为什么《阿凡达》的动物中没有鱼？
这是我一个朋友的朋友Philip Greenspun提出的问题：为什么《阿凡达》的动物中没有鱼？
On Friday I officially ended my status as the only person left in the U.S. who had not seen the movie Avatar. My favorite parts of the movie were, of course, the script and the love story. However, I noticed that some effort had gone into special effects and, in particular, into creating a world full of animals. There was a lot of water on the imaginary planet but no fish. We never saw fish in the water. We never saw the local people fishing.
Here on Earth, more than half of vertebrate species are fish. How come the planet portrayed in Avatar didn’t have any?
当然没有标准答案，但是让我和我那位朋友感叹的是，不同的人的视角可以如此与他人迥异。而一个与众不同的提出问题的方式，哪怕没有正确答案，本身就是一种了不起的创新。所谓Brainstorming的意义也在于此吧。往往一个看似荒诞不经的问题，可以得到有趣的反应，尽管不一定是实用主义者追求的标准答案或者解决方案。比如这个问题，有一个读者就这么回答：
Bas Scheffers
February 27, 2010 @ 4:50 am
James Cameron doesn’t like fish. Titanic was all about water and did you see any fish there? Nor did I, see the pattern?
Even the fish in The Abyss turned out to be aliens.
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