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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, @04:30PM (4 children)
Everyone will be dead and nothing of value will be lost. At last the insects will have their chance to evolve into something better.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Monday June 19 2017, @06:02PM (3 children)
Everyone will be dead and nothing of value will be lost. At last the insects will have their chance to evolve into something better.
Personally, I'm rooting for the birds. They kinda blew it before by not building a good space program before the K-T asteroid, but I think they should get a second chance.
The reptiles are pretty cool too.
Best of all would be if cats survived the cataclysm and evolved into intelligent space-faring beings.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Monday June 19 2017, @08:10PM (1 child)
If you think people are lazy, destructive, and easily distracted then i don't think you should have much hope for cats. I'm thinking something like Kzinti only instead of war-like they are west-coast surfer dudes.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday June 19 2017, @08:22PM
Laziness isn't necessarily incompatible with developing advanced technology. After all, isn't one of the primary aims of technology to replace labor with automation, and make life easier? With enough intelligence, cats should be great at developing automation technologies.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Tuesday June 20 2017, @08:46PM
The birds? No, no. The tardigrades are probably already more intelligent than huuumans. For sure they are already much more adapted to any kind of cosmic catastrophy. Plus they have an interesting level of horizontal gene transfer going on. Their DNA is borrowing survival know-how from many other species' attempts. Now that's clever. We huuumans with our memes will probably kill ourselves over differences of opinion long before we'll get the opportunity to watch any spectacle of any cosmic catastrophy. And the birds? Hmm. Well some of them will survive..