Comments on: Trailer to the Moon

By: Laguna2

Laguna2 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:11:07 +0000

Thomas says: “I hope they drop one rovers near the Apolly 11 landing area and send back live video of the American flag that is still there […]”

Sorry Thomas, but that nylon flag has gone long time ago.
Too much UV-Radiation…

By: Laguna2

Laguna2 — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:57:19 +0000

Showing it in theaters? Maybe they should start with placing that video on their website where it is easy to find…

Oh, and making it viewable with other Browsers than IE.
I will not install an ActiveX plugin to my Firefox 2.x that was made for Firefox 1.x, just to see proprietary movie formats, risking to mess up my system.

By: bassmanpete

bassmanpete — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:45:07 +0000

The only thing that would convince the MHBâ€™s is to send them there in person.

Preferably without a space suit

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:07:41 +0000

Ok, I’m going to download the Hi-res version tomorrow and play it at the beginning of my physics classes. Then tell the kids (mostly high school seniors) that if they’re interested, pick science majors and then they can work on the Moon project out of college or possibly even go to the Moon. I know I have a few budding engineers.

If NASA made more clips like these I’d be happy to show them in my class!

Thanks, Phil, for bringing it to our attention.

By: llewelly

llewelly — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:28:58 +0000

A handful of these trailers, playing in movie theaters before some crappy SciFi epic, would go a long way toward showing the public that going back to the Moon is such an amazing and awe-inspiring thing to do.

Couldn’t hurt to remind them it would be cheaper, safer, and more useful than invading Iraq.

By: Hairy Doctor Professor

Hairy Doctor Professor — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:09:14 +0000

Here’s a traditional NASA video, a la YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0YuWmTNxI

Nice. Informative. Pleasant to watch. Dull. All the passion of episode 12 of “Bureaucrats in Space”.

The new video that the BA found does have the oh-so-needed passion. I watched version 1.0 in real-time in 1969, and saw the excitement drain away too quickly over the intervening years. The YouTube version raised goosebumps. The 42 meg QuickTime made me weep.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:35:20 +0000

I like it, but it’s just like “Why? Becasue we can!”
What is the scientific motivation? What is the frontier now?

And: sound in space?!
better think of these details before faking it again