According to Wikipedia:

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both.

Do you know any hard science fiction films?

What if there was a hard science fiction film about SETI@home-like project? Would you watch it? How much technical details would you like to see?

Would it be good for SETI/SETI@home/science? Would it attract new minds to SETI?

Where to get technical advisors, if one is writing a script? Maybe here? :)

Is it possible to use SETI@home's graphics and adjust some of the texts for the film? Maybe the legendary "Computing Fast Fourier Transform" could be "Computing Karhunen - Loève Transform" in the film. :)

Sure we like films especially science fiction that is based on real staff, We watch star wars like crazy always debating whats true and whats fiction.I even think personally that films like star wars ,star gate are actually influencing many young physists and cosmologists. Films are powerfull staff and i guess if seti@home had a nice script and turned it into a best seller ,it could be a turning point for the whole project as we know it.Brilliant thinking !.

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We choose to go to the moon and to do other things, we choose to go to the moon not because its easy but because its hard. kennedy

Hard science like Contact or Independence day where alien signals were recieved. Or are you looking for some other form of hard science movies

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Hard science like Contact or Independence day where alien signals were recieved. Or are you looking for some other form of hard science movies

I don't know is there a single one sci-fi film which can be considered as a hard science fiction. There are some inaccuracies in every movie.

Hard science like Contact or Independence day where alien signals were recieved. Or are you looking for some other form of hard science movies

Please do not have Contact and Independence day in the same sentence again.
Thankyou :-)

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Hard science like Contact or Independence day where alien signals were recieved. Or are you looking for some other form of hard science movies

Please do not have Contact and Independence day in the same sentence again.
Thankyou :-)

ROFL!

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How about 2001 A Space Odyssey and two other favorites, Alien & Aliens.

It's hard to say from the early 21st Century what might be "real" science or just fiction. What would Isaac Newton or Galileo think of today's common science, like airplanes or microwave ovens?

Martin

Sure we like films especially science fiction that is based on real staff, We watch star wars like crazy always debating whats true and whats fiction.I even think personally that films like star wars ,star gate are actually influencing many young physists and cosmologists. Films are powerfull staff and i guess if seti@home had a nice script and turned it into a best seller ,it could be a turning point for the whole project as we know it.Brilliant thinking !.

Thanks for your views!

Hard science like Contact or Independence day where alien signals were recieved. Or are you looking for some other form of hard science movies

Yes, Contact was somewhat realistic. Well, except the headphone part and the rapid construction of the worm hole machine. I am also not so sure if it is that easy to decode an alien tv transmission.

2001: A Space Odyssey was also quite realistic.

According to Wikipedia:

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both.

Do you know any hard science fiction films?

What if there was a hard science fiction film about SETI@home-like project? Would you watch it? How much technical details would you like to see?

Would it be good for SETI/SETI@home/science? Would it attract new minds to SETI?

Where to get technical advisors, if one is writing a script? Maybe here? :)

Is it possible to use SETI@home's graphics and adjust some of the texts for the film? Maybe the legendary "Computing Fast Fourier Transform" could be "Computing Karhunen - Loève Transform" in the film. :)

In "Contact" the movie, the story was very similar to what SETI@home does, except without the volunteers. It was made shortly before the SETI@home project started.

Are you thinking of making a movie or writing a script? Are you involved in the industry? Are you Henri from finland who used to be on my team?

John.

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In "Contact" the movie, the story was very similar to what SETI@home does, except without the volunteers. It was made shortly before the SETI@home project started.

Yes, it definitely had some similar stuff.

Are you thinking of making a movie or writing a script? Are you involved in the industry? Are you Henri from finland who used to be on my team?

Yes, I am the Henri. Sorry quitting your team; I am changing them every now and then.

Yes, I have some plans at the moment; let's see, if I can carry out them someday...

Hard science like Contact or Independence day where alien signals were recieved. Or are you looking for some other form of hard science movies

I don't know is there a single one sci-fi film which can be considered as a hard science fiction. There are some inaccuracies in every movie.

And reality doesn't come with innaccuracies

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Films like Alien, Stargate and Star Wars, along with games such as Star Craft have without a doubt affected me :). That and all the Sci Fi books I got from my uncle, and not any sci fi books, a lot of good ones be recognized authors, some of whitch are professors in math and/or physics.

That set the basis for me wanting to know more about space, and also spakred an interest in if there is an ET out there. I guess it also influenced my education in some way since I now got a masters degree in space technology :P.

So yeah, movies, games and even books (also uncles who like sci fi) are powerful mediums to form young minds and spark interest in science and search for ET.

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As a bit more serious, I think we should send an answer signal if one is ever dedtected. The reason is that if the common consensus say 'No', there the is bound to be a mino groupe that does anyway. Its better we are all aware of what we send IMO.

As for what to send? Not that we got guns, a loose threat is never a good way to start relations with another species. If they are advanced enough to reciove signals, they surly can manage to take care fo tehm self with their own weapons if needed ;). And they are likly going to be an older race then us, since making contact with a young race as ourself is highly unlikly. And we would just come off as "chlidish" to put it like that.

We need to send a neutral greeting, maby telling them a bit who we are, and some basics about our culture. We are: Male and Female, both equal but yet different, tell tehm that we are a gropu of many different nations and cultures, but yet one race. Cause for all we know they might be united as a species, humanity sure is not, and they might get mixed signals. And explanation of that is in order.

But there are so many good responses made already that I hardly can think of any decent new ones ;)

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Is it possible to use SETI@home graphics (slightly modified) and SETI@home URL on film without permission?

Is it possible to use SETI@home graphics (slightly modified) and SETI@home URL on film without permission?

I'm sure they won't mind if your doing it to help promote the project! There are tonnes of video's on Youtube about SETI@home and the screen-saver, they all help to bring in new users! Henri if you can get HollyWood involved, i bet the project admins would be more than glad you featured stuff about this project.

John.

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Is it possible to use SETI@home graphics (slightly modified) and SETI@home URL on film without permission?

I'm sure they won't mind if your doing it to help promote the project! There are tonnes of video's on Youtube about SETI@home and the screen-saver, they all help to bring in new users! Henri if you can get HollyWood involved, i bet the project admins would be more than glad you featured stuff about this project.
John.

You are right. Thanks for the encouragement, John.