Posted on 04/27/2008 1:34:29 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE Sometime in the near future, humankind will set foot again on the Moon. As part of NASA's New Vision for Space Exploration, they will build a permanent base on the moon, to test, research and invent new technologies for manned missions to Mars and beyond.
The task will not be easy - there will be danger and hardships and broken lives, but these modern-day pioneers would have it no other way. Because for all the hardships that they must endure, they know that the Grand Vision extends beyond them - that they are but a small part of what makes man's future in the stars possible.
'Postcards From The Future' attempts to share this epic undertaking with today's audience. We see the Grand Vision unfold over the course of two decades by following the life of one man - civilian electrical engineer Sean Everman.
Entrusted with the task of helping to build out the power grid on the Moonbase, Sean occasionally sends "video postcards" and personal messages to his wife back on Earth, sharing with her the details, trials and tribulations of his jobs. Over the epic course of the story, these postcards from our possible future reveal in exquisite detail the grand adventure that we are about to embark on..
Postcards is written and directed by Alan Chan, an industry visual effects veteran, whose feature film credits include Academy Award winning films such as Jim Cameron's "Titanic", "Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers" and "Polar Express".
http://www.postcardsfromthefuture.net/trailer.php
Here is an article about the film maker...
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/news/2007/05/alan_chan
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This looks pretty cool. I like science fiction stuff.
The one reason to desire immortality is to be there when it's all being discovered. Our universe is indeed a wondrous gift.
That looks really, really cool. I’m definitely interested.
I am of the opinion that exploration of space and extending humanitys presence beyond our world is one of the most important things we should be doing.
The nations that lead on the frontier, dictate the course of human history.
I have ordered this film, hope it’s as good as the trailer.
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I have to save the links for later, since I am stuck with Xanadoo wireless “high-speed” internet until tomorrow.
Worst.
ISP.
Ever.
Wireless it is, high speed it is not. Right now it is running about 6KB/sec on download, I kid you not. It also shuts down every morning at about 1:15 and doesn’t start up again until around 6. Their techies (in the rare event that they answer the phone) deny that this happens.
What it amounts to is that I paid $82.95 for about a week of 1995 style service from these frauds- $50.00 for their junk modem and $32.95 for the squirrelly service itself. I can allegedly get 25 back if I turn in the modem, but only once it has arrived at their warehouse in God knows where, and on their word that it has done so.
I would like to see future generations spread the ideals of our founding fathers throughout the universe. That would be freedom..
Amen
...and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity...
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Let’s not confuse entertainment with actually opening the space frontier. We’ve lost 40 yrs of actual advancement of civilization outward due to Hollywood painting such a pretty picture of how easy space development will be.
The tough part isn’t the technology/science. The tough part isn’t even raising the capital to pay for that. The damn near impossible part these days is keeping the bureaucrats from standing in the way. Things happen when people find it easier to do something of significance than explain why they just sat on their butt and collected a government paycheck. Unfortunately I don’t see thing trending that way in space, or elsewhere.
I have learned something in the last few years.
One of the greatest impediments to space exploration, is space exploration advocates! LOL
Thanks for the ping. I just watched the DVD version of Postcards from the Future. It is quite good with first quality production values. It is also somewhat sad because of the human plot line of the principal character, but also because the dream and the projected accomplishments shown in the film are so at risk in today’s America. The resources needed for this scale of exploration and development may be absorbed by a welfare and entitlement society and governmental restrictions on any such plans.
However, the dream is inspirational and I would recommend it for any who want to go and are willing to fight to make it happen.
See post #14 for my reaction to Postcards from the Future. It is very good, but the risks of the dream never happening are very high. Obama, for instance, would postpone the Orion system for five years beyond the five year gap after the planned retirement of the Space Shuttle. After ten years with no manned space capability, would the US just continue to spend everything on entitlements, Medicare, social security, etc. and let the world move on without it?
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