Elon Musk and Mars take the spotlight in National Geographic TV doubleheaderBy Alan Boyle on November 12, 2018 at 2:32 pmScience fiction blends with fact in tonight’s double dose of Mars from National Geographic’s TV channel.Truth to tell, there’s more fact than fiction: The first show in the double feature is “Mars: Inside SpaceX,” which wraps a tale of past and future space exploration around an inside look at SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch in February.
Only got to see the beginning of the SpaceX hour as was busy with family putting up Christmas tree and agree that it was very good. Can't see another showing on Comcast. Will they repeat that, as the first Mars episode should be available on demand tomorrow or in a few days?
I haven't watched it yet but the trailers appear to be saying that Capitalism is the evil boogeyman yet again, despite it having given us almost everything that we currently take for granted in the world. We aren't living as serfs in medieval Europe. We're living in advanced world with information and technology whenever and almost wherever we want it. If this is the attitude that is taken then we'll never make it to Mars in the first place. It's scary that Mars TV series puts out these negative messaging.
Quote from: mlindner on 11/14/2018 05:09 amI haven't watched it yet but the trailers appear to be saying that Capitalism is the evil boogeyman yet again, despite it having given us almost everything that we currently take for granted in the world. We aren't living as serfs in medieval Europe. We're living in advanced world with information and technology whenever and almost wherever we want it. If this is the attitude that is taken then we'll never make it to Mars in the first place. It's scary that Mars TV series puts out these negative messaging.Monsanto as example of both good & bad. More on the bad ledger side overall IMO.A bad Monsanto like entity on Mars is scary.The NatGeo Mars series is really a disasters of the week show that need some sort of villain to offset the continuing series of bad storylines events. The writers of the series is too fond of Murphy and calamities.
Episode 2 had some better drama. But everybody's still pretty miserable and grim. Some characters are even more miserable than before.But I can already detect the story arc: EvilCorp(tm) has found liquid water on Mars and they're going to drill for it. Then they're going to get sick, and it will probably turn out that they're ingesting some Martian microorganism. Mayhem ensues.