Man Conquers Space (filim in production)

[Mysterion]

You GOTTA watch these. I mean you HAVE TO WATCH THESE! Turn the sound up and/or get your headphones on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkl1OvNvEc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr7GtaU3v5I&feature=related

Their web-site is here: http://manconquersspace.com/MCSEnter.html

These folks have done some really amazing work, IMO. I hope they can get this finished and released at some point.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I've been following this for years and yeah, it is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. The CG work is remarkable.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wow, that looks remarkable. I wonder if it's going to be presented as a documentary, or if there will be a specific story. It would be a great setting for a franchise-- RetroRocketPunk.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

This is incredible.

 

[RAMA]

Neat. Coming soon...argh

RAMA

 

[Kai "the spy"]

From what I've seen, this is quite intriguing. I hope they get it done in the not so distant future.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They sure know how to edit a trailer together!

But instead of "it could have been," the tagline should be, "it could still be." Don't want to end on a downer note (that is, if they're serious about the validity of their alt-history storyline). Honestly, what's a decade or two behind schedule in the grand scheme of things?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'm sure that will be helpful to them.

 

[Klaus]

It looks awesome. Non-sf fans don't understand why some of us are so frakking impatient... this could be a way to get it across to them.

It's two-thousand-god-damned-eleven and there's no one on the Moon, no one in geosynch, no space vacations, no Mars mission... WTF??? If you'd told me it would end up this way when I was watching Apollo launches in elementary school I'd have jumped out the frakking window.

 

[WillsBabe]

If you'd told me it would end up this way when I was watching Apollo launches in elementary school I'd have jumped out the frakking window.

I can relate. I'm not sure when, maybe 5-6 years ago I suddenly looked around at the space exploration situation and realised why I'd lost interested years previously. All that promise, imagination and potential I'd seen as a child seemed to have come to a screaming halt. For years I'd be interested in space flight, travel and exploration. Then about 10 years ago I realised I'd started treating it with contempt and derison. Anyway I could rant for ages. Suffice to say. This looks awesome!

 

[RJDiogenes]

From what I've seen, this is quite intriguing. I hope they get it done in the not so distant future.

Or maybe in the alternate past.

It's two-thousand-god-damned-eleven and there's no one on the Moon, no one in geosynch, no space vacations, no Mars mission... WTF??? If you'd told me it would end up this way when I was watching Apollo launches in elementary school I'd have jumped out the frakking window.

Same here. It seemed like we were on the verge of a whole new world and then-- fizzle.

 

[Warped9]

Several months ago I picked up a book called the Spaceship Handbook. This looks like many of the designs in that book have been put up on the screen. Awesome.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

From what I've seen, this is quite intriguing. I hope they get it done in the not so distant future.

Or maybe in the alternate past.

What would we get from that? Oh, wait, they could do a movie about it!

 

[Forbin]

I want to live in that alternate reality!

 

[WillsBabe]

I want to live in that alternate reality!

Maybe someone's working on a site about the poxy state of space exploration in their alternte reality!

 

[Forbin]

Several months ago I picked up a book called the Spaceship Handbook. This looks like many of the designs in that book have been put up on the screen. Awesome.

Tthe Spacebook Handbook presents new scale drawings of spaceships that were designed decades ago for film or TV, and actual spaceship designs from the 40, 50s and 60s..

The ships in the film are designs that were actually proposed by scientists like Ley and Von Braun in the 1940s and 50s for a real space program.

So no, the ships in the movie aren't from the book, rather the ships in the book and the movie are both from the same original sources.

 

[Warped9]

^^ Yep, I got that. I just worded it badly.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

The ships in the film are designs that were actually proposed by scientists like Ley and Von Braun in the 1940s and 50s for a real space program.

Actually, they were for a series of six articles in Collier's magazine, beginning in 1952, illustrated by the legendary Chesley Bonestell.

Man Will Conquer Space Soon! - Wikipedia
Collier's space program
A Bonestell Tribute

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Books and magazines like this were the "space program" I grew up with in early childhood; it was what I expected things to look like and how they would develop. I can't tell you how thrilling it is on a primitive level to see this stuff brought to life. Let them do it exactly as they please, please.

This is also why I'm enthusiastic about the current evolution of low and no-budget skiffy films like fan films - the potential for idiosyncratic imagination to find expression and be sustained by the enthusiasm of a niche audience because hundreds of millions of corporate dollars don't depend upon enticing the absolute hugest number of ticket-buyers and viewers is a worthwhile trade-off for the lengths of time, physical limits and uncertainty of completion and distribution that are currently part of the subculture.

Of course, I also grew up in an environment where it didn't bother us much that effects and sets might be low-budget and improvised, because that was most of what we were used to on those fronts.

Man Conquers Space has grown in scope over the years that these folks have been working on it - it was originally more of a "garage project" than it seems to have become, and here's hoping that they achieve everything they're aiming for.

Hopefully as they gain more experience and confidence more fans will choose to try to make original projects like Man Conquers Space rather than Star Trek or Star Wars projects..

 

[RAMA]

If you'd told me it would end up this way when I was watching Apollo launches in elementary school I'd have jumped out the frakking window.

I can relate. I'm not sure when, maybe 5-6 years ago I suddenly looked around at the space exploration situation and realised why I'd lost interested years previously. All that promise, imagination and potential I'd seen as a child seemed to have come to a screaming halt. For years I'd be interested in space flight, travel and exploration. Then about 10 years ago I realised I'd started treating it with contempt and derison. Anyway I could rant for ages. Suffice to say. This looks awesome!

Well let's not give up on the space exploration issue. There's more than one way to to get into space, the lack of heavy lift government vehicles and the space shuttle doesn't mean there won't be any...

http://www.spacex.com/falcon_heavy.php

It may not be in my lifetime, but eventually we WILL be forced into space.