring other moons of Polyphemus.[293] The first sequel would focus on the ocean of Pandora and also feature more of the rainforest.[305] He intended to capture footage for this sequel at the bottom of the Mariana Trench using a deepwater submersible.[306] In 2011, Cameron stated that he was just starting to design the ocean ecosystem of Pandora and the other worlds to be included in the story. The storyline, although continuing the environmental theme of the first film, would not be "strident" since the film will concentrate on entertainment.[307]

The sequels would continue to follow the characters of Jake and Neytiri.[308] Cameron implied that the humans would return as the antagonists of the story.[309] Worthington and Saldana signed on to reprise their roles in the sequels.[303] In 2010, Cameron confirmed that Sigourney Weaver[310] and Stephen Lang were also expected to return despite the demise of their characters.[311] The sequels were originally scheduled for release in December 2014 and 2015.[312] In 2011, Cameron stated his intention to film the sequels at a higher frame rate than the industry standard 24 frames per second, in order to add a heightened sense of reality.[313][314]

In 2012, Cameron first mentioned a possible third sequel.[315] That year, Cameron stated that the sequels were being written as "separate stories that have an overall arc inclusive of the first film", with the second having a clear conclusion instead of a cliffhanger to the next film. Cameron expected to release Avatar 2 in 2015.[316] In 2013, it was confirmed that there would be three sequels. Screenwriters were also announced: Josh Friedman for the first, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver for the second, and Shane Salerno for the third. Production was re-scheduled for 2014 with the films to be released in December 2016, 2017, and 2018.[317] Steven Gould was engaged to write four novels based on the films.[318] Later that year, Cameron announced that the sequels would be filmed in New Zealand, with performance capture to take place in 2014. An agreement with the New Zealand government required at least one world premiere to be held in Wellington and at least NZ$500 million (approximately US$410 million at December 2013 exchange rates) to be spent on production activity in New Zealand, including live-action filming and visual effects. The New Zealand government announced it would raise its baseline tax rebate for filmmaking from 15% to 20%, with 25% available to international productions in some cases and 40% for New Zealand productions (as defined by section 18 of the New Zealand Film Commission Act 1978).[319][320]

In April 2014, Cameron expected to finish the three scripts within six weeks, stating that all three sequels would be in production simultaneously and were still slated for December 2016 to 2018 releases.[321][322] He stated that although Friedman, Jaffa and Silver, and Salerno are each co-writing one sequel with him, they at first all worked together on all three scripts: "I didn't assign each writer which film they were going to work on until the last day. I knew if I assigned them their scripts ahead of time, they'd tune out every time we were talking about the other movie."[323][324] "We... worked out every beat of the story across all three films so it all connects as one, sort of, three-film saga."[325] Cameron also stated that Weaver would be featured in all three sequels and that her character Grace Augustine would be alive.[326] In March 2015, however, Weaver said that she will play a new character in the next film.[327]

By 2015, the scheduled release dates for the sequels were each delayed by another year, with the first sequel expected to be released in December 2017; Cameron called the writing process "a complex job".[328][329] In June 2015, James Horner, who was reported to be engaged to write music for the franchise, was killed in a plane crash.[330] In December, Cameron stated that he was "doing another pass through all three scripts ... Just refining. That’s in parallel with the design process. The design process is very mature at this point. We’ve been designing for about a year and a half. All the characters, settings and creatures are all pretty much [set]."[331] The following month, Fox announced a further release delay.[332]

As of February 2016, production of the sequels was scheduled to begin in April 2016 in New Zealand.[333] In April 2016, Cameron announced at CinemaCon that there will be four Avatar sequels, all of which will be filmed simultaneously, with release dates in December 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023, respectively.[334][335]

Btw, I saw Avatar 1 in the theater in 3D. If anyone doesn't have a 3D TV/monitor, I highly recommend the anaglyph (red/blue) version, if you can find it. The above anaglyph screenshots don't look very 3D, but when they're moving, you just have to take my word for it the 3D effect is just as spectacular as the one I saw in the theater...

[hirobo2]

And just for the militarily-inclined, China's most advanced stealth fighter, the Chengdu J-20:

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Various prototypes during its in-house development and testing:
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Bottom left:
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[hirobo2]

Now this big bad bird, isn't even an airplane:

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But a carrier-killer hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV):

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Of which China has had many successful tests (while the American HGV program to date has met with many failures)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WU-14

[hirobo2]

Very interesting stuff, this is how China is doing avionics testing on the Chengdu J-20 mentioned above. By converting a Russian Tu-204C, fitting it with the same nose cone, an extra pair of wings above the cockpit, and a bulge to the side of the main door that contains an array sensor:

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[hirobo2]

Coming soon to Avatar 2, deep sea adventures!

China's new deep sea submarine - BBC News:

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BBC News VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLwy7bustio

[hirobo2]

Sort of related to Avatar 1 (I don't know if Avatar 2 & later will still use the neuro uplink device...)

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Back in 2013:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/a...ons-experiment

China Unveils Secret Quantum Communications Experiment

By Davey Alba
Posted 13 Jun 2013 | 15:33 GMT

The long vaunted promise of quantum cryptography is the ability to beam a message across the planet with supposedly unhackable encryption, and the competition to develop the best system for doing just that is heating up. Just last month, Canadian researchers detailed their plans in IEEE Spectrum to launch a host of microsatellites created from commercially available, off-the-shelf technologies, and estimated that they could have a working prototype later this year. Now, the Chinese have also revealed their intentions to launch a quantum satellite experiment into orbit by 2016.

Last Monday, MIT Technology Review’s arXiv Blog reports, Jian-Wei Pan and a team from the University of Science and Technology of China, in Shanghai, revealed the results of an experiment in which they successfully sent single photons on a round trip to an orbiting satellite, then detected those same photons back on Earth. The scheme proves that a satellite can beam single photons back to our planet even while it's in orbit, a necessity for quantum communications.

Basically, Pan and his cohorts pointed a couple of telescopes at a targeted satellite, which was covered with reflectors that could bounce a laser beam back to wherever it came from on Earth. One telescope was set up to shoot pulses of light at the satellite, while the other looked for evidence of the reflection. Each beam of light started off with 1 billion photons, and the pulse was repeated millions of times a second. On average, for every pulse of light, just one photon made the return trip back home. They reported detecting these homeward-bound photons at a rate of about 600 per second. "These results are sufficient to set up an unconditionally secure QKD link between satellite and earth, technically,” the team wrote in their paper, which is posted on ArXiv.

But the strangest detail of the announcement had to do with the satellite the group chose in the first place. They claim to have used CHAMP, a German satellite that was deorbited in 2010—meaning the team has purposely elected not to publicize the outcome of the experiment for at least three years. But keeping the news under wraps might make perfect sense, given the group's imminent goal—revealed in the last few details of their paper—to launch the first Chinese quantum science experiment into space. The spacecraft, called the Chinese Quantum Science Satellite, will launch by 2016 if all goes according to plan.

China to launch first quantum communication satellite in July (CCTV-America):

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CCTV-America VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JstFKoWDqVQ (poster took video offline )

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Avatar 1 = Depiction of 2nd Sino-Japanese War:


PART I - THE JAPANESE SIDE:


A Japanese dragon on the main Avatar Dragon Assault Ship (I know earlier I said Chinese dragon, but they look similar):

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(image above shows a Japanese dragon)


Inspired by Japanese mecha anime:

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PART II - THE CHINESE SIDE:


Those long pony tails were once popular in China:

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And let's not forget China's scenic landscape (Avatar Hallelujah Mountain in Zhangjiajie):

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PART III - WHY JAPAN INVADED CONTINENTAL ASIA (= FOR RESOURCES):


The Japanese attacked Asia b/c they wanted access to resources not found in Japan:

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[hirobo2]

PART IV - AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE 2ND SINO-JAPANESE WAR:


Jake Sully appeals to Eywa (= USA) for help:

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America formed part of "2nd wave" to repel the Japanese invasion from Mainland China (images below = "un-Avatar-manned" air & land 2nd wave attacks sent by Eywa):

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[hirobo2]

PART V - JAPAN'S DEFEAT:


USA & China defeated Japan during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war:

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The Japanese are expelled from Mainland China (= "Sky people" sent back to Earth):

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[FineSister]

PART II - THE CHINESE SIDE:


Those long pony tails were once popular in China:

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And let's not forget China's scenic landscape (Avatar Hallelujah Mountain in Zhangjiajie):

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I second the motion :-)

[hirobo2]

Some backpackers visiting Avatar Hallelujah Mountain in ZhangJiaJie, China:

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[hirobo2]

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DR. GRACE AUGUSTINE: What we think we know - is that there's some kind of electrochemical communication between the roots of the trees. Like the synapses between neurons. Each tree has ten to the fourth connections to the trees around it, and there are ten to the twelfth trees on Pandora... That's more connections than the human brain. You get it? It's a network - a global network. And the Na'vi can access it - they can upload and download data - memories - at sites like the one you just destroyed.

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Sunway-TaihuLight outperforms Tianhe-2 as world's fastest supercomputer
Source: Xinhua | 2016-06-20 15:56:14 | Editor: huaxia

NANJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- China's new supercomputing system, Sunway-TaihuLight, was named the world's fastest computer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany on Monday.

The National Supercomputing Center was also unveiled Monday in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, where the new-generation supercomputer is installed.

With processing capacity of 125.436 petaflops (PFlops) per second, which means it can perform quadrillions of calculations per second at peak performance, Sunway-TaihuLight is the first supercomputer to achieve speeds in excess of 100 PFlops.

The computing power of the supercomputer is provided by a China-developed many-core CPU chip, which is just 25 square cm.

[hirobo2]

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(Image above: An engineer shows the many-core processor of Sunway TaihuLight, a new Chinese supercomputer, in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 16, 2016. (Xinhua/Li Xiang))


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(Image above: National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi)


Top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world (as of June 2016):

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[hirobo2]

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Sunway-TaihuLight: An apt name for an HPC that's set on the side of Lake Taihu

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[hirobo2]

I'm posting this b/c Avatar is heavily rooted in science [fiction]...


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DR. GRACE AUGUSTINE: What we think we know - is that there's some kind of electrochemical communication between the roots of the trees. Like the synapses between neurons. Each tree has ten to the fourth connections to the trees around it, and there are ten to the twelfth trees on Pandora... That's more connections than the human brain. You get it? It's a network - a global network. And the Na'vi can access it - they can upload and download data - memories - at sites like the one you just destroyed.

What is a Neural Processing Unit (NPU):

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-neural-processing.htm

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What is Neural Processing?

Neural processing originally referred to the way the brain works, but the term is more typically used to describe a computer architecture that mimics that biological function. In computers, neural processing gives software the ability to adapt to changing situations and to improve its function as more information becomes available. Neural processing is used in software to do tasks such as recognize a human face, predict the weather, analyze speech patterns, and learn new strategies in games.

The human brain is composed of approximately 100 billion neurons. These neurons are nerve cells that individually serve a simple function of processing and transmitting information. When the nerve cells transmit and process in clusters, called a neural network, the results are complex – such as creating and storing memory, processing language, and reacting to sudden movement.

Artificial neural processing mimics this process at a simpler level. A small processing unit, called a neuron or node, performs a simple task of processing and transmitting data. As the simple processing units combine basic information through connectors, the information and processing becomes more complex. Unlike traditional computer processors, which need a human programmer to input new information, neural processors can learn on their own once they are programmed.

For example, a neural processor can improve at checkers. Just like a human brain, the computer learns that certain moves by an opponent are made to create traps. Basic programming might allow the computer to fall for the trap the first time. The more often a certain trap appears, however, the greater attention the computer pays to that data and begins to react accordingly.

Neural programmers call the increasing attention that the computer pays to certain outcomes "weight." Traditional processing would provide the computer only with the basic rules of the game and a limited number of strategies. Neural processing, by gathering data and paying greater attention to more important information, learns better strategies as time goes on.

The power of neural processing is in its flexibility. In the brain, information is presented as an electrochemical impulse – a small jolt or a chemical signal. In artificial neural processing, the information is presented as a numeric value. That value determines whether the artificial neuron goes active or stays dormant, and it also determines where it sends its signal. If a certain checker is moved to a certain square, for instance, the neural network reads that information as numeric data. That data is compared against a growing amount of information, which in turn creates an action or output.

After 5 years of research: China unveils first embedded neural network processing unit

http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0622/c90000-9075892.html

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China has launched mass production of the country’s newly-unveiled first ever embedded neural network processing unit (NPU), marking one more major breakthrough in the country’s NPU research and development.

The VC0758 NPU, developed by China’s leading video technology supplier Vimicro is based on a data driven parallel computing model, which can greatly improve the smart chip’s computational ability at a lower power consumption rate, said Zhang Yundong, executive director of the Vimicro State Key Laboratory on digital multimedia chip technology.

Vimicro on Monday announced that it has realized mass production of the VC0758 NPU after five years of research, suggesting that China is now one of the countries with the most advanced artificial intellectual technology in deep learning based on a data driven parallel computing model, according China National Radio (CNR).

Zhang added that the chip is especially skilled in processing multimedia data such as videos and images. Its capabilities will especially be brought into full play when it is used for embedded computer vision applications, CNR reported.

The CNR noted that the smart chip will give a major boost to improvement for China’s video surveillance industry and can help the country to establish a leading position in the world.

According to China Central Television, the VC0758 will be widely employed in drone, intelligent drive assistance systems or in the field of robot vision.

[hirobo2]

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Some J-11B's with domestic engines flying in formation:

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