YouTube: Tomek Bagiński’s AMBITION, starring Aidan Gillen (GAME OF THRONES) and Aisling Franciosi (THE FALL), plays a key part in supporting the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta mission (www.esa.int/rosetta).
The short film tells the story of one of the most important space exploration endeavours of this decade. Just as Gillen’s enigmatic Master encourages Franciosi’s Apprentice to seek out the key to life amidst a rugged alien landscape, ESA has been on a decade-long ambitious journey of its own, to unlock the mysteries of a comet and the origins of our Solar System with its Rosetta spacecraft, hundreds of millions of kilometres from Earth.
AMBITION complements the ongoing communication about Rosetta and adds a “human dimension” to the scientific and technological achievements of the mission, which include curiosity, drive and ambition.
Music by: Atanas Valkov. Free soundtrack available here:
https://soundcloud.com/atanasvalkov/sets/ambition-ost
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Retroboysays...I love mind-stretching stuff, but the purpose is a little confusing in this. The science in visiting a comet and discovering sand dunes is damned great. (reference: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/scientists-discover-that-comet-stinks-and-has-dunes-just-like-earth ) But this little film buries that in the equivalent of master/apprentice wizardry and magic.
Yeah, yeah, effects were superb, and per Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", and the story was meant to be noble. Got that.
But this still put me off a touch because it muddied the waters. Cool science is cool without CGI, and this went a bit too far down that lane.
PaybackNoble? All I saw is people fucking with a landscape for art. Haven't gotten much further than Christo and Jeanne-Claude in a couple hundred (thousand?) years...
Yeah, yeah, effects were superb, and per Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", and the story was meant to be noble.
newtboyWhile I agree that cool science is cool on it's own, many people are far less interested in science and more interested in flashy effects. I appreciated the novel approach to telling what could be a rather dry scientific story, and the fact that it likely introduced a large portion of the audience to the mission.
I love mind-stretching stuff, but the purpose is a little confusing in this. The science in visiting a comet and discovering sand dunes is damned great. (reference: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/scientists-discover-that-comet-stinks-and-has-dunes-just-like-earth ) But this little film buries that in the equivalent of master/apprentice wizardry and magic.
Yeah, yeah, effects were superb, and per Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", and the story was meant to be noble. Got that.
But this still put me off a touch because it muddied the waters. Cool science is cool without CGI, and this went a bit too far down that lane.
Retroboysays...This is a fair point. If what it takes is "The Last pAirBenders" to get kids interested in science and tear 'em away from the latest Call of Duty for five minutes, I can support that.
This being said, my own teenage daughter thought the pic of the dunes on the comet was very cool, even without someone using the Force to sculpt them, so it's not quite THAT dry.
I appreciated the novel approach to telling what could be a rather dry scientific story, and the fact that it likely introduced a large portion of the audience to the mission.
ChaosEngineWhat you don't realise is that this isn't the future.
It's Ireland in the past
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