Today marks the launch of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", a remake from the 1951 film entitled the same. While science fiction fans will be flocking en masse to the theatres today, the film may also have another type of audience, an audience that is extra-terrestrial."The Day the Earth Stood Still" will be the first film intentionally 'beamed' into space, according to 20th Century Fox, making it the first galactic motion picture release in history. The film will be launched via the Deep Space Communications Network at Cape Canaveral. It will be broadcasted through space at 186,000 miles per second to Alpha Centauri, a three star system.
It may be awhile before we receive any movie reviews from any potential viewers in Alpha Centauri as roundtrip communication will take approximately 8+ years.
While the movie travels to Alpha Centauri it may be intercepted and viewed at several possible locations:
(Location and signal travel time)
Moon: 1.1991888 seconds
Sun: 8.41536 minutes
Mercury: 4.99662 minutes
Venus: 2.5035696 minutes
Mars: 3.997296 minutes
Jupiter: 35.028936 minutes
Saturn: 1.18341 hours
Uranus: 2.49831 hours
Neptune: 4.03236 hours
Pluto: 5.4200178 hours
Surely this move redefines the term "in theatres everywhere".
Agreed.
Scirwode
"The MPAA has filed a lawsuit against the Solar System for unauthorized viewing of copyrighted material, in a comprimise, the MPAA will wait 3 billion years for the simple organisms in the galaxy to evolve, after which they will be hit with a bill of $3,000,000,000".
I bet they're setting up an inter-galactic department right now.
This is the worst film I've seen at the cinema all year
I don't think the Aliens will be keen on all the blatant product placement throughout.
Sounds like it's only a 3-star movie to me
Am I the only one that sees something very, very wrong about this?
The 1936 Olympics weren't broadcasted into space, it was just the first event to be broadcasted live on TV in history.
I didn't say it was broadcast into space
As the aliens are looking for life they recive a broadcast showing humans being raped because of how bad they are, no need to meet us, just send the war ships instead of the peace ships lol. We should start broadcasting movies where we attack aliens, even peacfull ones.
Either it's just a ****ty marketing campaign or they're intentionally inviting anything living that's out there to come **** us up...
LOL what about, "Now showing in a theatre near you!"?
I think this is all part of an elaborate plot to ensure that extra-terrestrial life can be kept in check. You see, the movie gets transmitted into space, aliens more than likely record the transmission, and at that point, the MPAA has them by the balls. Everyone in the universe probably knows by now how evil and vile the MPAA is, so the aliens will be frightened into submission. Humanity rules the known universe through BS thuggish legal practices.
Very, very clever...
Meet the Spartans
the 1st Incredible Hulk Movie
and...
Anything with Tom Green in it
This will definitely save the planet from alien invasions...
also beam a picture of my neighbor picking up a load from his german shepard looking at him sideways
soon(relative) we get some space ships proceeding planetary bombardment just for sure to avoid us ever getting into space ...
Saw it today, and it was really bad. Waste of money. Thankfully the martians will only get one showing of it =/ unless its being looped. Oh nooo... were going to put ideas into the aliens heads now
David
#1 This surely falls under some intergalactic geno-type-discrimination law. That being if you happen to live on Earth, you have to pay to view, however all those other races out there can watch for free. Double standards on the whole piracy issue anyone?
#2 Assuming any of the races out there have the technology to view this movie and they can find the appropriate propriatry codec, doesn't the underlying truth shout "Hey us Earthlings are genophobic scumbags, whether you're friend or foe, fly your spaceship anywhere near us and we'll experiment the hell out of you. Once we're done we'll then act really really surprised that this has ****ed you off and you're gonna bring you're frickin lazer beam down on our collective a**es."?
Nice move!
Oh and I don't think its the first in history. All that snow you see when you're not getting good reception, thats the remake of the Alpha Centauri classic "Lets just be friends, hmmmkay?".
With the current technology we are able to transmit to Pluto (with a lot of interference) but not any farther. The distance to Pluto is 0.000625 light years and Proxima Centauri is 5 light years (+/-).
We will need a 35 million kilometer parabolic antennae to transmit a signal able to reach to the nearest star, or you could say, to build a Quasar.
Last edited by Magallanes on 15 Dec 2008 - 12:52
Now THAT would be a message.
1st thought in alien mind after watching the movie... strike them before they have the ability to strike us.
2st thought in alien mind... Oh look new source of cheap labor!
"Right, call off the earth mission - it is clear that there is no intelligent life to be found there....."
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