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True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
Sun Nov 30, 2014, 08:08 PM Nov 2014

"Wanderers": A beautiful short film set to a Carl Sagan monologue

http://vimeo.com/108650530

From what I know of the various worlds of our solar system, the conceptual views in the short are completely realistic - and some of them are directly based on actual probe photographs.

This isn't fantasy, folks. Your descendents will live in these places, know them as home, fight for them against each other, discover others as refuges and new opportunities, as resorts and prisons, as job sites and places of exile, cities and suburbs (and backwaters). They will arbitrarily decide that some areas in these places are holy and others cursed. They will pillage and mar the faces of their worlds, then regret it and try to restore them in limited preserves. They will bring light to the dark, water to the desert, air to the void, and the whole life of Earth will give birth to world-children in kaleidoscopic fragments across the solar system...and beyond.
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"Wanderers": A beautiful short film set to a Carl Sagan monologue (Original Post) True Blue Door Nov 2014 OP
I was just about to post. Beautiful. blackspade Nov 2014 #1
Apropos, we've got an Orion test this week True Blue Door Nov 2014 #2
Beautiful newfie11 Dec 2014 #3

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
2. Apropos, we've got an Orion test this week
Sun Nov 30, 2014, 11:36 PM
Nov 2014

and a SpaceX reusable first-stage landing on a drone barge in a couple of weeks.

Shit is getting real.

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