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Wanderers: A Vision of Humanity’s Expansion into the Solar System

Wanderers is a vision of humanity’s expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available.

If you liked Interstellar at all then you will love this – it’s a short film to make a space geek cry. A stunning look at the new life that could await us in the off-world colonies – on the moons, the asteroids and space stations – beautifully rendered. Wing suits in space. Walking on alien moons. Hell. Yes.

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  1. Space Seduction
    I’m a computer graphics freak. My professional career was in the field of computer simulation and graphics for jet aircraft and other vehicles. However, the use of Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” rhetoric written 20 years ago comes across as a sales pitch in this trailer. In that amount of time, we haven’t even properly explored the Great Pyramid for crying out loud. Who are we kidding!

    I’m beginning to feel we are fulfilling an alien agenda and not our own. It’s almost like whoever put us here is not satisfied and is ready to wreck the place and move on. Or maybe they already have moved on and the Great Pyramid is their calling card. Maybe we are left here with only a twisted mythos to guide us. Put that in a movie script and smoke it! (Light Sabre extends.)

      1. Joy and sadness
        Sadness because I’m beginning to suspect the window of opportunity for our species to become a space-faring civilization is closing rapidly.

        And, even if it do happens, that I’m not going to be around to witness it 🙁

    1. I’ve got no quarrel with the
      I’ve got no quarrel with the vision which is essentially a fundamental human impulse, but I do take exception to the timescale being promoted by the space/industrial complex. We will blast out eventually, but as a priority in distributing scarce resources and the effort to secure our own planet first the whole space colonization project looks extremely back-burner to me in the present.

    1. The Cover of Cosmo
      Yes, that nails it! Ancient culture was all about cosmopomorphism!! They literally had princes running around behaving like planets, some attacking others, some forming alliances with others in accordance with what they believed happened in the solar system. It was all staged. But still, why do this? Totally bizarre. If man is the measure of all things, then why was ancient man emulating cosmology?

      1. Perhaps one would have to
        Perhaps one would have to spend a year in some remote desert with the starry night sky slapping you in the face half the time to understand such impulses. When there isn’t much terrestrial light pollution at night does the garish galaxy drive you crazy?

        1. well…….
          I grew up in northern Utah, and spent a air amount of my time there in Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and up in the Wasatch mountains. There was no light pollution then, and you could see forever.

          The sight of the Milky Way, stretching across the sky was breath taking, and it was, to my young mind, evocative of the same emotions and questions as those of early man.

          It is a singular set of memories that I cherish, and would love to experience again. The closest I ever came to it was flying night missions with the US Navy, out over the ocean, when we’d operate “darkened ship”. You could look out of the observation blisters and see the stars arching down into the deep blackness of the sea. Sometimes we’d put the sextant up in it’s dome and take turns looking at the moon with it.

          I hope someday to be able to have my own kids see such sights.

  2. Meh…….
    I like the film, but it would have been nice to have someone besides that uber-putz Sagan as the narrator. His voice is off-putting, though not nearly as much as the man was in real life.

    Carl Sagan was a bully, who had no qualms about attacking anyone who dared question his God-like pronouncements. I would not be at all surprised, having seen him live on more than one occasion, to learn that as a child he liked to torture small animals.

    The man may have been seen as this great scientist, but in my own opinion, he was a nasty piece of work, and not worthy of the name “human”.

    As I said, those are my own opinions, based upon my observations of him at scientific seminars, and reading his works.

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