James Cameron Won't Be Fixing The Oil Spill

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James Cameron was asked by the United States government to brainstorm some ideas to fix the BP oil leak. Cameron, has spent over 3000 hours on deep water dive sites like Titanic and the Bismarck, and he also holds several patents for inventing cases and robotic equipment to handle extreme pressure and cold found at the ocean floor.

Turns out scientists won't be using any of his ideas. Yahoo Says:

“Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing,” Cameron said at the All Things Digital technology conference.
Cameron said he has offered to help the government and BP in dealing with the spill. He said he was “graciously” turned away by the British energy giant.
Cameron suggested the U.S. government needed to take a more active role in monitoring the undersea gusher, which has become the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
“I know really, really, really smart people that work typically at depths much greater than what that well is at,” Cameron said.

So that's it for James Cameron I guess. Did he just get another movie idea from this?
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James Cameron Will Stop The Leak

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The US government has brought in James Cameron to help stop the oil leak that's currently happening now. People reports:

The Canadian-born Oscar winner, 55, is an ocean-technology buff and has been an expert in underwater filming and manned submersible vehicles since his pioneering work on The Abyss in the 1980s.
"It's about looking at all the what-ifs - if this fails, if that fails, what happens," Nuytco chief pilot Jeff Heaton told Canada's Globe and Mail.

Apparently, James Cameron does know a lot about the ocean. Because he's Poseidon that's why! I'm really not sure how he can help. Turn real life into fiction perhaps? Or make the spill 3D!



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Avatar Is Making People Suicidal

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Apparently, Avatar's 3D effects are so intense it makes people want to go off themselves. CNN:

On the fan forum site “Avatar Forums,” a topic thread entitled “Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible,” has received more than 1,000 posts from people experiencing depression and fans trying to help them cope.

Some highlights.

“Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar’ I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na’vi made me want to be one of them. I can’t stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it. I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in ‘Avatar.’ ”

- “When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed … gray. It was like my whole life, everything I’ve done and worked for, lost its meaning. It just seems so … meaningless. I still don’t really see any reason to keep … doing things at all. I live in a dying world.”

- “It’s so hard I can’t force myself to think that it’s just a movie, and to get over it, that living like the Na’vi will never happen.”

James Cameron, look what you've done. On another note, Avatar is catching up to Titanic, really fast. Another 300 million to go or so. Easy peasy.

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