Well, there’s no way THAT could be true… :rolleyes:
To the Saturn 3 station, via the Jupiter 2?
Wasn’t it made for TV?
Shaman VS Spaceman?
Why not be Both?
One section of Austine Wood Comarow’s “polage” mural Human Connections at the Boston Museum of Science has a panel where, through the wonder of birefringent art, an image of spacewalking Bruce McCandless* morphs into a Kachina(?) or shaman. I can’t find a good picture of it, but here’s a video of the mural:
*Mission STS-41B February 1984
Theatrical release.
Interesting trivia: The soundtrack was written by Peter Schickeke(aka P.D.Q. Bach).
Silent Running was a major film, with big-budget (for the time) special effects. It was directed by Douglas Trumbull, well-known as the Special Effects guy for 2001 (and The Andromeda Strain). But the film was shown on TV a LOT later on, and they used shots of the biodome-bearing ships in the TV series Battlestar Galactica in 1978 (John Dykstra did the effects. He’d starting his career working on — Silent Running!)
Silent Running was an incredibly dumb film (Where’s the gravity coming from? How come all that heat isn’t bleeding off into space? And – most important – why did it take the environmentalist hero so damned long to figure out that his plants were dying because they weren’t getting sunlight?), but it had some good effects and the “Drones”: were cute and clever (and I suspect the name helped Lucas come up with “Droids” as the name for robots in his Star Wars films). And Peter Schikele’s music was pretty good.
That’s the magic of science at work.
Wait, you’re going with that? When you had a perfectly good opening for a Uranus joke? :smack:
Believe me, Saturn 3 was the bigger joke, ass-wise.
Maybe we could recreate earth using organic material from the rings around Uranus ?
No, that’s the magic of mushrooms at work.
Did you bring enough for everyone? :dubious:
It does no good to ask him after, dude.
Crap.
The real dumb part of 70s science fiction is the conceit that technological man can synthesize everything needed for human life. The problem is that his life will be soul-less and boring. It’ll be living, but not LIVING, man.
But that’s crap. We’re not making synthetic food, or synthetic air, or synthetic water. We’re reliant on the Earth’s biosphere to sustain our lives, and that will be true for the foreseeable future. An Earth where they’ve paved over the forests is an Earth that’s as unlivable for human beings as the Moon.
Building a sustainable closed ecosystem that can sustain human life is not a trivial undertaking, even if you’re doing it in a dome here on Earth, where if things go wrong you can just crack open the doors. It’s, like, really hard. Yeah, I know on Star Trek the air and food comes out of magic replicators no problem. Except that’s not real life. In real life we’ll need to grow our food and create our oxygen and purify our water in space, which means it’s either space jungles or nothing.
There’s a reason they call it Staroamers Fate.
Still open . . .
Can’t we just paint the spaceships indigo and be done with it?
Or fifty. You could tie them in a sack.
2nd tier Uranus jokes just don’t cut the cheese, sorry.
Back to the topic: You still haven’t explained why your particular brand of psycho soup shaman/magic should be the one picked above all the others that exist out there to be brought along on a migratory journey into deep space.