'Cosmic Voyage' and 'Journey of Man'
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daTwo library dvds, which I took out mid-week and forgot to review: Nova's 'Cosmic Voyage' and Cirque du Soleil's 'Journey of Man'.
'Cosmic Voyage' was super. It's a visual journey that starts from human-scale, and gradually zooms outward 22 powers of ten to the size of the known universe. There were nifty bits going from Milky Way scale to the local supercluster of galaxies. I've never seen that animated before. Then it rewinds time to show the Big Bang; then forward again 10+ billion years later, it zooms in 43 powers of ten to the scale of subatomic particles. With detours showing colliding galaxies, the developmnent of the Earth 5b years ago, and what it might look like as particles collide in a synchrotron. Very visual, and the right length for this, about 45 minutes. I'd have paid to see this on IMAX.
'Journey of Man'... sucked. Imagine Cirque du Soleil with a pair of Jar-Jar Binks characters, and a sanctimonious plot that goes thud. There were a few neat images: acrobats wearing streamy tassles and spinning in midair; and a muscular dude in tights spinning a big hollow cube. That was about it for me. I folded the laundry that I didn't fold while I was entranced by 'Cosmic Voyage.' :)
'Cosmic Voyage' was super. It's a visual journey that starts from human-scale, and gradually zooms outward 22 powers of ten to the size of the known universe. There were nifty bits going from Milky Way scale to the local supercluster of galaxies. I've never seen that animated before. Then it rewinds time to show the Big Bang; then forward again 10+ billion years later, it zooms in 43 powers of ten to the scale of subatomic particles. With detours showing colliding galaxies, the developmnent of the Earth 5b years ago, and what it might look like as particles collide in a synchrotron. Very visual, and the right length for this, about 45 minutes. I'd have paid to see this on IMAX.
'Journey of Man'... sucked. Imagine Cirque du Soleil with a pair of Jar-Jar Binks characters, and a sanctimonious plot that goes thud. There were a few neat images: acrobats wearing streamy tassles and spinning in midair; and a muscular dude in tights spinning a big hollow cube. That was about it for me. I folded the laundry that I didn't fold while I was entranced by 'Cosmic Voyage.' :)
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