Today, at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, I saw the Planetarium film “We Are Aliens”, directed by Max Crow, narrated by Rupert Grint (from the Harry Potter movies). This film used the entire ceiling, rather than half, as in Omnimax.
The film opens with an interesting animation of a Planet,
set up as a kind of spherical model railroad, with buildings, channels, and
trains. I had suggested a concept like that in my own novel manuscript “Tribunal
and Rapture” in 1988.
The film soon takes us to Mars, and shows some pretty good
scenery, especially a map of where the oceans once were. But the most interesting part is the visit
to Europa, moon of Jupiter. A robot dives
down a spectacular ice canyon, and then into the under-ice ocean, where we see
fumeroles and what look like colorful tube worms, and various other
smudges. There are also luminescent rotifer-like
creatures. (See "Europa Report", Aug 2,. 2013).
I'd like to have seen the surface of Titan (moon of Saturn) shown (and by they way, it has a subsurface ocean, too). Ganymede (satellite of Jupiter) also has such an ocean.
Then the film shows some extrasoloar planets, including a
hot Jupiter, a waterworld, and a furnace.
Finally it shows an odd habituated planet. It seems to be tidally locked. The
civilization, probably a satellite from a “master race” seems to be on the night
side of a warm planet, with a climate like South Florida at night, and with the
inhabited areas laid out in illuminated hexagons.
Finally, the film shows a possible galactic map of many
civilizations. Would they all have
Facebook?
The site for the film is here.
The video below from National Geographic, with Linda
Spilker, is similar
If in fact the meteorite that landed in Antarctica in 1996 came from Mars and has biological substances, maybe we are all Martians, just as we are all "black".
The museum has a big exhibit “Life Beyond Earth”.
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