- A girl returns to Earth to live with her aunt and uncle after growing up on Mars. Future Soldiers board an unregistered space freighter. A man walks on the moon and a spacecraft turns around and snaps a photo of the Earth. How precious is life? Do we really know how amazing this place really is? Though the events of these characters happen decades apart their stories intertwine along these common threads as they reveal their secrets, hopes, fears and aspirations for the future.
- This film revolves around four stories. Two are historic events in history. The other two are hypothetical events in the medium to long term future. The first story follows astronomer Carl Sagan and his quest to convince NASA to point Voyager I's camera back to the Earth to take the now famous "Pale Blue Dot" photo. A photo illustrating how precious the Earth is compared to the vastness of the universe. While the photo itself may be famous, the infighting and debates at NASA to perform such a task are not so famous. The second historic story follows Neil Armstrong as he takes that historic first step on the Moon. While the moon landing itself was given much fanfare as news spread around the world, much less publicized was that of the uncertainty and risk placed on the Astronauts themselves. There were no guarantees that they would get to the moon, nor that they could return to Earth if their craft malfunctioned. Indeed, one only has to think of what may have gone through the Astronauts minds when they looked up at the Earth after their moonwalk was over and pondered whether these moments would be the last time they would gaze upon the Earth and everyone on it. Everyone. All life that we know of on one solitary tiny planet. The third story revolves around a girl who grew up on Mars in the not too distant future. With recent confirmation of perchlorates in the Martian soil and the exacerbation of their deadly effects on microbial life under Ultra-Violet light, the prospects of growing crops in the martian regolith is seen to be more and more challenging. For such a person to spend their whole life exposed to failure after failure of genetically modified crops to grow under martian conditions, returning to Earth and seeing the abundance of life could prove to be overwhelming, as could be their reactions to the way Earthlings treat life such as grass, plants, animals and even moldy bread with such disregard. To an earthling it is worthless garbage. To a martian it is the most amazingly precious thing they could imagine. Finally, the fourth story is set on a futuristic spaceship where a soldier's is thrust into a situation where he is instructed to take life in order to protect life. The scenario echoes terrorist threats we face in the present day. Is preemptive cleansing of such bad people justified to make society safer, even if their current threats are neutralized? Or must we stick to the high road and consider all life to be precious and all life should be protected?
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