Ad Astara -

I went to see the movie Ad Astra. I found it realistic and balanced for the post Star Trek generation.

Maybe we are all we have in the universe.
Maybe we are not doing the best to leave families to live out the rest of our lives in deep space peering for other civilizations.

Maybe we ought to learn to live with one another on the one planet where we KNOW there is intelligent life - earth.

I think Ad Astra was the first Sci-Fi space movie tackling realism of the possibility that human kind is unique in the universe. Someone needed to explore that end of the spectrum - the opposite of 2001 a Space Odyssey or The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Voice your opinion if you saw this film and feel something about it.

@sonship said
I went to see the movie Ad Astra. I found it realistic and balanced for the post Star Trek generation.

Maybe we are all we have in the universe.
Maybe we are not doing the best to leave families to live out the rest of our lives in deep space peering for other civilizations.

Maybe we ought to learn to live with one another on the one planet where we KNOW there i ...[text shortened]... The Earth Stood Still[/b].

Voice your opinion if you saw this film and feel something about it.

Interesting.

Any other reactions, people?

(Hey Divegeester, If I had said that the movie was LOUSY, would you have disagreed on general principle? I wonder. )

One of these days I'm going to test you.

@sonship said


(Hey Divegeester, If I had said that the movie was LOUSY, would you have disagreed on general principle? I wonder. )
One of these days I'm going to test you.

@divegeester

I always try to post with unswerving direct honesty, so test away.

I see the movie, which I've not heard of before, is getting poor reviews. Sci-fi movies that get poor reviews can be either really bad or really good. So, I'll see it someday.

@sonship said
I went to see the movie Ad Astra. I found it realistic and balanced for the post Star Trek generation.

Maybe we are all we have in the universe.

The speed of light and the way space is filled with a diffuse plasma precludes us from making contact with any intelligent life out there, at least for the time being. The solar system is relatively unusual, Earth is the largest terrestrial planet, in most systems there's a super-Earth. Everything orbits in almost a circle apart from comets and the gas giants are nice and far away. This is not the case in most exo-solar systems. I don't think it is likely that we're the only ones in the entire observable universe, but I do think it's likely we're rare. To the extent that we could be the only extant technological species in the galaxy.

I read a science fiction short story where they're traveling around the galaxy to find extra-terrestrial life. There was no hyperspace in this story they did it all at less than light speed. The protagonists meet a species who breath chlorine. They exchanged tissue samples and worked out that both parties were distant descendants of Earth. So they looked at Andromeda as the next stage in the search for anyone else out there. Sorry, this is from 30 years ago and I haven't a hope of remembering the name of the story, or who it was by.

@deepthought said
The speed of light and the way space is filled with a diffuse plasma precludes us from making contact with any intelligent life out there, at least for the time being. The solar system is relatively unusual, Earth is the largest terrestrial planet, in most systems there's a super-Earth. Everything orbits in almost a circle apart from comets and the gas giants are nice a ...[text shortened]... ely we're rare. To the extent that we could be the only extant technological species in the galaxy.

@divegeester said
I always try to post with unswerving direct honesty, so test away.

@soothfast said
If a gas giant were in the Goldilocks zone of a Type G or K star, say, there might still be possibilities for life if the gas giant has one or more large moons. Maybe?

@Soothfast

Interesting. Thanks.

I don't know much about reviews. But dazzling special effects are what a lot of people expect. This movie had special effects but the social commentary I thought was more powerful.

They had exploited the sense of dedication to the mission to produce those who were able to sacrifice their family ties. In the end, the main character regards his wife and family to be more important.

They sent the son to find the father out near Neptune in order to kill the father. The family tie was being exploited only to locate the father of the hero. The hero on the other hand had had enough of not seeing his dad. He figured out that he was being used this way.

There had been a mutiny on the father's ship because some of the astronauts could no longer stand it to be away from home - earth.

Now I thought that this was the stuff of realism. Sorry.

Also the frailness and incompetency of some of the scientists came through somewhat more realistically of reality. Not everybody was so eager to jump out in harm's way like Buck Rogers or Luke Skywalker of past sagas.

We all know you have to be a special breed to be an astronaut. I think this was something of a comment like the British film about the specially bred perfect people who alone could go to space ?

This film showed that not all of them were so perfectly fit and competent for the job.

He told his dad that it was time for him to come home. His dad refused and would rather die out there around Neptune. He said he had infinite work to do - to locate another alien intelligence.

Father to the son - "Dad, its time to come home back to earth, back to the family that lost you and to those who love you. You were a great trailblazing searcher of the stars. A hero to science. You're old now and need to come home to us back to Earth."

Now, I'm sorry but this commentary was more realistic to me then the typical space saga. A little return back to sanity. We only are sure that we have each other - human beings - loved ones - family.

Somebody has to say these things to to the upcoming 21rst Century generation. Pioneers are great. But even in westward expansion in the American continent there were some tragedies of isolation, starvation, freezing, even cannibalism and virtual abandonment which served as lessons to historians.

The director of Gravity also did this film? The space generations come of age just a little bit.

@sonship said
@divegeester

I always try to post with unswerving direct honesty, so test away.

With that kind of confident self advertisement, I think I should save my testing for something of more importance.

@philokalia said
Question... Are you HONESTLY not interested in the hell passages of the New testament and what they mean? Because you have stated that you weren't interested in the topic before in spite of how much this actually tends to dominate the forum here.