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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 19 2017, @04:07PM
... for me, it doesn't really capture the awesomeness of spreading out into the final frontier.
Base jumping from some rocky crag on a low-gravity moon isn't what I find fascinating; rather, what tickles me is the thought of the Big Engineering, and the well-ordered processes, necessary to make the voyage smooth; what tickles me is the setting up of a billion ducks in a row.