every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaringnot because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. Hello Gang, In the interval between theroast Turkey and the Christmas Pudding I took a break from the sheer gluttony of this wonderful day bysurfing the Internet and came across a very interesting article I found on the Space Review web site entitled "Sagans rationale for human spaceflight" at http://thespacereview.com/article/261/1 If we all manage to survive the closing days of the month and survive the New Year's Eve binge of ethanol I look forward to discussing the issues raised in the article by Michael Huangand Sagan himself. Stay safe one and all and may the coming new year bring you much good fortune and great joy. Love and Happiness to you all. Happy Holidays everybody, Alex Michael Bonnici
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> every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaringnot
> because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical
> reason imaginable: staying alive.
>
> Hello Gang,
> In the interval between the roast Turkey and the
> Christmas Pudding I took a break from the sheer gluttony of this
> wonderful day by surfing the Internet and came across a very interesting
> article I found on the Space Review web site entitled "Sagans rationale
> for human spaceflight" at http://thespacereview.com/article/261/1
>
> If we all manage to survive the closing days of the month and survive
> the New Year's Eve binge of ethanol I look forward to discussing the
> issues raised in the article by Michael Huang and Sagan himself.
>
> Stay safe one and all and may the coming new year bring you much good
> fortune and great joy.
>
> Love and Happiness to you all.
>
> Happy Holidays everybody,
>
> Alex Michael Bonnici
>
"SpaceShipOnes Ansari X Prize breakthrough brought the worlds
attention to the idea of personal spaceflight. Hopefully, a documentary
will do the same for another important idea."
Documentaries aren't going to fill seats in theaters - the genre has a
niche audience. The number of people who will watch a space-themed
documentary ... smaller yet.
Worse still if it's a preachy documentary.
If you want to put these ideas forward, make a movie. Tell a story. Go
easy on the earnest tone, heavy on excitement and adventure. Slip 'The
Message' in such a deft manner that you don't really notice it unless
you're paying attention. Above all make it a good movie first, second
and last.
Brian Dunbar
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Meaningful Work or Death.
Any other form of existence doesn't interest me.
Hugh Macleod
> Documentaries aren't going to fill seats in theaters
> - the genre has a niche audience. The number of
people who will watch a space-themed documentary ...
smaller yet.
theaters):
$122,612,055
Worldwide Gross, Apollo 13 (2347 theaters):
$355,237,933
Worldwide Gross, Magnificent Desolation (IMAX, 82
theaters):
$16,190,406
If Magnificent Desolation had been in a regular
theater format, more theaters could have shown it, but
it wouldn't have had the same visual impact... even
so, $200000 per theater isn't too shabby.
Ed