But, that show was written as a group - me and two friends. You see, I want to write a show that's completely mine, but I can't seem to decide what to do it on!
So here's a few ideas I came up with the other day. I'm interested in seeing which of these you like. I have three basic show ideas, but I can always mix and match if you like elements from different suggested shows. If you don't know what some of this stuff is, then just assume it's really cool because I'm not going to have anything lame and boring in my planetarium show.
Science Fiction and Science Fact – What a strange place we live in!
Themes:
Science Fiction
Science Fact
Science Unknowns
The future…
Physics in space
no sound
explosions yes
laser beams “instantaneous”
inertia! Pesky inertia.
speed and traveling the distances
tachyons, transporters, tractor beams, force fields, holo-decks, replicators, subspace, and other mostly unrealistic Star Trek technologies
Huge Science Fiction (perhaps science future?)
Dyson spheres
Interstellar travel STL (slower than light)
Interstellar communication
Extra-solar colonization
moving through the 4th dimension
Strange Universe (Facts)
special and general relativity - 4 spatial dimensions
black holes
light
drake equation
Astronomical and Physical Mysteries
basic assumptions of cosmology
- physical constants
- homogeneous and isotropic universe
dark matter/dark energy
future of the universe – shape of universe
magnetic monopoles
anti-matter distribution
gravitational waves
Higgs boson
extragalactic GRBs
grand unification theory
Man’s place in the universe
Themes:
God is not just the god of this world
“Worlds without number have I created”
The amazing fact that life even exists – let alone us!
The creation – from beginning to end
Movie: Scaled zooming from the milky way all the way to the planetarium
The Creation – How we and everything we’re made of got here
Big Bang
Formation of galaxies
strange early universe phenomena
quasars
giant black holes
blazars
formation of stars
stellar evolution
system formation
earth’s formation
- habitability zone
- the moon
- tides
- meteoroid shield
- rotational tilt
geology
life (woah!)
Aliens and such
Drake equation – an equation predicting extra-terrestrial intelligent life
Size of the universe
What is all this astronomy stuff?
Themes:
So, you don’t know a thing about astronomy…
Why astronomy is as cool as it is.
Why we should care.
Elements:
What is?
- the universe
- galaxies
- stars
- nebulae
- planets
- constellations
Life? What the heck?
Weird but True!
black holes
pulsars
supernovae
quasars
Other
Where are we in all this?
Why should we care?
Something dramatic.
1 comment:
These are fun. I like how each time you mention life, it is followed up with some sort of exclamation such as "Woah."
I think that out of the three here, I'm having a hard time picking a favorite. I like the Astronomical and Physical Mystery section from the first one, the Creation sequence of the second one, and the general idea of the third.
If you were to mix and match, I think that you should combine explosions, with tides, with constellations.
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