Interstellar Prescreening
brought to you by Lockheed Martin and the Sentinel Mission.
A wonderful IMAX evening, and let me just say, without spoiling any of the story line pre-release, that the movie message of “STAY” is the perfect setup for the Sentinel Mission.
The movie itself sprinkled so many 2001 Space Odyssey allusions that it makes my head spin. Perhaps it’s inevitable with a long movie that ends with a trippy sunsplashed jaunt of awe and wonder, but the soundtrack remix, obelisk bot, docking to spinning station, and gas-giant flyby (swap Saturn for Jupiter) drove the point home. But it continued right on to the cover image from Arthur C Clarke’s subsequent novel Rendezvous with Rama.
The opening previews were the “Trial by Fire” promo for the Orion capsule http://bit.ly/1pMQUkx and the “B612 Impact Video” on how the nuclear test ban treaty sensors have detected 26 explosions over the past 13 years, ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, and all of them from outer space: http://vimeo.com/92478179
http://sentinelmission.org will enable us to defend Earth from catastrophic impacts by detecting the possible threats and modeling their trajectories for the next 50-100 years, allowing plenty of time for deflection of dangerous paths.
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