I think we can use some positive emotions in our lives and this 3:50-minute SF movie created by Erik Wernquist certainly delivers a positive view of our future in this solar system that seems to rather lack in stories coming out of Hollywood recently. Made my day again, same as movie shot by Juno probe at Jupiter. This really is a masterpiece and it must have taken tremendous amount of CGI work. Narration is by Carl Sagan reading the first chapter ("The Wanderers") from his 1994 book "The Pale Blue Dot." I wanted to describe the locations displayed in the movie, but it was too spoilery and you can easily guess most of them anyway.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/108650530
Erik has a website with more films at http://www.erikwernquist.com/
(Score: 2) by r1348 on Monday June 19 2017, @10:34PM
Every generation has its own apocalyptic cults, you're just a member of the last one in order. Not so much time ago, a sizable part of the Christian world was sure we were done with the year 1000. Some wackos even though that the whole 2012 mayan whatever bullcrap was worth believing in.
My point is: there has never been so much humanity in history, it has never been so prosperous and long living and, in relation to its size, never been so peaceful. Whoever is spelling doom is just fooled by a media bubble that feeds on outrage, not grasping the true greatness of the times we're living in.
Does that mean we have no serious challenges facing us? Absolutely not. We shouldn't rest on laurels, so to speak. But we should also bear in mind that we made it in much direr times than this, when our extinction was a realistic prospect, and we probably weren't even aware of it.