IMAX L5 First City In Spase.

As a student of history I have learned that the great achievements
have been brought more through competetion than cooperation.

The petty differences which divide are often the source of identity
and motivation. Though one can argue that these things are the soruce
of instability perhaps it is that instability taht forces things to
get done.

If nationalist prides had been in 1969 what they were like over three
hundred fifty years ago it is possible that man would have begun the
colonization process in space.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"
>
> From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of terrierkeeper
>
> > Overall, I would say it was about as exciting and as
> > informative as watching Grass Grow.
>
> I find it thrilling, but I suppose only because there aren't really
any
> other High Frontier film productions (I wouldn't count Babylon 5)
that I
> could unfavorably compare it to. But I acknowledge many of the
faults
> you find.
>
> > Because of the cumbersomness of the technowlogy to produce
> > it and limited length I won't fault it.
>
> Yes, that's an important consideration. Though IMAX movies today
can be
> quite a bit longer, really none were being made longer than 40
minutes
> at that time.
>
> > Though I wish they had refrained from the futuristic cloths
> > and used the money for more computor graphics.
>
> You have to consider the era. Computer graphics is moving so
rapidly
> that the state of the art from 1997 looks a bit lacking in detail by
> today's standards.
>
> > Having seen all the futuristic visions drawn of what a space
> > island interior would look like that artists have produced
> > since 1973, I wish the producers had bothered to spand some
> > time with them.
>
> I agree. That one, brief glimpse of the torus interior just wasn't
> enough. Babylon 5 also shied away from providing many views of that
> large, green, cylindrical interior. I guess there's something about
> attempts to visualize these curving environments (especially with
> people) that's considered very daunting to special effect artists,
for
> some obscure reason.
>
> > The virtual reality chat room fel to me almost a cheapening of
the
> film.
>
> If you've read my review, you know I agree.
>
> > Certainly I am quite dispointed with the ending since I do
> > not see the space islands as gateways to space further out
> > but as Man's Promised Land.
>
> Yes, for some reason there was a curious focus on colonizing
the "outer
> planets" (would that exclude Mars?). I'm not sure if that was the
> Japanese influence, or what.
>
> But at least they did depict the first habitat building the second.
> Anyone with a bit of savvy can realize that there's really nothing
to
> stop that accelerating process.
>
> > Just as I am quite diapointed with the them of That World
> > Cooperation can achieve this. Excuse me, since the nations
> > of the world have lost competativeness, they have ahieved
> > hardly anything when compared to the Leaps and Bounds
> > achieved during the Space Race between America and the
> > Soviet Union.
>
> Yes, the bit of narration you refer to sticks in my craw as well.
> Competition isn't bad, competition is good. It's petty squabbles
over
> religions and tribal distinctions which are bad for us.
>
> But we must remember that although this might be the slightly more
> intellectual corner of Hollywood we're talking about here, it's
still