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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: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 19 2017, @05:48PM (1 child)
Ohhhh-kay. Science fiction in movies. How about TV series? Have you watched 'The Expanse'? It leaves some things lacking, but it does give a hell of a lot of realistic stuff too. http://www.the-expanse.com/ [the-expanse.com]
This is one time when I was so impressed with the screenplay, that I went to find the books on which the shows were based. The only thing that isn't explained very well at all, is the Epstein Drive, what allows us to move about the solar system at a (small) fraction of the speed of light. It's as awesome as anything I've looked at, and the science part of it is pretty accurate. Except for that mysterious drive, of course.
The "what if" that underscores the whole story is, "What if we aren't alone?"
The series is as good as Firefly was.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday June 19 2017, @06:59PM
Sure, I'll acknowledge that we're in the golden age of TV, and there's some excellent serial material out there.