A magician and his apprentice making planets, asteroids and comets.

[LongTomH]

From Io9:

With a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets, spinning them in orbit around a symbolic Sun. So begins Ambition, a short film made by Academy Award-nominated director Tomek Baginksi in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

Produced in Poland and shot on location in Iceland, the film was just screened during the British Film Institute's celebration of "Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder" in London.

At the heart of the film is the Rosetta comet mission, but the ESA says it's a larger tribute to how contemporary space exploration is crucial to searching for clues to our own origins.

Commenting on Ambition, Alastair Reynolds said, "As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe."

[bananas]

1. I just logged in to post that! nt

[bananas]

2. Here's "the making of ..."

[jtuck004]

3. Wow. That's a whole lot better than a note on a memo board. This thing lands in ~2 weeks.

What caught my attention was:

"shot on location" < 3. (Film) a place outside a studio where filming is done: shot on location. Not exactly, they just used Iceland as a set. I wondered when I read that, though it would have been very cool.

I like science fiction, but this is science and fantasy, and fantasy turns me off instantly. Some people like it very much, however, so this may be a good way to reach them with some history+. I think they were also trying to sell space work, but maybe one had to be there.

Thank you for that, however. It will generate some pre-landing talk. Memory of that had been replaced by other things

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Meanwhile, in the United States we have people saying women shouldn't be able to vote....

Because they are all a bunch of commies.