“Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.” WorldDoeStoriesLightMightLawUniverseBlackSimpleSpaceProductsProfoundHolesFasterCodeShelvesChipsBlack HoleWormholes Author:Jon Spaihts
“Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.” DifficultSpaceZeroGravitySpacecraftZero Gravity Author:Jon Spaihts
“Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.” WorldRealSpaceZeroGravityZero GravitySpace Movie Author:Jon Spaihts
“Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a learning curve. Some of it is about raising audience literacy to the point where they understand that.” RealHardSpaceAudienceStrangeExpensiveLiteracyMechanicCurvesLearning Curve Author:Jon Spaihts
“Now with the international space station generating a bunch of video, and Space X and other companies pursuing private space flight, I think it's on all of our radars much more than it has been since the moonshots. The science of filmmaking is making these visions possible now.” ThinkingHas BeensSpaceCompanyVisionInternationalVideoBunchFlightStationsFilmmakingRadarSpace FlightInternational Space Station Author:Jon Spaihts
“The reality of space travel I think is somewhere in the middle. We will get there, it will be hard, it will take a long time, and in the end, the most extraordinary thing we will find when we get there will be ourselves.” ThinkingLongEndsHardRealitySpaceMiddleLong TimeExtraordinarySpace TravelExtraordinary Things Author:Jon Spaihts
“I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.” IfsThinkingWorldSpaceDangerPromiseAssumingLifetimeDescendantsSpace Travel Author:Jon Spaihts
“The more you learn about the real vastness of space and the real challenges of space travel, the more completely you appreciate the necessity of taking very good care of this world and being good stewards of it.” WorldRealCareChallengesSpaceThis WorldAppreciateVery GoodBe GoodSpace TravelVastnessStewardsVastness Of Space Author:Jon Spaihts
