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Related: About this forumAlien Planet "Full Documentary"
A "what if" documentary. Alien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV. It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also executive producer on the special. It premiered on May 14, 2005.
The show uses computer-generated imagery, which is interspersed with interviews from such notables as Stephen Hawking, George Lucas, Michio Kaku and Jack Horner. The show was filmed in Iceland and Mono Lake in California.
The CGI or computer animated drama/documentary takes place on Darwin IV, a planet 6.5 light years from earth, with 2 suns and 60% of Earth's gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world that could support life, Earth sends a pilot mission consisting of the Mothership Von Braun and three probes: Balboa, Da Vinci, and Newton. This robotic fleet is responsible for finding and assessing any life forms on Darwin IV.
Initially, the expectation is to find microscopic life, but the probes soon find themselves in the middle of a developed ecosystem teeming with diversity of life of all sizes. The drama on Darwin IV is motivated by real science missions, such as the NASA Origins Program and the NASA / JPL Planet-Finder Mission, as well as the European Space Agency's Darwin Project.
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Alien Planet "Full Documentary" (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Mar 2013
OP
Watched It A Few Months Ago - You Can Never Be Sure What's Sneaking Up On You.
TheMastersNemesis
Mar 2013
#4
The earth sat for most of it's life as a primordial soup prior to the Cambrian....
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#8
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)1. Thanks for posting this!!! n/t
saveferris
(92 posts)2. Great, GREAT documentary
Watch it all!
progressoid
(49,991 posts)3. Cool.
Will watch this later.
After tax time.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)6. me too! ;-)
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)4. Watched It A Few Months Ago - You Can Never Be Sure What's Sneaking Up On You.
Was very fascinating piece of sic fi that one day may be science fact.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)5. Sweet, need something to watch for the overnight. Thanks!
Amonester
(11,541 posts)7. Maybe the first two UFOs I saw could have been two probes
from another planet.
They looked like bright & sparkling snakes of light, at first, then muted themselves into long, moving needles of shining light.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)8. The earth sat for most of it's life as a primordial soup prior to the Cambrian....
We may find a lot of primordial soup worlds out there.