“Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.” Quote by Jon Spaihts
“An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.” IfsLooksImpossibleWingsPhysicsFighterAirplane 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 world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.” WorldMayDevelopmentShocking 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 mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.” MeanStarsSceneEnlightenmentSalvationWiserWisestBeyond The Stars Author:Jon Spaihts
“Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.” WorldChoicesChallengesRight Choices 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
“You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.” PeopleIfsFire Author:Rachel Platten