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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: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday June 19 2017, @07:22PM
Why is anarchy unrealistic after a really big collapse? With a sufficiently large collapse of the human population, there simply wouldn't be enough people left to form an actual "civilization", there's just be survivors wandering around in the ruins trying to survive or figure out what to do next.
Just as an example, suppose there's a collapse caused by some horrible viral plague. Even really deadly and virulent pathogens always leave some small part of the population alive, due to natural immunity caused by genetic variations and mutations in that population. This was seen with DDT: it killed most of the mosquitoes, but left a very small number, which then continued to breed until the populations were restored, but now were all DDT-resistant. So with a human plague, if it kills of 99% of the population, that's going to completely eliminate any form of society or governance, unless you're counting the small warlords that'll inevitably rise up afterwards (post-apocalyptic fiction usually includes this BTW). (Also, humans aren't like mosquitoes; they take far longer to reproduce so they're not going to repopulate the way insects do after a collapse. They also tend to limit their population even more in the absence of society and government due to murder and tribal warfare, something that insects and most other animals don't do.)