This week is just full of interesting news.
Copies of the Firefly series DVDs, as well as a DVD of Serenity, are headed up to the International Space Station to start a permanent movie collection. The shuttle carrying replacement parts, sundries, and crew is set to launch tomorrow evening (7:35 PM Eastern time). Check out the countdown clock NASA has, read news, and soon, see photos.
You gotta love that the first pirated HD DVD is the one about space pirates who broadcast a video that the government wants to keep secret. reavers_ate_my_dvd
And further news: CBS may be bringing back Jericho as a mid-season replacement. Apparently, the fans sent 50K lbs of nuts to the studio (where, supposedly, they’d have some company in the CBS execs…aherm). This may have been one of the factors that convinced them, oh, yeah, there’s actually some interest in the show out there. I haven’t been able to find anything definitive on the web, just speculation; but hell…seven episodes is better than a TV movie in that there’s more time to properly finish up the various stories. (After reading how the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Rita, and the lackluster government response, sparked ideas for the show, I’d love to find out how the writers resolve the situation they’ve set up. I seriously doubt that they’ll just suddenly have the military and FEMA roll in and start handing out care packages. They don’t strike me as such inelegant storytellers as to use such an obvious [and obviously unrealistic] out.)
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It makes you wonder who is it who’s job it is to decide which movies make it into the Official Space Station DVD Collection.
In this case, one of the crew members (a fellow fan of the show) is taking it up as part of their personal weight allowance, and leaving it there. It’s been in the planning stages for over a year.
The astronauts get streamed movies/videos/shows, and have for some time; but those files are available for about 10 days only.