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As Good As It Gets

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager1 and Voyager2. They traveled to the lesser-known outer planets and some of the moons orbiting them. The planets' rare alignment made it an opportune time. Carl Sagan is the driving force behind the golden record of earthly sounds which became the media focus.This is slightly better than most PBS hour long specials. It's actually 96 minutes and packs an emotional punch. The wide-eyed poetry of exploration is well presented. This is a lot things. It's an underdog story. It's a scientific documentary. It's an exploration thriller. It brings back all the great discoveries. This could be great for inspiring a high school science class.

Every year there's a new space documentary, I watch them cause I find the universe to be a damn scary place. All these documentaries are always full of joys and wonders and gazing upon the stars.. for me its just utter uncontrollable terror when thinking about the big picture. massive silent rotating planets 1000 times the sizes of earth spinning around in the cold space. And if there are life theres 99% likely they are like something really menacing like alien movies. cause IF there are other lifeforms they would have learn to adapt to even harsher enviroments and must be things that make lovecraft imagination nothing in comparison! Alien microbs may have the reverse effect and speed up growth in just a few seconds in contact with oxygen! ok enough bulls*** What makes me angry watching these docs are the human naive exploring part, instead of saving our own planet and give balance to everything that is destroyed, they waste billion of dollars on space travels for really no good reasons at all really. ok they find a planet that spews some kind of liquid. with that money they could have saved the rainforest, cleaned oup some oceans perhaps etc, nasa could have spent their time coming up with better inventions for energy etc. If we loose earth and make it unlivable it is really over. thats the simple fact. not the other way around, exploring mars and to believe that we could live there? Its just not in our bio structure to withstand that climate for long periods and depression and weakness in our bones would hit like a truck. how nice would that be? clean up earth instead. stop building cityscrapes over every surface available. and how amazing all these documentaries are, it really doesnt surve any purpose in the end knowing how beatiful saturn looks up close. Its just rich mega industries that persuing their own curiousness and the curiosity killed the cat.

We like to think we mean something here on our silly little planet. We inflate our importance with society, religion and politics looking down on some here and sucking up to others there. One day our Sun will explode or we will get hit buy a big rock or we will poison our atmosphere or blow ourselves to oblivion. And once we are gone the Universe won't care a damn. But 2 tiny little specks floating on the Galactic winds may well get the opportunity to tell whoever is out there that we once dreamed large and maybe were worthy of note.This utterly amazing 2 hours tells the story of Voyager. Two probes sent out to photograph and scan the outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and then carry on into whatever out there actually is. Voyager#1 and Voyager#2 and their little gold records may well be all that remains of our hubris of being chosen by gods for some great destiny.An incredible story of absolutely incredible people who started this dream in 1972 under Nixon and were able to see their creation, Voyager#1, become the first man made object to leave our Solar System in 2012. Voyager #2 will follow in the next few years. Luckily we had someone who had integrity and was articulate and intelligent to deliver the news in President Obama. Imagine the current infestation of that office being tasked with announcing this great achievement today. Me neither!As Voyager#1 was leaving the orbit of Neptune someone had the most incredible idea of turning it around and photographing the Solar System from nearly 11 Billion Miles from the Sun. It nearly never happened as there was no science in doing such a thing. Thankfully one of the greatest human beings we have ever had Carl Sagan managed to talk them around into taking what is without doubt the most incredible photo ever taken. I am glad he lived to see that as his Cosmos series was one of TV greatest ever. Worth seeing. Check it out.

This is a fascinating look at the incredible Voyager 1 and 2 journeys, and who would have have thought that 40 years on (it was launched 4 days after the death of Elvis), the two would be powering away, all lonely in outer space and beyond. All credit to the dedicated scientists who worked around the clock to get this thing working. We also learned much about the golden record on both Voyagers. We learn that the publicity about the golden record received, much to the consternation of the scientists, more attention than the tech aspects!! It was lovely seeing interviews with the people who provided the oral greetings, although funnily enough they sounded like Linus.We learned that Voyager 2 launched first, but Voyager 1 was faster and overtook Voyager 2. Also the press conference for the launch was held at Frank Wolfe's Beachside Motel, in a hotel room separated from a Polish wedding reception LOL!!But Voyager is in need for an update. So for Voyager 3 they should consider a new golden record. For instance they need a LGBTI next to the naked man and woman drawing. This will enthrall the aliens.Talking about aliens, the Voyager 3 golden record should include a speech from President Trump, who has a lot of thoughts about aliens. The golden record should also include every episode of the Kardashians, a complete video of the OJ Simpson murder trial, MTV's the Real World and Road Rules, climate change reports, health reports about the rate of obesity, the Alien DVD collection with a special message from Ridley Scott), the Predator DVD collection, an E.T. plush doll, the complete ALF DVD collection, the Space Invaders video game, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Criterion Collection DVD of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and The Martian DVD.Also the Voyager 3 golden record must include the Death Wish DVD collection (including the Bruce Willis reboot), and the complete series of Third Rock from the Sun.Also don't forget David Bowie's movie The Man Who Fell to Earth and his classic Space Oddity, and The Carpenter's Calling occupants of interplanetary craft.