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MemberOvomorphApr-29-2012 11:20 PMI found this great report including 10 minutes of footage, which is also very frightening at the same time. Combining it with the article about Cameron's voyages makes you wonder how much of what we see in today's Sci-Fi movies has sprung from film maker's imagination or foresight? For how much longer will it remain Science Fiction?
"Through innovation and technology, California think tank Singularity University aims to push the frontiers of progress. But what happens when high-tech advances end up in the wrong hands? Economics correspondent Paul Solman raises some disturbing questions as part of his ongoing reporting series, Making Sense of Financial News."
[url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june12/makingsense_04-26.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=pbs]The Downside of Innovation: Personalized Bioterror, Downloadable Gun Parts[/url]
"A mysterious company named [url=http://www.planetaryresources.com/]Planetary Resources Inc.[/url] issued a statement this week, that they intend to develop a method to extract precious metals and minerals from asteroids. The Washington based company, has currently 20 employees. On their website, which could easily be mistaken as part of the Prometheus viral campaign, they boldly state that they intend to: [i]'...revolutionize current space exploration and help ensure humanity's prosperity for generations to come'[/i]"
[url=http://www.alienprequelnews.com/2012/04/is-this-real-life-weyland-industries.html]The real life Weyland Industries or 'Cameron's Voyage into Space'[/url]
I hope you'll enjoy reading those articles. Please share your thoughts. Thanks
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Co-AdminMemberOvomorphApr-29-2012 11:40 PMI know, for myself, that there is potential beyond compare of ideas within the world of science fiction. It's not going to die any time soon, I promise. As long as imagination and science each exist, they will outrun each other respectively.
ie: once upon a time it was science fiction that humans might someday walk on the moon... now it's history... factual information... maybe someday soon faster-than-light travel might become such historical fact.
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MemberOvomorphApr-29-2012 11:58 PM@Freezer: I totally agree with you there. The driving force of mankind to improve and enhance its technological environment is inevitable. It has started with our ability to harness fire and is proven to be unstoppable, even if it will go too far and mean our destruction. We just have to adjust, keep up and learn to live with it.
However, when connecting Greek mythology with this movie, there's always a point where I get slightly stuck: Unless we completely disregard evolution and geology, then fire wasn't 'given' to us. We were at most given the ablility to harness it, as it has been here millions of years before us.
So it's that spark of intelligence, which is the 'fire from the gods'.
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MemberOvomorphApr-30-2012 4:46 AMIn a literal sense the movie will be nothing like the future but that isn't to say it doesn't have some great ideas of what types of technologies we might see in the future.
I honestly can't see us harnessing the type of artificial gravity simulated in the movie given the time frame it takes place in. Even if we did manage to pull off such a task we'd certainly see it being used in more things than just keeping your feet planted on the planar surface of the space craft. Such technology would allow you to walk on walls or ceilings and it could minimize the use of fork lifts, wheels, and even entire elevators.
Many science fiction stories use plausible technology but they rarely use it at it's fullest potential. The example I gave above is merely one out of probably hundreds of fictional technologies shown in Prometheus, if we looked at each one and expanded their potential I think the future setting we see in the movie would be vastly different and it would ultimately cease being the same film.
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