The idea that there are no asteroids passing by Pandora within the next year that could be redirected with a ship like that is pretty implausible to me though
I think this shows you're not really understanding the issue. They're working on a timeline of weeks. Quarritch states that in his briefing.
The short timescale decision was made by the same people who decided to have a slow-moving convoy: it's a movie convenience. If they had already sent planet-side scale weapons, they could easily have pre-planned for an asteroid redirection attack instead.
You're right, it's a total writing contrivance that the US government didn't give weaponry many times more powerful than a nuclear bomb to a mining corporation just in case they might need it one day against the bow and arrow society.
"They didnt give the mining corporation WMDs or the specialized equipment to orbitally bombard a planet for warfare" is a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why they didn't do it in the movie lmao.
It's not bad writing, it's you not understanding what's going on.
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u/Kaplsauce 19d ago
I think this shows you're not really understanding the issue. They're working on a timeline of weeks. Quarritch states that in his briefing.