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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 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..