Moon - The Movie

[Radar]

Just finished watching Moon on my projector screen. The special effects were great on the big screen.

At first I thought I knew what was going on, but there was a good twist.

Movie is about mining Helium 3 from the moons surface. For those of you that didn't pay attention to Discovery Channel or your science teacher, Helium 3 is the super fuel of the future -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3


According to the US Energy Information Administration, "Electricity consumption by 107 million U.S. households in 2001 totaled 1,140 billion kW·h" (1.14x1015 W·h). Again assuming 100% conversion efficiency, 6.7 tons of helium-3 would be required just for that segment of one country's energy demand, 15 to 20 tons given a more realistic end-to-end conversion efficiency.[citation needed]

6.7 tonnes to power America for one year, and it is clean energy. Not to shabby. :crazy:

Ray

[trevorw]

Watched it last night

good FX

unfortunately so predictable

[GS-Rob]

Loved "Kevin Spacey" as the robot
by the way very COOL robot able to move around with a mean arm!
100% improvment over "HAL"
controlled voice very similar
& Radar definately great on 90" screen !wow!
Oh! Trevorw nothing predictable
we had a feirce debate @ our place over reds as to why humans were being farmed for this project
outcome = C H E A P E R than sending ships up and down

Loved it! as would IMO - Asimov, Sagan, Roddenberry, Clarke

[Radar]

we had a feirce debate @ our place over reds as to why humans were being farmed for this project
outcome = C H E A P E R than sending ships up and down

Yes, also cheaper than paying someone to actually do it.

Also I was thinking that living on the moon for three year stints was giving them some kind of radiation sickness. He was hallucinating at first, I figured this was some kind of space sickness.

Ray

[trevorw]

When you've been an avid sci-fi reader and watcher for nearly 50 years it was predictable IMO

Robot reminiscent of robots from "Silent Running"

read "the Moon is a harsh Mistress"

cloning nothing new

[AstroBob]

I must admit I didn't get the clone part for ages. :frown:

Bob

[bubble64]

I saw the film last night - great acting from Sam Rockwell. Radar, I reckon that the reason he was getting so sick after three years is because that is how long the clones were programmed to live..... maybe!

[jesalbond]

An interesting movie. It is good and I am really glad more and more movies are coming out like this. In fact, the best movie of 2009 so far. First we had "The Fountain" and then we had the amazing "Sunshine." Though this is not as good as either of these it is still a step up from the crappy space sci fi we usually are served with.
Moon is funny, interesting, and enjoyable. It is amazing what they did with the budget that they had. Sam Rockwell took a chance and I think it pays off well. Though I am not a fan of him, he does show that he is a good actor...and very funny.

[Radar]

I've never heard of the fountain before. I'll have a google.

Welcome to the site.

Ray

[Mick]

Don't know how I missed The Fountain it looks good! Sunshine was awesome. "Moon" like swatting flies for me, I loved it...:smile: