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Mars Underground tells the tale of a group of people – in this particular case – of scientists, that isn’t accepted by the mainstream decision-makers of their institutional (in this case, scientific) community. This is the story of the quest for Mars and of the plan’s forefather, Dr. Robert Zubrin. After the Apollo mission to the moon, it was clear to Zubrin that NASA works better if it is entrusted with a mission that has only one, clear, objective – as was the case when they had to master a plan to conquer the moon. Unfortunately for Zubrin, there are politics involved in the NASA budgeting and high position egos are also at stake. How will someone come up with the plan, then?
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Nicholas Cage and what is left of his hair depict a sigle parent professor of science with a gifted son and a passion for astronomy. This is a sience fiction movie around the topic of the end of the days for our planet earth and how a man knows about it, nobody listens to him and how he tries to stop destiny from ocurring. One day John Koestler, our professor, will stumble on a piece of paper filled with numbers he will try to decifer; and he does, getting from it, dates of terrible disasters world wide, the number of victims it will provoke and finally he will also know latitude and longitude for them = where. (more…)
Garbage Warrior is a fantastic documentary abou t the life project of an american architech in New Mexico, Michael Reynolds. After completing his formal studies he becomes aware that modern architecture does not build having in mind man neither his enviroment. This will make him, together with global warming and the need for sustainable housing, get into a journey of creating housing without the need of having any cooling, heating, running water. His houses will provide all these and more: even fruits and vegetables from the green houses he designs and buids. (more…)
The narrator, Werner Herzog, with a strong German accent (yes, the director of “Little Dieter needs to fly”), takes a trip to this isolate virgin scientists paradise and looks like he falls in love with it. During the stay he manages to interview the small number of special chosen individuals dwelling there: some members of the scientists community, other handymen, other computer specialists. An amazing voyage into the Antarctica, an amazing beautiful, quite, dangerous, place filled with secrets ready to be revealed to the curious mind. Sometimes this place reminds you of the images we have of the moon. Fauna, flora, rocks, volcano, microorganisms, all of them are observed and studied. Each of the persons that live has his own attractive story. A trip into the unknown, I hope human predetermination does not disturb the true hiding behind all the special phenomena present in this awesome piece of our globe. It is amazing how after the great effort human put into exterminating all living creatures in this part of the world such as the seals, the latter don’t hold a grudge and collaborate. Score: 6.