Loved it.
AOL I ripped it to HDD and watched it again. Although it glossed over having to heat up the lunar soil to about 600c to extract the Helium3. But strip mining the moon should incense people. The same people who were advocating (on R2) the Plod who accidentally cooked his dogs having to serve a life sentence (or worse). Which is a good thing.
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I liked it a lot - put me in mind of an episode of The Outer Limits, which I used to enjoy. I particularly enjoyed the proper model shots. Very refreshing in this CGI age.
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Well, assuming the moon is made up of the same material that made up the earth, which is the current theory, it'll have veins of radio active elements that release beta particles as they decay just as happens here.
Agreed, plot was pretty good, and the models great. -- Gavin. GSXR600K1 Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk
[...] No, it's not a total speculation. It's an educated guess based on studies of samples of lunar regolith brought back by Apollo missions and Luna unmanned probes. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/pdf/2175.pdf And the movie is a great example of an SF movie done right. Which is probably why it in Poland it was only shown at one movie festival and won't reach the cinemas at all. Wankers, the lot of them.
I think there is a bit of science behind it and there were the mineral samples brought back here of course but I was just speculating about how it would be extracted if it was there. Not that getting 600c out of solar reflection on the bright side would be a problem.
Weird, I was only saying last night 'has ukrm done Moon yet?'. It's excellent and the short 'Whistle' on the DVD is worth a watch as well.
At the beginning, I thought that it looked like a cross between 2001 and Silent Running, and vaguely wondered whether it made Champ cry.
