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Topic: Sunshine
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issman1
Member Posts: 1042
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 04-15-2007 09:20 AM
  
In the new sci-fi space movie "Sunshine", the director Danny Boyle suggests that the only nations who could afford human spaceflight in the timeframe his movie is set (2057) are the US and Japan. Is this a sound hypothesis ?
Incidentally, the film is superb and I recommend everyone to try and see it. http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/features/sunshine.html |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 04-15-2007 09:55 AM
it's just a hypothesis...
But since we don't know on what facts (2007) he's basing his hypothesis is based upon, it's hard to tell. And to extrapolate 50 years down the road, all scenarios are at your disposal. His hypothesis that only Japan and the US will be in space can considered odd. The US has a manned space program (and we can assume that it will still be around...) but not Japan (planning to?). Yet he omits Russia and China who do have manned space programs today (with others, namely India and maybe Europe with Ariane/Soyuz from Guiana lurking on the horizons...But who knows what the world will be like in 2057. I wont' be around, so...Chris. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 04-15-2007 10:02 AM
oh...and our sun will die in 5,000 million years so if by then we still look the same, still alive as a race, and still living on this planet, you believe:
a) in miracles
b) that Darwin was wrong.:-) Chris. |
Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-15-2007 05:06 PM
When I read the subject line, I thought at first glance that you were talking about the wonderful summer-like temperatures here in Europe today 
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robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 04-26-2007 01:16 PM
Good film. |
issman1
Member Posts: 1042
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 04-30-2007 06:26 AM
It's either fact, supposition or artistic license... take your pick (?) However, I read that the filmmakers incorporated the services of UK astrophysicist Dr Brian Cox.It's quite authentic. Apparently Danny Boyle, the director of "Sunshine", is a fan of the NASA programme. He made the international cast attend an astronomy class by Cox, watch astronaut movies like "The Right Stuff" and even had them experience brief bursts of weightlessness in a small plane over London! As for the question in my opening post. The film implies that in decades hence only the USA and Asia can realistically afford deep space travel. This explains why the fictional crew is composed only of Americans, Chinese and Japanese astronauts. The best thing the filmmakers did was to set the action aboard the spacecraft with barely any mention of what is happening on Earth. The psychology of space travel is hardly a mainstream subject matter, but "Sunshine" is probably the best sci-fi movie I have seen in a long, long time. | |
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