Don’t be turned off by the surface similarities to 2001. If anything, this is a deeper meditation on the central twist of The Prestige. Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, a space laborer who is the only employee monitoring a set of mining devices on the dark side of the moon. In this future, almost all our energy needs are harvested somehow from solar energy stored in moon dust. Yeah, I don’t get it either. You also have to look past the illogical choice behind having only one employee doing critical work for a global company, arguably the richest and most important in the world if it’s truly providing 70% of mankind’s energy needs. However, while the underlying logic of the premise is too flimsy to be cosidered serious sci-fi, the setup does allow for an interesting meditation on self-love to unfold. Rockwell is fantastic. Kevin Spacey provides a suitably robotic voice for the inevitable robot assistant. The special effects are quite good. Anything else would be giving away too much. Recommended if you are good at watching this kind of movie without sitting around trying to guess the twist the whole time.
Feb
23/10
23/10
Moon
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The far side of the moon receives just as much sunlight as the near side!
http://www.mythbusters.com/eight-myths-about-the-moon-part-ii.html
Actually Tom, the far side of the moon receives slightly more sunlight as it is never subject to a terrestrial eclipse.
The near side however is more luminous due to the sunlight reflected back from the earth.
Wolfram, that’s very interesting, but what I find more interesting is the fact that you have a small penis.
You’re interested in my small penis? Weirdo.
You two should have a podcast.
Okay, I’m editing the entry, but I’m still not sure how moon dust is trapping solar energy so efficiently.